Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-02
LONDON, September 9.
COMMERCIAL TREATY Y.

We are enabled 10 lfate lfays Paper OF
lae night from relpettable authority,
tina, the progrrfs MADE IN the CONNER
Gil Treaty now pending between Great
Britain ard France is 70 very Comfortable,
as TO furaiih confident hopes OF lis being
finally concluded in the eou,le OF next
month he delay which has taken
place in this important arrangement IS
more to- be attributed to the Interference
and iatrigues OF Ensliih fableffs, who
have eogaged in manufacturing concerns
and REGULATIONS in d3tt,rent parts OF
France, than TO any Misunderstanding be-
tween the two Governments. For the
latt three wears, many OF our manhtactor-
ers and artizans have contrived 10 emi-
CRATE and make iettlemeass IN the depart
ments bef calculated TO promote their
views. Of that number, thoie who pol
fened capital, and funk II IN their ne"
undertakings, were naturally alarmed
l,aa their in ,eref lhould be Affected, ana
their projects, perhaps ruined by the Com
merciaI Treaty. They have according
ly exerted every art 10 rale a popular
prejudice againit any fair and rational
fyitsm of commercial intefcourie and
many OF their MEMORIALS, addrgfled toth-
Firil Confal, have found their way in the
Paris and Provincial Journals. 1'he alarm
fpread by ,hefe approximations has not
been attended with the defred eiIet:tt and
we underRaod that meaurcs have been Ia
ken to prevent the publication Ct luch
memo ;als for the future. A gentleman
belonging TO great commercial houie in
this country, who Ia ely p2Ged through
Louyiers afIlres Us that feveral Engiiih
weavers are atiually employed at thas
place.
We have already fa,ed the hfpenGon
of the law allowing the trazjsf OF refined
fugars and coffee into France, but this
mealure, which if intended 70 be perma
nent, would ieriouly affect our trade, has
been adopted by the French Governments
merely as preliminary to the final ar
rangement of the Commercial Treaty, in
order that the general qnefion of-'ranfit
lhall be fully and fairly dilcuaed ana de-
termined between both countries.
The French Government has diicovered
thar the abfolute prohibition of Brith
commodities has no other efett than'o de
fraud their own revenue, without attain
Ing the end prep2fed. The money goes
to the f:nuggler, and no part whatever to
the Cultoms, as would be the cafe were
there fair, and reafonable tariff eAabIith-
ed. There is this disadvantage attending
the fudden ard innpolitic prohibitions now
in force that France mutt pay in ready mo-
ney for the quantity of our produce fhe
takes clandeitinely, whereas, if there
were a treaty or tariff eGabIithed, great
quantity Of goods would SO to France on
a long credit and by this means Che would
have the ufe of a capital to the amount of
feyeral millions, which at prefent Tor at
leaG TO the extent of their consumption
of our commodities) is transferred to this
country, thus rapid and forcibly with
drawiog! that which France much wants
-iome capital on which Ivy credit to cali
forth large one. 1t is obviouAy TO the
interea of France then to have tariff.
Politicians, on the other hand, will weigh
the danger of throwing feveral millions
Iof property into the hands Of France,
vhich in cafe of rupture, or perhaps other
esNts, which it is needless TO plrtIcula-
rue, might not be very eahly recovered.
fWhatevsr facilities may be eiabliihed by
regulation, it will always remain with
the merchans and manufacturer to exer-
CHE his own dacretion, and 10 mingle
canton with enterrile.
BOSTON, Otteber II.
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