The Litchfield County post., 1828-12-11

cial intercourse between the two countries has continued to increase for the beneh' of both. The claims Of indemnity to nnni- bers of our fellow citizens for GepredaIIonS uponsthei property heretofore committed
 during the revolutionary governments, st,ii remain unadiusted, and still form ihe sub feet of earnest representation and remun- strance. Recent advices tfom ,he minis ter of the United States at Parts encourage the expectation that the appeal to the jus tice of French government will ere long receive a favorble consideration.
 The last friendly expedient has been re- sorted to for the decision ofthe connover- sy with Greatz Britain relating 10 inc N. E. Boundary of the U. States By an a- greemeut with the, British government, ,car- rying into efectthe provisions of the fifth article of Ghcnt, and the convention of 2oth September, 1927. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands has by common consent been selected as the umpire be- tween the two parties. The proposal to him to accept the designation for the per- formance of this friendly office will be made at an early day, and the United States, relying upon the justice of their cause, will cheerfully commit the arbitra- ment of it to prince equally distinguish ed for the independence of spirit, his in= defatiguable assiduity to the duties of his station, and. his infexible personal probi- ty.
 Our commercial relations with Great Britain will deserve the serious considera- tion of Congress, and the exercise ot ot: :: concil'atory and forbearing spirit in the policy af both governments. The state ofthem has been materially changed by the Al, ot Congress passed at their last Ses-' sion, in alteration of the several Acts im- pesing duties on imposts, and by Acts ofa more recent date ofthe British parliament. The effect of the interdiction of direct trade commenced by Great Britain, and reciprocated by the United States, ,has been as was to be foreseen, only to substitute different channels for.an exchange of com modties indispensable to the colonies, and profitable to numerous class of our fcl- low citizens. The exports. the revenue, the navigation of the United States, have suffered no diminutiom by our exclusion from direct access to the British Colonies. The Colonies pay more dearly for the ne- cessaries of life, which their Government burdens with he charges ofdouble voyages freight, insurance and commission, and the profits af our exports are somewhat im- paired, and more injuriously transferred from one portion of our citizens to another. The resumption of this old and otherwise exploded system of Colonial exclusion has not secured to the shipping interest of Ct. Britain, the relief which, at the expense of the distant colonies. an.: oft ot tine U. States,it was expected to afford. Other measures have been resorted to moro pointedly bear ing upon the navigation of the United States, and which, unless modified by the construction giv C tine recent Acts of Parliament, wiE be manifestly incompati- ble with the positive stipulations of the commercial conv ention existing between thetwo countries. That convention, how ever. may be terminated with twelve months notice, at the option of either party.
 A Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce between the United States and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, has been pre- pared for signature by the Secretary of State, and by the Baron de Lederer intrus- ted with full powers of the Austrian gov- ernment. Independently of the new and friendly relations which may be thus com meneed with one of the most eminent and powerful nations of the earth, the occasion has been taken in it,as in other treaties re- contly concluded by the United States, t' extend those principles of liberal inter- course and flair reciprocity which inter- twine with the schanges of commerce, ,the principles of jus ce,and the feelings of mu- tpal benevolenc.. This system, first pro- claimed 10 the world in the first commer- cial treaty ever concluded by, the United States, that of the 9th of February, 177S, with France, has beer invariably the cher ished policy ofour Union. Ii is by treat ies of commerce alone that it can be made ultimately 10 prevail as the established sys tenn of all civilized nations. With this prin- ciple, our fathers extended the hand oi friendship to every nation of the globe,anG to this policy eur country has ever since athered-~whateyer of regulation in ou, laws, nas ever been adopted ,nfavourable to tbe ipterest of any foreign nation, has been essentially defensive and counterac,- ing to similar regulations of theirs operat, ing against us.
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