Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1805-08-02

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respecting the admission Of American
vessels, and holding out in prospect the
dangers annually indemni6ed against,
although the colony was atthat very time
in state Of the greatest distress, and
many whites and negroes had actually
perished Of famine, or Of diseases which
famine had preyoked. Atthis very PEE
Rod supplies Of -four, embarked in this
kingdom for the colonies, we're by order
actually relanded and retained.
Lord Sheffield IS here shewn TO have
eensured the licenses, without stating
the urgent circumstances which render
ed them absolutely indispensable. his
also proved that no charges the merchantsl
and planters with seeking an unlimited
intercourse with America, while they
only solicit that the wisdom Of the iegis.
lature should provide eifectual means for
carrying on that restricted coTnnunica-
ton, without which the islands cannotl
subsist, and which Great Britain has hi-s
therto allowed. - r. ::
Mr.. Jordan is anxious MOTTO entreneh
on the claims of the parent state /; he ac-
knowledges her right to nsonoPolize the
whole trade Of her colonies, and all its
appurtenances, imports, exports and
carriage: but II from choice or hecessi.
~, she abandons any part OF this COM
mcrce, as in the case of the present in-
stance with regard TO the more heavy ar
ticlesreq uiredby the colonists, she ought
eitherto leave them to supply thf defect
in their own way, or else should ctu-
any make this provision on theft behalf.
The British government sap ctioned
the intercourse, but it provided an in.
sufficient channel for it; and then the
legislature had granted such Psmission,
shall II be reproaeh to the plfnters and
merchants to require that without which
the grant is intellectual, thtt without
which they must have died Of famine,
and the produce have persisted Tor the
want Of the means of packate Yet it's
such dispensation with tls requisltlon
Of an imperfect act Of parliament which
the neble lord so strongly tensures. e
Is not 4 dispensing power, as opposed
to regular and established law, that
forms the burden Of his lamentatfon, but
the existence Of the dispensations IN any
shape: vet the real situation OF things
proclaim tiIat the islands would have
been depopulated, and their produce
wasted. If the act Of parliament had been
rs ne desired, vigorously enforced.
tits here Justly observed that II Great
Britain allows colony TO carry on q.
branch Of comrieree with another state it.
ought to be governed by the same policy
with that which regulates the like inter-
course on the part ofthe mother country.
! Now Great Britainallows goods tobe i'm
ported in itsown shipping, and IN that
of the state Of which they are the pro-
duce the principal navigation laws are
therefore founded in national reclProci-
ty, and iswould be impossible TO pass
more strict navigation statutes, .sesing
that they eject other states as well As the
state enactingthem. In our traffic then,
with another nation, the ships Of that ma.
ton and the ships of this country indif-
fsrently import the goods belonging 70
that nation. - I,
1--WE place colony ID the SAME situa-
tionWithregard to a branch of commsrce,
It Is natural that the same rule should be
observed namely, that tbs goods inn
ported shouid be brought indiferenily
In the shipping Of Great Britain, or OF
the colony, or in the shipping Of the
country whence they are derived.
Mr.. Jordan, who views bis subject n
alEits bearings, rightly remarks that ano-
ther state is party IN this matter that
we must legislate with her in view as
well as ourselves and that we ought 70
observe the reciprocity whichis consult
ed in the chiefnayigation ACTS. We may
enact that we shall export or import in
colonial or British bottoms between the
colony and America, but America win
have right to complain Of the want Of
reciprocity and most probably will not
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