Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-02-11

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OH an average, from this country, six and
a bali millions ofiiie products aud mauu-
| features of the country. She employs M
| carrying these articles to her colonies On
itwere all -four, whleh Is the most valuable
| ari;cle) 60,0U0 tons of shipping; bat the
| greater part Of tae cargoes BEN. the nuiky
article oi lumber, she may ,nploy from
eighty 10 II hundred thousand ious OF
shipping in r.le trade The Whole IA
mount of our foreign tonnage beng
$4,000, Great B.itain employed in thus
trade Il quantity of tonnage equal 10 one
eighth of the Whole tonnage which we
own III foreign trade Il was a Desirable
thing, certainly five could, to participate
IN that employment ofshippiug. III do
Ing which we should create a navigation,
aud educate and bring forward tic sea-
men who are TO defend US on our shores
and on the hlsh sess, and employ ous
own manufacturers, mechanics of al
Kinds employed ~ snap building, Scc. in
that proportion which such an addition
10 cur navigation will require. Tie arti-
cles exported 10 the West Indies, Mr. s.
said, were rice, -four, lumber, corn, hor-
ses, mules, cattle, poultry, potatoes, peas,
beans, &c. all articles 10 them oil the first
necessity, and without which they could
not support themselves, nor find mate
fials wherewith 30 maSc hogSbeads and
construct buildings. II they could not
SettileSe articles from other countries,
they mast come 10 us, and must, il This
bill passed, be coerced into admitting us
10 a participation of that na,igati0n-
Could they, he asiei, get those articles
IN other countries! Certainly not upon
equally, nor any thing like equally advan-
ttaSeOus terms, as from US. II this time,
had such a law as this have been ia eAis-
tence, the West Indies, as To the whites
as well rs the blacks, would have been
actually IN STATE q! starvation for g.
Britain, herself, was So much al want at
bread stufis, a. 20 have been petition
TO open her pOris 20 certain articles, AVID
OF course WAS noi able 10 supply her CO..
ionics. lie doubled whether even with
good crops, The mother country could
supply them WIth Hour, &c. Al anyrale.
those articles never could be imported
from distance into ths islands ia as la
iaiabie state as from this couatry -
Could the islands get these articles else
where! Ii had been stated-and we
onaht 10 look at The subject Ia every part
OF view, sald Mir. :. HAT gentlemen may
vote ddyIsediy-R has been stated that II
Montreal WAS declared free port on the
pHEt al Urea! Briian, she might tiitnce
obtain supplies for those islands; since it
IS wei known That great deal OF flour is
maGe IN the nelghboriIood of the st. iav,-
renee, wiich might, in that case. 20
dS"i. 80 Montreal, and be thence si.i9pcd
10 the West iuaics. Mr.. {. said he was
OF d contrary opinion. II might be APP
pretended That much flour might be got
intliat way (Which the Till did not p,o-
vide agalnSi but for the fact, that from
thence bun one cargo year could be<i.-
REC to the West Indies, die ports being
Shui up III the northern provinces for SIX
or seven months yearly by the ne The
time the ports were open was little mere
tl:an sufficient for one voyage to a,id
from ihe West Indies. FROM Canada
then, they cannot be supplied and must
be supplied elsewhere. That elsewhere
hir. S. said, they would scarcely be able
10 find. The article of rice, he said,
they could get no where, but In America.
Indian corn, likewise, they would get 10
where but iii the United States that ar
ticiew was for their slaves aii-important.-
ltmlsht b. SAID they could raise it as
well as we. 1t was true that they could !;
but, If they did, they must take off the
slaves and land from a more profitable
culture, that of coffee and sugar. They
must lessen the growth Of valuable arli-
cles, lii order to grow one OF small value
As TO the article of lumber, gentlemen
from the east had said, The British islands
could be supplied from lhe United States
only with that article. Oh this point, il
would be proper 10 state, Mr.. S. SAID,
that there was no finer timber than rrew
on the borders Of The Lakes, and on the
banks OF the Saint Lawrence, and Monire-
al could be supplied thence On good
terms. The merchants could go up there
and buy timber, to be shipped 10 lie W
India Islands, whenever tie ST. Lawrence
should be open. Ifihey did, however. ih..
article would he supplied at a greater ex-
pence and higher price, than il cOmid be
from oar Atlantic border, ilasnuch as we
could make four or five voyages annual
iy, and scarcely more thanOne could be
annually made from the ST. Lawrence TO
tie w. indies, which would greatly IN
crease to them Tie cost Of the article
Tie article Of i've stock thew could get
from no ceunty but ours, on which, Mr..
;. said, they ar wholly dependant for
horses, mlles, cattle, sheep, hogs, &c
! Even IS these articles could be obtained
! irOmilie British northern colonies, ihey
could not be thence carried ~ safety a.
! ile W. ladies'. Even from ihr neighbour
| ing State Of II. York, the difference OF
| insurance between cargO cf live Stock
from lhat State and one from Connect
cut, and carried by Connecticut mcn,
was six per cent. SO great was the