The Claims of the British West India Colonists to the Right of Obtaining Necessary Supplies from America; And of Employing the Necessary Means of Effectually Obtaining Those Supplies Under a Limited and Duly Regulated Intercourse, Stated and Vindicated in (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804. Excerpt: ... THE CLAIMS THE BRITISH WEST INDIA COLONISTS. The British Colonists of the West Indies are considerably obliged to your Lordship for directing the attention of the public towards them. They are anxious that the discussion should be undertaken which your Lordship has provoked. A fair occasion is now given them of distinctly stating, for general information, what those regulations are for conducting the intercourse of the Islands with America, which they solicit as essential to their comfortable and 1 profitable existence, and which they recommend to the adoption of his Majesty's Government, as consistent with the spirit and principles B Of of the navigation and colonial systems of Great Britain. This statement is rendered necessary by the asperity of your Lordship's remarks, and is made in the hope, that what is proposed will be favourably entertained, carefully considered, and duly adopted. An unrestricted intercourse with America is not, as your Lordship supposes, expected or desired. No intercourse is proposed, no intercourse is contemplated, but such as may accord with the policy of our colonial regulations and establishments, and shall be in circumstances and in consequences salutary and beneficial to the naval and commercial interests of the empire. Your Lordship's strictures are not, however, merely prospective and prohibitory of what may be proposed by the friends of the Colonies, they respect and they criminate measures which have been adopted by Government, and have had their effect. They impute to his Majesty's Ministers in the past what they object to the Colonists concerning the future. The defence of both, therefore, is the same. The discussion is of the same principles, and may therefore embrace embrace both cases, for the mutual purposes of ...