Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-02-11
The following Important information is extracted siora the
London Morning Pof, of Nov. II.
COMMERCE WITH AMERICA.

COMMERCE WITH AMERICA.
While the attention and activity Of gov
eminent appear to be aimof wholly en-
groned by the invai;ve preparations of the
enemy, and by the preparatory meaiures
on our part to meet and fruitrate them |;
and while thoughts and anxiety of the
nation at large feem exclufiyely to be in
tent on this more gigantic and impending
peril other topics OF great commercial in
tereits, and high political ccnfequence,
nulf naturally intermix and blend them
fclves with thefe more ponderous conf
deratiens, though, for the moment, they
may be overlooked by the public, or c.
merge altogether in the iea of difficulties,
by which we are threatened more imme-
diately to be overwhelmed. The renewal
of holtilities between France and Great
Britain has mutually furnifhed the rivals
and enemies of either power to avail
fhemielyes Of the difficulties in which
fuch an event muf neceaarily involve the
two principal behigerents. Nations like
individuals will eagerly feize on every ia
vcrable location to promote their refpes-
tive interelfs and to remove every oblta-
Gle and embarraament by which they may
in more inauipicisus times have been OBJ
ftru6ed and deprefed. Thus Gnce the
breaking out OLA French war with France,
feveral treaties or renewals of treaties
have been demanded, entered into ard
negotiated between Great Britain and the
Northern powers, principally relating to
the privileges of neutrals, the right of
fearch and the contraband Of war. What
ever difficulties might have ariien from
theie difcutlions, we have had reafon to
hope, not only that they were removed,
but that new advantages and facilities
have been obtained in our favor. Of
this the late treaty with Sweden is a
satisfactory inltance.- But as we imagined
ourfelves therebyto be more difentaIgled
from our perplexities, we fcemed little to
expect that difficulties and difagreements
would have grown up ina quarter, from
which we were more inclined to hatter
ourlelvcs with friendfhip ande avor, than
to dread, enmity and obarudion. Little
did we feem to expect (by VIZ, we mean
the PUBLIc,) that at the prefent moment
70 big with our dangers, from a far other
and more formidable foe, the attention
and exertions of government lhould be
dictated by any objectionable or unrealon-
able claims on the part Of America. Yet
little as the public at large feem now to be
aware of it; perhaps upon no topic is the
mind of government more detained and
urged at the prefent moment than on the
revilion, principally OF the twelfth article
of the treaty Of Amity, commerce, &c.&c.
between his majeity and the United States
of America, concluded in 1894, andco
ditionally ratified in 1898. The general
itipulations of that treaty are too nume-
rous and dilute now to admit of detailed
examination; but the fpirit and tendency
of the whole treaty almof wholly reited,
more Especially as to its future coniequen-
ces, Upon the twelfth article, of which
for the convenience and fatisfaetion of
our readers, we now inlert the following
copy -
Here follows the 18th article of MIR. Jays
treaty, preicribing the mode in which