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London, England, 1806-09-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN PLINTATIONS.

Thtrafil from the Report of the Lords of the rtitV Council far
Plantation Affairs, 171141 ordered to h printed 'by the
Hones of -Commons en the sth of Jame, 1204.
(Cuutioued from our Paper of Friday lan.)
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The West India planters and merchants, in offer-
ing their evidence, adverted to two other circum-
stances, in order to induce Your Majesty to comply
with their request.
Ist. The policy which the French ate pursuing,
for the purpose of opening an intercourse between
their Islands and the United States.
2.1. The measures which the United States, and
the several provinces of which they are composed,
have takes, in resentment of Your Majesty's Order
in 'Council of the 2d of July.
• As thew two points are of Importance. and have
a mazaris4, connedion with the business which Your
Majesty has referred to the Committee, they thought
it tight to inquire into them, for Your Majesty's
information.

It was admitted by the planters and merchant.,
that an Arrit had been published at St. Domingo
'by the Marquis de Bellecombe. whi;,h puts the trade
between that Island and the United States upon the
same rooting as before the war; bat a paper, called
• Proclamation, peblished by the Viscount de Du-
mas, who commands at present at Martinique and
the French Windward Islands, was produced to the
Committee, opening the ports of clip; French islands
to the ships of the United States, and allowing
them to supply the said Islands MO every kind of
commodity which France could not supply them,
with, and to purchase and load, in return, with
every kind of produce,of the said Islands ; and it
was alleged, dust this Proclamation of Mons de
Dames superseded the Ars it of the Marquis de Belle-
combs. The words of the Proclamation are cer-
tainly general, and seem to refer to all the French
}atop& ; bat the Island of St. Domingo is not
Within the Govo!nrocat of Mons. de Damas‘ and
if the regulation had extended to that Island, the
Proclamation ought in like manner to have beam
published by the Maripis de Ilellecombe there;
and it is singular that this Prordaneation having
been published at Martinique no the 25d of July,
178), there should be no account hitherto received
of the like Proclamation having been published at
St. Domingo.
The permission which this proclamation gives to
the vessels of th* United States to load with t'se pro-
duce of the French Islands, is unlimited, but the
permission which it gives thim to bring the produce
of the United States to their islands, is 'Very with' I
confined, via. To such articles only as 'France
could not supply her Colonies with; under stageneral
a description it was impossible that the Americans
cos ld know what part of their produce they were
allowed to bring. This necessarily produced an
explanation. and the Committee are informed, that
under these general words, the Americans are now
allowed to Import lumber cf all sorts, staves and
hooding. shingles, rice, hot ses, cattle, and live stock,
an all fish but cod, which are to be supplied from
their own fsheries, so that the three great articles of
•d, an produce, viz. European and Indian grain;
'salted beef and pork, and pickled cod, art not in-
cluded in this general permission ; hut it is said
that permission is to be given occasionally to ins.
port salted provisions sad other articles, when the
Islands are in want of them t and the Committee
'are infortned, that what is thus ;omitted to be im-
ported, is little more than what the French allowed
to the Americans before the war, only they then
gave it to particular ships, by special permission,
when the ne,tessoy of their Islands required it.
With respe& to the satia;ures which the United
Stases, and the several "provinces of which they are
composed. have taken, an resentment of. Your Ma-
jestyls order in Council, of the 21 July. the Com-
mittee 6nd that the State of Maryland has, on this
accogat, imposed a duty of as per ton on British
shipping, at their entr.ince or clearance in the ports
of that State (which is said to be 2s. mare than
they hare laid qn all *other shipping), and 2 per
ecdt. ad valalai, over and above what is now paid,
or may hereafter be paid, by the citizens of the said
state, upon all merchandise and manufadures. the
growth and produce of Great Britain, or any colony
or other place under the dominion of Great Bri-
tain, imported in any British ship, or other vessel.
owned or belonging in part, or wholly. to any Bfi-
tish subjed or stitsrets.
4nd the Asiensbly of Georgia, now sitting, has
prohibited intercourse with the British West In-
dia islands, until the Orders of Your Majesty in
CoonCil ere revoked.
It does not appear that any of the other states
hare yet passed any legislative Ads to the like pur-
pose. gut in the Assembly of Pensylvapia. woich
WAS sitting when the last accounts came away, an
A 4 had been read a second-time for imposing du-
ties on eve`ry ton of litiaiels+lipping, and on British
manuradores and commodities, in like manner as
those imposed by the before-recited AQ of the State
of Maryland; with the addition, that the Assembly
of Pensylvania proposed to augment the duty oat
British manufadurt s glad cemosoditiee imposed on
British shipping, to 21 per cent. ad valorem; and
there is intelligence received of a general ferment
its all the Southern and Middle States, on account
of the restri4ion laid by Your Majesty's Order in
Council.
The Assembly of New York has addressed the
Governor on this subjed in terms of resentment to
Great Britain ; and the Assembly of Virginia have
unanimously resolved, " that the United States in
Congress assembled ought to be empowered to pro-
hibit British vessels from being the carriers of the
growth or produce of the British West India Islands
to the said States, so long as the Order in Council
shall be continued, or so concert such other mea-
sures as shall be thought eifedtUal to counteraß the
designs of Great Britain with reaped to the Arne-
' mean commerce."
The province of South Carolina has laid duties
on British West India produce from 301. to tool.
per cent. higher than on that of foreign islands.
that it appears that this duty was imposed before
they had any knowledge of Your Majesty's Order
in Council of 2d July.
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