The Sun.
London, England, 1808-01-29 00:00:00

MARGATE PIER.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a Petition
from the Commissioners of the Pier and Inhabitiints
of the town of Margate, praying aid to repair the
Josses sustained by them by the effecast of the late
high tides.
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AMERICAN INTERCOURS4,

Mr. Rosi moved the Order of the Day, for going
into a Conimittee:otothe Ad of last Sessien, regu-
lating the trade between this Country and the
United States of .America.
Mr. .EDEN retarded this Motion with pleasure,
so far as it went to prove a dispoiition to conciliate
and maintain good will and amity with the American
States ; and it gave him still farther satisfactiOn,
in-
asmucli as it seemed to indicate a hope on the part
of his Majesty's Ministers, that the existing ditfer-
ences would be reconciled and done away. He was,
however, surprised, under the circumstances now
existing in Atnerioa, to find the provisions of the A 4
of 1799, made to carry into etfett the Treaty of Corn-
merce and Amity with the United States, now pro.
poesi for renewal, without any reserve or modifica-
tion, if the Bight Hon. Gentleman would look
to the preamble of the Att, he would find that it
was framed on the principle of a reciprocal freedom
of coturrierce bet Ween the two countries. But now,
when the Non-importation Ad -was renewed by the
American Legislature in all its avidness, .and when
an embargo was laid in the American ports, was it a
tittle for Britain to renew without reserve all the in-
dulgences of the periods of the moat amicable rela-%
tiou ? The Act now in existence niative weeks 'of'
its period still to run.; was it not proper to pause
Icascfor
,a part, of ,that time, in order to ascertain
whether the arrival ot our Envoy Extraordinary
America, and t arrival of the intelligence that must
hate nearly, at: the same time !fern received, of the I
unj ust'. proceedings of France may not, on more tam ure
consideratiOn, have taught the American'OuVern.
norm to adopt a more wimc and triad Late system of.
conclutt f • When, on reviewing the enemy's Decrees
and the Orders ot„ Council issu, d by the British Go-
vernment, it should be ,goon!! that. America could
treat only.with kJrittiin, existing circuni,atruces may
. undergo a lOU' alteration, which would render the
passitn, this Ink,!astlre more proper and natural. if
the embargo should be taken oil, and tile NonEhn.
p.ortation Ad repe4d, his objections would no long.
et-exist. But it the American Government should
be so unreasonable as to overlook the olurages of
France, and to require front its COncessionirbeyond
all reason, a very different course would become us,
Another reason why he was averse to the renewal
°tithe Ad was the refUsal of the Arneriisan Govern-
ment to,ratify the Treaty concluded last year. Many
of the provisions of the Ad were incorporated in
that Treaty, and when the American Government
refused to accept them in the shape of a national
covenant, why shoul,l we grant them, witk;ut any
reciprocal-consideration, in the shape of an Aft of.
Parliament ?

• 111 r. ROSE :said; the oblelit of the measure he pro-
posed to renew, was to continue the provisions of
the Act; of 1794, in consequence of die.lailure or
omission of making an arrangement under the lath
article of the Treaty of 1797, in the time stipulated,
in consequence of that omission it became uccessasy
to pass the Intereeurse Ad of last &Won, 'to pie..
vent the trade wiai the United States hum riffling
to the ground. That At would expire in about thug
weeks hence. it would viika, three weeks to pass a
fill to renew it, and tlwrefore no time was to be lost:
If America had precipitately taken measures hostile
• to this Country, it became us to slim an example
of thirdignity and moderation, the wise and delibe-'
rate course of proceeding that became a great and
upright paw. Anteritta
.profit by
so matrUCtive au example, and it site should ooti,
he would still find a satisfattion in tbinkilig this
Country had erred rather On the side orforhearanee
and deliberation than anger. and precipitancy. .His
Hon. Friend („,,hlr, Eden) should'Oe aware, that under
the provisions of the Navigation Act Yhi American
Vessel could enter the ports of this Catintry tattlesy
special provision were made by Act of. ParliaMent
to that OW. To make that provision was one of
the obieas of the measure.now proposed. There
was no reason why American ships shOuld be exclud-
ed from bringing the produce ut their country to our
ports, any more than the ships of any other nation.
As to gibing a power to the King and Council, why
should that he done by the King and Council which
Could be done. by tlie Legislature, particularly at a
time when the Parliament was sittitig ? He propos-
ed to limit the duration of the Bill to be introduced
to the period at the present Sessiun of Parliament,
with a power to repeal or alter it'at any time it' may
be thoug. necessary. Souse regulation Was indis•
peusably necessary, and this measure was the most
reasonable irs could think of.
The House then went into the Committee, Sir C.
Price'in the Chair. Leave was given to bring in a
renew the AU passed ,to earl)' into qrect the
-"Tic:oy of Conametce and Amity betwheti his ma.
lesty and this United States ofAmerica.

• ..Mr. EptiN tuck occiviloti to, 511,y, in expianation,
that he had no wish to giveimy interrupticin to tho
intercontial with the United States.