The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-12-13

niDotonliaries of the two Governments on
the 2oth Of September last. 1t will be
submitted, together with the others, to the
consideration of the Senate.
While these questions have been pend
ing, incidents have occurred of conflicting
pretentions and of dangerous character,
upon the territory itself, in dispute between
the two Nations. By a common under
standing between the Governments, it was
agreed, that no exercise of exclusive juris-
diction, by either party, while the negoti-
alton was pending, should change the state
of the question of right, to be detinitively
settled. Such collision has, nevertheless,
recently taken place: by occurrences, the
precise character Of which has not yet
been ascertaned. A. communication from
the Governor of the State of Maine, with
accompanying documents, and d cores
pondence between the Secretary of Stale
and the Minister of Great Britain, on this
subject. are now communicated. Meas
ures have been taken to ascertain the
state of the facts more correctly, by the
employment of special Agent, to visit
the spot where the alleged outrages occur
ceived. will be transmitted to Congress.
While so many of the subjects of high
interest to the friendly relations between
the two countries have been so far adjusted,
it is matter of regret that their views re-
speeding the commercial intercourse be-
tween the United States and the British
Colonial Possessions, have not equally APP
proximated to friendly agreement.
AT the commencement of the last session
of Congress, they were informed of the sud
den and uneA pected exclusion, by the British
Government, of access, in vessels of the u
nited States. to all their colonial ports except
those Immediately bordering upon our own
territories. In the amicable discussions which
have succeeded the adoption of this measure.
which, as it affected harshIy the interests of
the United States, became subject Of expos
tulation on our part. the principles upon which
it's justification has been placed, have been of
a diversified character. 1t has been at once
ascribed to a mere recurrence to the old long
established principle of colonial monopoly, &
at the same time to feeling of resentment,
because the offers of an Act of Parliament.
opening the colonial ports upon certain CON
ditions, had not been grasped at with sufi-
cient eagerness by an instantaneous conform
ity to them. At subsequent period it has
been intimated that the next exclusion was in
resentment, because prior Act of Parlia-
ment, in 1922, opening certain colonial ports,
uader heavy and burdcnsome restrictions
to vessels Of the United States, had not
been reeprocated by an admission of
British vessels from the colonies, and their
cargOes, without any restriction or discrimin-
alton whatever. But be the motive for the
Introduction what 1t may, the British Govern
ment have manifested no disposition, either by
negotiation or by corresponding legislative
enactments, to recede from it, and we have
been given distinctly to understand, that nei-
Their of the bills which were under the con-
sideration of Congress, at their last session,
would have been deemed sufficient in their
concessions, to have been rewarded by any
relaxation from the British interdict. 1t is
one of the Inconvenience iBseparably con
nected with the attempt to adjust, by recp-
rocal legislation, interests Of this nature, that
neither party can know what would be salts
factory to the other; and that after enacting
a statute for the avowed and sincere purpose
of Cancellation, it will generally be found ut
terly inadequate to the expectations of the
other party, and will terminate in mutual dis
appointment.
This session of Congress having termina-
ted without any act upon the subject, Pro-
clamation was issued on the 18th of March
last, conformably to the provisions of the 9th
sectionof the Act of 1st March 1898, declar-
ing the fact that the trade and intercourse
authorised by the British Act of Parliament,
of june Gath. 1922, between the United States
and the British enumerated colonial ports.
had been by the subsequent Acts of Parlia-
ment, of 9Th July, 1895, and the Order of
Council, Of 9th July, 1925 prohibited. The
effect of this Proclamation by the terms of
the Act under which it was issued, has irpen,
that each, &every provision of the Act concern
ing Navigation, of 18th April, 1918, and the
Act supplementary thereto, of 18th May, $780,
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 mo-
/. mentary exception, be CARRIED on directly by
the vessels of neither That exception itself
is found in the Proclamation of the Governor
ofthe Island of st. Christopher and of the
Virgin Islands, inviting, for three months,
from the cath August last, the importation
OF the articles of the produce of the United
States, which constitute their export por-
ton of this trade, in the vessels of all nations.
That period having already expired, the state
OF mutual Introduction has again taken place.
The British Government have not only de-
clned negotiation upon this subject but hy
the principle, they have assum ed with refer
eDCe to IT, have preCluded even the no.anS IF