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London, England, 1826-05-15 00:00:00


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DAUS 'EXTRA' T 8 PROM Tat; MORNING PAPERS,
I.IY 15; 1826.

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.N 9 one can deny but that Mr. Huskisson's speech
on Thiday night presented a variety of important par-
ticulda on the state of our commerce • and shipping ;
and the tables which Will in consequence be laid be-
fore ithe House of Commons, will supply docuMents
for riasoners of all kinds on the subjects to which they
relate.. Were we to:state in what points we thought
the Right Hon. Gentleman least conclusiie,_ or bow
he se'erned least-to make out his case! we should say,
that ,the great bulk of his statements had reference to
the 'condition of the shipping interest of the country
before his new measures were introduced; the na-
tural inference from which . would be, that our com-
merciatnavigation was improving even under the old
apt* For example, the increase of tonnage during
the Whole of the late revolutionary war was said to
amount to two-fifths : at the terniination 'of that war,
it was '.2,486,000 tons ; and up to. the present-1:e-
-riod, that amount had increased to 2,580,000
,tons---
an ificitaie, if the figures be correct, of no great wag-
nitude:. However, it may be observed, that.it is not
Mr. Huskisson's fault, if his. new measures have not
yet become matters of experience, nor can be appealed
to as such : they can only be reasoned on prospec-
tively ;. and so far as reasoning goes, we should say
that the argument is favourable, with the exception of
that upon the silk trade, about which he himself, his
"colleitipm,.and the, evidence adduced, have',Atifiled so
much, that it is difficult.to say what has beefi its past,
and may be its future state. Its condition at present
is not very gratifying. After all the merit, however,
which has been assumed on account of the more li-
beral system of commerce under which we are now
acting, there comes out a kind of half-confession in
Mr. Huskisson's speech that it has been wrung from
us by .America; and that we could not therefore, with-
hohl4from inferior commercial states,either iii justice to
theni;or without givingAnaerica a preference,of Which she
unisthave availed herself to lint:rove in a still more rapid
progress her commercial shipping interests. "Be the
system of free trade," says Mr. Huskisson, " good
or bird, it was, he contended, the duty of Great Bri-
tein to arrange peaceably' a measure of this ,nature,
rather than to i)a*arci it rupture with those with "whom
it was our duty to cherish a friendly feeling."
" But, after we- had extended thin measure to the
United States of America, we should hardly be acting
with justice to deny it to those parts, which, under the
feudal system,-were the great nurseries of commercial
marine. He (Mr. Iltisliasson) should have thought
it highly censurable to refuse extending it to them, be-
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eaute we apprehended .no danger from. them.' And
again in speaking ofthechangesin our colonial commerce,
in which the Americans had carried their point against
us, he says, 4, Now was it wise to say to that growing
naval power, which was•making such rapid advanees to
a: Maritime ascendancy, You may carry on trade
with our West India Islands, but Denmark and
Sweden shall not ?' It was giving' tm unfair pre-
ference to one power, and that A power which it was
not improper to
.say in a British I:louse of Coininons
displayed a rivalry with us." Colombia, Brazil, and
310titti, of course, participate in the new advantages
eonreired by the free. trade, which may, indeed, be
' called co-tcmporanootts:with their birth. And we are
.sure that, for very obvions:reasOns„it is our interest,
by every means, to encourage the growth of those
atates. They can hardly ever become enemies, but
their position as allies may render them hereafter of
incalculable. advantage.. Their rivalry in commerce
must retard the grnwmf, greatness of AmetiCa ; and
should.lbe in her way to power, find herself
obliged to attack the former, as enemies at her thrsh-
hoW-:-:tlioutd.'she ',even succeed in her .conquest of
tlArmr-fili,e will then haVe empire enough at {come, and
composed' of PArts sufficiently dissimilar and uncon-
zireisOno, occuev her attention and employ her re-
sources. Irehunl, elm), should be
,the object of our
p4at'alli'fititinktitin and kindest care .from her poSition,
angi,thosTwishiyati9n-bf-whitt, may be our future rrl e.
America. The arts, trade, and commerce,
.havo reached a pitch in lingland, amid are so univer-
sally diffused, that they Can with difficulty advance, and
viill4wrercase grfAtlY
_stnpaSs their present degree of
But Ireland ,presents a new, and ininany
citgreilltitioSt. maiden soil for our enterprise and
col
eAtiovoiton,, and will yidld-it harvest in proportion ; we
spook Inet4phoiii.;dijr ; it is riot the harvest of
er, alitearrlyi, Which. we shall reap,' but the harvest of
eArottireka}i4rtiatiless and national_ power. It is worth
tiOblie` to!notibe also; before we: cease, the impor-
. tarit:inrrigk;thntryth
,of which no one can: deny—
" As to our sliii;pingliide situ the North of Europe,
. it so much, depends 'on, ,and i:;
,aff'ttCted by our Corn
. in cotioidering it, these laws: meet us at
every Shipping,7Commereial,. manufacturing
sueneasion of4ll, tlierefore, depend'upott
rafiliritil Adige' hi the 'Corn Laws. We may live,
indeed, we .may exist, t 5 buinan 'beings, upon- the
t4o;wlliefriSilunature,d,out to, us by lour own ngri-
vio-Nan: the ,success of thoae
taiegor,:whial;Vie li-wi Just cited depends the 'greatness
Oref"inwer oltho,empne ; the, 'empire being great
oweiftit,-it•parirpt fail to raise and uphold also
agticultnial: kUlijeetti Of every description -. with the
orosqnt theV ha'. enough in time they-will
eeijOyalnindanen; 'and- the recent division in Yana.
tritaVixa ve shoWii 410-li-that, willin or unWilling,-they
snt4j3end,to4lie prepuuderanCe of wiser Counsels; •04.
"coriOni to the course of events.

' is"l. ,- ,t ['lwo i4itii4Zl iiiiitdinct,f.::).
..'lo:l4fildittil on. Saturday to atmlitero ,Ohng itl th('
' C;)lllm*o,:i:44,44fiitehli,oiltsi," We understaild;7liflir
Itll,44elan, aratulPiaii<Xlig 'the, Cettiriiiitee 'should re-
W.Airt tllll,ilMttweAltimtly,reeeivetl, it., 4ris 'Urged by
some-of tl,e 'TV na*Visjs'''tifilk ti ::evidences -was all '
, ~, it.,
ko-i44)sitie '',, that all who had beeit"oxarihted` were either'
4'''''
4. k Mat 'then'. nk ,eon 41f 0 ti..'. 11 4 )4, or Batik Proptietors ?:
oerral attrowi tv(:ealtxtO t*ied of persotis ready to give!
ttvidkne on tlia'utltsi+ si t'-'!. *a' that, under these eir-
quirjite„.llbt; ti t 6 r*EvitOe .00tiitl not, without receiv-
ingnfurtlt4 eviclii4.o;,grOiCksri I Anal Report. Messrs.i,
tt Li hitiorrttitd, Rebintion,: s ulid(irstend, took this;
view' (446 ItiAtt#l,4' -I.iiia4i.th.4 0. is to he difielfseed in
thti,doratniftetj wp,r44401, 4 when it will be decitied
4)
w4ietber 'the investisitfokwbtcii, his 'taken phice sht+ll
btt *41'464 ecittipl:4teobrilartial.

Cmott,NeNo Jtf;lint i>
',Vire were ittuoh.plealled vitth NTr; l'islcistaonti stari
menV•thii•other uight.respecting ./Z
ail me
in-, thel
ware,,Tlml that hei
broke through 4vifit -tltnt h 4 'had'. pro
cceeded further, and had proposed th4.-redelinlink,of
thorn altogether, for Fie are well convinced that corn-
weree cannot he too free. We f-hould allow ships of