The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-10-18

tfNiAs fAuF Eenu:uc AID Valuable 'eoioaleSb
aud 4 precious acquisition by fair and cost
ly purchase, arc equally open TO those, VINO
have and those who have not colonies 20
those who exclude as from, aud those, VINO
admit " ia.o their colonial establishments.
Some nations refuse a participation IN the
carriage Of our own produce to their colo
MES, and they escape the countcrva'"ng
justice Of an export duty, because oi4T constr
luton foy5ids that imposition. he returns
for these export. are often made in distilled
spirits, from the freight Of which we arc al
so excluded, though they interfere WIN the
produce of our orchards, and with those
brcweries and distillcries, which support
the prices of our grain and fru.t. hese
foreign spirits also interfere with the pro-
fits Of our vast importation OF molassss IN
our own vessels. 1t is respectfully submit. I
ted IA provision fit for insertion III per-
mancnt system Of commercial laws, that an
additional duty be laid upon fermented IL
ouors. and all materials for the manufacture
thereof, imported in foreign vessels, IRON
por,s or countries into which our vessels
are not permitted by permanent laws, 10 en-.
Itcr. for participation 10 such t:ade' ana
Tor which commodities they may nor carry
funds, either in cash or in the produce OF
the u. States. live gain the Just recifro.
city, our ship-wrights and merchant" VIII
feel the benefit; if not: our landed interest
and our traders IN distilled spirits, wines
and mnlasscs with more liberal powers,
will gain considerable advantages. Il Jo-
reign monobo!y, e.iingnishcbls BY orr la10s'
| uviW be excluded fran our country. As an
evidence Of the extreme injustice OF foreign
laws and treaties in this respect. 1t may DC
correctly stated, that the manufactures OF
our principal suppler consumed by u.s. and
; in which we participate the carriage, would
. not gil three thousand hogsheads, while the
monppo!ised freight of the rum of their CO.
. ,onies is actually paid on thirty thousand.
An excluding Jury upon all produce OF
; the foreign fisheries, belonging TO the gov
ernments which 40 duly exclude ours, would
: favor the fishing and coasting traders, and
, shin .buidinY, and would occasion dc.
!, mand on our agriculture Tor substitutes, IN
0 the shape of picked and sailed provisions
{ An abolition of all the present duties on
{ mercantile vessels 10 place them on foot
iug with working wagyon,) is respectfully
suggested, ships being the vchicles far our
y produce, as much as carriages. But, As to-
:, reign nations may continue to impose tlu.
!. ties and Tighten money on our vessels, provi-
: sions of law to collect equivalent duties
from them. might be made. These, it is
], believed, would produce fund sufficient
d for the expences of the establishments for
Sc the direction and safety Of shipping. But,
N if they should not, then the ordinary impos,
y would DC just fund. For, if it is huer to
= include this actual charge of importation,
). like the rest, in the price of the commodity,
= than TO demand the same tonnage from an
~ american manufactured ship IN ballast, as is
10 paid by snip with rich cargo Of foreign
d manufactures and produce. 1t seems 20 be
I. different spirit which solicits an a,sti.
ii hence from duty and working and even on
as pleasure carriages, imposing the road tax
le upon, the persons and property Of the poo,
mt and the rich and which asks no tonnage
y duty from the builder and nwn.- Of tht
~ greatest vehicle ofOur country, produce.
RI It would almost be familiar, safe, wiss
Of and just provision of law to declare no 70
N, reign ship shall bring 20 US rhe produce o
m any country but his own, unless lis eovern
sct ment grants to our vessels, with entire gont
'a''', uie P'ishebo VI carrying 10 incl
m ports the produce of foreign countries, a
~ freely as to their own ships. The sub;ec
NY 81 this suggestion is conceived TO be ofb,lma
rs. ry Importance.
ha, The immediate exclusion Of option gar
ok from all countries. and the gradual exclu
us. sion OF low priced cotton manufacture
he from countries, which do not consume GU
no cotton wool, would occasion the sma
ma freight which. those goods afford US, to b
exchanged for the freight on our own col
ton, exported to make such goods abroad
and the freight Of the goods, so manufac,u,
d,back to this country. The increased cor
sumption OF our own cotton would bcnef
cru of agriculture, as we'll as commerce. This OF
ma ours TO great extent in the Eas, Indi
trade. 1t would be perfectly easy and NOR
advantageous on the whole, to lade OF
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