Benns: British West India Carrying-Trade 185 
In spite of these extensive privileges, however, Jackson's 
arrangement, in connection with subsequent changes in the 
British system of colonial duties, was in some respects detri- 
mental to American shipping interests. Lord Aberdeen's em- 
phasis upon the fact that Great Britain reserved to herself, 
and intended to use, her right to impose discriminating duties 
in her colonies in favor of the products of her own dominions 
has been pointed out.^^ Almost immediately after the con- 
clusion of the '‘Reciprocity of 1830", a bill was introduced in 
the House of Commons for that purpose.®^ This bill appeared 
designed not only to protect the products of the British North 
American provinces, but to force an indirect trade to the 
British West Indies thru them. This was quickly realized by 
McLane who perceived "with pain and surprise" that the new 
regulations were "repugnant to the fair and liberal spirit" of 
the arrangement which had just been made. It appeared to 
him calculated "virtually to revive by a scale of discriminating 
duties, in lieu of a positive interdiction the same system of 
restricted and indirect trade which each Government, by the 
arrangement recently concluded, professed to abolish".^^ 
Nevertheless, the British Government, believing that so long 
as the United States was placed on the same footing as all 
other nations, it had no just grounds of complaint, proceeded 
to pass a bill which, modified, was perhaps "less unfavorable" 
to American interests than that originally proposed.®^ 
By this act, duties on certain commodities imported into 
the British West Indies from foreign countries, either 
in British or foreign vessels, were increased in order to pro- 
tect similar products of the British colonies in North Amer- 
ica.^® Many other articles of prime necessity to the British 
West India colonists were admitted in the direct trade duty 
free.^® On all other articles, the duties remained as they were 
in the British act of 1825. On the other hand, no duty what- 
soever was levied on the importation of American produce 
into the British North American provinces.®^ This regulation 
See above, pp. 177, 178. 
FIansar<Fs Parliamentary Debates (3d series), I, 299-315, 471-485. Senate Docs., 
22 Cong., 1 Sess., Ill, No. 118, p. 5. 
93 /bid., 10. 
^*Ibid., 24, 25. 
95 White or yellow pine, staves, and headings. 
99 Bread and biscuit, flour or meal not of wheat, peas, beans, rye, oats, barley, 
Indian corn, rice, and live stock. 
9^ Resume of the terms in Senate Does., 22 Cong., 1 Sess., Ill, No. 118, p. 24. 
