The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-07 00:00:00

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ticas ; ttitsfulall exlt4 textt pteYelitei itt
soon in tritioh •hips.
EA RTifEN WAR Eyta marl thereof voll cost about five pottn,lt
ftelltiri. The mord peace freight-of quell a crate resumed
to be about %IP. or 2;0. starling; the extra duty thereon, be-
ing on::' lr. fief: ster hg., would be paid by the owner of a
British shin rather than not obtain the freight.
n1,:\?) L l'S—abalr of ten flirter:Axil' coat about tes atm:lug.
The 'wool 'Tom freight about 3:as.,sterling ; the extra duty
payalth• if imported fit a British slitp, o ill be 10,. stetting.
WQOI. HATS, Ostiobwrgs sail (onyx% ke.: syy, negro cot
tons, flannel, blizt., half thick, and in wait ail woollen
clntlis tinder 24. sterling per yard; hem, port..r, and a variety
of other bulky article., pay an extra dots, !tri small when
compared with the fr.nglit of such g that the owner, of
BritiAt ships, %then acsored of a full return fre:glit front the
United States to Great Britain, will find it their interest to
agree to pay the extra elute payahleon such goods when im-
ported into the United States in foreign ships or
France also has taken measures to meet the ope-
ration of our discriminating duties. In the second
year of the French Republic, a decree (relative to the
of of iftrvigatitin of that nation) was passed, by which
a duty of tonnage of 50 sols per ton was imposed (.11
foreign vessels entering the ports of France, and of
6 sols per ton on French vessels. •
In the third year of the French*Republic, a law
was passed, imposing a duty of 18 livres 1.5 sols per
quintal on lubogco imported in French vessels, and
of 25 litres on tobacco imported into the porta of
France in Ibreign vessels ; which duty has since
been increased to livres per quintal, when im-
ported in foreign ships, and to 20 livres when in
French ships ; making a difference of 120 livres or
22 dollars and 90 cents per hhd. of 1200 lbs. against
the importation of tobacco into France in American
vessels. This discriminating duty amounts in fait
to the prohibiting of the importation of tobacco in
American vessels into France.
Your Committee further state, that, by a late law,
France has imposed a discriminating duty of .50 per
cent. on the duties payable on sugar, coffee, cocoa,
and other West India goods, when imported in
French ships, or similar goods when imported in fo-
reign ships into her ports.
The Committee take leave to exhibit herewith
[No. 1] statement of exports, imports, and tonnage,
as they relate to France, Great Baitain, and the
United States. And a statement [No. 2] sheering
the exports from the United States to the European
ports of Great Britain and France, of the following
articles, to wit :
Pot and pearl ashes, ginseng, iron, pitch, rosin,
rice, tobacco, tar, fish-oil, turpentine, bees-wax, and
cotton, and the total value of exports to those nations
for the year 1.802.
'Sweden and. Denmark have laws imposing discri-
minating duties highly. favourable to their carrying
trade. Spain also, by its navigation laws, gives im-
portant advantages to its own shipping over those of
toreigu nations, trading to her pints. Hollandalso
has her discriminating duties, which _in their come-
qiiences are injurious to the commercial interests of
the United States.
Two modes have presented themselves to your
Committee, to obviate the disadvantages resulting to
the carrying trade of the United States, from, the
countervailing and discriminating duties already re-
cited. The one to increase our discriminating du-
ties, so as to meet the injuries now experienced from
the operation of those and the countervaling duties
of other nations.. The other to relinquish our dis.
criminating duties, so far as they relate to goods,
wares, and merchandize, the growth, produce, or
mannfaShire of the nation to which the ship by
whom the sante are imported tr.ay belong, in favour
of such foreign nation, as will agree to abolish such
of their discriminating or countervailing duties, as
are in their operaticn injurious to the interest of the
• United States.
The first mode would, in its consequences, lead to
a commercial warfare between the United States
and foreign nations. Admit for instance, that the
United States should increase her discriminating du.
ties, will not foreign nations also increase theirs in
every instance, and at every tin:e that the United
States shall pursue • their plan of increase ? If so,
your Committee are at a loss to conceive what be-
nefit could arise to the interest of the United States
from such a system.
The second mode appears to your Committee,
more cossistent with the true 'interest, as well as
with the peaceful disposition of the United States.
They therefore submit the following resolution:
Resolved, 'that so much of the several Acts, im-
posing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels,
and on goods, wares, and metclianslise, imported
into the tTnited States, as imposes a discrimitrating
duty of tonnage, betweea fore'qn.yeasels and vessels
of the Unitea States, and between goods imported
into the United Statca, in foreign vessels, and vessels
of the United States ought to be repealed; so far
as the same respects the produce or manufacture of
the nation to which such foreign shies or vessels may
belong—such repeal to take effect in favour of any
foreign nation, whenever the President shell be satis-
fied that the discihninating or countervailing duties
of such foreign nation, so far as they operate to the
disadvantage of the United Suites. have been abo-
lished.