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a year later, concluded that it had been the object of the 
British Government ''plainly and avowedly to force the trade 
from American hands, into those of British ship-owners— to 
continue and impose such additional duties on the direct car- 
riage to the West Indies, as will be prohibitory— and, more- 
over, to obtain a market for their West India produce, which 
they did not before possess’'.^® The Jamaica Royal Gazette 
facetiously observed : 
In the liberal spirit of free trade reciprocity, the American Govern- 
ment are resolved to outvie ours — We only allow their vessels to bring 
to our ports the produce and manufactures of the United States — they 
make their ports free to our commerce in every sense of the word.®^ 
A similar viewpoint was revealed in the London Morning 
Herald which boasted "that brother Jonathan had been, for 
once, overreached by Father BulF'.®® 
In the midst of this discussion regarding the merits or 
defects of Jackson's arrangement, the President's proclama- 
tion finally reached McLane in London, and was at once com- 
municated to Lord Aberdeen.®'-^ Within two days a British 
order in council of November 5, 1830, revoked the previous 
order of July, 1826, and opened the British possessions 
abroad to American vessels. The latter were permitted to 
import into the British possessions abroad any goods, with a 
few exceptions, the produce of the United States; they were 
permitted to export goods from those possessions, to any 
foreign country whatever.®® In other words, American vessels 
of all descriptions were now free to enter the British West 
Indies with their cargoes of American produce. In those 
colonial ports they would receive the same treatment, in re- 
gard to all tonnage and import duties, as was accorded to Brit- 
ish vessels and their cargoes of American goods coming from 
the United States. Having disposed of their cargoes, Ameri- 
can vessels were free to export goods the produce of the Brit- 
ish West Indies, and to depart with them to any country in 
the world, British possessions alone excepted. These were the 
privileges gained for American merchants by the so-called 
"Reciprocity of 1830". 
Quoted in Pitkin, Statistical View of Commerce of U.S., 206. 
In Niles’ Register, XL, 47. 
Quoted in Pitkin, Statistical View of Commerce of U.S., 205. 
Semate Docs,, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., I, No. 20, 57-59. 
80 /bid., 60, 61. 
