The Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1822-1822, 1822-05-18

Cuba, regarding lis geographical situation
population, consumption and produce, as
also the commercial interests OF the other
Spanish Provinces, the Provincial deputa-.
tion of the Havana are authorized 10 APP
prove and carry into effect the Tariff which
The IntendaDt of the said Capital OF the
Havana may form, fixing between the max
imum and minimum established by the se-
scond article OF this decree the duties
which foreign goods are to be subject to on
importation, and taking particular care to
charge all that is possible on those whose
interference would prejudice the national
ones. g. To reduce or suppress, in conf0r-
nifty to the powers granted them by the 7th
article of the organic basis of the general
Tariff, the duty which the 9th article OF
the present decree imposes on the expor-
tation of the produce OF the Island TO TO-
reign countries.
[Ertracts from Jamaica Papers received al
shis e6fce,]
Kingston, April Is.
Extract from letter dated Carthagena
9th inst. received by a gentleman 10 this
city. :.
Gan extraordinary courier has just arri-
we'd from Rio de la Hache ,ibriDging the Inn
portant news of the acknowledgement ~
the United States O. the independence OF
the Republic of Colombia, Our Governor
General Mon,ilo means to proclaim this IN
telligence to the people to morrow by the
1rino of cannOrS &c &c ~
We have no doubt the above intelli-
geoce is correct, as it corresponds with our
previous information from the United
States We likewise have been informed
that the American squadron in the Fac,hc
Ocean, consisting of the Franklin ~, III
gate, brig and schooner are expected 10
call at Panama about the latter end OF NAV
or beginning of June.
The recognition BY the United States OF
the Republic of Colombia as an fndepen-
dent nation, will have an important effect
| ia the present state of affairs in Mexico,
more especially as the Spanish Cortes have
recently declared the treaty between Gen :.
O'Donoju and the Mexican Chief lturbide
null and void. :.
The throne Of Mexico was offered by IT.
urbide and his party TO Bourbon frlnce.
and if the treaty before mentioned bad
been promptly and cordially appreciated
by the Cortes of Spain, it is presumable
that Spain would have enjoyed over the
Mexican Empire for many years great po-
litcal weight, but having rejected the trea-
~ in question, it is highly probable that
the views of lturhide and his party will be
entirely changed, ard that Mexico and
Guatemala will follow the came course as
the Republics of Colombia, Chill and Pc
ru
From the NJ Y. Euening Post, May IS.
Extract of a letter from an American.
Madrid, March 95, 1922.
"You are not ignorant of the disadyanta.
ges our commerce 10 this country has la
bored under for so many years past, nor OF
the Intellectual attempts made by our min
listers to remedy them. Whether this go
vernment has become more disposed to ia
vor US, or whether the exertons Ut our pre-
sent minister have been more successful
than of his predecessors, am not able to
say; but the fact is, that the late changes
decreed by the Cortes in the revenue sys-
tenn are more favorable to the commerce OF
the United States, than that of any other
nation. For example, the tonnage duty Of
one dollar per ton. before paid exclusively
by vessels of the United States. and hich,
by the way, owing to the difference be-
tween Spanish and American measurement
is nearly one third less than what Spanish
vessels pay in our ports, while those of o.
ther nations paid tr'fling one, has been
made general to vessels of all nations =
The duties on Goldfish and on slaves, the
principal articles OF export from our coun-
try to this, have been reduced on the for
mer from p3 20 per quintal, 81 S7d and
on the latter from DlO per thousand, which
was paid also on barrel slaves, 10 dol
lars per thousand on pipe, and to two dol
lars only on halt pipe and barrel slaves.
No change whatever has been made in
the prohibitions of manufactured cotton
and wooden goods, notwithstanding The
great exertions that have been made by the
British government to that effect.
1t would be well for our merchants to
know, that no distinction is made in the
custom houses here on account of the thick
ness of slaves; and as the pipe slaves OF
Hamburg, Bremen, and Stettin. GU, of one
OF which five pipe slaves like ours can be
made, pay no more duty than ours, there
would be great saving in the duties, it
the slaves intended for this market were
OF that description