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;: ,r. -.:': ; ' .- r-V'. "v., ,ty .v.-.-A???wV -.v. i-i r-' -ji vy?r- ;-.iS'!-i:zx - - - r 1 1 . r- ! : . .- ; r rr ! .I'' i.-' ' ' )"f XII. THURSDAY OCTOBER 25,V6lOt 't'V t-J- " , 1 ' - KEUTRAIi . COMMERCE. SIF-I think it proper to keep In view ifce'rtal state of "bur present situation, rd the true ground on which we now jtiiKJ, with the beHigerentaJofE;urope--Ibsve shewn, . . . .' L ThVt we held out to the belligerents Sfavcr to that power which should first respect our rights, and-.-mafy to that power which should refuse to respect them, aTier the other had ceas ed to tio'ate them. j-j. That France has revoked her de crees in compliance with this ouryir" fcr : that she, now .stands tion the tti'rit tnd' letter f our tfwuf naiio-' wl engagement and that t France ixs not require any other onndttton, thin that which our law ofrrrd, jd. That we have "now on!y ia' scy to Britain, u yoii have YioUtedcur rights upon the plea of retaliation against France ; you hare said that if France ticuld abandon her decreeyou wotifd revere yf.urs France has abandoned h-r decrees, the pica of retaliation, therefor;:, no longer avails you, fulfil your promise now by doing us justice I" These are the actual grounds upon which we now stand. The next question for consideration, is, iD Britain now do, what her own mi. rosters and her emissaries m America tare so often said she-would do ? Id this place it may be well to shew vhtt arc the restrictions of the Berlin k Milan decrees, and what change their rtmoTal will produce. Those decrees subjected Americans "to seizure if ta ken going to or returning from a British per: if they paid a tax to England, or e;herwise submitted to-her regulaticns if ihcy conveyed British manufacture ed goods or British colonial prqductfjif they sailed under British conroy--od if thej even touched at a British port, they were foibidilen Ato enter France. Of course from the 1st of November next, cur vessels may trade as fully and as freely, if tAr Btiluh toiU'not mole$t them, a they did before any French Decree was passed, or before the French Revo lution itself, N This freedom.to trade to and from England and in any English goods, has been said to be the ssU oSject of Britain. But we shall now, at length,, find what bas been so steadily predicted by Demo cratic writers, that all this talk aboui r Uliationfkc. has been false t we hall nti th.;: Britain never intended td respect cur rights, and that wc 'must now a'. tht fln-enth hour, take ether means.to make her respect them, or sink into everlast ing disgrace as a natioo.i That Britain will not now do, wha it has be en, so often pretended jhe wished to dit I contend from axonsidcration of h.r established policy, her uuiform conduct and the avowals now, made by her winf tmal newspapers in London, and in Bos ton, and in .New-York,; and other of our seaports. . The policy of Britain is written in bloody characters upon the pages even cf her own historians : by the hand of nature destined to be a nation only of the second or third orderj it , has been her sieady purpose to rise above her destiny, a.-d to support by force or fraud a pre dominancy amongst naticris. Had. her eJTorts been crowded by a generous am bition, by thpsennobbngpassins which ccnuitute glory, ; on the freedom, hap p.r.e ss, and civilization of the world ; up cn the difiusion of science and the pro motion of yirtuej had her enterprizes been even tinctured with the chivahou's spirit of emancipating nations, and con verung the universe into a social com munion of interests and enjoyments ; the generosity of the intention would have palliated the extravagance of the undertaking ;'but wKen.her actual poli cy is considered, and -wc analyse .it ; what a design and what a cataitrophe c!ces itiprcsent ! selfishness. is every hefe predominant," and miUjbns arefa iciihed, massacred or enslaved, io order that a few1 thousand persons, occupying c nly part of an island of about 400 by. 300 square miles m. the nonh-of Europe; should live In luxury and wealth ; at the txptnee and to the subjugation of Jtfiei test of the world. Where tstliere a com mercial state in EnroDer that has cleaned ibc seduction of her trold or the ranci lfother squadrons: destitute ofresou.r - 7" fcrmanufactures, thchas prevented Ite superiority Tfhich the possession of j those; resources naturally fcaye to her . neighbors, by involving them in constant wars with each.other, Sc hence has con trived one mean of establishing her mo nopoly and prospering tn wealth, upon the miseries of other, nations ; by simi lar, means, by fomenting intestine broils, exciting jealousies, oy temptations and bribes, she has arrayed the nations of two quarters of the globe against each'o ther, in one of which she has subjected GO,QOO,000 of people to her rapacity ; on the European continent by granting sub sidies'she has taken care to employ con tinental nations in war with each other upon the land, which' have at last termi nated in her expulsion from it j whilst she has raised a navy upon the ocean ca pable of crushing all commercial inter course, or what she fears most," commer cial Competition To. seethe this monopoly of manufac tures .nd commerce & colonial rapine, she has been contending for above five centuries ; is it likely then, that she will now stop in her career, t o enable usw enter into a competition with, or what she fears, to sap the foundation of her monopoly ? do not our merchants know the deadly jealousy, with which our com mercial progress has b?en viewed throughout the war ? however inimical to France, must they not admit that our commercial prosperity is declared by Britain to be incompatible with her x tre rests t Mf this be admitted, as it must be'o pcnly by every honest American mer chant who has a grain of understanding, and covertly by every British partisan or agent, let me ask what would be the effects, if Britain were to M respect oirr neutral rights ? In the first place, one great source of her revenue would be destroytd ; we cannot now take our cargoes to the con tinent without first calling at an English port taking out licence and paying duties lor the permission ; this tribute hdps to support the navy, which compels us to submit to it : is it likely that this tribute j will be given up t In the next place, we should be able according to Lord bhcffield, to destroy the whole merchant trade, now carried on under licence, smuggling, Sec. be cause wc can build ships much cheaper and we can navigate .them cheaper than Britain is it likely that we shall beal lowed to do so ? France at all times afforded a. better market than Britain for our staple com modities, and therefore Britain obliges us to make her forts the medium of trade, in order that by imposing duties on our pro ductions, her own might be sold as cheap as ours ; and in order that, by enhanc ing the price of cotton, Sec. France might not be able to manufacture so cheaply as to secure our trade- will Britain abandon this policy t Canar.t man of sense suppose she wid voluntari ly t nable us to excel her in trade, and Francs to excel her in manufacturing ? "" All hough France is at peace with the north, our 'timber, tar, turpentine, &c. would be highly acceptable to her on ac count of her fleets will Britain consent to abandon paper blockade, which are the only obstructions to our entrance with those articles ? France now'posseSsing every descrip tion of new machinery; and having the command of her own Merino wool and of that of some of the flocks of Spain,can supply fine woollen cloths at, a lower rate than the British manufacturers, and her fine woollens are already superior in eve ry respect to the' British : if we furnish c ottonj France carf enter into com petition in. cotton goods will Britain allow this rivalry to go unmolested I t France and Spain consume large quan tities of fish; now smuggled into those countries by Britain can we reasonably expect thai she will see us, who have the ability .to supp.y ihcm, in legitimate pos session that trade, to her exclusion ? J - France can supply us with wines, oils, brandies, fruits, cloths, silks, ribbons, la ces, linens jewelry, haberdashety, and fancy yticles, cheaper than Britain can furnish them ; her manufactures in iron and other metals, are progressing won derfully irf Flanders and Normandy, and jhe xjuality of many superior lo the Bri tish, yet we, are now compelled to buy the greater part of them in England will she consent to let us thange the channel of trde ? . ' ' - All these, questions are so plain, that no discerning rryan can hesitate tojan awer in the negative ; and to such as doubV I viTer : the conduct of - Britain, jjpnor to, and daring tniwar,atl wllHctpry evidcacc,' that we. ah prior to, and daring this:aras4themost shall cJe- flude ourselves by anticipating'the abalni- uunmem pi me onusn mariiime system ; I say her maritime system, because the raereVepcarof the Orders in Council would amount to nothmg, e?peialty,,as the MarquiaWellesley has declared that if the Orders in Councit wre' revoked, the prior acts infringing" bur righfs, would riot therefore cease to be in opera tion, . Let any person review the-conduct of Britain, to the Flemings, to the Hansc1 towns, to the Dutch, French, Spaniards Portuguese, Russians, Turks, Genoese,! Swedes and Danes, even to the Irish, and then say whether we have aught to expect from her why should she regard our rights and interests any more than she valued those of every other com mercial state? why should we alone be spared, who are more likely than any o ther nation to destroy her commercial ju premacy ? There is no necessity for long expla natory answers, to these questions; they were answered in 1793, and have been replied to evciy year since with accumu lation cf insolr.nce and severity. Ve have been more abused, if not openly & much more ignominiously, than any o ther commercial state that ever exjsted ; and this shews that we arc justly consi dered as the'7!0rf dangerous rival Britain ever had to contend with in trade and mercantile resources. "At the commencement of the war, the policy of Britain was developed; she had not then, she did not pretend to have, a ny right to retaliate ; for at that time France had not a single decree in force against neutrals ; who then can expect that Britain wilFnow consent to abandon the policy which she adopted in 1793 ? The same motives whxh induced her o adopt iubefore any pretext for retaliation existed, will compel her to adhere to it, now that all pretext for retaliatiion is re moved. ' ... Besides it must be well known, thatr although wc have meanly submitted to the orders of Great-Britain not to go to France, we have, never ceased to disre gard the decrees of France interdicting us from Britain ; no direct favor, there fore, will be done to England, by the, re peal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, and therefore she will have no motive to! change her policy towards u her mo tives will be on the contrary more strong for a more excessive pressure upon A merican commerce. These arguments, founded upon a consideration of the interests Sc conduct of Britain if they require any corrobora tion, are emphaticahy enforced by the avowals of British ministerial newspa pers in Europe and America, made sub sequent to tha publication of Champag ny's letter. 1 allude p&ticularly to the remarks of the London Courier, (the ministerial official print), which are a dopted as a text by the British emissa ries, on this side of the AtlanticV The Courier ays : It is to be re marked that Bonaparte afFcts to pre scribe conditions to the revocation of iiis decree' he considers America as pledged to oppose us, if we refuse to ac knowledge the rights of neutrals ; that is, to go to war and he desires it to be understood, that in consequence of his decrees, Great Britain is to revoke her Orders in Council, and abandon her new principles of blockade Now he knows lull well that America has made no such pledge ; that she has prescribed herself a line of conduct to be pursued in thee vent of our refusing to rescind our Or ders in Council she pledges herself to do nothing more than slop all inter course with us. ' The remarks in my last letter, in a great measure, answer this paragraph 1 quofejjt however,. in this place, in or der to prevent a; mis-conception of the true state of the case. France dpes not merely affect to ton tider us pledged to maintain our rights, she considers us absolutely bound to do so ; and so we are we are pledged by our own voluntary act, to oppose Britain, if -bht refuses to cease her violations of our rights) but it is riot true thai we arc bound, nor does. France consider us bound, to go to uarj we have madenb pledge, but to cease from all tradeand intercourse with; the' power refusing to respect our rights, and hence Champag ny .says we are to cause our rights to br respected, conformably to the law" of May 1810 ; "whatever France may wisfr she asks no more thanHhiii, and this we have; bound ourselves to do. V. i But it is what follows the above para graph, that immediately claims ipy nor ticc : the Courier proceeds' iX&J: ? As, to the new principles of ,b!oc-; kade, we exercise none, now which .-wef shall ;be at alf inclined to abandoiUrid- we have given a sufficient proof of thisi rn the very first act of. pur government, alter fhejr wpre mformed of this new de creejCrsvokirig the Berlin and Iilan de: crees) we have 'idcc1areB:'ihaaf-J6; Corfoii to be in a sUtebf.bl6ciadeTin have thus shut the entrance into1 tlie; A driatic! ; '.!v2 Here, I think, is,evidence sufficient o remove all doubts respecting'the ftrture conduct of Britain ;-no man can serious-i ly supposeirafter this, that Britain, (tdi use the language of our law of May last). will so t 'evoke or Modify her edicts, as! j that they shall cease to violate the pen J tralcommerce of the United States wej know how hat she VilL persist in her' paper blockades we know that Mr. Ma- tison and Mr. Monroe Mr.v Smith and Mr. Pinkney; have constantly protested against those bkjekade. " as violating the rights of the U. States," 5c of course the penalty defined by law must be in flicted, r . Indeed.the pretext for refusing to a bandon paper blockades, is as insulting as the measure itself is injurious : ' Pre fer the reader to the rerh rks at large, but their substance is this if Fiance has succeeded in shutting us, her;ene my, out of the continent, therefore what we belligerents cannot enjoy ourselves,' we will nor let you, neutrals, ertjby j and, since we cannot actually blockade every port by ships of war, we, masters of the seas, declare that paper procla mations shi.ll have as much effect as ac tual invesiment." v Such is the language of the English official .paper, such will be the conduct of the British' government ; they "will not abandon the measures, which . vio late our neutral commerce," because their commercial monopoly depends up on their maritime tyranny and the de pression of " every " other nation's com-; mercial activity ; they will not abandon them, now that France has revoked her decrees, because they enforced the same tyrannical system before those decrees of France existed ; theywill not aban don them, because they have passed a; new blockading order violating neutral righ-s, since France announced the a bandonment of her decrees. A heavy responsibility, therefore, rests upon the American administration in The first instance, from which we know they will not shrink, and ultimately up on Congress: now indeed the crisis has arrived. France has rendered iie gociation unnecessary : action, prompt ana! vigorous, action, will soon benetes- sary to our honor and our safety. What our government should or will, do,' I will venture to consider in another letter.- SIDXET. From the National Intelligencer. SULLY:...No. X. : , -' C ',: . BANKS, &c. In a late number,I suggested the ex-r pediency of giving to the Agriculture jSt Manufactures of the coumry at Jeast an equal encouragement with that afforded to its Commerce.;. .Believing ,consh;ien ttously, if this should be: done, that i would furnish the mjosteffcctual remedy : in our power to the. evils we endure; from the injustice of the fpreign world, I now proceed to submit to the considerationr of the public some of the details which in my opinion, ought to characterise a plan for this purpose. ' - v V It most consonant to the theory of sow industry io us own lmeliiffence and exertions. ' This principle should never be violated. ' No one can en t.ertain a. dstibt of this who contemplates the un-; precedented rapidity witriivlcli 'wehave) by respecting it moref than any othr people, progressed in prosperity HatJ" we ri.rny regarded and applied it uni versally, no occasion wquld have existed for these rerharksfhb? wpufd prpbabl at If his hour, bdr foreign 'felatioi pein yol'ved in , so much i gloom, hdiyiduals; in the pursuit of heiratwests, wpUld have engaged jheselres': pnobjects' that rdedertlihe hest prbSts rand, jill; ihesis'bl) nVeotVwUjbpteith or fepunfe, wbd'tWe.'been;' to the waihtsbf siety.; fo one branch would have beeW txtended to a dantrer' pus ,iengin , au wouia nave peen encou i raged iirpMrfion tQ & r jdemajin our government (and should it nocdr respond with its practice?) to leave per- ; : A: ditlerht cotirseV ivveveJiaseexiJ pursued ; W bother t hu sjn unfrpnp v $ ta'cctdentbrp f i lie arunciai rencouragemejiiv givc - lo one Kinu qx occupauon Jias ienue , - ? ernpvrishgali the sendmghevs : , forme rbycn,vyhilei terbeiott their "pro :J ' However this allegation may bacon t vioverieoj iis yioo jics in auarrowcoin- noccasiarrf ti oral Xr ctit. fnt7rmnptte ivlinca fiAm .A ' .F :, Were almost exclusively loaned 'la-mrVfi $ chantsiLto. an amount exceedinEfty; i.?, il L (tit jitfi 1-'-' Hi ' iMx'l'' yi.i ih- .' minions,, 5f tr oo 1 1 a i jf. 0i tj amount coupiei t ' ' country) r It is; idle, to say tbaUhese iq- - siiiuuons .were; nor connnea ny tneir r haftrs'to'Joatfw are iridisputabJei tba bri whichcihtjt er7eip JmpjcwIo lend, money, ndarticuratrly the shortness oi the tiiie not excijecling sixtyyhat few,-" but merchants residing ifi toWns, vf could avaiii themselves of the ; benefits v . derivable TrVnvslicrJIoans, anfffiSfevi" private, but a small part of is Jc0tv wouui uayc uccu piuuuucui cjll was tnc ' , act of incorporating them that gave them V' the great ascelidancl Uiev? soon 'acomM'. circumsp drawn from the sagacity and Bttemioo , ofhoS 9 :J but merchantsciually asked for: orlgot ' VVV" them: : ; f ZT$$' Had ' these inSr1tuH6nsb'ieri red- , In the onercase. atheibahkeM would have ; been responsijPeCintheir; f)- v: : ; whole fortunes r ihtrctibns! which they1 were ;'engjge tJ&6-WPgf tJ buisihe'ss . would have btehonfc'lnrfvwit K: $';;'&&r ectionr; and w ptoWMuitt i as those of evefy other business ; . erigagetl! in itjcompetittjonwcilid haveP v kept it on a level -.Mfitft" thtalS public. BoVin'tbrqih w( pw uuiiui a j iauiy CI CilcUa tttOnO-' poly, which gave the company jncnrpo-H rated an advantage fayer everJndiidu- al or private asocialioru Sucleve the i mmediate lefiedts" cf dth?s rhst ihA in the vaults oil m It had previously beelnemplod ly in meliorating the soilurideKtiie di- fcilndit tors, who took special care; to distntmten it in such a way as to benefit thpsebfj of thVir own "rallin Should the accU' were mer on the general white now it is sceif'Sbs.' uiaix sui.ii a loan jn ,ny''paYtX)x the United States,' 0yd ' I am; aware that there i area setloV: rr .;. y.,,v-Jcefves as emr centratin as mufcfi as possibleJthe "s&3 ' -Bui hpeveFlhis dbdtrine mlaBly 5V : ;TV." vi ni isivvraiicai MO- vernmenti or to' a -natiOnof HmiM U;i 1 .,- ..-.-j , mill, apprehend that it' is aitPcrether mak" plicableto a Republicjparticularly When . it is founded in acbuiitry,waosVteWi ryre3aends more tharr thtrtecahudrecr milesyin- on,e direction and tnbr thi fifteen hundred m abpther-i r,;tA ,k exampi milar to her own And wliat sii&u&Z cn!bfoundbetw wealthprincipall !B6wi: and manuiacmres,:anae whojuthre as. pricipaay pn agriculture WiWatt; narchy, that is foundedion mononril ' &itxon,<lfot:Xvi&olt as Great-Britain jsreterttallvt te. lip before ashciMvi 'ar evinfajatir luuiic lai io;r ajlO)' me ftOUrtry. ; ' V genilemartsootitlett iuiualkimeii t? and lodged in the vaulls ofjth'e bants. : Yacy of this statement bcjuestibnpdi I-, need only appeal to the acknowledg-- ' I V ed fact," that rhetor hese1 ipstimtion " estabhshedthe atnl tit ftimwt, - to bomw-moriey at lcalinteteri !: Wt security of hisTowh reastwaV " nentractical economists hp aver-that,,; 'M-M the,, trosperif jr-r at .commli toies in"li ; their classes is'betfproMted brxbn. - H v&U&P&y aq chis hadVoe. ' i P1 UP: ?s a to.thchabniv f t der cirftimsfances in oiT. jfrlfaiiiir-iV? the fwrsestLboltcv for its' to tr? . i: ought to as a bestcon ; for us t6'i0'i inthaau jTnbdl:j;to imitgFvf' omtrus-;: be Vihe ilboiriv io morals in Eovcrnmentjor the if .m:j ditibirsubjects jll-iatedn M&rMf; I - r. 1;' ' ... H. .t-i " -'. it ' I ': V . t vMi-' A.- us?-
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