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

manufacture, commerce, and produce
she wants encouragement and extensive
employment for her shipping. BY me-
glecting all consideration Of the use, as
initiating againt her navigation and co
lonial system ms, of these petty vessels,
which serve to associate her islands with
the continent, she obtains all the objects
Of those systems, materials, markets,
and increased carriage. The ports Of
her islands become the ports ofthe cont.
nent, and these vessels are only as the
port vessels and lading droghers of other
countries. British ships carry to, and
bring away from the islands the commo-
dities laden in, and nnladen from these
vessels, and neither their employment
or their numbers is to be contemplated
or calculated uponby Great Britain, but
as proofs Of the extension of her own
commerce and proper navigation. s
" InSead, therefore, Of . port in Gre
nado, iport in Dominica, two in Ja-
maica, one in Tortola, one inthe Baha-
mas, i.might upon these principles well
be Recommended to Great Britain, 10
extend the provisions Of the Free Port
Acts to all the islands, or to the custom
house ports of all the islands. Itmight
further be proposed, BY enlarging and
combining all the principles and praeti.
ces which alike prevail in the West Ida.
intercourse with the northern and sonth-
ern portions of America, to form one ge-
neral, simple, and consolidated system,
that should connect them all, which
should embrace and comprehend The At
present enumerated articles ofsimp6rt
andSexport between the whole cdftinent
and the islands, and permit, between them
the employment, jointly with British
ships, OF Que decked vessels, of all the
countries growing the commodities inn
ported into the islands. submit the
proposal to the severity of your lord
ships structures, kuggest itfor thee
sideration of ministers. -. l.
= 4" In this view Of the1 subject what is
there to be objected against North Ame-
rtcan vessels Of this description, that win
apply to the Spanish launches Of South
America, and what is there 10 recon-
mend the droghers of Oronoko, and Of
the river of Amazons, that viii not also
favour the sloops and schooners of the
Delaware and the Chesapeake they are
all but as the country boats of all the o.
Their nations of the world, employed
wherever our commerce extends, to
bring to and deposit in ports Of access,
commodities for use or for transport
They are auxiliary aud subservient to
the great, traders Of the deep who may
pass by them with their woven wings
without jealousy or envy. III j,
- / again most seriously and earnestly
recommend to his majesty's ministers,
to establish a general American inter-
course with all the British West. India
colonies upon these general principles,
and ! do not hesitate to say, that if Great
Britain still continues to refuse the en-
ployrnent ofthese petty vessels, for these
+ purposes, and in the manner proposed,
that she sacrifices, and continues to sa-
cri6ce.h her navigation, to her navigation
and colonial systems"
1--we have been taught, tan immense
expense, to think justly on tie subject Of
colonies, and we have exploded the no.
ton of right of taxing them, we ought
to have regarded the aitemptsto tax To-
reign states Is seareeiykless impractica.
bic, or less unjust. AsIthis is an error
which, like the fatal one before commits
ted, is calculated for popularity, we in
seFt the able exposure Of il by the pen of
Mr.. Jordan : e@-s15--- s. - r
:. Unfortunately during the late war
an idea was taken up, against al prinei-
pies Of political wisdom and Npublic JUS
tiee, to tax foreign nations, 6y retaining
part Of the drawback, upon the re-expor-
tation Of sugar from Great Britain. This
was great breach Of parental faith, on
the part Of G. Britain it wasSa great
breach Of justice thus to take away, a por.
| ton Of the accidental profits Of commerce
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