Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-08

means OF your correspondents. on the CONT
nenf. In this disposition OF the public n,ind
YOU need only be appiehen,iye for the later
nal tranquility OF Gur towns. in case yo,l par
tial lib&rtv of trade should he allowed 10 con.
unur. As TO the abolition OF smuggling, that
inii>; he lott tothe agrecmei,t among oar p,iu-
crs, To whom the Diet has given the meaES
\ UU see. therefore, tiai. with ms, no one has
AN nterestm The continuance OF your partial
trade.
But YOU will ,siumplantlv observe, "What
nubodN wit. you has an interest u, I'm, .tiSll
goods, and YET yo,t co;rmlUln HAT they are 81
frequently purchased 70 the INJURY Of Souss:
Certainly; because they are Ihiovn away.
The multitude have always, with US, as well -
with you, ram after What l. cheap, without con
sidering whether they did not purchase y teAi-
porUg low price with the sacrifice OF their hes;
interests, and prepare for themselves thereby
them from useless repentance wien il is TOO
iate, that limits ought to be set Ia the manner
IN which English goods have hitherto been
SOLD in Germany, as you yourselves have al
ready, IN your own case, set them tn cheap i'm
portations OF all sorts. "Who ever heard be-
fore this, (you continue) that a merchant was
To he blamed tor not refusing to sell cheap"
Ne aie far from DONG this. The fngli>h nier-
chant WISHES u 1--we. aud therefore wishes To
sell. But we wish To live, aud therefore we wish
also 10 sell. The question reduces itself there.
fore, tn this: who among MS in Germany has
preferable right TO live and TO sell! Among
.ouu elves in England this question has becs
decided long ago: we ieelit How is it to be
decided with rs, IN the question:, You saw,
sell your goods aS Cheap as we do ours; CON
tend with us III art and skill Weanswcr:
daring the time OF Napoieun> universal do.
niiuion we we're not afraid OF the competition
OF French manufactures, FOR they sold, and we
also. Neither would NC he afraid of the com
petition OF Nours,I You would sell and allow
as 1" sell. But since Il great part Of you half
throw away your goods, we cam no longer
sell; We vii enter into a competition Of 81 II.
but not that OF throwing away; weare not Vet
sufficiently rich. or sufficiently poor TO mah.
present. oil onr goods.
One point still remains: orr claims 10 trade in
the other mRrketS Of The ,coriG You fnd il ludI-
crous that we should call on Eng land to omen
them TO us. But that we ITO not demand: we
demand unly that you should not SiiUi them 10
us. And you shut them TO us, as YOU rot onlv
10 not admit our vessel, 10 the pOtts OF either
iudias, but yGu do rot even allow them 10 de-
post IN your own ports those goods whit Ia TIE
Americans would otherwise take from as,
namely, our lncus, ON glass aud wooden Ay3tcs
fou shut them TO us. allhOG. Il YOUR merchants.
as The Chronicle justly observes, would derive
INFINITELY more from the sale OF our goods Imam
The value given fer them 10 us. so that thew are
uOubc losers: nrst IN the price otmanUfaciure
Oi the goods now forced upon us at sham ori-
ces, and next, III the profit which they might
nave made CtOur gOOd,iu America. lOuciose
them I" US, while YOU Yourselves manufacture
MIAiuie Hi flax ANA cotton, stan,pi il with a
German stamp. aud send il 10 Indiaas German
linen. We had formerly magazines in C.idiz
aud Lisbon, ir0R wheHCe the Spaniar,ls and
Portuguese seat our productions to their col
onieS. Bmt since our vessels are common
Piey ON The seas, so that they were even taken
10y y our friends OF Barbary in your own waters,
an end has been pat TO that trade. An end
was, IN like manner, fUrciby put at an earlier
period, TO our trade in the Leyant Your ere
mics say, you favor the Barbary corsairs, that
they may clear the OF Europe OF all flags
nut your own, as You allow the new pirates to
Increase IN an incredible manner in the Amer.
ican seas; that they play the same game there
Win the Spanish and Portuguese ships which
the barbary pirates play with ours in the Med
IterrdIean, aud now also III the North Sea Bmt
you will again eNclaim, hatred. SANDER, tleiam-
atlcn! L may he so; we do rot the less feel tic
eva, nor less TIE necessity IF remedyiNg IT, Join
with uS IN this, BY allowing mutual freedom al
trade. 1t You refuse TO concedc this YOU will
sooner or later be obliged to reconcile Your
selves 10 newcOntiuentalsys system ONLY then
do not lay 10 the charge either of the Bona
partiSts, or the manufacturers, or powers zeal
Gus or y0n, the evils Ivy which, according TO
Tie eternal laws of nature, every excess is pun
shed