Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-02-01
ALEXANDRIA.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY I.
yROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
All WASHINGTON.
Jan. 81.

The bill which stood over from
Wednesday, that is to say, the bill
to prohibit all commercial intercourse
with ports or places into which the|
vessels of the United States are not
permitted to enter or trade" was yes
terday brought under the considera-
ton of committee ofthe whole house,
and after some discussion was at once
.dropt. as it should seem from a con-
Sistion Gifts impolicy. and in its place
a hill Of a different kind was substitute
ed. This substituted measure is de-
signed to effect in some degree the
purpose of the other, by additional
duties and increased tonnage on YES
sels coming from ports or places
where our ships are Forbidden to trade.
Three dollars added to the tonnage.
and fifty per cent additional to the du-
ties are the amounts specified and pas
sed in the committee. How it will
fare with the measure in the house re-
mains to be decided.
By a recurrence to my letter al
Yesterday YOU will find that from the
beginning, this bin vas suspected Of
being untcuablc.-ro attack Great
Britain upon her old navigation act.
which she has had III force for one
hundred years, and 10 enter the lists
With her in a contest OF coercion MAS
a badly imagin'dentcrprizc, more par
ticulary while the fact was yet fresh
in our minds and staring us in the
face that an attempt TO Cocrcc her c.
ven from an unstable temporary piec
of policy of hers, the orders in C0um
Gil, produced no other effect than to
render her more unbendinS-to put.
her upon dra"ing out her oouna!"ss
resources, and 10 show us how entire
" uuassailablc she was i'm taat kind
Of warfare. Our attc.n,t to star, q
| her into compliance only brought to
hgnt secret of ShIh we had not o.
fore bcen aware, vi at continual
ton of that policy OH uUr part wouia
have eyCntLaJed in the entire loss of
our provision trade 70 her donations,
which England would have found a |
multitude o, substitutes in variOusl
parts OF her wide spread empire, on
for which the sun ncycrsets. Mr.. Shelf
~ in short but neat speech, put the
matter in striking point ofSicw, ba;
Mr.. Jackson Of Virginia gave the bill
the coup de grace, by stating that the
ClainOur of our merchants had before
drawn the nation ia.o war, in winch
the said merchants had trNiturous,!
deserted their country. and even brotl
their hostile inhacrcc % bear upon ii
70 its danger and injs'|, and dcc:ar-
|nst at ut never wou.d agree again
u place the nation OH thcir account in
the same prCdicamcnt. For which
|reason he moved to strike out The first
section. In consequence OF this the
|tIli was abandoned without taking the
sense ur the house on that question.
| think that one of the most eXqui-
bite morscls of eloquence, for the
length of it. that l have ever heard,
MAS an eulOgy on the venerable old
Timothy Pickering by Mr.. Randolph. T
would give you n Saint sketch Of it
FROM my memory, but cannot find it
b my heart to profane such pure ex-
fellenCe. by crippled representation
Pitt. The beauty Of such things is
destroyed by the loss Of a single word.
II | find that it has been reported by
fny of the stenoSraphers. ] will send
6Ou copy of it. Let me tell You. by
Phe bye, that another delightful effu-