Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-02

must be allowed 10 ndlionai A0'cioS $3.50
and something too to national pride
The discriminating duties have been
established and strongly insisted upon;
it is accomplishing much to have them
reduced at once three fourths OF their
amount; with provisionfor their grad
ual but total extinction.
The eighth article allows one year
for the exchange of Qualifications. This
is to allow time for the President to
submit the treaty to the Senate at their
ordinary session for ratification.
The first separate article" will en-
brace but small class of cases. The
amount to be refunded is unimpSrtant,
and the principle of this article, as OF
all the others, . reciprocity.
The second separate article" mates
rally changes the face of the Treaty,
limiting the discriminating duty TO the
excess of importation into each coun-
try. Thus modified, the discriminating
duty itself would be imperative or SO
much SO as not to be seriously feat by
either party. This article does not take
effect until two months after tho rati-
ficasion whilst the body of the treaty
is to take effect from the first day OF
October next.
We have gone through the provisions
of the Treaty, and find reason, ON the
whole, to congratulate our readers that
the commercial differences with France
have been brought to this favorable
termination, after laborious and tedious
discussions both in this country and in
France. For some time past, the di-
rect commerce between the countries
has, in consequence of the high dis
eliminating duties, been entirely at an
end. All our trade with France has
been carried on circuitously, through
the ports of other powers, whose navi-
CATION, consequently, and not ours, has
derived benefit from it. This Treaty
restores the direct trade, and thus gives
employment to our own navigation,
which has suffered from being deprived
of it by the high discriminating duties
which made it impossible for them to
carry it on.
There is another light in which we
regard this treaty with great pleasure.
1t re-establishes relations of perfect
amity with France, our old friend and
ally, which have been somewhat dis
turbed by the recent collisions of the
commercial regulations of the two
countries. 1t leaves us free of differ
ence with any power on earth, saving
the amicable controversy with Great
Britain respecting the trade with her
colonies: and, if we are to Judge from
recent indications, this controversy, too
is about 60 have speedy end.
From the Curacao Courant, received
at The office OF the Philadelphia Gazette.
Curacao, May IS.
His Majesty's brig Swallow, Capt.
De Jonge, arrived on Wednesday from
Surrinam. We learn that his excellep,
cy Gen. Da Veer, who lately proceeded
from St Eustatia in. the Swallow, to
take upon him the government of Surf
nam, was received by all classes of the
inhabitants of the Colony, with every
demonstration of Joy and respect,
On Thursday afternoon his Maies-
tvs brig Kemphaan, capt Dingemans,
arrived from La Guayra, with two
scheoners belonging to this island, un-
der her convoy. We received Caracas
papers by this opportunity to the 9Th
inst but they contain nothing interes-
ting.
We understand that accounts had
reached La Guayra of simultaneous
attack having been made last week by
sea and land on Puerto Cabello, by the
Colombian forces, in which they are
stated to have been repulsed with some
loss.-Gen Paez is reported to have
been wounded in the action.
The following is list of the Colon
bian vessels of war blockadipg Puerto
Cabello:-
Brig Bolivar. ketch. large felucca,
4 large schooners. l large prize brig
Com. Daniels, brig Voluntario, brig,
Urdaneta, making together 4 briggs, |
ketch, felucca, and schooners, be-
sides a number of flecheras.
The schr. Centells, which was also
one of the blockading squadron, had
returned to La Guayra to repair DANA
ges, sustained in the attack on Puerto
Cabello, Com. Daniels, we are infor-
med, was not on board the squadron,
but according to the last accounts was
in the city of Caracas.
A Maracaybo paper contains bulle-
tin dated the 2Ith of April. giying an