2621. ENGLAND, Commerce with.—[further continued].
The English think we
cannot prevent our countrymen from bringing
our trade into their laps. A conviction of
this determines them to make no terms of
commerce with us. They say they will
pocket our carrying trade as well as their
own. Our overtures of commercial arrangements
have been treated with a derision,
which shows their firm persuasion that we
shall never unite to suppress their commerce,
or even to impede it.—
To John Page. Washington ed. i, 550.
Ford ed., iv, 214.
(P.
1786)
