The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

WASHINGTON: CITY.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

Boston, Sept. 1.

BRITISH NAVIGATION LAWS.

Among the important measures which have engaged the attention of the British Cabinet, during the late sitting of Parliament, is that of suspending the British Navigation Laws. This act, which has probably passed both branches of the government, meets with much severe remark from the London editors. Bell's Weekly Messenger, in commenting on this step, thus arranges its objections.

"I. It is an unnecessary innovation upon an established practice, an immediate and direct sacrifice of much good,—and as such would require the proof of necessity, and a greater good, for its suspension.

"2. It necessarily deducts a most considerable branch from the carrying trade, and as such must either withdraw an equivalent of the capital now employed in the Shipping trade, and thus proportionally diminish the shipping of the country: or: the same capital be from necessity continued, when the demand has so considerably fallen, the profits of the ship owners must be reduced almost to nothing, and thus the ship Trade will be in a short time absolutely deserted.

"3. To supply our colonies not only in American Shipping, but with American produce, is a manifest injustice to our own Colonies. That the merchants of Canada will be ruined whilst the Americans of Maine and New-England are enriched at their cost.

"4. That the opening of the colonial market to the American beef and pork, must most seriously affect the Irish provision trade;—that the Americans are nearer, & paying no taxes, no insurance, and building their vessels so much cheaper, they can bring their provisions to the colonial market at half the expense, and therefore at half the price, of either the English or Irish merchants. That the latter therefore must be ruined in the competition, and must be more or less injured in proportion as this competition is more or less introduced,—i. e. as the trade is more or less opened,

"5. That the American vessels being admitted into the colonies, will find no difficulty in introducing contraband articles, to the manifest injury of the fair trader in the Islands, and the British importer or manufacturer. That teas and East-India produce are in America subject to no tax, so that the inducement to contraband trade on the side of the Americans are irresistible.

"6. Finally, that this opening of the colonial market is the first link of an insurrection which we know not how far it may extend."