The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-10-20
(CoScLUpEr.)

fully submitted 10 the px6Iic Judgment.
Foreign COLONIAL principles, incorrectly APP
Piled to the most forcible and unjust usurpations
by the sword, AS well as To scenes populated by
national migration, are often used in treaties and
statutes, to deprive the United States ofproHta-
bic and fair reciprocity of trade with eight tenths
Of the subjects ola foreign power, while our ter
fitorial districts (our genuine and valuable cole
MES, and precious acquisition by fair & costly
purchase, are equally open to those who have
ard those who have not colonies To those, who
exclude US from, and those. who admit. us into
their colonial establishments. Some nations re-
nuse participation in the carriage of our own
produce TO their colonies, and they escape the
eountervailing justice of an export duty, because
err coastitution fo,6ids that inpositien. The re-
turns tor these exports often made in distilled
spirits, from the freight of which are also ex-
cluded, though they Interfere with the produce
ofour orchards. and with those breweries and
distilleries, which support the prices OF our grain
and fruit These foreign spirits also interfere
with the profits OF our vast importation of molas-
ses in our own vessels II is respectfully submit
ted as n provision fit for insertion in permanent
system OF commercial laws, that an additional du.
by be laid upon fermentcd and distilled LIQUORS.
and all materials for the manufacture thereof i'm.
ported in foreign vessels. from ports countries
into which our vessels are not permitted by per-
manent laws, to enter, for participation in such
trade, and for which commodities they may not
carry funds, either in cash or in the produce of
she United States. If we gain the just recipro-
city, our ship wrights and merchants will r ell the
benefit; it not, our landed interest and our ira.
ders in distilled spirits, wines and molasses, with
more liberal powers, will gam considerable adj
vantages foreign monopoly, extinguishabie BY
err la1rs, oiH be excluded from our country -
AS an evidence Of the extreme injustice offoreign
laws and treaties IN this respect, it may be cor
rectly stated, that the manufactures of our prin-
sipal snPplier consumed by us, and in which we
participate the carriage, would not fill three thou
sand bogsheads, while the monopolized freight
OF the rum of their colonies is actually paid on
thirty thousand
/. An excluding duty upon all the produce of the
Foreign fisheries, belonging to governments
which SO duty or exclude ours, would favor the
hshins and coasting trades, and ship building
and would occasion demand on our agriculture
Tor substitutes, in the shape of picked and sailed
provisions.
An abolition of all the present duties on mer-
eantiie vessels, Ito place thesn on a footing with
working Wagons is respectfully suggested,
ships being The vehicles ofour produce, as much as
carriages. But, as foreign nations may continue
TO impose duties and light-money on our vessels,
provisions ofiaw to collect equivalent duties from
shem, might be made. These, it is believed,
would produce fund sufficient for the expences
ofthe establishments for the direction and safety
OF shipping. But, if they should not, then the
ordinary impost would be just fund. For, il is
inter to include this actual charge ofimportation,
ike the rest in the price of the commodity, than
20 demand the same tonnage from an American
ssangfdetlTsd ship in ballast, as is paid by ship
WIN rich cargo OF foreign manufacturer and bro
asce. 1t seems to be a different spirit which 60.
hcits an abstinence from duty on working and p
zen on pleasure carriages, imposing the road tax
upon the persons and property of the poor and
the rich and which asks tonnage duty from the
o@ldc and owner of the creates. vehicle of our
ssantry produce
1t wonld be very familiar, safe, wise and lust
provision OF law to declare no foreign ship shall
bring to us the produce of any country but its
own, unless its government grants to our vessels.
with entire good faith, the privilege of carving
70 their ports the produce of foreign countries,
rs freely as to their own ships The subject
81 this snggeston is eoneeived to be of primary i'm,
porfance.
The immediate exclusion of cotton yarn from
all countries, and the gradual exclusion of low
priced cotton manufactures, from countries
winch do not consume our cotton wool, would oc.
casion the small freight which those goods aft.
ford us, to be exchanged for the freight on our
own cotton, exported to make such goods a.
broad, and the freight of the goods, SO manufac-
tured, back TO this country. The increased con-
sumption OF our own cotton would benefit arri-
culture, as well as commerce. This occurs TO a
great extent in the East India trade 1t would
De perfectly easy and more advantageous on the
lee, spices, teas, silks, porcelain, saItpetre and
some other commodities, than with goods made
etjsreiSn rival COTTON. 1t is conceived, however
chat China ought TO form an exception. as that
country treats us with perfect reciprocity and
Justice. anu
An alien duty is laid upon the mercantile trans
actions of our citizens in some countries. An
extra duty of one per cent. on all dutied manu-
Jactures from the demiiions of such powers mi rht
yieid an Indemnify, or produce an abolition of
these invidious impositions.
Some countries exclude all our manufactures
others admit them We receive ALL An extra.
ordinary impost, on the least liberal, is a duty to
che most liberal and to ourselves This would he
the more just, because, while our manufactures
ana products are rejected by some countries they
receive the same kind of goods from other friend
BY nations
dutys respectfully suggested of two and
one nan per cent upon all goods, wares and
lnerchand'ze on board any vessel Of the u. States
rom which passenger or contracted seaman
shall be impressed, which goods shall be The pro
perry OF subject or citizen Of the impressinp
power duty IS also suggested, to be made
payable IN SIX months after the end of every cal.
ender year, on all the dutied manufactures of e.
very foreign nation, unless it shall be officially
deciared by the Secretary of State, within the
month preceding the time Of payment, that no
Fact OF the nature of impressneDt has been
committed, during the said calender wear of i'm.
Fortation, on board of any ship or vessel of the
u. States, and remains uncom pensated and In
Semsdled, to the best Of his knowledge. Prom
these duties we might except cotton goods from
Europe, as generally made of our own profuce
II " be thought delicate operation thus To deal