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states; this is a heavy disappointment to those who have hitherto been 
engaged in supplying the West India markets with lumber, etc., and who 
since the late non-intercourse law, have indulged the hope that some 
provision by treaty would again open the trade. We feel the loss of 
this trade here perhaps more than it is felt in any part of the Union; 
but all hopes of retrieving it are now permanently extinguished — The 
New England States have got the fishes [referring to settlement of the 
fisheries dispute] in the scramble, but we have neither loaves nor fishes 
to comfort us.-^ 
Altho there was general apathy on the subject in the United 
States, in the British North American provinces exultation 
prevailed over the failure of the convention to admit American 
ships to the British West Indies, if the editor of the Nova 
Scotia Gazette represented general sentiment, when he wrote: 
We feel much pleasure in observing . . . that no permission is 
given, by the Treaty, to Americans, to trade with our West India Islands. 
This is a circumstance highly important to Nova Scotia, and will, we 
have no doubt, give a very great spur to the enterprising spirit of our 
merchantile friends. 
In the Senate the articles submitted by the British pleni- 
potentiaries in regard to the colonial trade, together with the 
documents accompanying them, were referred to the Commit- 
tee on Foreign Relations.-^ This committee, on February 19, 
1819, made a confidential report, the chief recommendations 
of which were as follows : 
1. As Great Britain probably would not consent to include 
all articles of the produce and manufacture of the United 
States and of the respective colonies, the United States might 
accept the catalog of articles enumerated in the British acts 
of Parliament and according to which the trade had heretofore 
been carried on in British bottoms. 
2. As a compensation for the stipulation not to impose 
greater or other duties on the colonial articles of Great Britain 
than on the like articles of other countries, it might be stipu- 
lated on the part of Great Britain that the duties and charges 
on articles of the United States should not exceed more than 
a certain per cent of those which should be imposed on the 
like articles imported from the British continental colonies. 
3. In no event should articles of the United States pay 
higher duties or charges in the direct voyage from the United 
Quoted from a Norfolk paper by St. George’s iChronicle and Grenada Gazette, 
April 3, 1819. 
22 Quoted in Salem Gazette, Feb. 26, 1819. 
24 Am. State Papers, For. Pel., IV, 403. 
