The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-05-24

foreign countries, when re-expOrted to their CO.
lonies, they have lately impoied duties, of from
half dollar, TO two dollars the barrel, the duties
being 70 proportional to the current price of
their own -four, rs that both together, are to
make the conAant FUN of nine dollars per barrel.
They do not discourage our rice, pot and
pearl ain, falted proviiions, or whale oil: but
thefe articles, being in fnall demand at their
markets, are carried thither but in fina!l de-
gree. Their demand for rice, however, is in
creating. Neither tobacco, nor indigo are re-
ceived there. Our commerce is permitted with
their Canary Hands, under the fame conditi-
ons.
Themfelves, and their colonies are the actual
containers of what they receive from us.
Our navigation is free with the kingdom of
Spain; foreign goods being received there in
our hlips, on the fame conditions as if carried
IN their own, or in the veiIels of the country of
which fuch goods are the manufacture or pro-
duce.
PORTUGAL receives favourably our grain,
and bread, falted fin and other falted provif;-
ons, wood, tar, pitch, and turpentine.
For Hax-eed, pot, and pearl an, though not
discouraged, there is little demand.
Our ihips pay twenty per cent. on being fold
to their fubie6ts, and are then free bottoms.
Foreign goods Except thoie of the Eait-In-
dies) are received on the fame footing in our
veiie!s, as in their own, or any others; that is
to FAY, on general duties of from twenty to
twenty-eight per cent. and, consequently, our
navigation is uhobhruS,ed by them. Tobacco,
rice ind meals, are prohibited.
Themielves and theft colonies copfume what
they receive from us.
Thefe regulations extend to the Azores, Ma
deira, and the Cape de Vcrd Hands, except,
that in thefe, meals and rice are received free
ly.
FRANCE receives favourably our bread-huE,
rice, wood, pot and pearl alhes.
a duty of five fous the Rental, or nearly four
and an half cents, ispaid on our tar, pitch and
turpentine. Our vhae-ois pay Fix livres the
Rental, aud are the only foreign whaIe-oils adj
mitted. Our indigo pays five lvres the Rental
their own, two ant All half: but difference of
quality till more than, difference of duty,
prevents it's feekint that market.
Sailed beef is received freely for re-exportati-
ton; but If for honc-coniumption, it pays five
livres the Rental. Other faltcd provifions pay
that duty in all cafes, and falted fifth is made
lately to pay the prohibitory one of twenty IL
vres the Rental.
Our fhips are tee to carry thither all foreign
goods, which my be carried in their own, or
any other veflels, except tobaccoes not of our
own growth: and they participate with theirs
the executive carriage of our whale-oils, and to-
baccoes.
During their former government, our tobac-
co was under monopoly, but paid no duties
and our fhips WIRE freely fold in their ports,
and converted inc national bottoms. The firt
national afiembiy took from our fhips this pri-
vllege. They enancipated tobacco from its
monopoly, but fibjeSfed it to duties of eighteen
fvres fifteen fous lie Rental, carried in their own
veiiels, and TWENTY-FIVE livres, carried in ours
a difference more than equal to the freight of
the article.
They and theircolories confume what they
receive from US.
GREAT-BRITAIN receives our pot and
pearl afhes, free, while thofe of other nations
pay duty of two Killings and three pence the
Rental. There is an equal diftinction in favour
OF our bar-iron (which article, however, we
do not produce enosgh for our own ufc. Woods
are free, from us, Whit they pay fome fmal
duty from other countries. Indigo and flax
feed, are free from all countries. Our tar and
pitch pay eleven pence fterling the barrel.
From other alien countries, they pay about
penny and a third more.
Our tobacco, for their own confumption,
pays l(3 fterling the pound, cuftom and excite,
beides heavy expenfes of collection. And rice,
in the fame cafe, pays IN ferling the hundred
weight which, rendering it too dear, as an
article of common food, it is commemorative, u
fed in very fmall quantity.
Our falted filh, and other falted provifions,
except bacon, are prohibited. Bacon and
whale-oils are under prohibitory duties 70
are our grains, meals, and bread, as to inter-
nal consumption unlefs in times of fuch fear
city as may raife the price of wheat to soC
ltering the quarter, and other grains and meals
in proportion.
Our fhps, though purchafed and navigated
by their own fubjects, are not permitted to be
ufed, even in their trade with us.
While the venels of other nations are fecur-
ed by ftanding laws, which cannot be altered,
but by the concurrent will CT the three branch.
es of the Britfh Legislature, in carrying thither
any produce or manufacture of the country to
which they belong, which may be lawfully
carried in any veffels, ours, with the fame pro-
hibition of what is foreign, are further prohi-
bited by Handing law (l2. Car. 2. 10. s. 81
from carrying thither all and any of our own
domeftic productions and manufactures. A
iubfequent act, indeed, has authorized their
executive to permit the carriage of our own
productions in our own bottoms, at its fole
difcretion ; and the permiffion has been given
from year to year by proclamation but fub-
ject every moment to be withdrawn on that
Jingle will, in which event, our vefels having
any thing on board, ftand interiieted from the
entry of all Britifh ports. The disadvantage Of
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