Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-04-27

perseverins endeayors have been made
to adjust, by treaty, their commercial in
terconrse with foreign nations, and es-
peciaIly with England.
So far as it respects the English terri
tories in Europe and in Asia, The inter
course is arranged by the treaty Of 1915 !;
but this treaty contains no provision con-
corning the navigation and trade between
the United States, and the English colo
MES, in the West Indies and North
America. The value of this branch OF
trade, and the Importance of the naviga-
ton employed in the same, have been
long understood by both parties, and the
actual embarrassment thereof, which
now exists cannot be ascribed 10 the
want of disposition on the part of the
United States to have placed the same
on a fair and friendly footing bnt it
continues to be insisted on by England,
that not only the colonial trade between
the United States and these colonies,
ought to be considered and regulated as
monopoly, that foreign nations are bound
to respect and with which they may not
Interfere.
The act, commonly called the naviga-
ton act of England, while it reserves
the colonial navigation exclusively 10
the vessels of Eng land, and her colonies,
opens the trade between England and
| foreign nations to the vessels of both,
subjec, to equal and the same regu!a-
| tons.
The colonial, like the coasting trade,
has been treated as a monopoly, SO long
| as the same was confined to the llaviga-
ton bttwecn territories of the same ma
tiun; but, whenever it may suit the con-
veniencc nf a nation to open a trade be-
tween her colonies and foreign nation,
the claim to treat this claim as mono
ply is withou, Just authority, being con
trary to the rights OF such foreign nation,
which, within iis own dominions, must
possess authority to mike such reguIa-
tons as may be deemed cXpedient.
Ii is an unwarran;abe extension of ma
tional monoplies, by er harte laws, to
attempt to include the nav igation Of a
foreign nation within the rules by which
the navigation between portions of the
same nation is governed. If this may
be done between the colonies and
foreign nation, it may also be done in
respect to the navigation between any
other portion, or the whole of the terri
tories fsuch nation and foreign nations.
England allows the importation of
lumber and bread-siuEs from the Unit
ed States into the colonies Of Jamaica,
but torbids the same, unless he'imporla-
ton be made in English vessels she al
SO allows the importation of cotton and
tobacco from the United States into
Eng gland, but with equal right she may
forbid the same, unless the importalions
be made in English vessels, This has,
not been done in the latter case, and
there would be but one sentiment in the
United States, should it be attempted
yet, in the former case this is, and has
been the law ever since the date of our
independence, and it may with equal
right be applied to Liverpool as to ia.
maica.
Alter long endurance ard frnitless ef-
forts to adjust this question by treaty,
Congress, with great unanimity, have
passed laws to countersai! the rcstric-
,io.,s imposed by England upon the in
tcrcourse between the United States and
her colonies in the West Indies.
England having forbidden the impor-
tation of supplies from the Uuited States
into her Yves, India colonies in Ameri.
can vessels, the United States in their
turn have forbidden the expectation of
these supplies in British vessels: the
two restrictions have put an end to the
direct intercourse, land The trade is carried
on indirectly; the supplies for these colo
MES being carried in American vessels
from the United States 10 the Swedish
and Danish Islands, and the produce of
the English West Indies being brought
in English vessels to the same Islands,
and there exchanged for the provisions
and lumber Of the United States. Ameri-
can supplies are also sen, in Ameri-
can vessels to the free port of Bermuda,
and there sold for cash and -four in
like manner is sent from the United
States to the Island Of Cuba, as we'll as
to the port of Liverpool, and from these
places carried in English vessels to Ja-
maca and other English colonies in the
West Indies. In this condition of our
navigation and trade, our tonnage con-
tinues annually to increase, and the va
lue OF our exports exceeds that OF our
imports.
In countries of great extent, and whose
productions are various, though the pco-
pie are generally employed in similar