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.: • t , at.. • - • . \r3IBFR 12,454.] BItOWN, jAYOR. ,TIC gence general *iali nations; if nd in order to keep the regulation of that indulgence in nor own hands, we granted it by spontaneous legislation, and not by posi tive treaty: The question is now, therefore, no longer what it I was in 1820 or 1822, a question between Great Britain and the United States of America; it is a question be-' tween Great Britain and all the nations of the Old and New World; to all of whom Great Britain has tendered access to her Colonies, on coaditions which many ofi them have practically accepted, and more, perhaps, me ready to accept. Having thus placed, as he hopes, in a clear light, the general principles of Colonial trade, mid the principles and considerations upon which Great Britain has acted in 'respect to her own West India Colonies, the undersigned now proceeds to consider the details of Mr. Gallatiiii Note of the 2gth August. 4 1t has been already said, that in the year 1822, we optned by Act of Parliament; a' trade ni. a our West India CO'onies to A mei icin ships under certain linsita :l lions and conditions. The United Status vfete at WI liberty to notes or to dears* those terms. we had assurance that a hill opportunity of that explanation wash arise In the course of the Degociation which was *en axon to b opened between the two Governments on t , &moos other points in which their respective interests were That negociation took place in London, in the Spring of 1824 On the part of the British Government an offer was made to ar range this matter, upon terms highly favourable to the linnet States; bat the American Plenipotentiary Intrenched hinted within the letter of the American law, and declared any propose inadmissible which was not accompanied with the camellia re coked by the final interpretation of that law. . . . Things remaining in this state, and the British proptiala wensa l been unnoticed f or n i ne months before the American the Act of Parliam ent o f J u l y , lifts, was passed. - The American legislature bad cognizance of that Act fist 1111 commencement of its last Session. It had also cognizaniemlf specific proposals offered, hy the British Government in slits tar, there was brought undet its consideration, by one Mlle bert, a resolution for repealing she discriminating duties. - .1 The Session; however, ended witaut the enactment of for repealing or relaxing the restrictions of the Act If 1823, and with the rejection, after debate, of doe reeddebabe repeal of the discriminating dudes. To come neat to Mr, filltliadn's *Saline, dint 41610 ing duties are ours wilai menso . of complaint ; tbas i ile dear Great Britain is placed be; the United B:ants on 00 fieneing of essofmorred nation, in ire intertourse Set erten her West India Co ilbri kinks and the ikinited Skates. Nr. Galbdn, in malting this averment, appears to overlook alle ther enactment,contained in the mine Act 0 1Congrete which inapoli the discriminating duties • an enactment hardly l ess i n j ur i ous t o t bi commerce and navigation ; of Great Britain. Teat enactment. ill substance, provides, that no British ship mitering an Ameticaa pee from the United Kingdom, or from any other British possessiou except directly from the West India Colonies, shall be allowed il clear front any port 4 the United State. for any of those Coiseise: If it is intended to be maintained that, because the *With Ac of 1822, permits only a direct trade between our 4204111•101 MO di United States, in American skips, the prohibition of a ttadly= the United States between the Maher Country and Mr' is, therefore, fah* reciprocity, that position resolves itself in effmt inn the first of the three arguments into which Mr. Gailatin's statemen bas•been divided, and may be comprehended in the same answer It furnishes a striking, illustration of the general miscoaceptioi which has already been naiad as pervading Mr. Gallatin's note, 111 respect to the character of colonial trade. To allow a foreign ship to enter colonial ports at all, and upon ani terms, is a been a to withhold from a ship of a country having cubs nies, trading trims the Mother Country to s (Feist' State, under ; regular treaty between the two countries, the right of clearing fo another port belonging . to that Mother Connaa'y fa another part u the world, is en ratio". • .• I AT a COMMON COUNC IL holden in the Chamber. of the Guildhall, of the City of London, on Tutmaner, the t i t h day of January, 1827, Rowers/ UNANIIIOIO3Li . .. III at in the resat Death of his Royal Highness the Doke of YORK and ALBANY, his Majesty's nest Brother, this Court are deeply sensible, that his Majesty and t h e Royal Family have been deprived of an affectionate Relatives to whom they were justly attached by the nearest ties; that the Nation have to mourn the loss of one who, by his condescension and urbanity to all classes, and by his unremitting endeavours to , promote throe objects of benevolence and pablic utility, which are, t h e pride and glory of Ragland, has merited and secured the prise of his country ; and especially, that the Army have lost i cummander.in-Cblef, who, by his crinstant attention to.the disci pline of the Service, and the tranforts of the Soldier, isas, in as oparalhied degree, raised the character of the British Arms. thi , Court most sincerely condole with his Alajesty, and N et ubers of his Illustrious UMW, ingether with his Majesty 'a' iathfol tabiccts, in their aillaction trader this berraventent. WOOOTIiORPR. MX TIM NATIONAL nemusamess. OPTICIAL !AFIRE ON OUR armArzoss WITH GREAT BRITAIN. DOCNIIIJITS FILM Tilt DEPA 11=NET OW MATZ (ANOOKPANTING TUN TRISIDZNT . II 3111SIANS). MR. CANNING TO MR. GALLATIN. The undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to acknowa ledge the official Note, of the 26th ultimo, addressed to him by Mr. Gallatin, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of Ame rica, on the subject of an Order in Council, issued by. his Majesty on the 27th of July. Thir undersigned feels himself greatly indebted to Mr. Gallatin for the full and frank exposition, which that Nue contains, of his own opinions, and of those of his Government, upOn the whole, matter to which the, rder in Council relates; said for the opportunity' thereby afforded to the undersigned for entering into an esplanation, equally unreserved, of ihe opinions ands intentions of his Majesty's Government on that matter. It will be highly advantageous t. dispose at (ince of a subject which stands apart• from all the other ins• portant subjects which Mr. Grllatin is authorized to discuss a ith the British Govetnment—a subject which is to be argued on principles, and to be decided on considerations, peculiar to itself. Mr. Gallatin will allow the undersigned to take the liberty of remarking. that this peculiarity of character seems to have been overlooked by Mr. GallatiO,..in his Note of the 26th of August. Throughout that Note them appears to b, one petit ding error. Mr. Gallarin treats the question as if it had turned altogethei on this single point—" What ate the equal and reciprocal con ditidns under which a trade between the United States and the British West India Colonies should be carried on ?" assuming, as a sort of axiom, that such trade is as open to the United States as any other trade in the world ; and never inquired whether some compensation might not be due Irons the United States to Great Brbil tain, for the cvncessiois Of a privilege which it is her undoubted right togive or withhold? The undersigned is prepared to shew, that, even if theliber ty.to trade with the British West India Colonies were gratuitously conceded by England to the United States, still the footing on which thetrade, so pet milled, is now . carriecron by the United States. is unequal and unfair. KATHARINE DOCKS. v, oricE IS NEKEBI GIVEN, that the DIREC. II TORS of the ST. K ATHA RI NR DOCK COMPANY, w ill b e r eady un the-13th eloy of February next, at One b 'Clock, in receive Proposals from such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for the CONSTRUCTI NG of the LOCK and DOCK WATRR GATES, according to such Terms and Con di:iv/leas AA be prescribed by the Duck Company, and in con formity with the Drawings, Plans, Sections and Specifications of Ole same, which may be iolected at the Office of the Dock Com pny's Civil Foiginimr, corner of Nightingale-lase, any day (Sun. Jays excepted). [be Contractors will. be ,acquired to enter into proper security' or the due performance of their engagement ; and nn Tender will 1e noticed, utilesa the Parties' making the same, or some Person July authorises' on his or their behalf, shall be In attendanee on the' ' lay, and at the time appoted. The Tender to be marked outside,' • Tender for Lock and Dock Water Gates," and to be delivered' o the Secretary, at the Duck Office, before One o'oo6 on the .1.1 named. In accepting them, the United S:ates imposed, at the same time, onerous charges and restrictions upon all British vessels which might trade between the British West India Colonies and the United States. One of 'these charges is an alien duty both upon the ship and upon her cargo. Atter ineffectual endeavours on our part, to obtain the removal of this duty, we were compelled to lay a countervailing duty, to the s.nre amount, upon Ame rican ships in the Colonial ports. Mr. Gallatin states, " that by the imposition of this countervailing duty, British and American vessels, em• ployed in the intercourse between the British Colonies and the United States, are placed - on a footing of Me most perfect duality." And further, " that them is not, it he is rightly informed, a single act of the Government of the United States which can, in the view taken of the subject by that of his Majesty, be considered as not fulfilling the condition contemplated by the Act of Parliament of the sth July, 1825, as not placing the commerce and navigation of Great Britain, and of her possessions abroad, upon the footing of Me post favoured nation, mcepting only the continuance of the discrimi nating tonnage duty of 94 cents. per ton on British vessels, and of the addition of 10 per cent. on the ordi nary duty charged on goods imported in Biitish vessels entering the ports of the United States from tbe.British. Colonies." The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept the !west Tender. , JOHN HALL, Secretary. St. Katharine Dock Office, Austinfrtars, ihnuaty 11, 111117. That right has hen; denied to Great Brludeibpintealted State ocuperhops in contradictiois to the lettrr, bet , In deyi tion front the spirit of the treaty of 1815. tis .a right whi existed, and was er.joyed before* the treaty of ISIS was framed ; &period, that is, when no claim to my trade with our colonies h been even whispered by the United States; and It could not; the' fore be, by any just reasoning, connected with that trade, or ma dependent upon Jt. It is a right which friendly nations, track( with one soother, are sonata in the habit of allowing to each (s(h4 that it le etereised as matter (declarer, unless specifically withholds The solanial trade, on the contrary, by the practice of all static having colonies, is a trade interdicted, as a matter of course, u n L specileally;ranted. It must not be f , rgotten that this enactment, founded professes on she limitations of sbe British Act of Parliament of 1i1n42, tinned fourteen months after the passing of the British Act of lc by which the limitations 0f1822 we dune away. Since which .1 of January,l Mt, an Acne:sere ship melding so a British West Inc colony, may clear *tit front thence to any part of the wosl t United ifiogdom asne I. Slepel4eDelos-ostroc•careple4. - out T British ship in the American port still remains subjict to all restrictions of the American law of 1823, rohtbiting a trJ through the United States, between the Mother Country and West' India Colonies. HENRY L. COOPER, 93, Blsiii , psGATE-STRZST Wimmt, submits to the Public the full ,wing Articles, at ['rites decidedly reasonable, for Futaaiture ut superior Style and Manufacture: But as the objection, which the British Government feels to the proposition for such partial equalization of conditions, as Mr.Gallatin's instructions appear to be intended to establish, lies deeper than Mr. Gallatin's proposition goes, the undersigned thinks right to explain, in the fist instance, the nature and demands of• that UPHOLSTERY—Four-post, French, and Tent Beth, Window Curtains, and Mu.quito Furniture'. • CABINET WORN-4)f the first .qn 'lisp and Materials; also solid Furniture fur Foreign Clinsates. MUFFING—Cabins fitted up with Elegauce and Dispatch, and Passengers requisites provided. CHAIRS Appropriate for Dining, Drawing Rooms, Bed The arguments drawn by Mr. Gallatin from these statements are three : first, that the duty on the side of the United States, and the countervailing dnty.on the side of Griat Britain being equal, British ships trading between the Colonies and the • United States, are as much favoured as American ships in the same trade; secondly, that, inasmuch as, with the exception of the discriminating duties in America, Great Britain. is, in all othe► respects, treated as a the most favoured na tion," there is no just cause for the exercise., on the part of 'Great Britain, of the power of interdiction provided by the Act of 1825; and thirdly, that having in our hands two remedies for one and the same grievance, we ought, at all events, to have contented ourselves with applying either, but not both, by the same Order in Council. ROCIt;IS, .d(c. CARPETS—Brussels, of the first quality, 4s. 6d. per yard; Se perior Kidderminster, 3.. gd. and others equa,ily low. LOOKING GLASSES— Prom the mow magnificent to the smallest, for Chiming'. Piers, and Toilettes. CA RVI'N G and GILDING—Some very beautiful specimens for Conseil Tables, Gimes, &c. PAPER-HANGING and PAINTING—In the Richest as well fundauteutal objection. It is, as the undersigned has already said, the news. tionable tight, and it has, until within these few years, been the invariable practice, of countries having Co. lonics, to reserve to thermatives the trade with ;bone Colonies, and In relax that reservation only under special circumstances, and on particular occasions. When a relaxation of that nature has been dictated and limited to the necessities of the Mother Country, or -of the colonies, the foreign countries taking advantage' of it may fairly aver that they added nothing to the State, winch had granted such relaxation. They may even bare felt themselves at liberty to decline to at 'cept of a partial admission into the ports of the col°. nies, thus evidently opened from considerations of local or temporary convenience, unless they were allowed a general liberty of trade with those ceionies, inde pendently of such considerations. The interdiction of the American Government, in as she Plainest Styk. itUNERAL3--Attilided in tins most respectful mariner, and par dollar regard paid to Economy. HOUSE AGENCY—Houses and Estates registered for Letting )Jr. Gallatin, in his Note of the 26th of August, states—" tha it is well known that the delay iu renewing the negociation upo the subject of the colonial intercourse, on principles of .mutual ac commodations, is due to causes not under the controul of th Untied States, principally to the state Ville health of Mr. lift" Upon this point, the undersigned has only to obtlerye, that n Intimation that Mr. king had received instructions which wool have enabled him to resume the negociatimt, was ever before cost masticated to the British Government. Ott the contrary the oral communication at all relating to this matter whichhas ever reache him in any authentic shape, was in a dispatch front Mr. Vaughai dated the 22d of March last, wherein that Minister states, flu " Mr. Clay had informed him that he amid not he al* tofu ma Me. ling with his autettetiotts before the tad sr the et neat if May, enable hint to recommence the negociation." or Disposal, without charge. SALES, APPRAISENIE,NTS, AND COLLECTION OF RENTS. FURNITURE WAREHOUSED. H. L. COOPER, 93, Brinorsosrawraitsr WITHIN, has the honour of being Employed and Prtronizesi by sonic of the first Families in the Kingdom. To begin with the last of these three points, viz. the assumption that, w having in our hands two remedies for oae grievance, we ought to have been contented with applying either, but not both, by the some Order in Council." TOOTH-ACHE AND EAR-ACHE. DERRY'S ESSENCE has received the sanction and .L ouppov of the most distinguished Personages in the Kingdom, together with the united testimony of the btu Physicians in Eu rope, and - numerous favourable comments in highly respectable Medical imunals, where it has been declared to be the " best thing ever discovered for the Toothache and Ear-ache." It in .tantaneously relieves the most excruciating pain, preserves the reeth sound and firm, prevents further decay, effectually cures the Scurvy in the Gums, fastens loose Teeth, and renders them firm And serviceable to the latest period, and effectually prevents the The:h.ache. The only measure which is new in the Order in Conn -H cil, is the interdiction of the trade between the British West India Colonies and the United States, alter a spe cified period. The duties on American 'shipping, men tioned in that Order, are not new. The.y were imposed, by an Order in Council, in 823, and have been con stantly levied since that time. They are again men tioned in the present Order in Council, only for the direction of the British Custom House Officers in the West Indies, who, if those duties bad not been men tioned as still existing, might have imagined them to be superseded. mu, of any commerce with the British West India colonies, until American shipping should be permitted a free entry into the British colonial ports, is to be jua tified upon this ground. The obvious way of meeting that interdiction by Great Britain, world have been to open to other corn • mercial and maritime rivals the trade refused by the United States. But, whatever may be the date or tenor of the Instructions and which Mr. Gallatin acts, be will have collected from this Nc that, after all that has passed upon the subject of colonial inn course, and especially after the advised omission by the Governme and Legislature of the United States to meet (as tither Nations ha done) the simple and direct provisions of the Act of 1825, the B tiab Government Cannot Consent to enter into any renewed reel elation upon the intercourse between the United States and t British Colonies, so long as the pretension recorded in the Act 1823, and there applied to British Colonies alone, reaulas part the law of the Caked States. Sold in bottles, at le. and its. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, •Chrapcide, corner of St. Pant's; 73, Princes -street, Edinburgh, and 54, Sackvilk-street, Dublin; Savory and C 0.136, New Bond 'meet ; Wilmott, 83, Mies-street, Borough; and the principal Medicine Venders in the United Kiogdom. Of shunt may be had, MORRIS'S BRUNSWICK CORN PLAISTER, an excellent Remedy for Eradicating Corns, Bu nions, &c. In hazes, at is. 1 id. N.B. Mk fee Pinar', Essence fur the Tooth-ache. Circumstances, opt necessary to be detailed here, rendered that expedient, at that time, unadvisable. ' In 1822, the privilege of trading with the British West Indies,was conceded to the shipping of the United States, with certain restrictions and limitations, under which they were content to enjoy it; but that pnivi• lege Great Britain still wi►hbeld from all the Powers of Europe. The concession to the United States was, in effect, if not in words, exclusive; tor the new countries of Ame rica (not then recognized by his Majesty), had no com merce or navigation which could interim e with those of the United States. The history of these duties is simply this :—On the Ist of March, 1523, a law was passed by the United ' States, which directs an alien duty to be levied upon British ships, and cargoes coming from the British West India Colonies, " until proof shall be given, to the satis faction of the President of the United States, that no other or higher duties of tonnage or impost, and no other charges of any kind, are exacted in the British Colonial puns, upon the vessels of the United States, and upon any goods, wares, or rbeichandize , therein imported hom the United States, than upon British vessels entering the same ports, and upon the like goods, wares, and merchandize imported in such vessels Jrom elsewhere.' But the British Government further owes to the spirit of frank ness which it wishes to cultivate iii all its relations with the United States, to declare, that, after having been compelled to apply to my Country the interdict, prescribed by Ora Act of 1885, the Britian Government cannot hold itself bound to remove the interdict, as e matter of course, whenever it may happen to suit the convenient* of the Foreign Gov, r 1111 l ent to reconsider the measures by which the application of that interdict was occasioned. It is not made matter of complaint, by the British Government, that the United States have declined e.mditions, which other ns lions have thought worthy of their ace:ptatice. It icon the other hand, not the fault of the British Government, if the United States have suffered the time to pass.by, at which it might have been an object of greater importance to this country Si induce the United States to come into their proposals. The United States exercised, upon this point, a free judgment and they can, on their part, have no reason to complain that Gres• Britain, after allowing ample time for maturing that judgment, 1. contented to abide the result of their decision. The undersigned requests Mr. Gallatin to accept the assurances of his high consideratioo. GEORGE CANNING. Foreign (Eke, September 111,1826. P.S. The undersigned,on reading over the preceding observations, finds that he has omitted to notice one or two subordinate points touched upon in Mr. Gallatin's note of the '26th of August. The first relates to the trade between the United States and the British possession in the East Indies; the second to de intercourse. by inland navigation, between the United States and the British possessions in North America. • THE NEGRO BOY ; OR, SUPERS!' ITION SUBDUED. VEAR Portsmouth, the" Battle of Minden" the sign, IA An Inn long meowed for good cheer and old wine, A handsome young hostess, and excelknt lodging; An DBcer lately came over from France, Meleager in idle attendance to dance, His occupants Monsieur most gladly disgorging. this Officer, dam, eery comfort mauling, At " Battle of Minden" a lodging procuring, And items of Use and of Ornament lacking; In dress predetennied to shine all resplendent. Directed, o'er all, that his sable attendant. [ A quantum should' purchase of Waaam's Jay BLACKING. The mild youth of Afric the mandate obey'd, When, lo! in the Boon, by the luminous shade . . Of the Jet, like a 'Mirror. his dark features glaring ; He mid in amaze, long with eatery mute, This laregh'd, as !angled with bins the Child in the Boot, • Aced eagerly thence to his Massa repairing ; , o come, Massa Captain," he said, " come and see Hint live in 4e Boot—blacky childa as me— Mush like as my poor leteel broader hint seem Him die-hisscome back—die no more," and his eyes Were glisten'd by joy, when aghast with surprise, Two " Childs" be viewed in the Boot's jetty gleam. lk Mama the cause of the vision explais'd ; At 1 now ia the youth was delusion restrain'd, His mind Superstition no longer attacking; lit:hatted thence, in lane, is the fine glossy hue That dress can improve, and dark &tor subdue, (X Waukee. resplendent, Winked BLacsaso ! • This Bay Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by The British Government at first misapprehended. the import of the term "from elsewhere," conceiving it to imply to foreign countrip alone, and not to it, itish pos. sessions in North America; nor was it till alter the interchange of several official notes between the British Envoy at Washington and the Americ in Secretary of State, that the British Government was made to com prehend (or lather was lirought to believe) the full ex tent of the concession required by the Act of Congresi., namely, that the produce of the United States, ss hen imported from the United States into the British West India Colonies should be placed on an equal footing with the like produce of the Mother Country herself and her dependencies. _ _ 6&IS £L 30, STRAND, London; A*ol sold in every Town in the. Kingdom. LICK, s tul Ltiot tics bd. Jod. 12d. and red. eatk. its° PAsTic BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and IBd. each. Sinning Put of Paste is equal to Four Is. Putties of Liquid. • A 1111 VW, Rlnele ins It cannot, however, be supposed, it is not alarmed" lay Mr. Gallatin, that, by granting the privilege, thus, in effect exclusively, to the United States, In the first instance,Gi eat Britain precluded herself from extending . it to other nations, whenever the course of events should create a favourable occasion for doing so. Events, .which intervened Between 1822 and 1825, created such an occasion. As little can it be supposed, that, because Great Britain submitted, at a moment of necessity, to terms which, though not unjust, were inconvenient to her, she bound herself to contint,e to submit to them when that necessity should have passed away. Scat city may justify the demand for a high price, and monopoly may give the power of exacting it; but thete is surely no understand compact between the bu3er and the seller, that the former shall not endea vour to make himself independent of the latter by opening the market to general competition. These obdous sad simple considerations led to she Act of Par liament of lit& Our sight either to open the ports of our Colonies, or to ki.ep them closed, a, might suit our own convenience ; our right to grant the indulgence..of a trade with those Colonies to loieign Powers, wholly or partially, uncon ditionally or conditionally, as we might think proper, and, if conditionally, on what conditions we plea►ed, was clear. We were not bound by any engagement to continue a monopoly of such indulgence to one foreign Yon.. r against another. We had, for three years, felt the inconvenience of such monopoly. We naturally ought, therefore, in our new measure, to avoid the re currence of the like inconvenience, by making nor indul• 5z.411: '; _J- When such was at length ascertained to be the true construction of the American Act of Congress of 1823, those countervailing duties were imposed on the trade of the United Stites by the British Government, which are now merely continued till the of. December nest, in the West Indies, and indefinitely in the seas of British Mrth Americ It is to bo observed that. by the Aet of Parliament 021322, (Geo. IV. cap. 44.) the 13ritisb 6.,vernment were enabled to interdict all intercourse between the United States and the Mash West India Colonies, under any such circumstances ai those which had already arisen in the United States. The milder measure of a retaliatory duty was preferred, for two reasons.—First, we were convinced that a claim so extraordinary as that put forward by the interpretation given to the Act of Congres , oft 3e3, would not be persevered in aftir explanation; and secondly, With regard to the former, lit is only necessary to state that the trade with the East Indies remains upon the Is oting on which was established by the conventions of ills and 1818, with which Conventions it is expressly stated, in the Older in Council, that tb. provision. of that order are not intended in any way to interfere. In respect to the second point, relative to the intercourse, by in. land navigation, between the United States and the British North American Provinces, the untler.igntd begs to inform Mr. Gallatin that that intercourse, so far as relates to the Caiiadass, is regulated by the Act of Parli ament t f 1525, by which the seine duties are expressly imposed on the vessels and boats of the United States, importing any goods into either of those provinces as are, or Mar be, for the time being, payable iti the United Stares of America, on British vessels or beats entering the barb. sir.. f the State front whence such goods shall have been imported. The discriminating duties, besides, wily apply to trade by sell' and if, iu any instance, they have been levied upon American guot brought into his Majesty's possessions by inland navigalon, or ges the boats and vessels employed in that navigation, there wisi be We difficulty in directing the anionnt so levied to be rtplld, unless h should appear that the like duties had been levied in the American pona, upon the inland navigation and trade of the British per vincrs. G. C.,