Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-04-13
EAST INDIA MONOPOLY

EAST INDIA MONOPOLY.
In the January number of the Oriental Herald we
hnd an article upon the trade from Great Bi,an 10
emma and the Eastern Archipclago the main obec,
OF which seems to be to show the Formidable CONNIE
.tion which Great Britain has to encounter in this
trade from the United States
ITO engage in this trade (says the ,vr;,er, will
any prospect OF advantage it is necessary To be free
rom all descriptions OF restrantA.tfat every sea
shouid DC open 10 our mcrchants-eyery port be fa
miaIzed with our aag-that, as far at least as our
own laws can ensure it, should have unaualinel
access TO every nation Of the earth-be confined 20
no prescribed routes-detaned at no ancient station,
blu, be ut liberty to sail where we WILL to return,
nen way we please, and to stay as long our ext.
gencles may require"
All tins important trade has been subjected TO res
trcuons on the part Of the British Government from,
.ne passage OF the navigation act of the H. Charles
<hu "nen the trade III sugars tobacco rice moass-
es, copper ore, cotton, WOOL indigo ginger fstic or
other dying wood of the growth of any English plan
tations IN America Asia, Africa" was restricted
10 other English plantations to Great Britain, u
through succession of Legislative acts VARYING and
modifying this restriction, till the reipn of George Ri
when, by several statutes, the Company and mi
vate traders were permitted 10 trade to other ports
and To make 1t clrcuhoos instead of direct. But the
necessity OF an entire freedom of this trade is insisted
on by this writer, principally on account of the mo-
gross OF the commercial marine of America we
give his language:
be II remembered, that we have not here to COM
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a new people, thirty years ago lin the prisIe hn,
now hardened into the bone Of manhood are onr
bold and adventurous rivals DISTINGUISHED bv an
enersy OF character and ndomitable spirit of perse-
Verahce, TO be dismayed by difficulties discoura
geo by no delay, free as the winds of the immenr,
oceans winch bound their coasts, the merchant mari
ners OF America seem insensible fatigue seek no
repose, but are engaged uninterrupted circum-
navigation of commercial enterprise. Whilst wo
follow them, says Burke, among the TREMBLING
mountains OF Ice and behold them penetrating into
the deepest frozen rccesscs of udsons Bay and Da-
Wis n otraltB; whilst looking for them beneath
The Arctic Circle we hear that they have pierced
into the opposite region of polar cod-tha thew aro
1T the AntpOdes, and engaged under the frozen SER
pent OF the South. Falkland Island, which seemed
100 remote and romantic an object for The grasp of
national ambition, is but stage and resting place in
the progress Of their victorious industry Nor is the
equ'noctia heat more discouraging them than the
accumulated winter Of both the poles We know
that whilst some Of them draw the line and strike the
harpoon on the coast of Africa others run the onpi
tude and pursue their gigantic game along the coas,
OF Brazil Nosea but what is veXed by their fishc-
ries-no cline that is not witness to their tolls
"Such was the portrait of America in her infancy
while yet III the nursery of Great Brtain.-Smce
-. tauer nay lock Ike poe;Tv m f5c 10
scrlption has been moro than realized Not souee-
Zed as we have been, by the restraints of watcbf,I
and suspicious government but suffered 70 toL th
own way to perfection, the Americans. under cove
OF our own ml5chievous restrictions by tho cYceI
lence and variety of their sssorments hive obtained
preference over us III all the ports of continental
Europe, engrossed the better portion of tho trnJo
with the immense regions which lie beyond tho Cane
OF Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan and pusb
ing their successes to'the Thames selected from tho
ware houses, in Which our manufactures Wondered
the materials which invigorate their comnctitioo
ana extend and animate their foreign and domestic
Commerce."
While American enterprise thus finds it's way in, o
every country and climate, the restraints imposcd
upon the trade of Great Britain in the Eastern Scas
- N Fng inf Ii,oE
we have quoted, Sin every link of the commercial
chain, and Illustrate and defeat our her1 ventures in
all the markets of the world" "
The rapid sketch which this writer pivca oP tho
growth OF the carrying trade of Amerca. we may be
pordoncd for extracting;
During the twenty three years Of almost unre
united war, wagod by this country, in the first in
stance against Franco, and ultimately against all tho
great continental States, which its ruler compelled
to submit to his authority; our maritime superiority
enabled us to oxtrpnto tho shipping Of foreign ma
lions. by the reduction Of the French and Dutch
Colonies an the East and West Indies, the revolt Of
81 Domingo, and the seizure the principal points
IN the Mediterranean, England became the great ma
gazlne IN Europe, from which the products Of evorV
quarter Of the globe dispersed through such
channels the continental system had not closed
But though they weTo thus without n rival in E,-
rope, formidable competition soon raised by
the Americans Their enterprising people bv tbo
concessions stipulated in the treaty of 1894 having
completely dsentangled their intercourse with India
from the trammcls TO which our own remained sub
ject until 10, free from tho embarrassment of ex
elusive charters and navigation laws, by the wise
policy OF neutrality, maintained friendly intercourse
with those ports Oftho continents TO which our own
shipping had only candestino access; and by these
means though their wantof Colonies and their ge-
ographcal position prevented them from establishing
smP9r'a 10 Europe, they became tho carriers of the
world
At the conclusion Of the war, the trade thus car.
ned on by the Americans exhibited, as compared
with that Of which, Mt it's commencement they were
possessed, pro6gious increase; and indeed, as
long as our navigation laws prohibited the exporta-
ton Of the produce of Colonies TO the ports of
Europe except by tho crcutous and expensive routo