The resumption of this old and otherwise exploded system of colonial exclusion has not secured to the shipping interest of Great Britain the relief which, at the expense of the distant colonies and of the United States, it was expected to afford.
Adams critiques Britain's colonial exclusion policies and their impact on trade with the United States.
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