UNITED STATES. 57 casting them loose, without the capacity or means to provide the primary necessaries of life. As to the constitution itself, or the administration of the government, it would be presumptuous indeed to say that either were faultless, even if the constitu¬ tion and laws were in themselves perfect, while the passions of men, in republican as well as monarchical governments, influence their public conduct. The impolicy of the late tariff, intended to force manufactures at the expense of all other branches of industry, is a blunder only equalled in this age by the embargo which the federal government formerly laid on the exportation of the fruits of the soil. The Americans complain of our government prohibiting their intercourse with the , and our colonies ; but their own illiberality, in the burdens imposed on our ships, led to this mea¬ sure in the British councils. It is, however, the interest, and ought to be the natural desire, of both countries, that Great Britain and the United States should regard each other with liberal and amicable feelings, free from jealousy, or the recollections of former aggravations, which should now be forgotten as mere family quarrels.