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THE IMPOLICY OF ALTERING
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THOUGHTS,
It having been understood, that some altera*
tion may possibly take place in the rate of the
Duties levied on Norway and Baltic Deals and
Timber, during the ensuing Session of Parlia-
rtient, so strong a sensation has been excited in
the minds of those who consider themselves
interested in the question^ that perhaps the
following obser\^ations on the subject may not
be deemed v/holly devoid of interest.
The Duties alluded to, were imposed some
years since by Parliament, as it was then con-
sidered, with a view to several objects of the
highest importance to the welfare of the Empire.
The obstacles which then existed to a free inter-
course with the Baltic, and Norway, had shewu
Government the importance of looking for a
iupply of Timber and Deals from countries
under their own controul, and within the de-
pendencies of Great Britain.
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It was supposed to be of national advantage
to facilitate the settlement, and to encourage
the industry of the British North American
Colonies; and to blend their interests with
those of the Mother Country ; but above all,
it was felt to be of vital importance, to look for
that lucrative and permanent employment for
British Shipping, to which, driven from what-
ever Foreign Port, whether by the decrees of
War, or the arrangements of Peace, the Bri-
tish Ship Owner, and British Sailor might look
with equal confidence.
As far as time has yet been allowed for the
prosecution of the experiment, the justness of
the views on which it was founded, has been
fully proved. Throughout the lower parts of
Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia,
extensive establishments have been formed :
and abundant means of subsistence have hence
been afforded to its Inhabitants, from a soil and
climate otherwise but little favourable to the
new settler. Along the immense extent of the
waters which flow into the St. Lawrence, the
beneficial effects of this policy have been felt.
The Wood of the Forest has been exchanged
for the Woollen, the Cotton, the Earthen, and
Hardware, of British manufacture; the com-
forts and conveniences of life have been dif-
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fused over countries which, but for these regu-
lations, must have been doomed to the scanty
and ill-organized manufacture of an infant state
of society. Nor has the experience of these
benefits been without its effect : the friends of
Canada may look with pride and gratification to
the willing spirit, and personal devotion with
which its Inhabitants went forward to oppose
an enemy, whose avowed object was their sepa-
ration from Great Britain.
As respects the Shipping Interest, the ob-.
ject of these regulations has been answered.
At the close of the War, the number of vessels
discharged from the Transport Service was very
great; the less protracted voyages attendant
on a state of Peace, contributed also to dimi-
nish the necessity of employing so many ships;
many were therefore laid up, yet there can be
no doubt but that the number thus discharp-ed
would have bten ruinously increased, had not
a trade existed which employed, during the last
season, at a very moderate computation, from
eight to nine hundred sail of vessels. It seems,
however, that some partial evils are complained
of, and urged as motives to induce a change in
the present system. It is said, that in conse-
quence of the heavy Foreign Duty, the price
of Timber and Deals are inconveniently high to
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the consumer; that the Duties, as they
respect Norway, are prohibitory ; that, though
not so as the Baltic is concerned, they would,
if lowered, have the effect of increasing a re-
venue, which, within the last year, has been
less productive than formerly ; that the latter
Duties, called War Duties, were laid on as
matter of revenue, and not of commercial regu-
lation ; that, by way of putting Norway on a
footing with the countries bordering on the
Baltic, the Duties on long Deal«« should be
increased, and made proportioimte to their
length ; that unless we encourage an intercourse
with Foreign Nations, we cannot expect that
they should take our manufactures.
In reply, it may be fairly asserted, that tlK3
price of Timber and Deals, since the return of
Peace, in consequence of the competition be-
tween British North America and the North of
Europe, has been remarkably low, and if not
ruinous to the Importer, so moderate as to
afford but little prospect of reimbursement to
those spirited Landholders in this Country, who
a few years since, expended so much capital in
the Plantation of Fortst Trees^ and whose
patriotic exertions perhaps, deserve the continu-
ation of parliamentary protection. It is also
denied, that the Duties are prohibitory, even
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as they respect Norway : if any Deals are ex-
cluded, they are those only of an inferior qua-
lity ; the firstj and even second Christiana
Deals are for sale in every Timber-yard in Lon-
don, and will be found to pay at this moment,
a handsome profit to the Importer, So far from
the Duties acting as a prohibition, if reference
be made to the Custom House returns, it will
appear, that the importation of 1815, and the
early part of 1816, (no doubt occasioned by
the high War prices, and the long blockade of
the Norway Ports), were out of all proportion
great; — that to the glut thereby occasioned,
to the limited wants of Government during
Peace, and to the diminished consumption,
which has attended the distresses of the times,
and not to the pressure of Duty, is to be attri-»
buted the reduced Importation which has taken
place during the latter part of 1816. Those
heavy stocks are, it is well known, now nearly
run off, and a large Importatior may be looked
to during the current year.
The preceding observations will with even
greater force apply to the Deals from the Bal-
tic, as, though the British North American
Merchants can meet on equal terms the Nor-
wegian in the London Market, under the present
regulation and duties, he can with little hope of
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profit, enter the lists with the Importer from
the Bahic, as the experience ot" the present
year, to the Ibrmer, avowedly the most favor-
able, has fully proved. This is to be attributed
to the distant voyage to I British America, ad-
mitting of but slow return of capital, requiring
large stocks to be kept on hand, and to the ne-
cessarily high freights : to which may be added,
that the rate of labour is much higher in Ame-
rica than in the Baltic ; and finally, that from
the remains of prejudice, inseparable from the
tirst opening of a new trade, the price to be
obtained for North American Timber and
Deals, is never so high as for those from the
Baltic.
Hence it may fairly be inferred, that the
Baltic Merchant has no founded cause of com-
plaint; since from the existing wants of this
Country,, a large supply will annually come from
the Baltic as well as Norway, greatly to the be-
nefit of the Revenue,, at the present rates; while,
at a diminished rate of Duty, the gross amount
of the Revenue would not be increased, though
the North American Shipper must rehnquish
the Trade; for let it be even supposed foi* a
moment, that it were possible for Great Britain
to withdraw the encouragement solemnly held
out to the British North American Colonies,
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anil that in future all Deals and Timber con-
sumed in (ireat Britain, were to be imported
in British Ships from the Baltic, the most dis-
tressing consequences would result to the Ship-
ping Interest. From the ease with which a
Baltic V^oyage is performed, from the Ships
previously engaged in the British North Ame-
rican Trade being added to these already em-
ployed in the Baltic, double the number of
vessels would be disposable to accomplish half
the service ; the greater part of those now ob-
taining freights, woi.ld therefo^^ be thrown out
of employment, to the almost total loss of the
capital invested in British Shipping.
The same interest of the British Ship-Owner
requires a continuance of the present Duty on
Short Deals; as self-interest and self-defence
would seem to make it a duty incumbent on
Government to support the British Sailor, and
British Commercial Navy, in preference to
those of Norway, a country from which, con-
nected with other Northern Powers, we may
at some future period suffer annoyance.
It should be observed, that the Norwegians
send their Timber and Deals exclusively in their
own Ships, whilst the Baltic Trade, especially
that from Russia, is chiefly carried on in Bri-
tish vessels.
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From the easy access to the ports of Nor-
way, at almost every season, their inconsider-
able distance, and the size of their ships, the
Norwegians possess the incalculable advantage
of being able to watch the British market, and
at a few days* notice to pour in their Deals
and Timber, whenever and wherever they
conceive any prospect of profit to be held
out. The effects of this vicinity have been felt
in the ports of Scotland, where the Larch and
Firs of that country have heen continually un-
dersold by the Timber and Deals from Norway.
As to what has been suggested respecting the
Protecting Duty, as contradistinguished from
the War Duty, it is to be observed, that the
Committee of Merchants who petitioned for the
Protecting Duty, though, perhaps, that laid
upon short Deals may have been sufficient, yet
were not aware that the Baltic would enter so
largely as she has done, into the importation of
those of the longer description; and thus, in
fact, avoid one half the Duty. If, how-
ever, the interest of those concerned in the
employment of British Shipping in the Baltic
were to be laid aside, and a change in the
present Rates unavoidably to take place, the
existence of the British North American Trade
would absolutely require that all Foreign
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Foreign
Deals should pay Duty in proportion to their
solid contents, taking that paid on the 12 foot
for 120 of three inches thick, and nine inches
wide as the standard, being that description of
Deals of which the largest quantity will neces-
sarily be imported.
^ It must, however, be said, in respect to the
War Duty., t!mt by the words of the Vote of
the House of Commons in April last, it was
made permanent. In consequence of that
Vote, large undertakings in the building of
Saw-mills near Quebec, which had been be-
gun, and were suspended, were immediately
resumed, and are now nearly completed. Many
others of a similar nature have been extended ;
^nd many commenced in Upper and I^ower
Canada. The same exertions have probably
been made in the other Provinces, as they all
considered Government to \)e pledged to them
for a continuance of the Duties.
^ With respect to a reciprocity of trade between
this country and those of Norway and Prussia
(the latter being understood to be the only
!3altic State that has made any representation
01) the subject), it is to be remembered, that
ihey have never been particularly good custo-
mers to England ; their surplus produce being
more frequently exchanged for the luxuries of
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France, than for the manufactures of Great
Britain : nor is this to be wondered at, their
"Woollens hieing in general cheaper than ours ;
it were therefore vain to believe, whatever may
be their interested representation, that they
should ever become our customers to any con-
siderable amount for that article; were even
more to be expected from them, there could
be httle doubt of the impropriety of encourag-
ing a precarious Foreign Trade, at the ex^
pence of a greatly increasing one with our own
Colonies.
These Colonies have a right, in justice, to de-
mand a protecting monopoly for articles of their
produce in the home market, as an indemnifi-
cation for the loss of that free trade which they
suffer from the existence of the Colonial sys-
tem : community of interest is the only efficient
bond which connects political societies together ;
sound policy will therefore strengthen by every
allowable means, ties of so much importance to
the well being of the Empire. An idea may
here perhaps, without impropriety, be ha-
zarded ; that it is evidently the interest of those
extensive and newly-settled countries of the
United States of America, which border on
the lakes and waters that fall into the Saint Law-
rence, (and whose opulent population will
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shortly render them invaluable customers to
British manufacture), that Quebec should ever
remain a Shipping Port in the hands of Great
Britain, as their Inhabitants have thereby two
markets for their produce, New York, and
Quebec, to which they may go at nearly the
same expence ; the one offering the advantage
of American, the other of British Shipment.
Were due encouragement held out to them
through the latter channel, it is not unreason-
able to suppose, that the people of those coun-^
tries would consider it their interest to check
any disposition to hostility towards Great Bri-
tain, which might exist in any other quarter of
the Union ; and even were a war to take place,
the same feeling would paralize the exertion of
^ population, on whose hearty co-operation so
much must depend as to its success on the part
pf the United States. To sum up all that is
to be said on the subject, in few words : the
simple question seems to be, whether ParUa-
ment will, in listening to the interested repre-
sentations of Foreigners, break in on the course
of an experiment in favour of the British Colo-
nies, attended with every promise of success,
and thereby alienate the affection j of a people,
who have unequivocally proved their attach-
ment to the Mother Country whether, to
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please Foreigners, she will give up a certain
means of Revenue, in her present financial dif-
ficulties : whether she will, for the doubtful
sale of a few Woollens, encourage the growth
of a foreign Navy, and give up the certain
means of fostering her own, by employing her
ships on those long, and sometimes tempestuous
voyages, which are the sure nursery of a hardy,
expert, and numerous body of 'Seamen, ready
at her call on either side the Atlantic : whether,
finally, to gratify a few interested individuals,
she will bring inevitable ruin on the heads of
the already suffering Ship-Owners of this coun-
try, and throw into the parochial work-houses,
thousands of those brave men, who so glo-
riously fought the battles of that country, to
which they now look for the protection they
afforded her in the hour of danger.
The Official Document subjoined, will serve
to shew the rapidly increasing trade between
Great Britain and her Colonies.
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An Account qfall the Exports from Great Britain to Canada^
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island,
Cape Breton, and Neuifmindland^ in each Year from
1800 to 1814, both inclusive; distinguishing each Colony
or Settlement.
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OFFICIAL VALUE OF EXPORTS.
British Produce
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Total Exports.
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nial Merchandize.
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1800
383,993 19 4
74,116 18
460,110 17 4.
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1801
505,256 2 S
87,105 8 10
592,361 11 6
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712,242 2 3
132,209 IS 5
844,451 15 8
1803
444,460 10 8
144,412 17 10
588,873 U 6
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410,834 12 2
206,560 17 1
617,395 9 3
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1805
316,027 7 5
106,955 11 11
422,98.^ 19 4
1806
304,654 3 &
74,291 5 10
378,945 9 1
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1807
382,639 1 8
98,976 19 6
481,616 1 2
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1808
471,350 1 11
73,406 11
544,756 2 10
974,00fe 8
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1809
831,457- 7
142,549 1
1810
844,067 9 3
135,354 7 1
979,421 16 4
1811
841,744 8 11
135,451 12 9
977,196 1 8
1812
449,590 1 11
150,437 1 11
600,027 3 10
1813
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1,436,483 10 9
462,073 1 1
1,898,556 11 10
'1800
156,096 11 2
20,987 6 8
177,083 17 10
1801
154,247 1 11
23,886 17 5
178,133 19 4
1802
160,461 12 11
18,594 17 8
179,056 10 7
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1803
175,940 4 11
23,551 11 2
199,491 16 1
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1804
118,830 2 10
31,630 6 7
150,460 9 5
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1805
104,000 15 7
18,324 19 10
123,125 16 5
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194,513 6
35,853 2 8
230,366 8 8
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1807
173,304 10 5
33,348 18 3
206,653 8 8
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1808
242,658 4
34,930 2 11
277,588 6 11
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1809
326,852 10
50,453 16 10
377,305 17 8
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1810
305,525 17 5
45,086 6 11
350,612 4 4
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1811
190,412 7 3
26,880 11 7
217,292 18 10
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243,856 11 10
38,243 15 7
282,100 7 5
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949,586 7 7
100,279 2 5
1,049,865 10
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70,934 3 4
10,296 12
81,230 15 4
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53,396 10 11
5,181 10
58,577 11 9
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1802
7J,457 11 5
5,292 7 6
76,749 18 11
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54,584 3 9
4,352 12 4
58,936 16 1
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47,035 12 7
4,196 1 4
51,231 13 li
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43,012 15 10
3,114 IS 3
46,127 9 1
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48,665 16 7
5,189 10 ?
53,855 7 4
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57,622 2 11
6,773 14 1
64,395 17
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1808
59,332 18 8
4,683 8 8
64,016 7 4
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1809
113,554 18 2
11,676 li 3
125,231 9 5
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1810
92,848 14 3
5,948 1 6
98,796 15 9
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266,320 9 7
7,732 1 1
274,05^ 10 8
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125,371 7
9,870 6 8
135,241 7 3
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446,336 S 10
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9
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800
801
802
803
804
805
806
80r
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809
810
8J1
812
813
314
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
807
808
809
810
811
812
813
8U
OFFICIAL VALUE OF EXPORTS.
British Produce
and Manufactu-es.
3,o35 17 2
1,332 13
1,206
1,873
2,919
13,193
16,783 16
8,040 8
14,455 6
Foreign and Colo-
nial Merchandize,
o£ s, d.
175 1 fi
808 11 9
445 3 7
221
-; *i ^
775
2,924
3,850
1,394
2,627
18
8
17
13
11
15
13
6
6
1
7
7
10
Total Exports.
£ s. d.
175 1 5
3,864 8 H
1,997 16 7
3,679 17
701 JO 5
262 13 4
Tile Records destroyed by fire.
1,428
2,0(9
3,695
16,117
20,634
9,435
17,083
6
17
3
19
8
3
1,380 19 1
35 8
3
7
t
8
1
7
7
5,060 16 i
701 10 5
298 1 4,
ZQ 18 36 18
499 6 4 57 14 7 557 11
The Records destroyed by fire.
2,212 15 5 I 376 13 8 I 2,689 9 1
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17
OFFICIAL VALUE OF EXPORTS.
British Produce
and Manufactures.
Foreign and Colo-
nial Merchandize.
fl800
1801
k— 1
1802
/'l
1803
T\
1804
Q
1805
V^
1806
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
£
145,824
167,422
153,419
154,396
185,201
197,089
214,352
162,522
186,015
303,914
338,298
291,677
573,025
Total Exports.
£
219,399
184,278
218,105
200,387
230,137
252,826
272,958
285,732
209,445
241,015
377,735
413,398
371,527
fire.
663,993
s. d.
7 5
10
3
2
1
6
1
5
15 lO
14 10
10 3
13
12 7
8 10
17 1
9 10
15 7
JVo<f.— No perfect return can be made, containing the distinclioa
of the articles exported fron\ Great Britain to tl»e North Anierican
Colonies durin? the above period, in consequence of the partial de-
struction of the Official Records by fire ; but the official values of the
asigregate amount of the Exports har inij; been preserved, the above
account is subii)itted to the Honourable House of Commons, as the
best return that can now be furnished, of the comparative amount of
ihe Export Trade to the Colonics during the last fifteen years.
WILLIAM IRVING,
Inspector-General of the Imports
and Exports of Great Britain.
Custom- House, London,}
Vith Febrvari/, ISIG. S
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