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your committee ip, tVie extraordinary
imiatton in which farirptacc&
prcvc.ns him alone (in exception, to
e very fivnilar case) from indemnifying
himfeiffor the mcreate of duty, and
of other expences attending his coin
vation, by an equivalent incrcafe of
.price to theeonfume'r. For it appears
that fir.ce the year 1799, the duty on
sugar ha* been raifeci Irbm 20s. to 275.
and contingently to 40 s * P* 1 cwt *
ejcppnces of the tfiates are calculated
to have riienin many articles 50, and
in Others 60 per cent, and the price l
has fallen from 695. to 355. 6d. per
c wt. the average of the last eight months.
As it appear- obvious, from the above
Ota emetH, that the duty is heavier than
die .anficlo can hear, as us p. fcr.t
price, it is fuggetled that it might be
expedient, for the relief Os the heme
markst, to extend the principle which
j -as been adopted on the contingent in
cr-afe of duty from 275. to 30s. so
from the rnaxiutnof duty then fix
ed, on a grof; price of .30s. affording
30s. duty, and 50s. to the planter, the
duty (hould be thrown back on a fun
ilar (calc, in proportion to the depres
sion of the market, till the price ar
rives at 60s, grids, leaving 2Os. (the
original duty) to government, and 40s.
t,o the planter.; or in other words, a
reduction of is. of duty on a reduc
tiom of.2s. .gross price from the aver
ageih ‘u fixed for the impetition of the
ne v duty as far as 20s.
An increase of. bounty on the ex
port has been a-!&o recommended j and
your committee are of opinion, that
it would afford great relief if given as
an accompaniment to me afu res cf re
flfriSfion upon neutrals, so as to ren
tier the expences on Brittfh and for
eign produce equal to the foreign mar
ket.
A considerable depreciation in the
p ice of rum having also taken place,
it has been fug gelled, that encourage
ment of the consumption of that arti
cle would be of conhderabie advan
Jage to the planter. Your committee
are aware that such encouragement has
been given to a certain extent, but
if it were found practicable to carry
that further, by an incrcafed con
futnption in the army and navy, such
a measure would, in their opinion,
have very beneficial effects ; or a re
duflion of duty on rum might afford
effedlual relief to the planter, without
!ofs to the revenue, which would be
indemnified by an encreafed consump
tion of that (pitit.
Great, however, as the evils of the
deereafe of price and increate of char
ges, it does not appear to your com
ttvktee, “hat they are the original cau
fesof the distress of the planter, by
applying to which alone, any praftica
ble remedy he could be more than
partially relieved; but that the main
evil, and that to which these are ulti
mately to be referred is the very un
favorable Date of the foreign market,
in which, formerly, the British had
nearly a monopoly, but where he can
not at present enter into competition
with the planters, not only of the neu
trals, but of the hostile colonies. The
refultofall their enquiries on this moll
important part of the fubje&has bro’t
before their eyes one grand and pri
mary evil, from which all the others
are easily to be deduced ; namely, the
facility of intercourse between the
hostile colonies and Europe, under the
American neutral flag, by means of
which not only the whole of their
produce is carried to a market, but at
charger little exceeding those of peace;
while a British planter is burthened
v/tdj ali the inconvenience, risk and
ckjjchc? rcfihkjgefrom a (fate of war.
The advantages v/hi'ch ‘the Hostile colonies
<ki ive from the relaxation of that principle,
which prohibited an)’ trade fiom being carried
■Oll with the enemy’s colonics by neutrals during
war,, which the enemy did not permit to those
neutrals during peace, may be in part eft.mated
by reference to a ftaterosnt ot the imports into
Anifterdatn alone, troai the United States of
America, in the year 180S, amounting to
,'3,(>S5 hegtheads of coffee, a..d 45,097 hog*
| fneads of fugav, conveyed in 211 vefilb, here-
I u.-.to-annexed : and to a ftatemer.t alio annexed
j of the amount of Weft-India produce, exported
I from t!ie United States of America, between the
j Ift Qibber, 1905, and-SOth September, 180'J.
j 1: point of comparative expence, the advantages
or tit? hostile colonies will be further illaftrated
!by the evidence cf Mr. Marryat, supported by
f.uidactory documents which (how the charges
6ffreight and insurance cn fugarfrem the hos- (
tile colonies throughout the United States otj
America, to the ports of Holland and Handers, |
and to these of the Mediterranean, tote left by
3s. lid. to the former, and by it’s. Gd. to the
i latter, than theft- charges cn British. lugavsto the
iame ports.
Your committee cannot orr.ii to ft its another
important advantage enjoyed by the French co
lonies from the fulo of nearly the whole French
mercantile marine to neutrals, under the ft'pula
tion of each veftel being returned into French
ports, in order to be navigated as French (Ups,
within twelve mouths after-peace-, and with the
enjoyment during war, of the’ fame privileges in
the ports of France, as if they were aitaaUy
French ; for instance, to import in gar at a dot)
of 4s. per cwt. lefts that! the duty iniyoftdti o.i
tugar imported inv.eutral vafels.
In order to counterbciaics, in Conte degree;
t'ae advantages thus enjoyed by the hostile colo
nies to the detriment of the British planter, it
has been recommended, that a blockade of tin
ports of the enemy’s fettlemenh. fnould be re
torted to ; such a.meafure,"if it could be tlridllv
enforced, would undoubtedly afford relief to or.
export trade.
But a measure cf more permanent and certain
advantage would be the enforcement of those re*
llri&ions on the trade between neutrals and
enemy's colonies, which were formerly main
tained by Great-Britain, and from the relaxa
tion from which the enemy's colonies obtained !
indirectly, during the war, all the advantages
of peace ; While Our own colonies, with the in-’
tercourfe witli whom, that system of monopoly,
which has been essential to the coir tnercial and
military navy of this country, is ririrouftv en
forced, are deprived of the advantages under
which iu former wars they carried their produce
to foreign markets, and which in the present war,
by means of our decided naval superiority, would
have amounted to the exclusive fupi.-ly est the
whole of Europe ; and when those extraordina
ry measures are taken into consideration which
have been adopted to exclude the British cole
nisi produce irom the European market, it ap
pears to your committee to be a matter of evi
dent and imperious necessity, to resort to such
a system, as by impeding and reftrifling, and, as
fir as poifible, preventing the export of the pro
duce of the enemy's colonies from the places or
its growth, (hall compel the continent to have
recourse to the only source of supply which,
in this event, would be open to it.
As it may be apprehended that from the
adoption of such measures, difficulties might
arise in that intercourse from which the Weft-
Indies at present derive a Considerable propor
tion of fame of their supplies, your committee
have thought it their duty to make inquiry into
the refource3 in that refpe£l to which recourse
might be had in such an event. During the
only period which affords an example of’ the
fufpeirfion of that fame course the evidence con
curs as to the faft of a supply having been ob
tained (though not without temporary and oc
casioned inconvenience) from a variety of sour
ces which may reasonably be relied upon, in case
of such necefiity at the present moment, to a j
greater amount than the former period. From j
the examination of perfotis, who in consequence
of their residence in the British North America
settlements, or extensive commercial Connexions
with them, poiTcfs the best information as to
their present and future reforces, there is ground
to believe that fome supply of the principal arti
cles of lumber might have been obtained from
thence immediately, and to expeft that with due
encouragement, the quantity of that supply
might be encreafed to any extent.
The supply of flour which they could at pre
fect afford to the Weft India market, would be
small and of inferior quality. They appear to
be capable of affording a large supply of ft ill ;
and what deficiency might exist in other articles
of (alt provjfipns might be made up by fupolfes
from Europe.
Upon the whole, the impression which your
committee have received is, that the trade now
carried on between the Britifli Welt-Indies and
tue United States of America, is very conveni
ent and advantageous to the inhabitants of our
colonies and one which they could not relinquilh
without cffential detriment, unless It were com
pelled by other advantages ; but that it is not
leffentialto their cxiftonce, or equivalent to the (
I difatlvantages of their situation, in these refpe&s
which your committee have already gone thro’
in the present ftatoment.
Your committee having briefly dated the dis
tvc(fed situation of the Weft-India planter—the
causes which have gradually produced his dis
tress, which are beyond his reach to remedy,
and which mult continue to operate with in
ert a (Ted effefi; and having dated such mea
sures of relief as have been fuggefled to them,
and such as from the best sources of information,
appear mod adequate to the end in view, have
only to add, that if these remedies are liable to
objections and difficulties, there is on the other
hand the ftrongelt concurrent testimony and
proof, that unless fome speedy and efficient mea
sures of relief are adopted, the ruin of a great
‘ number of the planters, and of persons in this
country, holding annuities,'and otherwise depen
j dent upon those properties for their income,
limit inevitably very soon take place, which
rniift be followed by the loss of avast capital,
advanced on securities in those countries, and by
the ti-nlt fatal injury to the commercial mari
time, and financial inetrefts of Grcat-Britaia.
BALTIMORE, October 5.
Whilst piJdlhig politicians in this country are
seriously disputing about the right and the
wrong of their own sagacious speculations, the
pm Lament of Great Britain is setting an exam
ple which every real American ought to bring
home for his own consideration and imitation,
In tifis day s paper we lay before the public a
‘ Report,’of a Committee appointed totakein
to consideration the commercial state of the W,
India Colonics ;’ a document which every citi
zen of the FT. States ought carefully to peruse,
and which ought to be flock up in the Counting
hoafe of every merchant in this country. This
Report demonstrates that the British govern-1
meut feel the growing advantages which the A
rr.ericans derive from their intercourse with the
Weft-Indies, and tire determined as much as pof
uble to prevent them 3 end, in (hort, as soon as
they can do it, to cut us off altogether from any
trade with thefc islands over which they have
control. They are endeavoring, all in their
power, to find out means of lupplying their
colonies with those articles which they require,
from other colonics of theirs on this continent,
or from the mother couutry. The Report fa vs,
J that fifth can be fuppiied from the Enghfh North
American settlements for the supply of the W.
! Indies, asweli as lumber, and even a small flip
! ply of flouV, though of inferior quality ; and
j that “what deficiency might exist in articles of
, stilt provisions might be made up by supplies
. from Europe.” This language, held in an cf
:■ ficial document, cannot be misunderstood. The
Britifli mean to do without us in every instance
they can. They intend that ‘ monopoly,’
; which their report plainly declares is so effenti’aL
ly necessary to the cxiilcnce of the British navy
and nation.
HALIFAX, (N, S.) August 11. j
On 1 uefday lad, a Court Martial was held
cn beard the Bellona, for the trial of W. Ware,
D. Martin and John Strachan, (lately taken
from on board the American frigate’ Chesa
peake) charged with having deserted. The
charges were fully proved ; but the Court, in
consideration of their former good condudt, and
the high char-after given them by their officers, I
as well as the contrition (hewn by them for their
offences, did not sentence them to death, but to
receive 500 ladies each.
In a petition iince presented to the Comman
der in Chief, from the above named deserters,
for a mitigation of punishment, Ware dates
himfelf to have been born near Pipe-Creek,
j. led. County, Maryland—Strachan, at Queen’s
Town, Queen Ann’s County, in the fame date ;
and Martin, in the Wed-Indies. That they
had voluntarily and deliberately entered on board
.ne Melampus— that they lament the crime cf
desertion, of which they had been guilty ; and
again offer their services on board any of his
majedy’s ships. They were pardoned.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
Having entered into partnership under the firm
of
Bulloch & Glen ,
And having taken convenient Stores cn
Smith s Whan ror tee reception of all kinds of
~ y °duce, offer their iervices to their friendt in the
FACTORAGE AMD COMMIS
SION BUSINESS,
T o which, ai they intend, to be confined, they
preraife themselves it will be in their power to
give fatisfadion.
A. S. BULLOCH,
i huMAw GLEN.
Sav. Oftober 15 67
Public Intelligencer.
SAVANNAH,
FRIDAY, October 23, 2807.
■—
WE, in common with our brethren, have
to request those of our patrons who maybe ner
ledled in the delivery of the Intelligencer, to
fend to the office for the fame ; the former car
rier being sick, and the present one not acquaint
ed with the route.
ON Tuesday last came on the Ele&ion
for County Officers—on an examination of the
votes it appeared that the following Genlemeu
were elected :
Sherif-r JOHN EPPINGER.
Surveyor —l. STOUF.
- Conner— M. WHITLEY.
The following is the state of the Poll .-
For Sheriff
EPPINGER, 256
SHICK, 194-
OATS, 41
For Coroner <,
WHITLEY, SJI
BROWN, in
The * Lou.fville Gazette,’ of the 9th iuft.
contains tire following, “ Yefterdav 15 way.
gons left this place for Milledgeville with the
Treafnry and the Public Records of the State.
They were efcci ted by the-troop of horie flora
Washington County, who arrived here a few
days since for that purpofe.’’
Many of the enraged opponents of the ad.
ftuniUration condemned the Prcliderit for the re
mote day at which he called Coogrefs. Events,
however, have (hewn that had he convened them
sooner they would have been unable to proceed
on the important bunnefs which occasioned their
extraordinary affemblsge. But three weeks
will elapse before the day of their meeting ;
and, from .present appearances, it is scarcely pos
sible, and not in the lead probable, that official
information will be received from England at a
much earlier period. The Revenge had not ar
rived on the 26th of Augufl ; allowing but
(hort time for the r.eceffory explanations be
tween our ministers and those of England, we
may er.pedl this information about the 26th of
Odtober. It is also not improbable that the
fame vessel that brings it will like wife brirm us
the fate of the Treaty. At all events, the views
of the Britifli ministry will be soon clearly dis
closed, and we (hall then diftinilly fee whether
fhey will honestly practice what they prefers ;
or whether their recent demenftratfons of amity
arc but the cover to new outrages.
National Ititdlb'ersetr.
o
Extras of a letter from Rathbor.e, Hughes and
Duncan, dated Liverpool, August 25, to a
gentleman in Philadelphia.
“ Since our last advices, we haVe had a
continuance of unusually favorable weather for
the harvest, and we learn from ail parts of the
kingdom that the crops are in good quality,
abundant in quantity, the principal part already
well housed, and a favorable profpcdl for that
which is ilill on the ground. The demand for
grain and flour has in consequence, become
whoi.y fuipended ; the holders-are encreafingly
anxious to dispose of their Hocks, and our last
quotations must be considered nearly nominal.
“ In aihes no alteration has taken place, ar.d
we confirm our last quotation.
“ During the last week, the demand for cct.
ton was very bride, and considerable tales were
effedled at the following rates :
“ Sea-Ifiand, very fine, 2s. sd. a 2s. 6a.—
; fine 2s. 3d. a 2s. 4d.—middling 2s. Id. a 2s. 2k
—ordinary Is. I Id. a 2 1-2—ftainpd Is. 4d. a
Is. 9d.
‘ Nevr-Orleans, fine, Is. 6 l-2d—middling tc
fair Is. sd. a Is. 6d.
“ Upland, fine Is. sd. a Is. Gd.—foir Ic. 3d.
a Is. 4d.—-ordinary tc middling Is. Id. a it. 2d.
NO NEUTRALS,
BUT
ALLIES, OR ENEMIES.
The people of America will, atljnpth fee, iu
the declarations of the Entifl’. miiiffcr at Co
penhagen, the situation ir. which hey are now
placed—
He explicitly declares to the ourt of Den
mark—
That ic ir. impoffude any longer o diftinguiih
between —<x Neutral and an Enemy