Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-11
From the Quebec Gazette. I
FREE, TR AIDE

The following badinaee is from the Montreal
Spectator, OF Wednesday the 18th inst:
he act for Regulating the trade of the Colo
MES does not commence opera ton till the 9th OF
January next: so that NJ have a few months to
coIlectiood and take measures for postponing the
fatal period OF starvation, TO which the Free Trade
has sentenced US. One would suppose that the
smuggling trade was considerably the British Par
lament, the British Government, and its partisans
part OF free trade. Certain il is that as TO the
prohibition OF animal food, the qualification of a
good appetite seems to have been adroitly used as
Il bonus Tor deXerity in smuggling.-Tbat, rather
than starve, or even go upon short allowance,
smuggling will be Carried to bold and even all au-
dacous extent, there can be no doubt; and if any
revenue officer should have the temerity TO inter-
fere, he will be very fortunate if he is not eaten
himself-Our loyal men have been tickling us
with moral pictures OF Smuggling OF Tea into the
States-and the Free Trade Bill certifies to us that
we are TO have noble smuggling OF food from the
States SO that between these two operations, on
behalf of the East India Company, and of our own
siomachs, there is every prospect that this loyal
Province will cultivate in eminent degree, under
the couratorship of the mother country, all the ia
culties aud morals which are the glory of the an
cient and honorable craft of illicit dealers and
smugglers."
" 1t is happy result of this free trade that the
export of United States Ashes through the port of
Lower Canada is efectually prevented. Ii no
doubt is genuine result of free trade, that we
should not be allowed to benefit in the least by our
neighbours the States--but that we should make
every sacrifice to compel them to be patriot
ic-and 10 force them 10 their canas--to en-
ploy their own warehouses and merchandise ship
IRON their own ports, and TO increase their own
sailors Long life to free trade! long life to trans
atlantic legisatiOnn'
That smuggling must be the effect Of high du-
ties, restrictions and prohibitions the
cial intercourse between this province and the L.
nted States by land and inland navigation, is GER
tain. Bonaparte with his host OF Douaniers, and
half million of soldiers, could not prevent SNUG
Cling Oh line of not greater extent than the In
land frontier, between the Canadas and the United
States. g. b. being surrounded by sea, on which
smuggling from other countries must be carried or
In vessels OF some magnitude, and on a thick set
He'd coast has lately been obliged to reduce duties
ana restrictions, in order TO diminish smuggling
livery press, and every pulpit too, in the Canadas
might print preach against smuggling The very
presses types, paper and all like those of the go-
yernment press, we believe, in Upper Canada
which would be printing against smuggling, would
be themselves smuggled. The Laws OF Upper
Canada certainly have been, and probably yet are
printed upon Struggled paper: some OF our parsons
would probably like the cornish parson finish his SER
mon by saying: "stop stop. let US start fair. .
Why, our ladies who nave irequented the Castle OF
St Louis Tor years past, have mad with them, pro-
badly more than one Struggled article. When the
armies, during last war, were daily exchanging
shots and bay one thrusts on our frontiers, they or
those closely connected with them, during tue in
tervals Of mutual destruction were obgingly, fur
nisbng another with such articles as they, res
pectiyely, stood most In need Of The only way
to put down smuggling is, to make it lawful to do,
what the smagglers do unlawiully, or by the low
ness of duties make the trade Improbable.