The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-12-03
FROM TIE NATIONAL ,srrIL1orset..

Sreat-britain, written by JaAes M Henry IN the
year 1874. As they involve diftuiiiou of topics
now before the public, and furuilh fome n,portan,
fa4s, lay the mon pertinent parss before
defs. It may be proper to remark that the writer
has the character Of being decided ederali, and is
the fame gentleman who, under former adnniftra-
tien held the fasion of Secretary of war.
Brifain, t'e. t5s. Sss. -yraen is 1884. BY
James A1'Hsn,y, sq.
TO rnE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NUMBEk H.
TO determine whether America is in fituaton to
enforce liberal treaty of commerce with Great Bril-
tain, it will be necefiary inveligate. I. The de-
pendence of the Weit-Inda inands ON the United
States and II. What articles the United States can
import from other countries, cheaper than from c.
Britain. Should find from this enquiry, chat the
Wen-india i0ands be maintained in a prof.
porous iituaton, without the fuppes of the United
STATES, and that England cannot furnih the United
ates with the bulk of our European imports, upon
as advantageous terms as they can be had from other
countries, It will prove--that America may reafon-
ably expect, hoEorably enforce treaty upon C.
quail and liberal principles
!. The dependence ofthe Wet India ifands on the
United States. Whoever has conIidered or will fir
down and conder, the relative uation of thee Gates
ana the Weit-ludia ilands, mufl be convinced that
nature has formed eonnexou between them, which
ed through wa:..s and productions it will be
further perceived thar the reng connection of ma
ttire, is added the indaoluble cement of interel
The Wef-lndia planters aud merchants were fully
fsnhble OF this truth, WHEN thew yePreiened to lord
North, that " inc domnions Of the United States of
America, and his majeffys fngar colonies, having
been ietted IN the exprels view of fupplyng each O.
theirs wants, it cannot be expected that the fugar
colonies can fubhtr IN any vvs~s c. prosperity with
out thofe fupples Of lumber and proviions from A.
merca, at the cheapeft rate, i'll contemplation of
which they were 70 ettled, or without the confump-
non IN North America of their produce in return"
And, although lord North rejected the PRAYER of this
remembrance yet he confeed to the world the tru;b
OF its principle, when the administration permitted
trace between the u S. and the ifands by means
OF Britiih yetieis. Could they have fulfilled without
our iuPpes and our coniurnption of their produce
this privilege would have been withheld /; becaufe
ATS operation Is to check the growth aud ncreae of
their American colonies. The proclamation. there
fore, alone is couclufve that our fupples and con
sumption deemed eflentia at Leaf to their prof
Perity.
Some objeaions'made by Cincnnatus apaHit pre-
venting Britiih hips from being the carriers of Wet
India produce to the u. States and the Growth df
the U. States to the Wel-Indes, till fuch time as
this carrying trade fhsil be made common to the fp,
OF both nations, very naturally under this arti
Gle Great Britain" Cincinnatus fays, has lono
paid bounty on the expectation of her corn which
with other articles, fhe may eafly fend her iland,
initead of foreign countries" will not fufpea tbs
writer 9t deGgn to mlead will rather fuppofe
INN ignorant. that the expectation of grain from, En-
gland Is forbidden, after it has rifen to certain
price, or that with her immenfe bounties, ihe has
not been able, ina period oflxty-eight years, (rom
1897, to 1859 to export, on an average in any
one year, above four hundred and eighty thou
land four hundred and eleven quarters of grain which
includes barley, malt, rye. and wheat f Whereas
IL appears from authentic documents that the annual
eonumptlon OF her W. India Hands only is equal TO
xty thoufand barrels of rice four hundred thoufand
buihes OF corn, and hundred and forty thouiand
barrels OF bread and -four. On the other hand, |
the Jingle port of Philadelphia has exported in one
year Q773) one hundred and eighty two thouland
three hundred and ninety-one buhels of wheat.
two hundred and hxty- five tho.dand nine hundred
and iixty-nn barrels of four y-eght thouiand
one hundred and three barrels Of bread and one him.
dred and ieyenty-nine thoufand two hundred and
e"eiSe ouihes OF Indian corn and Maryland in the |
lame iPace OF time, (between the 5h of January I773
and the 5th of January l774) eghty-four thouland
ve hundred barrels of -four, ten thoufand three him.
area and thirty barrels of bread four thoufand
nve hundred buhels of rye, two hundred and fixrv
INK thou!and buihes of wheat, and two hundred and
tnrty-three thoufand buhels Of Indian corn and all
this without bounty, or any aid from government,
whle the bounties GreatBIitan has expended in the
aforementioned period, to fix millions ffty
sight thouiand nine hundred and fxty-two pounds |
nerhng.f Theie facts ferve fhow how Inadequate
England is to the ProPofed fupply of the and or to
enter INTO competition with country, where the
general crop may be id never to fail, and which is
capable OF the greateG augmentation. |
1t is further obferved BY this writer, that Ireland
w, contribute largely fpPply the wants of the Bril-
TIN Weit-lndiss" We fhall not deny that Ireland
Can farnfh them with beef, but it is known faa.
that Ireland does raife wheat enough for her own
eoniumPtion, and that for ferries of years, he had
iuPPlies from thefe United States; that fhe l de-
mands theie iuppes; and that it is not very proba
Die that The will make entertainments on her FAX and
Pa'urage grounds for the fake of rafting wheat to fup
Ply the Hands But it is lefs true, that the Unit
ed States can ALTO furnfh the WetInda iflands with
beet Cncinnatus fuboins three other ources of fup
pines Canada, Nova-Scotia, and ST. Iohn',. NAV |
very foon be enabled to make UP the deficiency more
especially, If by prohibitions we force their growth
and incfeafe. With refpea to Nova-Scotia, its
wheat and flour drawn from America, and the
probability IS, that the fupply mut yet 90 from the
fame quarter AS to ST. Johns, it is out Of the quei
ton 1t may perhaps fup7ort its own inabitants, but
VIII never fupply the WeaIndes. Canada, then, is
the only Britilh colony from which fuppy is 70 be
expected but to this iuppy, befides abroiute ineom
petency, there are two infurmountable obtacle.
III. Flour does not keep in the WeR-Indies. upon
an average, above fix weeks. IDLY. The navigation
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