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Warehousing ports, for all goods which may be legally imported into 

 them; and permits any such articles, under certain regulations, to 

 be warehoused without payment of any duty on the first entry thereof. 

 These, with many enactments of minor importance, constitute the 

 present navigation law of the Colonies. Thus ended colonial mo- 

 nopoly, and with it, it is to be hoped those ungenerous feelings which 

 led many persons in Great Britain to suppose, that although mem- 

 bers of the same Empire, their interests were distinct from ours 

 that any benefit derived to us, from an intercolonial trade, was an 

 indirect disadvantage to them; and that the poverty of the colonies, 

 which that very monopoly created, while it rendered us sometimes 

 burthensome and often importunate, was a reason for viewing us 

 rather in the light of needy dependents than good customers. 



The benefit of this extension of trade, and the soundness of the 

 principle on which it is founded, will soon appear in the increase of 

 the national shipping in the impulse given to colonial enterprise 

 in the growing demand for British Manufactures, and in more punc- 

 tual remittances. It will add another proof of the fact, that the in- 

 dependence of the United States so clearly demonstrated, that these 

 American Provinces become better customers to Great Britain, in 

 proportion to the means they possess of enriching themselves, and that 

 their importations will always keep pace with the increase of the other 

 branches of colonial trade. 



But there is another and much more important result from this 

 enlightened policy. It will tend to strengthen the bond of union 

 between the mother country and her transatlantic possessions, if not 

 from a principle of gratitude, at least from those feelings of interest, 

 which more or less actuate all mankind. 



It must be obvious to every colonist, that the political dependence 

 of his country is little more than nominal that he has much to hazard 

 by any change of Government, and little to hope for that while he 

 is indebted to Great Britain for the free constitution which has been 

 so liberally granted to him, the most perfect political protection, and 

 as much commercial freedom as he can desire; he is not called upon 

 to bear any portion of the public burden, or to contribute in the 

 smallest degree to the national defence. 



On a comparison of his situation with that of an inhabitant of the 

 United States, he can discover nothing desirable either political, 

 civil, or religious, which he does not enjoy equally with him; while a 

 Government more congenial to his feelings, a total exemption from 

 taxation, a state of society more permanent and more agreeable, must 

 convince him that he has no inducement to become a citizen of a 

 Republican Government. 



British Order in Council, for regulating the Commercial Intercourse 

 between The United States and the British Colonial Possessions. 

 5th November, 1830. 



At the Court of St. James, the 5th day of November, 1830. Present. 

 The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. 



Whereas by a certain Act of Parliament, passed in the 6th Year 

 of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled, "An 

 Act to regulate the trade of the British Possessions Abroad ", after 

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