The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-08-21

Ste"NC Hdu Comc out, ana mere, TO doubt,
would be unravelied every "a hours. that all
American vessels sailing TO any part of the
continent were TO be brought int o our ports.
not indeed. for the purpose Of adjudication,
but merely for detention, till the result of
certain negotiations could be ascertained.
was this done III the liberal spirit OF concil-
iation, or rather was it not a stingy shut
ninS, prevsiicat'ng policy, tending altoge-
Their more to debase the honor and Dignity
OF the Country than the victories of its ar
mics had helped to glorify it The man
ufacturers were now waiting i'm breathless
anxiety for the appearance of the promised
act OF government and if before Wednes-
day next there should not be a satisfactory
document in the Gazette, he must beg again
to submit proposition to the House ON the
Orders in Council He knew the ministers
wouid then give them up /; they had she wn
ihdeed' that they would give up any thing
except their places. (Hear, hear, e cen
e'Gf laugh. Since they had been replaced
IN ONCE, they had performed no acts, ex-
cePs acts ct abandonment. In the first place
they abandoned Col. M'Mah6n's. affair !;
then they abandoned the barracks at. Mary
re oone an act, particularly agreeable to
an non. friend sitting near him Mr. Ware):
then she barracks at Liverpool and Bristol
a morton equally pleasing to another hon.
FRIEND Eve believe gen. Tareton) they
tncn pretended TO abandon the Orders i'm
Council.
ihey had, in short, hitherto acted in such
manner. and so precisely i'm the spirit re-
commended by his hon. friends, that with
the exception of sitting on different sides of
the hense, the. country. was governed as if
ms Mr. Brougham's} friends were in Office,
and he gentlemen opposite breathing (wliat
to them must be the greatest of conceivable
miseFies) the dark and gloomy atmosphere
OF oPposition,, { Hear, ksc;y Z } But, to the
point IT the government of Tie country
yieiding to the agonies and distresses Of the
manufacturers, did intend to rescue them
from starvation, let il not in Gods name
let IL not, IN the name of common Consisten
cy, act In manner that would degrade the
dignity OF the nation. To shew that his OBJ
servatlona. had good foundation, he wsuld
aeeaii to them what he knew, and what, he
had learnt from others. Yesterday ship
ments had been ordered to great amount
one merchant in particular. who was in the
naoie or transporting sometimes a million.
sometimes two millions of goods annually to
America, had stated, that he was prepared
los transport million immediately This
o'der alone would be sufficient to employ
FOR SIX months one hundred thousand men.
. cay. on the contrary, not shipment
was made sand although many believed.
that the orders were at any rate to be sus-
Pendeti"ard. that il was impossible that the
repeal could be allowed to rest on such Con
aielohs as had. been mentioned, yet he (Mr.
Brougham) had heard from a merchant
VINO mad this day communicat ton with the
noble lord, that the Orders were not to be
repealed, except conditionally IF so, they
would never be repealed declarations might
De. issued, but the American market would
never De open it for that EVENT. we waited
TIL bonaparte adopts such measures as
snaIi prevent our manufacturers from star
wing, that parsonage would rather France
should starvc than have recourse, to such
measures I; and thus the negociatorshih
would ce the only ship which was likely to
go from this country to America. Yet this
was the policy to be pursued by this coun-
try and because France was too powerful
to be vulnerable from Son account of her
Weakness, to stand on our side, and thus ex-
posite were really in earnest to save Their
country, he hoped it would not be by thu .
doption of such policy. In farther corroBo-
ration OF ,his statements, would read a slip
containing some written questions, which he
sent to the underwriters at Lloyd's and the
answers. He had inquired at what rate an
insurance couldb effected from this country
to America for voyage of twelve months,
II repeal was to happen under the condi-
Iipho 81 OltSu mentioned. he. anSWE or
with one exception, that none of them would
underwrite such policy : at any rate, that
the premium would be at 25 guineas per
sent while on the supposition of an uncon-
ditional certain repeal, the rate would be
only 8 guineas per cent.
The hon. member then observed, that
some adhered to the orders ia council in prin-
ciple, and one hon. and learned gent. nearly
related to them, would sooner perish than
give MP, Another party objected to them as
strongls. Each of these parties was consist
ent. Not SO the noble lord, he gave them
up in principle, while he chung to their prac-
tice; and by this half measure was guilty
of an absurdty which he begged him, for
the honor and the advantage of the country,
TO abandon.
The order of the day was then read.
Mr.. Brougham said, unless some satisfac-
tory explanation should take place. he
should move that there be a call OF the
house on Thursday next.
Lord Castiereagh said, it would be tn a
buse tbs patience Of the house to follow the
hon. and learned gent, through the ground
over which he had travelled One fact
however, he had stated, which he was bo,,nd
TO notice. The ministry, it seems, had by
their ACTS obtained the appreciation of the
learned gent. They had, he Lord & ) was
happy to say, the confidence of their prince
OF their country, Ca laugh from the ohho-
s1Hon and now, it appeared, of the hon.
gent. opposite themselves. He felt no Der-
sonai gratitude to the hon. gent. for with
drawing his motion on TUESDAY evening: he