Constitutional Whig

COLONIAL TRADE.

The Troy Sentinel, published in the interior of New-York, contains the following correct views in relation to the so much talked of Colonial trade.

"There is nothing which the Opposition have made a matter of complaint against the Administration, which they have treated more unfairly than the subject of the West India Trade. Has that trade been lost to us? If so, has it been lost by the fault of our government? To both questions we answer decidedly. No. We shall enjoy all the advantages of that trade, and whatever might have been the result of the measures taken, no blame could, in any case have been justly imputed to the conduct of our executive. The opposition papers uniformly speak of the West India trade as if the whole were lost—whereas, when the British W. India ports were all of them open only one seventh part of our exports to the West India islands were sent to the British West Indies. And even as to this fragment, this little remainder, this one seventh part, comparatively so unimportant, we have still all the advantages of a direct trade, and the British themselves are the chief if not the only sufferers from the restrictions upon the intercourse they have thought proper to impose. It is admitted, on all hands, that we shall continue to supply those Islands as heretofore—the trade will still be continued by way of the neutral ports—and under these circumstances the expense of the circuitous transportation must fall on the consumer, and not the seller, on the West India planters, and not on the grain growers of the United States."