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ficulty in permitting a free and open trade to be 
established between the inhabitants and the super- 
cargo, could an appearance be made of the pro¬ 
perty belonging to neutrals, it was judged ex¬ 
pedient to hoist American colors, and to exhibit 
a set of papers of the same nation; but such an 
attempt availed nothing, for permission was still 
peremptorily refused for any part of the cargo to 
be landed, although it was acknowledged that the 
country was in extreme want of various articles 
that were on board. Such being the case, the 
British colors were displayed, and the license pro¬ 
duced, but to no purpose # ; and Mr. Savigniac, 
unwilling to proceed to extremities, was upon the 
point of returning to England, when the natives 
expressed so strongly their anxiety for the land¬ 
ing of the goods, that, in order to bring the go¬ 
vernment to a sense of its duty and interest, he 
thought proper to release Captain Jackson from 
* Upon the subject of permitting a commercial inter¬ 
course, Count Tramp remarks, that, <f the existing laws of 
“ the country strongly prohibiting all trade with foreign 
(( nations, it was the duty of the officers in whose hands he 
C( had, at that time, during his absence to Copenhagen, left 
the management of public affairs, to refuse this appli- 
cation.”—It may be so 5 but, surely, a nation which had 
conducted itself with so much lenity and forbearance as ours 
had done towards this island, might have expected to have 
received a better return for its kind offices. 
