Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-06-22
10 the Editors of the Enquirer.
The Commerce aud Navigation of the United
INe,o York Gag.


States
SIRs: There appears to to be a party in the
U States, who, running wild with an idea of their
own importance, imagine that all the world i. a.
'n'enSoe to the real folly Of their motives and the
ridiculous Inconsistencies of their language a.
themselves. allude 10 the absurd and incohe
rent views, entertained by some OF the CONNER
ciai relations OF the country. A new epoch NAV
be saId to have commenced IN the u States in
March, 1913; being in tact, the first year of The
general peace report from q Congressional
Conmltiee, declares: "that the law Of Sd March
1919, says, receive our vessels into your ports
loaded with our manufactures on the same terms
as you receive your own with the came, and the
same rule shall be observe ed az 10 vour ves.es aud
their esrgoes coming in the q S." Nlr A Jams in
his letter to Mr.. Anderson in May, 1923, thus
spe-Ss % the act OF Sd March, 1915, repea ed so
muc6 OF the discriminating duties of tonnage and
npos', as were imposed foreign vessels and
merchsndlze, beyond the duties Imposed on the
same IN our own vessels; so far az they respected
rae produce and manufactures Of the nation To
soaich the foreign UeSSeL might belong. The
repeal 10 take effect in favour OF anu foreign ma
uon, whenever the Presiden, Of the United Stale.
should be saiisied that the discriminating or coun-
leTvaine duties, OF such foreign nation so IA, a.
hey operated 10 the disadvantage TO the IT, States
had been abolished This Is he broad ground IA
ken by the ACT of 1915. COPIED rerbatisn ct d
teTotAH, unuerscorlpg and all
nat are he grounds taken 10y Great Britain in
100! MIR. Huskisson, -PeakIng of The old duties
OF 10, E67 los and $50 per cent on manu-
features OF cotton, calls them absurd duties and
equally absurd Distinctions. hicb attach alike 10
me productions oil our own subjects In the East
ladies' as sl-50 upon those Of foreign countries.
whist our manufactures are admitted almost d,ttv
fTee into the territories of the C. India Company.
Instead oil this graduated, but monslrous scale.
propose to admit all foreign articles MANUFACTURED
wholly OF cotton, whether from the East ladies OF,
ELSEWHERE, al one uniform day OF 10 per cent
Beyond this, bold protection 10 be useless ,,
This - efset1heTe" will surely enable the Lowell
or WalihAm Companies, If they cSuse, to shin
cOti ons, even TO Liverpool.
Let US look to the reverse of the medal The
pennsylvania society, on the 18th MAY, 1927.
thus svows ats opinions: " the case, Of coarse
ceitons, with US, on which the duties are Drohi.
oH0Ty, may be referred to d striking corrobora
ration oil this theory (hat Of protection duties. !
lhey are now sold al hslfthe price they bore " hen
imported, and are Of double value, in point of din.
rahility, making difference of IS per cent" Here
Is reciprocity with vengeance. Ten per cent. 10
prohlbitionii!
Ahe brazils receive British manufactures AZ IS n.
cent and the great portion of Brazilian commerce
Is carried on en- Blush Tonnage The Fas ADD
west Indies receive them at nearly no duty. and
employ no tonnage but British. The u. States
lays FTohititory duties, and emp loys four 10 five
hund'ed sb'ps oil Its own for the conveyance Of
ns own produce TO market What is to be ex
pected in the actual situation of THINGS "a nrodue
ed by the diplomatic mis-managsment of Messrs
Adams and Clay, and the tonnage of e. Britain.
but repeal OF the duties on cotton from those
Countries where The duties ON COTTON manufactures
are not ''PTohibtoTy?" Most probably, mndif
Cation oil the East India CornpsDy's Charter and .
reduction OF duties on cotton from the South A
meTIcan aud the East and Yves, Indies. In Nav
1917, Mr. Barring called the attention of IN.
House oil Commons TO - an extension of the trade
with India" lie quoted the fact of the America,
commerce with that country, and asked VIVA,
injury was likely 10 be done 10 The Ess, India
companies, BY English vessels carrying on a .imi-
lar trade! Let this trade be thrown omen an
IT was impossible to say what advantages the
country would not derive nom it--from The inee
nuiiy, Industry and enterprise of The merchants OF
Liverpool, Glspgow, Bristol, and our other COM
merciai sea ports" The Charter expires iu se, en-
years, and notice Is 10 be given in lour 1881 y
as 70 its renewal. The circumstances OF the coun
Try call tor the opening Of every channel Of com
merce, and The recent acquisitions in Chin-India
afford them, u the legal shsckles can be removed.
This Is TO De proved By the following extract from
late London paper
n.
The following notice Of the ffsde Of The rrmesc kors
especially that With China gwen one Of the ls,t Csens
papers, q oi some importance. II sppears that Tea oh differ
cut descriptions from those brought To- Canton s1i d GOOD
quality, procured from China reaiied 10 Avs Tor sb,
seven pence per prfads
"The frihoPl articles Of mpart by ,ea into The Burn,an
don''noa' are Bengal NADIA, snd British piece goods Bit
rh wooiensi ron, wrought snd unwrough; copper To-
sesthing lead quckslve bcrsr phur dooeos
der, Gre arms sugar. arack, and ADD tie opis
thenate Chinee aud English glassware, cocoa nuts bet,
nui The sde m British pice goods has of isfe yssrs
NC esssd whilst bai o. Madras piece goods has rogotcn-
On TIE Northern frontier Of the Burm4n dofonons an
active trade carried with China snd other Es,ten ises.
the chief emporium place called Banno on tie Ch,ne,s
iruntie snd a Mrai miles 70 the norihward Of As
Ispma Mohammedan and Bufnan merchants of Ava 20 10
banny 20 met the Chnesc, part Of whom not unu.ua four
OF I'VE h'la1f ogns doFn - Jiisi- tis Choose irr1i