Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-08

theirs to carry her tobacco, rice, sc. iiie,
therefore, Regardless who carries f'r her,
AXIS only who will carry the eheapta, and
this will always be the foreigner, he will
Of courfe be preferred. In the fame pro-
portion therefore as the price oftrelght
will be lowered to the fouthern tIates by
this meafnre, 70 much are they itrereited
in its adoption. Hence we may learn how
10 climate the tender-hearted iyppathles
of Mefrs. Smith and Giles for me eaitern
and middle ttates:
7meo Demos ct dona fsreatts.
I" This refolution, Jays Mr.. Giles, "ls
calculated to place US on an equal footing
with other nations To give tbs lnfof-
nation an inviting complexion, however,
il opghs TO appear that we are az pTeiens,
on an unequal footing. But asothe truflf
undoubtedly is, thar, owing to our A
er;minatiou, we are ON beffer tooting
With foreign nations than they are wlrh
US; for US now 10 PATS law for the ex-
prefs puipofe Of putting onrie!ves on an
equal footing, would be, (if we may adopt
the vulgarity for the fake Of the liiuitfa-
stion) 10 giUe oay1elves an Ist@ 6oyf.
Perhaps fore Of the believers IN Mr.
Giles recolleeiing what he has luit iald,
that /" the reitraint OF The discriminating
law, retards and ccunteraets enterprise
and indufry,'' may be inclined to ak
whether our commerce has this advantage
over o.her nations, and whether 1t Is oW-
Jog to Our discriminating ats! We, there
fore, here orpofc to Mr.. Giles, his frlend'
Smith, himfelf: and beg leave to reisr
the reader TO one or Two pahages from gen.
Smiths fpeerh on this very location, as
given in the Aurora. /" We are now,
Jays he, in very different f.uasion from
that on which we food on the paiilng OF
the discriminating law; at that period we
had an inluficiency Of tonnage, and IT was
necefary to crea,ea competent quanuty;
discriminating dufiss were laid The mea.
Lure appeared TO operate as a ebaym ana
beyond the calculations of commercial
men, orr t2nxage d0xbltd-in Mort perl
3D." Now then, unlels this general will
undertake TO thew tha, like cauics will not
produce like effects, it ieems rather en-
barlaaing 10 reconcile this declaration
with this refolution. The discriminating
act, fays he, doubled our tonnage; ahd nc
holds in his hand bill to repeal this act.
But he lays our Gtuation is charged, tha'
is, as he himlelf explains it, bettered.--
Surely then, unlefs it is row TOO good,
there is no force in the obfcrvatIon bur
on the contrary, cur ftuation is by the
peace rendered more advantageous, and
according to hirnfelf. therefore, our trade
if any thing needs additional encourage
ment.
But let US hear Mr.. Giles once more.
/" The Bti,ifn act is framed TO eounlerVNa
tic advantages which We derived from a
aa.e of peace" 1t will be recolleeted
that Mr.. Smith had been obferving IN the
odtfet of his fpeech, that we no longer
poGlGed the adeantages arifng to us from
the late zvay, and he was only ioiicitous
to 1royiae aga;ut the aisadvantGggts winch
might be expected TO follow ifora tate
Of peace; bot, Jays his friend, II will
couniefvaI tie aavautages CT tate OF
5eaee. May we be permitted to ak Mr..
Giles what he means by eoaate,Va'l'ng
The aaUaatages Of peace To eoant<r0Aa
a duty is TO lay a duty OF equal amount
again& it, and to eountf,0ail an 061'Na-
tSge is TO let agsina it an equal ad7'an-
tage, which would make the two even.
Does this bright luminary then mean that
if we derive an advanfage from peace,
and carry more thar we did in war, the
Britifh have contrived by this act to carry
more too !? And is this the contingency a
CAN'T which we are to provide, 0, orr
4obole carrying frade 60 xt0 the 60n4' g
tbe BrIh6 !? In what ridiculous and Dill
graceful abfurdi,ies does a man involve