navigation and docks, should be provided ; that the 

 ports and harbours of the kingdom should be the 

 subject of careful attention and improvement; that 

 the utmost facility should he accorded to the 

 transmarine British carrier, and that the laws 

 of export and import, throughout the Empire, 

 should be consistent and uniform in principle, and 

 clear and distinct in application. A system 

 which appearing to consult the interests of the 

 individual only, would result in the great advance- 

 ment of the State in effective power and authority, 

 and would practically illustrate the principle of 

 " Free Trade," by modes of application to which 

 exception cannot be made. 



Reciprocity of advantage is implied in the ex- 

 changes of property which constitute Trade. 



The exchanges of the produce of the Country for 

 the productions of the Town, within the British 

 Isles, are of reciprocal advantage to the cultivator 

 and to the artificer and manufacturer, and conse- 

 quently, are beneficial to the nation. 



The exchanges of property between the British 

 Isles and the British possessions and dependencies 

 in North America, in the Antilles, in Asia and 

 elsewhere, are of reciprocal advantage to the se- 

 veral members of the Empire engaged in this in- 

 tercourse. 



Ttjc exchanges of property between the several 

 parts or members of the Empire and foreign 



