The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-01 00:00:00

RESULT OP THE TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES
TO BRITISH COMMERCE.

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Among the most important events of the present slay, the/
of the Government of the United States having yielded their
!aim to any trade with India, is not the least How it will
-•, he received in those divisions of the United States, that
• have carried on so large and lucrative a trade with the Pr-
ilin.sis!a remains to be seen. It was announced so early as
• last July or August in one of Mr. Madison's demi-official
• onons (the R;chrnond Enquirer,', that this valuable privi-
' lege would not be insisted on in the coarse of the (then
-.;,proaching) Negociation ; and this • asset tion -called forth
tt;e most pointed reprobation 'on the part of the federal
ty, win argued from it that Mr. Madison %vas by no
owans !lie limper min to negociate a treaty. But this part
(.f the subject will come before the public, in a more in
tcre•iolg and correct manner after the ratification of the
t•ea.! shall havetaken piece, if Mr. Madison shall be in a
4' • :Pit:llion to ralifti it.
r • The more interesting part of it to the British public at this
fi.- rz;or»ent, is the additional field it opens to British merchants
40. and British tonnage. They have already proved that, the
• I";‘pst Indio jrade can be carxied on with advantage by indivi,
. Floss,. Henceforward they will have more room for their
• e tioni from their possessing the exclusive right of access
ii*".• itish

Tl:t.4e it another end an equally interesting light in which
the stihject is to be viewed—that of revenue.
It i, one of the most vital Importance, and from thethange
.44 citcumstairces and the immense charges on our national
ticht that have aecruesi within the past to years, affords
eiit,tis ground for apprehension,
.that from ti►a improved

!toil, as to debt, unfettered state of the Continent, we shall 1,
-not be able to meet our rival in the commercial world upon
itn,a.;:ooy thing like equal terms. The duties upon all articles
• her of luxury Or necessity must be reduced. The negli-
-gence and improvidence of the Legislature on this subject
titre too evident in its conduct on the India (*barter bill,
tiol railed for the most !Minted reprobation on the part of
Clibnville in his speech .on.that question.
'"girange to say, british rrierchasts were excluded from the'
• 7 tots of China Oh the principle that the revenue must suffer,
• ••,.ith Lord Grenville it was clear that no provision, however
fo•eessary, can he. enforced, and his argument for allowing
he„l3l it ish trader ' - Chi
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. . 'D lue collected. to tits*, we %,,ompany s monopoly was in
ilie_Biiiish trader to go to China, appears to have arisen from full vigour, and the revenue had the whole unqualifica be-
tile Fame opinion as tiiat
.wjiich induced him to permit the nefit of every security which that syttem could provide. No
American merchant to trade to India, and convey India pro- British vessel could at that time, without the express permi-
r!urtf to Canada, an 'opinion In which he was Fu p port ed by !Sion d (he Company, enter into . the seas of India or of
the Ihte Lord Melville and the then Court of Directors—an i China, into the Ethiopic, or the Pacific Ocean ; yet parli.4-
opinion in width he would bait been and will he
,joined by
i meut was even then compelled to reduce the duty, and we
cverY-to.l4glitened statesman, and for the plain 'end simple lootniuuted it for a butdennan, tail on our own bouscs. Him
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much greater will'. now, be the. difficulty of collecting this
revenue, after you shall have opened-to British vessels all
the ports of the Ealt, except those of China alone. •
" The rate of duty. must, therefore, again be diminished
whenever peace returns.. No wan questions it. But-it.is of
great importance to remark, that the necessary amount of
the reduction will very much depend on the system by which
the trade is carried on.• Beyond a certain standard the price
of this commodity cannot be. carried. If you exceed it, the
advantage which .you give to contraband destroys the lawful
trade, and undermines the revenue. Of that price the prime
cost forms comparatively a small part, the commercial
charges and, the duty constitute the remainder. In propor-
tion, therefore, as the one is augmented the other must be
reduced. Import cheaper and you may levy a higher tax—
increase the cost at which you receive the commodity, and
you can add less to it in the form of duty. And if it be true
is this case, as io every other, that'a trade of monopoly will
he carried on less economically than a trade of competition.
the reduction of duty must be greater, and Me defalcation of
revenue must be made good, as it was before by .other and more
bur thensome taxation.'

Hence this is a-most important subject for consideration•
It affects individuals and the public; and,- melancholy to
state, makes their interests enter into conflict. That this;'
should be the case, and at the motnent,when, agreeably to
a public pledge, and when, in consequence of a general
peace, the Property Tax is to be withdrawn, is to be deep
lamented.

It will, perhaps; induce a conviction of the imperfect
character of our legislative provisions, and a necessity for a
total revision. as 'well as an amendment. of those laws, the
injurious enactments of which have so uniforaily missed the
attention of the legislature,

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OUR COMMERCIAL. PROSPECTS.

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Now that the mighty ocean will etas* to'he Ploughed.
with thi hostile prow, and its bosom be whitened with the
sails of commerce, the following glowing description ofour
prospects will gratify our readers, who we think will be at a
loss which to admire most in it, the splendour of its do-.
quence, the wisdom of its sentiments, or the clnistian like
purity of its morality. •
" For the encouragement of such hopes no moment was
ever yet more favourable, the barrier of prejudice is shaken :
the spirit of monopoly is rapidly giving way to jester
principles of trade; and the change in public opinion id
seconded by the great revolutions °retie world. Why should
we thee delay to grant to the British Merchant all for which
lie now contends: all that the-exclusive char:er of the East
India Company has hitherto closed against him: all and
more than these resolutions propose to open to the people
of this Empire ? A free trade with India, a free trade with

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are told that when the rsissinish discottartgalsrst tivircame.
with labour and peril alatasalslallpeakable. vitios issigiuty Range
of mountains which divides the western from the Atlantic
shores of South America, they stood fixed in silent admira-
tion, gazing on 'the vast expanse of the southern ocean
which lay stretched before them in boundless prospect. They
adored, even those hardened and sanguinary adventure's
adored, the gracious Providence of Ileaven, which, after the
lapse of so many centuries, bad opened to mankind so won-
derful a field of untried and unitnaginect enterprize. Tt:ey'
anticipated in prophetic enthusiasm the glory of their native
country, the future extent of it' sovereignty and power. and
the noble prize presented to its ambition. But theirs was the
glory of conquest, the ambition of war, the prize of unjttst
, dominion. As vast as theit'i, but infinitely more honourable,
for higher both in purpose and in recompence are the hopes
with which the same prospect now elevates our hearts.
Over countries yet unknown to science, and in tracts which
Bt itish. navigation has never yet explored, we hope to carry
the • tranquil arts, the social enjoyments, the ftiendly and
benevolent intercourse of commerce. By the link of =gust.' '
;interest, by the bond of reciprocal good-will, we hope to
connect together the remotest regions of the earth,. humble
and meek but not rejected instruments of that great purpose
of our Creator, by which he has laid in tbe reciprocal
itecesities both of individuals and nations 'the firtnest,gloond-
'wolk oralt human society. Let thii be'our glory and *bat
conqueror will not have reason to envy it."4--Loan GIIEN-
ViLLE SPEECH ON INDIA BILL. •
FOREIGN INTkLLIGENCE.
ARREST OF GENERAL EXCE!..IIANk.
Parts, Dsc. to.—An strait of e-onsideinble iinf•rtaape has just kte•
"carteel•at Paris, the details of.witiels, as tin". work She sipi;il,6o4 new
Government, shou'd be made known to dirt English pithlics.wittlieugis
the enslaved state *f the &roma- press in France has kept them cuus
ceded 'from the obeirrnelon of the French people. •
Lieut. General Excel/mins (on officer of distinction in the French
service, and litsrector General of the Cavalry at Paris) whs sent for by
General Doping, then Minister at War, in the beginnisig of the at/nth.
The blinister 'animists., to
.1 bat that a letter *Lich the General Lad
written to the Kitt, of Naples IA 1111 found amotw the pape-s taken horn
Lord Oxford ; that the King had seen the letter—that he blamed it ;
Amt. that he alisjsyclingd 49 consider it only 114 too lively an espresiimt
ot gratitude ftwysest fainting, and that he desired the Gs nem, would no
ii ore ciretitus;secr 14 the future. This reprimand IPA), ihit
Itliwiwer rot ens end to the conference.
Marshal Stitilt beiatne Minister I.f Wars-soon after. • Within a day or
two niter his appointment he lent fur General Excelmang, reptimundcd
him severely for the letter, and terliade him to go to' (2siiitt.
Some days afterwards the Manhal wrote fa (,eneral Fs. inforroiste Mtn
that Ise was helical-oral on hall-pay. and ordering hint to repair to linr•
sut•Ornaiii, the place of domicile. The Gel-send 'went to Ilse :1:i•I.
islet's Hotel, remained three hours at his potter's, but was refined ad. •
'pittance. /le then wrote. him a letter, in which. alter kipressing
regret, al he informed him, that he (the Genets° was demiciliet, d :tt
Paris, but that out of respect to Ilse' orders of the king, he would hat st
dcptrrtcd immediately, 'sad not his wife been on the point of I)issr
and that his departure might effect her safety. lie, therefore, requested
w delay. •
Not having received any answer, and the Governor of Payie hav-
ing intimated to him his (inlets to three him to leave Ike town.
General E wrote t• the Marini, to inforthisim that Ilitt.s(ormicibe
wits at l'atis, and that being placed ea son edirire, he tad a 'Olt
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Of this Empire ? A free trade with India, a lice trade with sT;;; Paris, .;:es:l 7lialbeitii;ectie.;t.o;a(-titLitg7lael;tl7.;::l:l
i Chipa with the Eastern Islands, the latest acquisitions of to remain thcre, that the King vras too just to deprile.loin o?,:t tight
British valour •and throughthem the rids kingdoms ,
his own linuse waiting fur the orders .iir hi. Allsksty•
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of South America, a country hitherto barred aainst us •as the emu, ti rimes Tresetstv(l
'Two days afterwards an officer of
mach by the monopolies of its parent Government as by himself to Ocoerai• F. with an order froth Geuvral Grultdior 111 ai.
our own, but now at last by the course of events no longer pretend him, and to keep him constantly watched. However, the •
within the controul of man, opened, In every eat % I trust officer retired, and was rsplpiced by a norreommissioned officer, who .
infalliblx, opened, to the commerse of the World. _.,),„ 4.:.:. attel winds was rclitycd by a yds ate genii. d'art#, Who %vier left ttis.
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