Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-03-19
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| pNSHtNStoV, hNfCh 10.
| "The chairman of the committee of Com
merce has this moment presented To tn.
House of Representatives Report upon the
| subject OF our commerce with foreign nations,
| which the House has been anxotisly expect
| Ing Tor the last four weeks.-It is yoluminous,
contains many documents, and an elaboratep
argument, covering sixty or seventy pages of
manuscript. l cannot speak as 10 the farce
or integrity of the argument from hearing il
read; it is ordered tn he printed, and NAV be
expected in few days.-The committee give
a general view of the commerce of thu. r. s.
with foreign powers, from the prnce of 90 TO
the present time; divided into four periods !:
LIST, from the year '83 to the adoption of the
constitution in '89: 2y, from the time the
| constitution went into operation to the end of
| the late war with &. Britain: sly. from the
war to the treaty OF Client in 1874; aud 4lv
from that period 10 the first OF September,
1891. They recommend lin two resolutions
at the close Of their reportl the continuance
oi the Navigation acts of 10 and go, and the
act laying tonnage duty,on French vessels':
deprecate IN strong terms their repeal, and
insist, that as our government have uniform
" declared its attachment TO the principles of
free commerce, we should be the last to ADAM
don them, and especially they say at a time
like tins, when other nations are conforming
thercommercial policy to an accordance with
those principles.-Apart from the report,
am very sure, the existing system will not be
changed at this session.
| "The House progresses slowly in the bust
ness before IT, and it is Impossible To say, when
Congress will adjourn. Should the MARYLAND
resolutions, and those proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution as To the election of
President and " President, net be acted on
this session, land think il probable that they
will not,) it may adjourn by the Goth of April
Many unsuccessful efforts have been made i'm
the House, to get up The Senate IS resolution,
proposing an adjournment on LIST April hut
there is decided. majority against acting on
1t; and it would seem favorable to long
session.
"The House will take up in few days the
South American question and | trust there
VIII be little or no opposition to the acknow-
!edgmcnt of their Independence A report
upon the subject is daily expected from the
committee of Foreign Relations and It is TO
be hoped that it will not assume a shape,
calculated to divide those who are friendly TO
the recognition. If there has been blame and
aetdy IN any department of the government,
| IN relation to our southern brethren of the
new world, we should now forget it, and all
unite in doing that act of Justice to South
America which she has right to expect.
Would to God. that their freedom was as Sc
cure as their independence. They have filled
the bucket; let them be mindful lest 1t be
kicked over.''
RECOG.NITIO.N or SOUTH .f3iERIC.A.
We have copy of the Pamphlet from
| washington, embracing the documents ac-
companying the Presidents message of the
9Th inst-They are the last communications
from the agents of the u. S. touching the s.se-
vera South American revolutionary govern
ments" They consist of letters
LIST. From Mr. Forbes, the agent at Buenos lures
I'd From Mr.. Provost, agen, nj CIih
Sd. From Mr. Brent, our Charge DIES Affaires n,
| .ifrdI-id.
4th. From Manuel Torres, Charge DIES Afaires of
| the republic of Colombia, in the IT, S to Mr.
\ Adams, with his repy-and
9Th. From Mr.. James S. WiIcocks, long resident
| AT Mexico, giving an account of the Revolu-
| Ton oil that great county.
MIR. Forbes on cd September last announ-
ces ga new organization of the government
OF Buenos Ayres, which promises great So
lidity and character. On the 26th October
he hopes p" hat the day is not far distant
when all the Earring jealouses which have
hitherto so perniciously counteracted the pro-
gress of civil liberty will be put to silence, and
the wise men Ofevery section of this country
VIII be brought to a cordial cooperation to
attain the high object Of their political deye-
ton"
Mr.. Brent 1eth July 1921 details the pre-
ceedinSs at Madrid between the Deputies from
Mexico and Colombia, and the Cortes.-He
states that those from" Mexico did not demand
an acknowledgment of independence, and
pretend not even to aspire to it''-(the victo-
res of Iturbide have since put a new face up
on this matter J but that the commissioners
OF Bolivar insist upon the acknowledgement of
the independence (of Coombia) as the basis
OF any arrangement with Spain"
Don Manuel Torres repeatedly presses on
Mr.. Adams =" the recognition of the Republic
OF Colombia, on the part of the President ol
the U. SIN his last letter, of Cd January
1899, he insists on the most absolute inca
! pacity and impotence (of Spain) to invade the
territory of the Republic or to prevent the
prosperity which its inhabitants now begin TO
enjoy."-Mr. Adams, in his reply of 9Th Jan
states the President has the subject under
consideration that his &c delinitive deci-
sion will be forthwith communicated the
mean time he begs that if NJ Torres should
=" receive advices of the surrender of Porto
CabellO, and the Isthmus of Panama" he
would communicate them as early as is conve-
} nent.
Mr. WilcOcks concludes an interesting
sketch Of the Revolution in Mexico, by de-
} claing "that the new governments established
7 on sure and solid foundation, the people be-
} ing highly delighted with it, and the subordi-
nate chiefs, officers and soldiers, having one
and all implicitly followed the example of
moderation set them by their magnanimou.
leader, who, TO ObvIate strife, envy and emu.
: latiOn, has absolutely refused the crown. and
! insisted that the emperor shall come from
Spain, rs he first proposed in the town oil
J Ygualua."
: There are no letters in these documents
from our ministers abroad shuvinp tho deno.