Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-04-19


merce in that part of the world Vessels
of the Unied States had found a most adj
vantageous employment by supplying Ma
nilla for its own consumption, and the ships
which annually sail thence to Peru, with
India goods; and Batavia and the Isles OF
France and Bourbon with similar articles
Had not Jays treaty interfered, this trade
would have acquired vast extent, and
yielded to the Americans an immensely of
profit.
In these facts we find abundant proof that
it has not been so much to benefit herself
as to curtail our foreign and Furnishing
trade that whenever Great Britain enters
upon negotiation she ties up our hands
with cords of restriction, even in cases
where il would be to her own advantage
to suffer them TO remain at liberty. Before
The war of 1898, between Great Britain
and France, the former suffered us to en-
Joy in her East India dominions free and
unrestrained trade; but no sooner had that
event taken place, than fearful of the en-
terprize of our merchants and the industry
of our hardy mariners, she commenced
vexatious interruption of our commerce
under the specious guise of annoying her
enemy; but which was dictated in a spirit
of hostility to neutrals, and to this country
formidable neutrals, and the most likely,
IN any event, to rival the extensive trade
of the English. She harrassed our naviga-
ton until she forced US into the treaty con-
cIuded at London by Mr.. Jay which, as
have shewn, cut off in the Eastern world,
the most profitable pant of our commerce
Colonel Monroe was fully aware of.he hos
tile spirit OF the British commercial inte-
rests to granting any thing at all favorable
to the prosperity OF the United States and
seeIGS in truth to have given way to it :;
fearful, perhaps, that if he did not secure
something for us on the various points en-
braced by his mission, we should have lost
the whole: But in this the American ne
gociator appears TO have been Invested of
his usual sagacity; or in fact, as l have
already limited, was not efficiently versed
IN our commercial pursuits to understand
all the strong and weak points of the ques-
ton, and hat, too, was pretty much the
case with John Jay. 1t would have been
far better for the former and for the latter
also, TO have made no treaty, than by ma
king one to have signed away rights which
We had enjoyed, and which, in all proba-
bility, considering the benefit TO themselves,
the British would have permit ed us to en-
Joy by courtesy without any formal written
acknowledgements of right of enjoyment
existing u us.
During the operation of the provisions of
Jay treaty, and since likewise, SHIPS of
the United States have continued to 90 to
Europe with cargoes, invested the proceeds
hereof in dollars, with which they have
proceeded to British India, bought cargoes,
and in general returned directly home
They have never been interrupted in this
trade; it has always been considered as
cCnfcrmable to the very letter of the treaty,
which so much injured us IN a most impor-
tant particular by compelling all our ships
which should load in the ports of British
India to return direct to the United States.
Our ships often created funds by freight
| ing and by a trade with the native nations,
or with the French, Dutch, and Spanish
possessions beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
which they laid out in the manufactures of
the British settlements and returned home
1t occurred every year that vessels which
left the United States with specie on board.
destined 10 Mocha, the Mauritius, and to
Batavia, for coffee, were not able to pro-
cure cargoes there, and for a return cargo
we're compelled TO proceed to Calcutta. -
Many ships so to the Maurigius aud some
to Batavia, with dry goods, principally the
manufactures of Great Britaip) where they
SCI thSlb3 lORSNneT WIN the RESCUE OF their
cargoes, generally consisting of beef, pork,
-four and iron. Being unable tu procure
coffee there, they proceed, with the dollars
Obtained for their goods, to India for return
cargoes
SUCH intermediate methods of carving
oh the India trade, have invariably been a
great convenience aud frequently profta-
'ble; and of no injury whatever to Great
Britain, who by this means has been ena-
Died To introduce her home manufactures
into the colonies Of her enemies, from
whence she draws the specie, which is thus
placed on The very spot where the British
government most requires it. A new in.
vestmen on the part of the Americans
hen takes place Ia the manufactures o.
British India; circumstance which, not
osinG calculated upon at the commence
mentoi the voyage, creates a surplus be-
yond the quantity required for the markets
OF the United States and by the want Of
the home demand we are comDelled
to hnd means Of vent therefor, which can
De done M no other way than by convey
ing 1t TO countries TO which British shipping
cannot have access that is, TO the colo.
MES OF the enemies of Great Britain, from
whom are drawn specie and various artic-
les which assis us in pay ng for the vast
quantity of those English home manufac-
lures which we every year draw from CT.
Britain for our own use and for foreign COM
merce.
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