The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-12-21
THE EMBARGO

L HE EMBARGO.
we entertain Hfie dub! but that in OR
next number we shall issue an Embargo Law,
Jast passed by che Congress of the u. s At
!east It was shrewdly Conjectured at Wash
ngton that 1t passed both Houses on FRIDAY
last, though the injunction If secrecy a d not
been removed--in which case we nav re
ccise copy Of it to-night.
The Alexandria Herald states, thst
every Senator was at his post, except MIR.
Wells Of Delaware (F.) and MIR. B,bb of
Kentucky (N.}-But it will not avail that
MessrS. King and Gore have arrived at the
City, and that so great was their apxietyto
reach the Senate Chamber that they left
their Ladies to the care of an escort to their
lodgings, as the Federal Republican is
communicative enough to inform us-be-
cause 7re guess, as MIR. Gore would say.
that Messrs- Giles, and Stone and Anderson
nave thought better of their votes, and will
DOW yield their sutfrages in favor of the mea
sure.
we can form gueas only as TO the des
eruption OF the Embargo, whether it will
leave the coas'ing- trade open to abuse, or
whether 1t bars the door and strips the ves-
sells OF their helm. We presume, howevec
that 1t will be the most vigorous measure cf
the sort WHICH we have vet seen and that
We shall no longer have to blush at the law
OF the nation being put at bay by smugglers
and by traitors. Whether this law be good
or bad, every friend of the law and Of the
country VIII JON us IN the sentiment, that it
may be carried into vigorous execution.
Though we are not sanguine enough to think
that it will be productive of all the good ef
ects which were lately depicted by flow-
ing and patriotic writer in this paper, vet it
IS impossible not to believe,
That it will be productive of great be-
nefts:
Without the mass Of evRs which some
gloomy & factious inaginations nave
delighted to- discover.
We think it not the least benefit of a vi
gorous embargo, that it will save onr com
merce from the monopolizing grasp of an
aVarlcious ehemy--an enemy, who shuts &
opens our ports at her will, who reaps most
OF its froftS, by counte, seting Swedish or
a Spanish haS. who deals in such articles
only as she wants, with such ports ONLY as
her interest or her intrigue may prescribe.
We consider it no mean advanta - IN the
balance OF consequences, that these pro
hes are lost to hersef a ID that ave are saved
from the disgrace of having so much of our
commerce regulated by AN insidious enemy
II Sir Jonn Borlase Warren blockades some
rivers & "Creeks. it is only to open others.
not tor orr own benefi, but for that of his
Britannia majesty and his Merchants. And
from this species of favoritism, 1T is high time
10 save the honor of our country.
In the 2nd place, we shall have fewer Cf
our own ships ahoat. and consequently kess
hiunder Tor the officers of his Navy. And
as this description Of persons have great in
Guence IN the measures of t5er government.
it is important to increase their aversi' ~
20 war, III which they may receive more
lows than baoty.
Agan.-We shall, reduce the suhhlies of
their navy on our coasts, and thus eli
Their reduce the number Of their ships or
10 considerable degree the mass of their
comforts and augment the expence of sup
plying them.
Halifax, the whole range of the West In
dies (of which the far greater pat belongs tn
the Engliah) the PEOPLE and the armies Of
Canada, in fact all those portions nf the
Empire, the markets of which are far re.
moved from the supplies Of the Mediterra
rean and the Baltic, will be reduced 10
straits, 1t they should escape starvation.
The expence of supplying q troops in
The Peninsula, will be enhanced IN very
unpleasant degree.
The Afhnnfacturers Of England will he
derived Of our fine C9tfons and other ma
tel IS her ship yards Of our timber and
or tar.
W., OH the contrary, shall have more sea.
men Tor onr Public and private ships Of war
more vessels will je converted into priva
teers--thus increasing IN two resuects mn,
meaSs Of annoying the commerce of the
enemy.
AS lever armed vessels Of the enemy will
be tempted to blockade and hover around
our coasts. 50 our privateers will be able
to hringin more Of ;heir prizes in safety.
Aud as tse price Of frize goods viii be