He takes this occasion to note an Act of the British Parliament of the 28. G. 3. c. 6. which though passed before the epoch to which his report aforesaid related, had escaped his researches. The effect of it was to convert the Proclamations regulating our direct intercourse with their West Indian Islands into a standing law, and so far to remove the unfavorable distinction between us and foreign Nations stated in the report, leaving it however in full force as to our circuitous intercourse with the same Islands, and as to our general intercourse, direct and circuitous with Great Britain and all her other dominions.
