The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-09-06

s"oo'o u"uouo'cu'y uS very JEALOUS.
That this is not the case will appear if il
be considered that the cargoes carried from
hence to the French Islands, consist Of
Horses, Lumber, and Fish 4; nor will the
French permit US to import any other arti-
cles to their Colonies, save some tribes no,
worth mentioning; that the Horses we send
them serve rather for luxury than any real
use in the Plantation service, and that they
may be, and are supplied with Mules and
Horses from the Spanish Mum That the
Fish we send them is of an inferior quality,
and will not suit the European market; and
that if they are not suffered to purchase their
Fish of us, it will naturally tend to increase
The shipping and seamen OF France, as they
will be obliged to prosecute the fishery them
selves; That if we do no, supply them with
Lumber, they can procure it from the Mis-
sissppi, or have it brought in their ships
from France, which generally come out not
half loaded aud that the sole reason of the
French purchasing any of the above arti-
cles from US is, because they can pay for
them in Molasses, a commodity at present
but of little value to them, although of the
! greatest consequence TO us.-Add to all this,
If we are prevented from purchasing their
Molasses, they will naturally increase their
Distllery, and make it into Rum, and ex-
port it elsewhere themselves, especially to
Mississippi, by means of which river, grea,
quantities may and will be yended among
the various tribes Of Indians, which will in.
crease their shipping and searsen, and
greatly interfere with the interest of Great
Britain: and more especially, as by means
of the trade with the Indians, they may gain
such an influence over them, as may be at
tended with pernicious consequences in case
Of future war. ..s .r .-.. -
The English West Indies, so far from re-
ceiving any prejudice by the trade of the
! Northern Colonies to foreign Plantations,
have improved greatly in their crcumstan-
ces since this trade has been prosecuted
If the prices of commodities carried to the
Islands from hence, and oc their produce
brought back in exchange, be examined for
thirty years past, it will evidently appear
from authentic accounts, sales, and inyoi-
ces, tina, the price of the Horthern commodi-
ties sent '',em, has decreased 40 or so per
cent, and the price of their produce bought
by US, has increased in the same or great
er proportion for notwithstanding our trade
with foreign Plantations, the profit of The
West India Planters has been continually
increasing, while ours, during the same Pc
riod, hath been gradually sinking. This
circumstance alone, is sufficient to prove
that the British Sugar Islands are not pre-
JUDGED by our trade to foreign Plantations
Jan,acai is the only English Island that
now supplies us with Molasses, excepting
the new acquisition Of the Grenades, which
affords small quantity Of an inferior quail
ty) aud it can be proved by undoubted tes-
timony, that even from thence our vessels
have been frequently obliged to bring back
money, because Molasses was not TO be had;
and this has happened in the course of
few years, while the trade from the North
ern Colonies to foreign Plantations was at
the highest.
The West-India Planters cannot with
justice complain, if we purchase from 9th
ers what they canno; supply us with; and
what ought sill further to silence their
complaints, is, that in ,he article of Sugar,
which is their first and most material staple,
they can receive no prejudice by our trade
to foreign Plantations: for it is we'll known,
tina. the policy both of the French and Dutch,
has confined the trade of Sugar to them !
selves; SO that we never obtain any Of that
commodity from them, save now and then
a small quantity Of an ordinary kind /; which
is generally procured mot without hazard)
by the assistance and address of those ner-
chants there, VINO help us in the transact
ion Of our business.
From hence it is evident, that the British
Islands viii remain in possession Of all the
profit and advantage arising from the arti-
Gle Of Susa-, should the Law we complain
Of be discontinued. Il
From the facts and arguments contained
in the foregoing representation, i, ia submit
ted to your Lordships, whether the renewal
of the said law, may not, instead of answer
ing any useful purposes, he highly injuri-
Gus to the Interest both Of Great Britain,