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“THIS IS TRUE L eee er bane eee Ream e Sane Firma eee aE Tee ET TNE ee Le nn ane , al) Sais: 5 Tl ww AGERTY, 7 nae FRERRORN MEN —HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK Pus aie! ore’ Pod Vou. Il.} CH wes r or " e oe eats = | eT , a ill —— oo etait or) CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1849. [No.80. WHAT ADV - a NS ee a ANTAGE IS DERIVED BY ENG-|£4,000,000 a year; while: ; ~ | 44,000, year; while the United States cost us for|nies were only £8,902 LAND FROM THE POSSLSSION OF COLONIES? ro. and diplomatic services about £15,000 a year;/nies ween our ices cain ee abana ' nd not one ship of war is required to protect our trade| became independent states than they are now, becarse :

England has been the admiration and en i : ‘ vy Ofjwiththem. Apam S ailieemmnemaineienemall a et st ee i one years ago, the colonies at present can buy what they want WHEREVER ; oe | Sienna, ent sy agement, Great Bri-|they please, and theyonly take our manufactures because | vera can qumaries | whic: huee a0 eslebien~ a erives nothing but loss from the dominion which|they are‘cheaper than they can supply themselves any- She w aceu sulahambilew: eiieve efconquenty tits fe > ae aoe = annie At that time, the co-| where else. Past experience, indeed, would lead us to wn- Genietenindlessnniheeiattenpensth tancnanitegdibia aia pain an ; ortugal were all closed against (fer, that as independent states, our colonies would be . 7 Seeaenea : ; t our own colonies were ever of any value it|/more prosperous, and asa consequence our trade with P| anifested to seize and possess foreign territory in| must have been then, when we could not,as now, freely them would be increased. The increase in our trade . every part of the world, until she beasts that “the sun supply ourselves with similar produce to theirs from} with the United States after she threw off the yoke of mevor sets on the British dominions.” Doubtless there codine Wels Bene’ But at the present time we carry on ajthe mother country was extraordinary Our exports we great advantage in being able to exchange the sur-| equal i anoqet 4: aaa without expense, almost|were—In 1776 at the commencement of aie naeientioeas ; equal in amount tot at With our own: and that our trade the revolutionary war £1,300,000 : products of our industry for the products of our co-| with them has not been more extensive, has been solely} 1784 To the newly recognised states 3.600.000 lonies ; and so long as the trade was erclusive—for in owing to the prohibitory duties we have hitherto im-| 1847 the last years exports 10,274,161 th the advantage celonon wer rppued wo cot 7 ei a SA0000"ehch ney prot) ere ths wold hs ccasieiindiindlinahenaiaieeniieedll te: se your ’ e following to 000, which they probably ere this would have : g out from partici) foreign colonies, viz :— reached, is entirely owing to our refusal for the past 30

in it, it was natural that they should be envions Azores ° ‘ £42,980 years to take in exchange for our manufactures thew our colonial possessions, and jealous ofa monopoly Maderia he * 33,853 corn, timber and provisions, and thus to force them we supposed to be productive of elenidie::: ay heibe’ ta’ we Seneey Islands 3 - 30,680 manufacture for themselves such articies as they were ef longer any eause for jealousy of foreign nati t ava - ‘ 357,870 consequently unable to obtain in any other way. y J y ign nations on ac Puillipine Island \ 104.486 If our colonies be of no advantage to us, but, on the

count of our exclusive trading with our colonies; they Cuba ~ R - 896.554 contrary, a source of expense and weakness, the ques-

are now all freely open to trade with‘the whole world.— Porte Rico - - ° 16,822 tion arises, what shal] we do with them? This question Foreign ships can enter ‘the ports of our colonies on the, — St Croix . - - 14797 |we shall probably take a® opportuniy of ciscuseing same'terms as British skips, and forcign manufadures dt) Yay - | 986,599 fhereafter.—Manchester Examiner. the same rates of duty as British manufactures. There) srl is » J aoe a ‘ is ont ce ae ary ew for foreign nations ag hmeren - - 86.933 THE NEW FRENCH CONS (1) 0 TION. | to desire, as formerty,'t ew Grenada =~ ° - 5 2 . : aie , ' e wesaapetinns empire of colonies Wiseaiela : : i eS An English paper gives the follo» og »bstract of or the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers. a. , : : Brazil i j - 2568.804 some of the leading provisions of the : ench ¢con- There ure no advantages derived from trading with ay Uraquay- F - 334.083 stitution :-— : colony which may be-obtained from trading with any | Buenos Ayres ~ ai ite 156,421 The press cannot in any case be sub: : +o ceneor- | indepen ient country. The colonies purchase manufac- st: ? ? ° 866,825 ship. Education will be under the sure i nce of the tures in our markets at the same price es foreign mer- rhe + eheoicl . 22,375 state. Ail citizens are equally ads ise ble to every . chants, and of cour © they will not take a less price for . ae pa _ ‘/ woe —— . _ pol , a rer merit. Nobility is torever abolished, aio cistincuoh their produce than other countries. £7,141,008 of birth, class, or caste. Kuch shail con bute to the

If our:colonies paid all the expenses of their defence} When Anam Smrrx spoke of loss on our cujonies, he} taxes in proportion to his foriume and » eans.—The and government, it is clear that, in the present state of referred chiefly to the expense of defending and govern |nuimber of representatives to compose the Netional As- things, England ard toreign nations would be placed on|ing them; but we have long been suffering losses in|/sembly is to be 700—elected under very uearly the percisely an equal footing, 60 far as regards the right of|another shape to an extent egual, or even greater, than |Same conditions as the Charter sought in this country. trading ; but our colonies are a source of great expense the cost of maintaining them, viz., by imposing prohibi- No member of the Assembly can, during its sitting, be to us, independently of the ‘cost of defending them in|tory duties on foreign produce, that our colonies might/named or promoted to a paid public office. The ume of war, the ex pense af governing them in time of thus monopolise the supply of the mother country. Mr. ‘elections to be thiennial. ‘The President of the Re- peace is enormous. France, Spain, and Holland, de- Porter, of the Board of Trade, in his valuable work, public must be a native of France ; aged thirty, at least, : sivea revenue from their colonies; but our colonies|“The Progress of the Nation,” makes the astounding |aud who shall never have lost his qualifications of ciu- have never yet contributed one farthing towards the de-| statement, that “if we had made our sugar colonies at \zenship. He is elected for four years, and can only be fence of the mother country, or towards the expense of| present of the whole value of our manufactures exported re-eligible after an mterval of four years. If any candi- its civil government. On the contrary, they have not/to them in 1840, amounting to about £4,000,000, we \date for the presidency has not obtained more than one

only been defended almost entirely at the cost of the/ would have been gainers of £1,000,000 had we been al- half of the expressed suffrages, and at least two millions mother country, but in many cases we pay for theirjlowed to buy the article of sugar alone in the of votes; or, if the conditions (as to birth, citizenship, be not fulfilled, the National Assembly shall elect ;

Bishops, Clergy, Pe'ice, Magistrates, and Govenors.—|cheapest markets!” Be it remembered these monopo- |&C.)

Oar East India possessions maratain themselves. | lies are not yet termimated. The loss to the coun- the President, by an absolute majority and secret scru- The commercial value cfour other eolonies will be|try occasioned by the preferential duties on sugar, tiny from among the five eligible candidates who have best seen by, the official retura of the “ Total declared | coffee, end timber (which continued for five years), must obtained the greater number of votes. The President value of British and Irish produce and manufactures still amount to about £3,000,000 a year, which, added shall dispose of the armed force, without power ever to exported (to them) from the United Kingdom in the year| to £4,000,000, the cost of maintaining them, makes, at |take command in person. He shali see to the defence

4847,” viz. to: the present time, the total cost of our colonies £7,000,-|of the state, but cannot undertake any war without the consent of the National Assembly. His salary is fixed

Helizoland - - - £250 000 a year! . Gibraltar = - - - 465,845 It is surprising that, upto the present time, there at 600,000 francs per annum. He has the power to Malta and Goto” - ° 195,836 should exist in the public mind the delusion that our co- |D*!° and revoke his ministers, diplomatic agents, -fonian Islands - - 143,426 lonies have been and continue to be a source of wealth naval and military commanders, the governors of colo- CapeofGood Hope - - 688,588 to the mother country, and that we constantly hear in nies, and other functionaries of @ superior. ordet The Ascension and St. Helens - 31,378 parliament fearful prognostications of evil should we Vice President shall be named by the Nationa) Assem- Mauritius ak - - 223,663 have the misfortune te lose them. We think there are bly and cannot be chosen from the kindred of the Pre- ‘Australian Settlements - 1,614,170 few of our readers who have gone along with us in the sident, even to the sixth degree of relationship. Bots North Amencan Colonies - 3,233,014 consideration of this question but will have arrived at criminal aad political delinquensies, and offences com- West Indio and Guiana - 2,102,277 the opinion, that if we are to continue to pay £7,000,000 mitted by the press, shall be tried by jury. Every F Honduree - - 170,947 a year for the benefit of selling £9,000,000 of exports Frenchman shall be liable to military service, and cax . , Falkland kisses - 2,088 to our colonies, so far from regretting their loss, we be liberated only according to the provisions of the law P meaner cannot » irtevith them too 200n. : of gent -o tne ae of on ie declared Frenet f Total Expor's £3,902,382 Than « ed territory, and will be governed by particular laws till a 0% Phe more we inquire into and reflect upon the colo- easel be shall place it under a government of ube

Now, it is estimated that the reval, military, and civil! nial system of England, the more we shall be astonish- ied

expenditure of Great Britain, on account of her colonies,'ed at the moment of blood and treasure we have ex- constitution now proclaimed. amounts to £4,000,000 per annem, and this is the sum) pended to acquire and retain colonies, which, so far emcee she pays for free trade to her ‘colonies! Foreign na-}from having been a benefit to the nation, have wasted} ~ KING-—NOT BY THE GRACE OF GOD

siens onjoy the like free trade toour colonies with our-jour strength and encumbered us with debt. To wars : Busied in editing the new constitution of Prussia, the

selves, and costs them nothing! It is important to con- for our colonies may be attributed nearly the whole of trast our trace to our colonies with our trade to thejour national debt. To retain them now we maintain an| Diet at Berlin has marked an era in the history of ite

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United States of America, because these States were farmoriy British colonies, and governed in the same way, andata similar expense, as our present colonies. It wii] not be contended that our trade with the United States is less important than that with our colonies, siace jt sepplies us with the bulk of the raw material for eur most important manufacture. According to: the same official returns, the British exports to the United States amounted, if 1847, to £10,974,161, being £2,-

Q06,000 more than the whole of our export trade to all ovr culenia) demamons, which we

govern ata cost oO

immense army and navy, ‘requiring taxes to support them

‘to an extent that threatens to pauperise the mass of the people of the mother country. To the next generation it, will appear alinost incredible that the nation should so long have submitted to these enormous sacrifices for the mere pride and glory of boasting of vast dominion. The insignificance of our trade with our colonies com- pared with our total trade to all the world, wil] be ap- parent when we look at the just return of British exports to verious countries in the vear 1847. Ofour total ex- parte smowuting to £58 £42,277, the exports to oer colo

words, “ by the grace of God King of Prussia”-——who is King by the sufferance of his people.

Some critics in this country are scandalised at the proceeding, as a proof of irreligions feeling ; but ue construction could be more strained. The distinc- tion now drawn is political, not theologica!. The Prus- sians, who permit Fredenck William to resume he throne, very properly refuse to declare that he us pisced over them by Divine tenure 5 recoguiaing him as sitaply the frat political officer of the State, (hey need give Liu

country, in striking out of the Royal style and title the . f