Our proceeding does not aggravate our distress from it. If he can keep out our trade he will, and he would do so if he could, independent of our orders. Our orders only add this circumstance: they say to the enemy, if you will not have our trade, as far as we can help it you shall have none. And as to so much of any trade as you can carry on yourselves, or others carry on with you through us, if you admit it you shall pay for it. The only trade, cheap and untaxed, which you shall have shall be either direct from us, in our own produce and manufactures, or from our allies, whose increased prosperity will be an advantage to us....
Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester, vol. ii. p. 134. See also the Life of Spencer Perceval, by Spencer Walpole, vol. i. p. 263 ff., for the further history and Cabinet discussions of this subject.
[86] On the 15th May, 1808.
[87] To Gallatin, 18th November, 1808. Jefferson’s Writings, v. 385.
[88] To Governor Sullivan, 12th August, 1808. Jefferson’s Writings, v. 340.
[89] To Dupont de Nemours, 2d March, 1809. Writings, v. 482.
[90] To Dr. Logan. Jefferson’s Writings, v. 404. Letter to Lieutenant-Governor Lincoln, 13th November, 1808, v. 387.
[91] Letter to Mr. Gallatin of October 30, 1808. Gallatin’s Writings, vol. i. p. 420.
[92] Letter to Cabell, 2d February, 1816. Writings, vi. 540.
[93] Jefferson MSS.