The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-12-14

.. ri. ,art ofthe Message NC would particular
..,., the reader, because, It gin an ans"ef,
simple statement Of facts to the 'na'ao'eS
IN ont during the last SUMMER hy tie enc
~. Adams. with view to produce an
....ss,on that a failure TO- ELECT an arrange
With Great Britain, such as the interest OF
-, n,r,ies dictated, was owing, hrst TO desire
49,, present administration 10 grasp Al too
i, more indeed, than was neeessarY,) and
49,. losing all that was essential and secondly
49,, ,oeo,npetency of the first Minister It APP
Ia, the Court of St James 10 enforce
efficient vieor the Justice OF the grounds
.3t,ken. Both of She msinuatons were
o,,oded as the lucid exposition OF the freSl-
,,,oftbe reasons by which the British Cabinet
.t,,,,ed IN IFS refusal to enter into the pro-
4a,,,ngements, viii conciusively show. II
p, he norceved, that the British government
A., of Parliament, first opened certain Of
-. West India ports, upon terms of apparent
...nrocity. butreattg of gross inequality, be-
cause many articles exported thence in Ame'i-
.,, .bips we're subject TO heavy duties, while
.,,, others of Our most important exports
..,,esl,solutey excluded. In this state oithings,
,,,ation was commenced, which was sud
aonl, nut AN end to by the Intervention OF ano-
a,,r Act of Parliament, so difficult TO be
ao,.,ooa, as to puzzle not only those who
N,ve,e beneflted by its provisions, but those also
..ho ,yere 10 put it in execution. The officers
,e,be British Customs, themselves, were at a
,ose to interpret If; Il, because the American 60
.,,,nont would not nj once accept and recipro-
.,,o forms thus ambiguous and difficult of inter,
,re,aton, the British Cabinet appears to have put
tho airs of a spoiled child, 4, in pet, denied US
,be bcnefts even Of that Act We are told, too,
v;,b naughty air, that Great Britain will nego-
cate no longer on the subject : And why Be
,,o,se. forsooth the trade ofthe Colonies, being
IA exclusive possession of the mother country
e not subject OF negotiation, but must be reg
,,lot,d exclusively by Act of Parliament as If
France, Holland and Sweden did not now reg.
.,,te the trade of their Colonies by treaty sti.
,pI,tion: as if Great Britain herself had not
reouIated the trade Other Colonies in like man.
Der heretofore; and as if she had not been
NEGOTIATING OH the subject ever since the year
ISIS We regret TO see this spirit display ed
hv the British government, and confess
that we are also surprised to see it. If
Lord Castlereagh still held the rens Of pow
sr--bgot as he vas, in politics as well as III rr-
gion,--and if his principles of exclusion and
monopoly were still in vogue, We should not
have been surprized at such narrow minded
course. But, We had not expected it at the hands
Of Messrs Canning, Vansittart and Robinson. =
Their views ofcomnercial policy, as ayowed by
,,e Chancellor OF the Excheqver in his speech to
ne British Parliament views which we con-
Seiycd to be AT once the origin aud safeguard of
commercial prosperity appeared to be SO libe
rll md SO Just, that il would have been deemed
stretch OF Imagination, TO have looked SO soon
1flcr their PRONUNCIATION, for a departure from
such sanitary principles But as it is impossible
,,estimate the policy OF nations it is lesson of
wisdom to guard against the effects OF It's iclle-
noes. It behooyeS, Congress, therefore if Great
Britain is not TO be won TO correct principles by
argument, to force her into them, by meeting her
with her osh Representation must meet re
tJiclan Nyk.