Star.
London, England, 1831-01-04 00:00:00

THE SPIRIT OF THE

MISRAOE.

Prom the New York it Advertiser, Des. 9.
11118 SA
Fellow-dthens of the Senate and House of Renndatives.
The pleasure I have in ongratulating you oe Viet return to your
constitutional duties is mechleightened by the Miendee whin the
condition dour beloved country at this period jingly imphoo. The be-
neficent Assist Ball geed has granted to us, awing the hewn year,
health, peseta and pinnyond smennus causes ter* le Obi Wonderful
success which attends the process of our hoe lations. ' •
With a populates unparalleled in its increase, mid possessing a clia.
raster which ambines the hardihood at ~prise with the *nitrate-
nos of wisdom, we see in every *seeks of oar hooey nanny a steady
improvement in the mass of acid and carespeadent
erects upon the mien ad laws of oar
t ezeiptims to the bennony of the-Premed are to be re-
theTeildtritlo inevitable divinities in the radius interests which en-
ter into the enopmitien eine soisesive a when, -than to any grentif
attachment to the Unien—inimine whose serve only, le
aid, intordiitiph se it or eon and thm, esaen to
the preservation of that union *hick I nest devoutly hope, is d
to prove imperishable.
In the midst of these blessings, we have recently witnessed chaps
in the condition of other nations, which may, in their consequences,
call for the utmost vigilance, wisdom, and 'unanimity in our councils,
and the exercise of all the moderation and patriotism of our people.
The important modifications of their government, effected with so
much courage and wisdom by the people of France, afford a ha -
sage of their future course, and has naturally elicited from the ktadeed
feelings of this natieglhat spontaneous and universal burst of aniline
in which you have dpited. In congratulating you, my fellow.
citizens, upon an evWlkauspicious to the dearest interests of mankind,
I do no more than respond to the voice of my country, without trans-
ending, in the slightest degree, that salutary maxim of the illustrious
Washington, which enjoins an abstinence from all interference with
the internal affairs of other nations. From a people exercising
in the most unlimited degree, the right of self government,
and enjoying, as derived hem this proud characteristic, under
the favour of Heaven, much of the happiness with which they are
blessed; a people who can point in triumph to their free institu-
tions, and challenge comparison with the fruits they bear, as well as with
the moderation, intelligence, and energy, with which they are adminis.
tered, from such a people, the deepest sympathy was to be expected in
a struggle for the sacred principles of liberty, conducted in a spirit tiny
way worthy at the cause, and crowned by an heroic moderatie which
has disarmed revoludon of its terrors. Notwithstanding the smog as-
surances which the mat whom we so sincerely love and justly admire,
has given to the world of the high character of the present King of the
French, and which. if sustained to the end, will secure to him the need
appellation of the patriot king ; it is not in his success, bat
in that of the great principle which has borne him to the theme--
the paramount authority of the public will.—that the American people
rejoice.
I am happy to Worm you that the anticipations which were indulged
at the date of my last communication on the subject of our foreign af-
fairs, have been fully realized in several important particulars.
An arrangement has been effected with Great Britain, in retitled to
the trade between the United States and her West India and North
American Colonies, which has settled a question that has for years af-
forded matter for contention and almost uninterrupted dissuasion, and
has been the subject of no ism than six negotiations, in a manner which
promises results highly favourable to the parties.
The abstract right of Great Britain to monopolise the trade with her
colonies, or to exclude us from a participation therein, hes never ban
denied by the United States. But we have contended, and with rasa,
that if at any time Great Britain may deshe the productions of this
country, as necessary to her Colonies, they must be reenved upon pin.
ciplesof just reolpeoeity t and further, that it is nuthhig ea Invidlees
and unfriendly distinWon, se opsn her colmiol gone attes.vmmiti
other nations, and close them against those of the Uni
Antecedently to 1794, a portion of our productions was admitted into
the Colonial islands of Great Britain by pardadar concessions, limited
to the tens of one year, but renewed from year to year. In the trans-
portation of those predestine, however, our vends were not allowed to
engage ; this being a *din yenned to Heidi shipping, by which
alone our probate esuM be Weenie the lannds, sesilthahe brought to us
in return. From Nowilimilmil wed bee cendanstal possessions, all bee
productions, as well as on weds, was oneindul, with occasional ee.
taxation', by which, in seam et distress, the insets were admitted in
British bottoms.
By the treaty of 1754, she sawed to concede to us, for a limited thee,
tlie.nter aeryng to het West India poessidem, in oar vowels an
Id nee bmillm, and epos the same tome with British mask
a7orassimes et tlitt United States which Doltish vim=
import disrobes. But this privilege was oregid with
which are supposed to have led ee its rejection by due Senate; that is,
that American yards should lend thek. Mae moose in the United
of
Statesthe onp rivlyilege, be ; and, thethem ft they ehould, ening the oistimme
amok or Cotton, either hem those iibmlsicilln!rilitine =Wee, ts
any other part at the wield. Gnat Bank seedily simented M input
this article front the treaty; and sabowinuet allimple to
terms of the trade, eldest by treaty, odpubtisms, or eseeertedanaitele,
don, having failed, it baleen ansemelvely suspended and allow se.
cording to the varying bghlatisa if the parties.
The fallowing are the posminent rime width ham, in late yeas,
aspirated the two government& Dundee a reeeddien whereby all kW
partadom into her C.olsaiss in American vessels am indeed se an own
products carried hence, a restrinien to which it dem net appear thus we
have eve objected, a leading object on the part of Sint- Britain hue
bees to ent us from boa abg des canine of British West Indio
nom sdithss to any seta omen theca our own. On the wt at the
United Buttes, it hes been matiodal, let, that the subject dreaM be raga.
toed by treaty stipulation, hi poisons@ or separate logisinden ,End
that oursesimehns, when Maned Ye the admits in questing, shod&
sot int
et= duties the peebeedem of the mother nem.
try. or of I ind,./I, thee our vends shield be,
allowed to parddpaterresd.b. ma between the United SWAM
and &daunt parts of the British doesniens.
The but paint, after having been he a long time strenuously insist.
ed upon by Gmt Britain. was given up by the Act of Parliament of
July, 1826 ; all vessels suffered to trade with the colonies being pep
mined to clear from thence with any articles which British vends
might export, and to proceed to any part of the- world. Great Brink
and her dependencies alone excepted. On our pm, each of the above
points had, in succession, been explicitly abeedoned, in negociatises
preceding that of which the result is now anemia
This arrangement secures to the United States advantage
asked by them, and which the state of the negailedees allowed us to
insist upon. The trade will be placed on a *sate deeModly mere
Towable to this country than any on which it ever need and our cent.
mere and navigation will enjoy. in the colonial ports of Great Britain,
every privilege allowed to other nations.
• That the prosperity of the country. se fir as it depends on this trade,
will be greatly promoted by the new ansagement, there cm be no
doubt. Independently of the more obvious advantage' et an.open and
direct intercourse, its establishment will be Weeded with. consequences
of a higher value. The: which has been carried en since the mutual
interdict under all the expense and inconvenience umweidably incident
to it, would have been Insupportably onerous, bad it set been, in a
great degree, lightened by centered evasions in the mode el making
die transhipments at what are called the neutral poets. These indi.
'actions are inconsistent with the dignity of nations that have so maey
Motives, not only to cherish feelings of muted /dadaist's, but to
onaintain such relations as will stimulate their reepootive chinas sod
subjects to efforts on direct, open, and honourable competition only,
and preserve them from the induence of seductive and vitiating eircum.
'stances:
When your preliminary interposition wart asked at the close of the last
Seeelon, a copy at the instructions under which Me. ld•Lane his
scud, together with the communications which had at that time posed
between him and the British Government, wan laid before you.—
Although there has not been anything in the acts of the two goven._
meets which requires secrecy. It woe thought nun proper, in diellrik
state of the emaciation, to make that commualeation a cenikddlil
on.. So soon, -however, as the evidence of execution on the paned
Great Britain is received, the whole matter shall be laid before nes
when it will be seen that the apmehemdee which appears to have trip,
good °as of the provision the ace poised at your last /sate", that
the restoration of the trade in question might be coansmod with other
subjects, and was sought to be obtained at the sacrifice of the night,
interest in other particulars was wholly unfinnikd Vend that the dtoNtt
which has taken place in the views of she Shish goeuremest bus bean,
Wowed by eesdsleutione as hemostat* to both gullies. I ewes die ze.
salt will rove beneficial. . .
nu; desirable result was it will be Mao. (Nadilllooll b,the
Mend and confiding provisions of the .aet 'of•Coopess7 the het Sn.
don, by which our ports were, upon the acception and amemistion by
the President of the required neurone on the pen if (hist Britain,