They
expressed fears, that, under cover of our name, the Nova Scotia oils
would be introduced; and a blank was left in the draught for the means
of preventing that. They have since proposed, that the certificate of
their consul shall accompany the oils, to authorize their admission,
and this is what they will probably adopt. It was observed, that if our
States would prohibit all foreign oils from being imported into them, it
would be a great safeguard, and an encouragement to them to continue the
admission. Still there remains an expression in the _Arret_, that it is
provisory only. However, we must be contented with it as it is; my
hope being, that the legislature will be transferred to the National
Assembly, in whose hands it will be more stable, and with whom it will
be more difficult to obtain a repeal, should the ministry hereafter
desire it. If they could succeed in drawing over as many of our
Nantucket men as would supply their demands of oil, we might then fear
an exclusion; but the present _Arret_, as soon as it shall be passed,
will, I hope, place us in safety till that event, and that event may
never happen.
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