The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-12-12

INV relaxation from the British interdct 1t is
me of the Inconvenience inseparably connect
ID with the attempt to adjust by reciprocal leg
slation interests of this nature, that neither
party can know what would be satisfactory to
the other and that after cnactlng statute Tor
the avowed and sincere purpose of conciiiatloh,
it viii generally be found utterly inadequate
to the expectations ofthe other party, and VIII
terminate in mutual disappointment. 4
The session of Congress having terminated
without any act upon the subject, Proclama-
ton was issued on the 18th of March last, con-
formally to the provisions of the 9th section OF
the act of LIST March, 1923, declaring the fact
that the trade and intercourse authorized by
the British Act of Parliament of Gath June, |
1922, between the United States and the Brit
ish enumerated colonial ports, had be en- by the |
subsequent Acts of Parliament Of 9TH July, |
1926, and the Order of Council of 9th July, (
1926, prohibited. The effect of this Proclama- |
ton, BY the terms of the Act under which 1t
was issued, has been that each and every pro-
vision of the Act concerning Navigation, OF
18th April, 1918, and of the Act supplementary
thereto of 18th May, lo20, revived, and is in
full force. Such, then is the present condition
of the trade that, useful as it is to both parties
it can with a single nomentary exceptions be
carried on directly by the vessels Of neither
That exemption lrseIt is found in a Proclamation
of the Governor of the Island of st. Christie
pher, and the Virgin Islands, inviting, for three
months from the 23th of August las, the I'M
portation of the articles of the produce OF the
United States which constitute their export
portion of this trade, in the vessels of all ma
tons. That period having already expired, the
state of mutual Introduction has again taken
place The British Government have not only
declined negotiation upon this subject, but, by
the principle they have assumed with reference
to it, have precluded even the means of nego-
tiation. 1t becomes not he self-respect of the
United States, either to solicit gratuitous ia
vors, or to accept as the grant of favor, that
for which an example equivalent isexacted. 1t
remains to be determined by the respective
governments, whether the trade shall be OPEN
ed by acts ofreciprocal Legislation. 1t is in the
mean time satisfactory TO know, that apart from
the inconyen!ences resulting from disturbance
OF the usual channels of trade. no loss has been
sustained by commerce, the navigation or the
revenue of the United States, and none OF
magnitude is to be apprehended from this ex-
isting state of mutual interdict
With the other maritime and commercial
Nations Of Europe, our intercourse continues
with little variation. Since the cessation, by
the Convention of gath June, 1922 of all dis
eliminating duties upon the vessels OF the Unit
ed States and of France, in either country, our
trade with that nation has increased and is in
creasing. A disposition on the part of France
has been manifested to renew that negotiation
and, in acceding to the proposal, we have ex-
pressed the wish that it might be extended to
other objects, upon which a good understand
ing between the parties would be beneficial to
the interests of both The origin of the politi-
cal relations between the United States and
France, is ceeval with the first years of our In
dependence. The memory Of it is interviewer
with that OF our arduous struggle for national
existence Weakened as it has occasionally
been since that time, it can by us never DO for
cotton and we should hail with exultation the
moment which should indicate a recollection
equally friendly in spirit, on the part of France
A fresh effort has recently been made by the
Minister of the United States residing at Paris
to obtain consideration of the Just Claims of
citizens Of the United States, to the reparatIon
Of wrongs long since committed, many of them
frankly acknowledged, and all ofthem entitled,
upon every principle of justice, to candid ex-
animation The proposal last made to the
French Government has been TO refer the sub
iect, which has formed an obstacle to this con
sideration, to the determination ola Sovereign,
the common friend of both To this offer no
defnitive answer has yet been received but
the gallant and honorable spirit which has at
all times been the pride and glory of France,
will not ultimately permit the demands of in
nocent sufferers to be extinguished in the mere
the power to reject them
A new Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and
Commerce, has been concluded with the King
dom of Sweden which will be submitted to the
Senate for their advice with regard to its rati-
fcation. At more recent date, a Minister
Plenipotentiary from the Hanseatic Republics
Hamburg, Lubbock, and Bremen has been re-
ceived, charged with special mission for the
negotiation of Treaty of Amity and Com
merce between that ancient and renowned
league and the Uuited States. This negotia-
ton has accordingly been commenced, and is
now i'll progress, the result OF" which will, If
successful, be also submitted to the Senate for
their consideration.
Since the accession of the Emperor Ncho-
las to the Imperial throne of all the Russias,
the friendly dispositions towards the United
States, so constantly mani tested by his predo-
cessor, have continued unabated and have
been recently testified by the appointment of
a Minister Plenipotentiary to reside at this
place. From the interest taken by this Soye-
reignin behalfofthe su ieYing Greeks, and from
the spirit which others of the Great Eufopean
Powers are cooperating with him, the friends
of freedom and of humanity may indulge tho
hope, that they will obtain relief from that
most unequal of conflicts, which they have so
ioDg ana SO CALAMITY sustained: that they will
enjoy the blessing of sefgovernment. which
by their sufferings in the cause of liberty they
have richly earned and that their indepen-
dence WIN be secured by those liberal institu-
tions, Of which their country furnished the
earliest examples in tho history of mankind
and which have consecrated to immortal re-
membrance the very soil for which they are
now again profusely pouring forth their blood.
The sympathies which the People and Govern
ment Of the United States have so warmly in
dniged with their cause, have been acknowl-
edged by their Government, in letter Of
thanks, which have received from their illus
trions President, translation of which is now
communicated to Congress, the Representa-
tives OF that Nation to whom this tribute of
gratitude was intended to be paid, and TO whom
it was Justly due.
In the American hemisphere the cause of
freedom and independence has continued 10
prevail and if signalized by none of those
splendid triumphs which had crowned with
glory some of the preceding years u b,s onlv