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London, England, 1823-08-01 00:00:00

CC.II3IERCE.

TIIAI)E. BETWEEN Tlir. Bt/ITISII COLONIES Athi
THE UNITED STATES.
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WAVIINIA4SI, tr..v IS.
Ssa—ln answer to your letter dated the 19:h silt. cotn-iltd-
citing a ProclamatiOn issued under your autinkity'for the pur-
pose of meeting the provisions of the third Section of an Act of
the Congress of the United States of America, Retitled it
Act to Regulate the Commercial Intercourse between the United
States. and Certain Ili ;CIL Colonial Ports;' I have the honour
to inform you th it the Declaration therein contained with ret,iect
to the equalisation of duties and ether charges on British and
Atiserican vessels and their cargoes would doubtless be con i-
dered satisfactory by the American Government, as far as the
Province of New Brunswick is concerned; but the President is
not prt pared to issue his Proclamation for the removal of the
discriminating dllties gt ill levied in this country, on British vetstis
entering front the open Colonial Pont-until he receives a 'similar
declaration with respect to all the Potts enumerated its. the
abuyisinentioned Act of Congress.
With'rcferenee to this point, and the difficulty arising ont of
it, I have the honour to inclose herewith, for your forther.
formatlon, the copy of a letter which I have recently' had &ca-
ution' toOsiress on the sante subject to,Y. , Eatcellency the Lis:e-
tc:luau-Governor of Nova have the honour to be, Ckc.
STIi.ATI•Ofi.I) CANNING.
' The Hon. Ward Chipmnn, the. :cc.
• (Corr.) WasnrNc7ov, MAY. 17. '
ka—l have had the honour to receive your Liiicellency's hater
of the 22d ult. certifying that no higher duties are demanded front
ships of the United States on entering tip ports of Nova Scotia
than what ere levied on Briiish vessels, and requesting that. I will
take the necessary stepi to induce the American Government
to place -British \fetich, when entering the hug:lours of this eosin.
try from Nova Scotia on a like footing of equality with those of
the United States. -Tiffs subject has for son* time engaged a."
constdevable share or my attention, and the state' of my l'orres-
pOndenee respecting it with the American Government his alorie
prevented any making an earlier communication thereupon, as
well to your Excellency as to the other Col.niul Authorities.—
It is now in my power to state what appears to !Live been over-
looked in some of the Colonies, that the Arnor!can Government
requires a previous condition of the removal of the discrimi-
nating duties on their side, an authentic declaration not only as
to their vessels, including the cargoes, being plsced on a footing
of public equality in point of duties and charge*, of whatever
kind they may be, with British vessels in the open Colonial
Ports; but also, that no goods imported into the rohysies in
their vessels should be charged with a higher duty than is levied
on the like articles imported from elsei,here, tleit is, as they in-
tend it from any other place whatever, than the place of exporta-
tiun. It is further required, that a declara.ion to this ef:.at
should be given in reference to all the Colonial P.rts enumerated
in the Act of Pailianient.

The Certificates enclosed in your Excellency's, letter are there-
fore not satisfactory to the Antericm Government, inasmuch
as they establish two only out of the three points required with
reference to Neva. Scotia. They chew that the British and Anse-
deans are Charged alike with respect to their VCSSCI4, and to the
articles considered m.:rely as a cargo imported in them; bat they
do not shew that all the bawl ted articl.s considered wish re-
spect to place of production, or export:Ala:a, are
jjust upau
equal footing as to duty, 'with the like articles a :tatted front
other places, the British Colonies themselves included.
The character of the third aEd supernumerary condition will,
doubtless, arrest the attention of his Majesty's. Ministers; asp:re-
sent it can ouly be certified as a nutter of fact, and I aits tinder
an impression that the duties prescribed in Schedule C, annexed
to the Act of Parliament, under which the tral.; betWeett
tam of his ill a-raty'a Colonies and the United S,ates is uner,spen.
" oppose an effectual bar to the defliery or such a decaration
as that which Is required by the Ameritan GOitertirrient."'' If I
am in an error on thts point, your liltcelleney hat ;soli, ts to seallin
a declaration properly c;rtified, and sufficiently comp.:ha-move
to embrace all the coalitions required, as far is Nova Scotia fa
concerned ; but I must request you to obserte, that t ven Vie re-
duc:ion ilf twopence per ton -in favour of provincial vt:ss*ls,
which is mentioned in the Memorial forwarded with your Ex-
, celleners letter, would most probably lie considered by the Ame-
rican Government as inconsistent with the terms of the Act of
Congress, notwithstanding That the vessels of tfrect Britain ap-
pear to be as much affFeted by it as those of the United States.
I have the bottom' to be, Etc.
(Signed) STRATFORD CANNING.
Ilia Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Sir Janis Kempt, Ste. -

the settlers in the upper part of the province of
.Upper Canida have. turned their sattentiiin to the
culture of tobacco. We find by the 14ontreal Pares
ten bogshesds of this article advertised for sale: leis,
says the Courant, " is the first public u•a'ce of so
' large a quantity of that article,. the 'growth of C.
dada, beidg advertised; bin' now we artist drat very
few seasons Will pa-s before titre shall have:l;r only
a sufficient quantity for our own eonsittnntioa, bat
also be enabled to export to Great Britain, where we
live encouragement will be given to the produce of
her Colonies, in preference to that of foreign Spates.
The culture of this plant will be of incalculable
tage to this country, and it is to be wished that every
attention may be paid to the production of an article
of such universalAonstimption.r
Tire NI 'salmi PP t —The advice* from New Orleans
'received at this pat, which ace to the Sth inst. tr...te,
that ttlthouzh the river had 'fallen about seien inches
at the town, it wai still rising at the mouth of the
Ohio, and the upper country was so inundated as to
cau••e great destruction to the crops. For the distance
of six or seveniundvedolles up, nothing was to be
seen •but the tops pf,treps.—Anteriars Paper,
• A NIISANTIIUOi.E.—.About twelve miles above tie
junction of-Spoofs and Illinois ti vers, immediately 1M
the bank of• the former, 'there-has leek liVing for
three years past, a miaa who has eati;ely excluded
himself from the world, and dstells in the midst of
the wilderness alone, upwards of sixty miles front the
residence of any human being. His name. David-
son, be is a phyd wqe cian, as formerly a suon in the.
United States Army, and was a pupil of the eele-
brated Dr. Rush. die has :t number of medical books,
two gitns,•and a dog, and a quantity of clothing. He
has erected hi:melt a stn.dl hut, and has about an
acre of ground in cultivation-=at the back of his
garden tuns Spoon Iliver, in which hehas.a fish-trap.
IHis food is wild turkeys and other game, fish, and
the produce of his garden. •He appears displeased at
I the sight of a human being. My informant saw Lim
at hii reidence, being impelled by curiosity to visit
him, and inquired of him particularly the' cause of
: his strange seclusion. Ile said he had .done so, and
would do so for ever+. to keep clear of the wretched
white people. His father lives in Penns-,lvania, an i
he liars received tunnysolicitous letters from hire. and
other friends, to return; but he leas never answered
one, arid declares it to he his determination to reinoV
from his'present situation as soon aq the.whitei a,!-
proach too near hill). As soots as his present sttics:
of .clothing is oast he will &est himself in skins.--
! American Paper. • • .