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 lATE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF GIL^AT BBITAIK, 
 
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 TRADE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, 
 
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 To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : 
 
 Washington, Sth December, 1826. 
 I transmit to Congress extracts of a letter received since the com- 
 mencement of their session, from the Minister of the United States 
 at London, having relation to the late discussions with the Govern- 
 ment of Great Britain, concerning the trade between the United 
 States and the British colonics in America. 
 
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 Extract of a Bespatdh M. 16y/tifm Mr, Qallatin io Mr, Clay, ddUi 
 
 ** London, Z7th Oct 1826. 
 
 « Mr. Canning, in liis official note of 11th September laiit, on tlie 
 subject of the colonial intercourse, has the following observation re- 
 specting the provision of the act of Congress of 1st Marcli, 18S3» 
 "Which prevented British vessels entering American ports except di- 
 rectly from the British West Indies, from clearing out for any of 
 those colonies : * It must not be forgotten that this enactment, founded 
 « professedly on the limitations of the British act of Parliament of 
 
 < 1&22, is continued fourteen months after the passing of the British 
 
 * act of 1825, by which the limitations were done away. Since the 
 
 < 5th of January, 1826, an American ship trading to a British West 
 
 < India colony may clear out from thence to any part of the world, 
 
 * the United Kingdom and its dependencies alone excepted. But the 
 ' British ship in the American port still remains subject to all the re- 
 ^ strictions of the American laws of 1823,' &c. Although I did not 
 know, at the time, what act of Parliament of 1825 was alluded to, I 
 could have no doubt of the repeal of the limitations of the act of Par- 
 liament of 1823, and thus expressly stated ; and the fact is according- 
 ly taiien for granted in my official answer to Mr. Canning, of the 22d 
 of September. Yet, on examining the various acts of Parliament, I 
 have found some difficulty to discover by what act, in what manner, 
 to what extent, and from what date, the said limitations had been ac- 
 tually repealed. 
 
 The act of 1822, which contains the Hmitatio v? alludetl to, is that 
 of 24th June, 1822, (44th chap, of 3d Geo. 4th,) ei titled < An act to 
 regulate the trade between his Majesty's possessions in America and 
 the West Indies, and other places in America and the West Indies f 
 and the limitations in question are two. By tiie 3d section, goods im- 
 ported in foreign ships into the free ports of the British colonies, must 
 be shipped and brought directly from the country or place of which 
 they are the growth, produce, or manufacture. By the 4th section, 
 goods exported from any of the said free ports in foreign ships, must 
 be exported direct to the country or state to which such ship belongs. 
 Although Mr. Canning has used the word limitations in the plural 
 number, it is clear that he intended to apply his observation < that the 
 limitations were done away,' to the last mentioned limitation only, and 
 not to the first. 
 
 The act of 5th July, 1825, (6th Geo. 4th, chap. 114,) entitled <An 
 act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad,' docs not 
 contain any clause repealing either of the limitations of the act of 24th 
 June, 1S22. But the fourth section states that, by the law ofnaviga- 
 
 
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 sessions abroad, rrom the countries to which they belong, goods the 
 produce ut' those countries, and to export goods from such possessions 
 to be carried to any foreign country whatever. 
 
 llio law of navigatioiit rckrrcil to as above, must be the act, also, of 
 5th July, 1825, (6th Geo. 4th, ch. 109,) entitled, « An act for the en- 
 couragement of British shipping and navigation." It is enacted by 
 itj first section, that the act shall be in force from the 5th of January, 
 1826, and shall constitute and be the law of navigation of the firitish 
 empire. The Uth section provides <Hhat no goods shall be imported 
 into any British possession in Asia, Africa, op America, in any foreign 
 ships, unless they be ships of the country of which the goods are the 
 produce, and from which the goods are imported." The 4th and lotb 
 sections provide against the importation, in foreign ships, into the 
 United Kingdom, or into any Britisb possession in Asia, Africa, or 
 America, of goods carried from any such firitish possession. There 
 is not in the act any provision restricting the exportation of goods from 
 any such British possession in foreign ships to any foreign country 
 \i^hatever. But the act does not expressly repeal any such restriction 
 previously in force, nor indeed any former act whatever relating to 
 trade and navigation. The preamble, which makes p^rt of the first 
 section, only states that the laws relating to the encouragement of Bri- 
 tish navigation will bo repealed in consequence of another act passed 
 in the same session of Parliament, entitled << An act to repeal the seve- 
 ral laws relating to the customs." 
 
 This last mentioned act is that of 6th Geo. 4th, ch. 105, passed, 
 also, on the 5th of July, 1825. Though purporting from its title to 
 repeal only custom house laws, this act repeals, from and after the 5tli 
 day of July, 1826, so much and such parts of the sevcriil and respec- 
 tive statutes therein after mentioned and recited, as relates to the trade 
 and navigation of the Kingdom, or to the importation or exportation 
 of goods, &c. &c. The statutes thus therein sanctioned and repealed, 
 amount to about four hundred and fifty, including, as I believe, all 
 former acts relating to the trade and navigation from 17th Ricliard 
 2d to 5th Geo. 4th, cli. 94. The 16th section specially repeals so much 
 of the navigation act, 12th Charles 2d, ch. 18. as remains unrepealed ; 
 and the 559th section repeals altogether the first abovementioned act 
 ♦if 24th June, 1822, (3 Geo. 4th, cIi. 44,) entitled "An act to regulate 
 the trade between his Majesty's possessions in America and the West 
 fndies, and other places in America and the West Indies." 
 
 From what precedes, it follows, first, that the restriction which li- 
 mits theimiiortations, in foreign vessels, of goods into the British Wesi 
 Indies and American Colonics, the vessels of the country of which the 
 goods arc the ]»roilucc, and coming direct from [such] country, having 
 been revived by the navigation act of 5th July 1825, is still in force ; 
 secondly, that the restrictions which limited the cxportations in foreign 
 vessels, of goods exported from the British West Indies and American 
 Colonies, to a dii*ect exportation to the country to which such vessel did 
 belong, is so far repealed, as that such cxportations, in such vessels. 
 
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 may be made to any country whatever, Great Britain and its depen- 
 dencies only excepted. 
 
 ' But it would seem that that repeal took place from the 5th of July, 
 1826 only; and Mr. Canning having stated that it had taken place 
 from the Sth of January^ 1829, I have addi*c88cd a private letter to 
 Mr. Planta, acting Secretary of State during Mr. Canning's absence, 
 asking an explanation of that apparent discrepancy, to which, how- 
 ever, not much importance can be attached. 
 
 From the tenor of your instructions of the 19th Juno, and Sth of 
 August, 1826, it appears that even to the last date, you were under an 
 impression that both the limitations of the act of Parliament of 
 S4th June, 1822, on the indirect or circuitous intercourse with the 
 British Colonies, wore still in force; this, considering the manner in 
 which the repeal of the limitation in question has been effected, is not 
 a matter of surprise ; and there was another circumstance calculated 
 to strengthen that opinion. 
 
 It appears, from your instruction of the 1 9th June last, that the two 
 acts of Parliament on that subject which had reached you or attracted 
 your notice, were the act of Sth July, 1825, (6th Geo. 4th ch. 1 14, ) 
 to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad, tind an act of 
 27th June, 1825, (6th Geo, 4th, ch. 73,) entitled <«An act for the fur- 
 ther regulating the trade of His Majesty's possessions in America, 
 and the West Indies, and for the warehousing of goods therein.'' By 
 the sixth section of the last mentioned act, the permission to export in 
 foreign vessels, goods from any of the British Colonial free jmrts to any 
 foreign country, taken in the most extensive sense of which it is suscep- 
 tible, applies only to countries in Europe, Africa, or Asia, within the 
 Mediterranean Sea, and to ships belonging to such countries. It 
 does not extend to America, and does not embrace American ships. 
 And it was, therefore, a natural inference, that the 4 th section of the 
 act of Sth July, 1825, (6th Geo. 4th, ch. 1 14,) when stating that foreign 
 ships were permitted to export goods from the British jiossessions 
 abroad, to any foreign country whatever, referred to the last mentioned 
 sixth section of the act of 27th June, 1825, and had no reference to 
 American ships. It is proper here to add, that this act of 27th June, 
 1825, has since b^rn repealed, not by the act above mentioned, of Sth 
 July, 1825, (6th Geo. 4th ch. 103,) « to repeal the several laws re> 
 lating to the customs," but by a subsequent act of 26th May, 1826, 
 (7th Geo. 4th ch. 48.) 
 
 It seems to me, that the intricacy of these several acts of Parlia- 
 ment, and the difficulty of understanding their precise meaning, might 
 have been considered by the Government of Great Britain, as a suffi- 
 cient reason, why that of the United State^i might not have been dis- 
 posed to accept the conditions on which, by those acts, the intercourse 
 was opened with the British Colonies, without having previously, at 
 least, come to an understanding of their true intent and meaning. In 
 point of fact it was understood by the American Government that one 
 of those conditions was a prohibition to export goods in American 
 vessels, from those Colonies to any other country than the United 
 States."