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London, England, 1827-05-08 00:00:00

on it pal with all the othti nations, being as poor at the
least civilised of them in general resources, yet the
Government of those times thought it proper to en cc
prohibitory laws. But when; under circum-tances
wholly different, with a heavy debt, which affected all
the articles of life, and made open competition %id, leer
burdened Conan ies actually impossible, it was ploplted
to repeal those laws; this was, indeed, a subject foe dull
viiii...,out any
,o(
to inquire intd. The extent of this diiress could not
I be denied, though the Right Hon. GentleMan-rnight
I object to the cause' assigned for it. Not only had
it
been represented by Petitions to Parliament, bat the
Board of Trade had been petitioned, and the Right
pbpuinilgdinallre;
Hon. Gentleman had been assailed by particular appit.
cations without number. By papers which he hej,'
rigging., and, i.
and there kid taLen place upon that investntint%i
ttehhigeeacttairngiflitacislisinnipvcessi,dteeralmoutaiin sntohtei d to 88,009,00GL rtiii.,. ;
drtninution in value of 25 per cent. When this question
came on at a past period, the views of the Hon Geode.
man had been sre,tly supported by the Geotlerocn
,itting on the opposition side of the House ; on: of tit -
had called his Hos. Friends his Majesty's opposiii,„.
and with the additional force s hich had rscently joined
them, they might now be called " Tne King's Own.'
From that circomers"-.e, complaints had stared,
the - - .

Ay s,
tamed any inquiry, as , complainants were scarcely
treaty
yege horn the British vice. with Prussis, the Ron. and
represented. The petition of the poet of London to the
Board of Trade had %hewn. that long previous to and .
the time of passing the Reciprocity Act, and at the tinie
of signing the treaties, reciprocity war perfectly impns.
Gallantln remember lead fereeceto the d
a
Consul in Prussia, objecting to the impc t of a duty,
not laid upon goods, but an a More hostile shape, os
British shipping. The consequence was, that Arpeah
came from ail quafters to the Board of Trade au.' the
House of Commons. A Committee was granted, ands
very able report drawn up. The cosine taken upon that
report by his Might Hon. colleague was mo.t extraor-
dinary. The use made of the report war not at
justifiable. The shipping owners never ceased to advise
bin, and to point out the rbinous consequent., which
must follow. The Right Hon. Gentlem ,n sail pest.
vered, and in the speech which he addres.e.l to ••
House, he stated, that having made those very comes.
lima to America, he could not withhold them Iron,'

Piessian Government. In reasoning upon the report,
the Right Hon. Gentleman had avowed things as beat
contained in that report. no syllable of which was
be found in it: nothing which tended to justify thei

ciprocity act, much kss to make it permanent, mild
be found there. He adittittOd that a ieri,ion of .'
shipping laws were necessary, bet it was a little ,
much to confer benefit on other nations at the elm
of this. By the alteration which had been made it
these laws, no less than 5,000 ships bad been admittal
to the privileges of the British trade. In the year :
America had 99,94 L tons of shipping employed
the trade with Great Mimic, and Ireland, and

country had 45,140 tons employed in the trade
with America ; but by a recent statement it appeared
that in the last ten years America had roubled
amount of hers, while Great Britain had diminished
thirty-seven thousand eight hundred. He would ad(
this advantage should be yielded to America? He
ready to prove that by these treaties England
to encounter competition with other nations, wl,-
build at 81. per lon, while it cost this country
ton. He was Deady to adwat, that as 281 per

was only the price in London, it was sot
consider it as the general- price. He would therefof
take the price at the pc rt., and then the difference'
tween our prices and Oka of the northern nu,
would be the difference between 81. and 181. 11 t
matter were referred to a Committee, he %mild pledge
his honour that he would prove this fact. The c.:mp
rative prices of building in England and foreig
'tries, taken from the papers before the Heu,e,
follow London, the-price was 281. a r, n

that he conceived to be fa most extravagant charge,
and he took the prices in England, therefore at IP'
a ton. In Prussia, it was 81. Bs. in France, _
in Sweden, 61. 'Ss. in Holland 101. in Deanna,
91. 10s. in Russia, 41. 1.55. The wages in
countries amounted only to half as much as in Eve
Reckoning according to the returned prices, a Prusin
vessel mightbe
_ navigated for four voyages at about3S9'.
while an English vessel of the same tonnage, and carry
ing the same number of men, would cost about''
Had the English shipowners any advantage on
side to set against all these? Certainly not. It I
indeed, been said that they had an advantage in s.
insurance, but that was not-the case. It must be mot.
lected, that when a foreign ship cost only half as
as an English one, the foreigner had to ensure for
halt as much as the English owner. • catiacals
signed by the principal brokers in London, had ben
presented to that House, and it declared that the Bririi
vessels possessed no facilities in this respect which
ant enjoyed in an equal degree by the foreign.
s well known fact, that foreign ships made as
voyages as the British, and with equal safety; and
great an improvement had taken place in navigation'
the northern countries, that it was by no means unto&
mon for the owners of vessels in those countries tor
into a bond to perform a voyage in a certain time,.
and weather permitting. The vessels of the north"
countries, therefore, possessed the same advantages '
the British ships, hile the expense of building
latter was enormous. He was informed that, at t
very time, where there was one British ship entered
Liverpool there were ten foreign ships. The returns
which had been laid upon the table would show '
superiprity of the numbers of foreign ships entered'
that of the. British, and the exports had been
nishing for some time past, and were still
nishing. From Prussia the imports, in the
1824, amounted to 504,1401..2nd the exports smog;
ed to 634.0741.—the neat year the imports arnonatre
to 620,2871. and the exports were only 468,4651'
The exports to the northern countries did not ammo'
more titan one million, and the House would In
suppose to
dpiovsisdiublaelst,hwatitwhoeuwt erinecipuadyinings
5037.00014001 i
the Trinity House making in all a sum of 73,0Ilot-
annum. Not satisfied with this, they must hare
advantage of our colonial trade given them in addition'
The colonial trade furnished a proof of the disad'
cage under which the British navigation laboured.
the year 1822, by a comparison between PfUiSl3O •
English vessels, there appeared to be a superiority
favour of England of two to one. In the year
when these treaties were in full force, the English
sels wet; only superior to the Prussians by 4,000 tots.
and in the year 1826, the relative amount was SS,
tons of foreign vessels, anti 64,000 British. From
last accounts which he had been able to &beta; its/

as the
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extract-
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advise
which
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cotter
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c report,
as beteg
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the*
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little too
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made at
admitted
'ear 1818
?loyed ie
and this
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appeared .1
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in these
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and carry
bout braii.
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be recoil
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atiacat.
had bat
be Britib
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as awl
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rigatiosie
us unto&
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;law, wad
norther*
intages ar
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se retsina
show the
tend ova
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