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presents the most advantageous and soid
commerce 1o the ingenuity of the specula
tor, the industry of the artizans, or the labor
of the agriculturist,
“ \\Kuu are the advantages that Englund
devives from a monopl odious 1o all nations ?
A few individugis grow rich, but the mass
of the people sutfer. To a particular specus
Jation, that ol having the brokerage of for
el n cotnmolities, the government sacrilices
the more solid advantages which it previously
drew from the national industry, It has ve
¢ aced a part of its populution to a state of
wiscry 3 it teaches the rest of Europe to dis
pedse with s productions ; it places itself
at the mercy ol events ; it mukes its power
and wealth subordinate to resources which
©dvd quile foreign to it. The supediority of
'l marine dazzles its eyes. It is by having a
few vessels move, that it thinks, to avert the
inevitable ascendancy of France. It is by
the acquisition of a tew petty Islands, that it
thinks to counterbalance the incorporation of
o, large states with the great empire !
B how much has the relutive power of
England and France chuanged since 1803 !
“ With less pride in his prefensions with
more frmkness in his policy, the genius of
N ‘volgoa has laid the foundations of a power
hencelrth immoveable, The wur of 1803,
whien My, Pitt leoked upon as a master-piece
of poiey, guve rise to the League of the
Ruine, and the kingdoms of \Westphalia,
Hollawd und Nuaples. That of Prussia ex
tended the bonndaries of the League of the
Rhifie to the Vistula ; and the obstinacy of
the Dritish ygovernnent, in refusing every
overtare of peace, after the treaty @f Tilsiy,
and during the conferences at Erfrwthy and
nitions mada to esteem each other the foun-«
ditions of peace, of which a recent angust
alliunce will perpetuate the duration. Thus
has ?‘r-.mco been successively strengthened
by ali the allies that Lngland had at the com
mencement of the: war of the revolution :
and the Eaglisi winistry, constanily blunder-
the intrlrues carvied on in Spain and Portus
gl axainst France, have pat the Peninsala
neder the ipevitable dominion of the Empire:
Finally, the last efforts of Mre Pitt to reduce
the Austrian cabinet, have laid, between two
o If, trom an examination of the finonces,
we proceed to that ol the internal administra
tions ol the two countries, we find every ses
sion of the British parliament offering fresh
enormities, or teeming with fruitless accusa
tious tor tae punishment of past misconduct,
or unavailing complaints in order to prevent
the (nture ervors of ministers. Stiil the blood
and teasures of the nation are lavished
disastrous expedinons, and the c¢itizens are
& prey 1o aspivic ol fagiiony the forerunner
of nirchical disturbances. Irelund, siill se-
P tes aotwithstanding s Union, is in a man
nov prosciibed, csto thige-fourths of Ler po
puiationy and sublecty with regard to ber wor
shiny her peassnity, and ber existence, o
i uttons restrictions. In «Meance, on the
contrary, every session of our Legisiative
body hus been distinguished by institurions
- adopted to the inwerests and the munners of
the nation. kEvery people calied to part ol
this vest empire, huve instandly enteied upon
the enjoyiments of a legislation to all pro
teerive and equal. Thus have the arts, the
Sciences, aud literature, every were tuken a
new Hight ; and the distinguished productions
- which have chavacterised this reign, will not
_be losi o tuture geuerations, Here agricul
ey the first of artsy has made a most re
markable progress ; and Francey thus fertile,
may burter her surplus for the commodities
she wants. The well-judged prohibition of
Fnhsh merchandize has s?ppurle«l the na
tional indastry ; a few years perscverance in
this wise policy, will secure the existence of
the new inanufactures that have sprung up
in the intevionr. The English government,
* perbaps at this momont, persists 1o making
wir only for the interests of its commerce,
and every day diminishes its udvantuges ; ev
ery campaign precipitstes its ruin. T'he man
ulucgories of London, Burimingiam and Man
chester, are deserted. Thousands of arti
zans have no other means of subsistence but
thie poor vetes. The markets ol the conti
nent are shut to their productions, wailst
French merchandize every were finds vent,
and puchasérs, The interruption of coloni
al commerce is to Frafice only a trunsient
evil, finm which resultq"pc'r'v}.nn('m advantas
ges. She pays dearer fof o few forcign com
modities, bat she uhmmfl‘u:\n the necessaries
ot iife. During this im_érrupt'un of her
connnunications with different A‘b&m'ics, her
internal navigation is improving, and high
wuvs arey in all directions, .opening between
proviances, the diversity of whose productions
aupwments the circulaiion of specie, without
_cre ting @y upprebension as to the solidity
of its paper. ;
& The administration of the instances of
France presents Juite another aspect. There
the revenue ix equal to the expenditure, o
reizn and expensive war has not in the Jeast
deianged tl!c system., The sulety of the state
does not rest oo hypotheticals calculitions.
The economick regimen of this vust empire,
is us sioiple as that of a family : the systen
of loans lcaves no uneasiness for the future--
the debts of the past are provided for, und
there is no intemion of contraciing new debts.
In & word, the largest state i Lurope is the
force, has how existed 13 yeare, sctually plas
ced the bank and government in a state ol
insalvency.—The confidence of individuais
may ceitrinly make them content themselve
with the ficitivns value tney receive ; but this
confitence will have an end. The succes
sive depreciation of the paper money mut
necessarily lead to a crisis which the umon
ol the bank and the government cannot pre
vent,
le st ia debt 3 and the instituuon of the bank
“ Thus is the sum total of the present war
that of having given to France all the wliies
that England had at the commmencement of 1t
~huving augmented the direct dominon of
France by a population of from 25 10 30,000,
000 pi inhabitants—h.ving given her an ex
tent of more than 1260 leaunies of coust, ma
ny maritime ports ot the hrst rank, aud seyv
eral mew dock vards on the North Sea, the
Ocean, Med.'* rranean, and Athantice=hav
ing given her a continentul commerce, which
the wihiole British navy cannot €hstruci——an
influence which nothing can henceforth di
minishe As to Lngland, the vesuit of eight
years of war has been such an Increase ol her
debt und expenditure, that she can no longer
do without paper money, the first step to
wards bankruptey—the» augmentation of a
maritime establishment, which is out of all
proportion to her population, and her de
mands for the defence of her colonies—-that
of being left, as to her foreign concerns, in
the sarne insulated state 1n which she wished
to place France, with the loss of all her com
mercial relations with the continent o Fu
repe ; (for the ailliance she still retains with
Turkey will be as short-lived as the ailiance
which prolongs the calumities of the Spanish
peninsila)=-that of soon having to watch
3000 icagues of coast, und sixty maritime
ports, whence, in defiance of ber, will sally
forty numcrous fleets, capable of disputing
with her the freedom of the seas @ when that
moment shall have ariived, Endund will be
struck with terror at the abyss dug by a suc
cession ol weak or perfidious winisters,
“ 11 the present can supply any certain da
ta for calculuting the future, this war must
¢radually produce the absolute ruin of tha
once flourishing nation. Hitherto she has
supported her finkncial sy tem by uncommon
~efforts and extraovdinary advantages that ure
daily ‘diminishing. She hus supported the
maritime and military establishments by the
divisions she has fostered among the conti
nental poweirs~—by the treachery and dissers
tion of foreign soldiers and sailors, whom she
has taken into ner puy. She has, for a time,
prolonged the existence of her commerce by
smugyiing. She had no fear of her colonies
owing to the necessity to which she reduced
France of attending exclusively to the affuirs
of the continent. But, at Jength, general
tranquility is on the point of being establish
[ ed ; and Eoglandy which Litherto has had to
" defend only foreign interests, is onthe eve of
! fiuhtingfro aris et focis 3 and thon it is that
her weakness will become manifest. The
actuul superiority of her marine, and the vast
~extent of her colonies cannot suve her. We
have just shewn, that she will be compelled
o augment her naval expenditures, to which
the profits ol her commerce will be inade
: quate, Meanwhbile, she will neither have
fereign seamen, nor ship-timber, nor iron,
~and the other materiuls, which she has hith
erto procured at a low price from the north.
It she designs to tollow up her system of
bleckade, she will require an establishment
double of what she now hus ; and her crui
sing squadrons, always weak or ill supplied,
will be,y at length, beaten or forced to shun
the conflict. “I'he loss of 20 naval engage
- ments will not compel France to abandon her
system ; within her own tervitory, or that of
her allies, she wi!l possess all the means of
repaiving her losses. If she gaing a single
battle, the muariiime superiority of Dngland
- will have vanished, and 60,200 men, encamp
ed at Bowlogne, will make those lords of the
ocean tremble to all eternity,
r “ In the enormous extent of the colonies
“of Fagland, there is undoubtedly something
“to flatter the pride of those who judge super
ficially of ihe force of a state. But this co
lossal power carries within uself the seeds of
destruction. The colonial system receiv »d
~a violent shock by the separaiion of the U.
States of America. The revolt of St. Do
~mingo gave the second example. The bloody
imrhiuﬂ' of the English ministry in spain
may lead to the independence of the Spanith
colonies ; wnd this sevolution, in v hieh it
Jing. in the employment of its il rary means,
has shewn an equal want of foresight in s
potitical * combinations. They might have
ppeared with some wivantage, or, at all e
vents, with some honour in the field of bai-
Je, when the armies of the coalitions muin
twined the contest with France. Durirg thouse
memoruble campiigns, there were twenty
occasions in wiich 40,000 English, landed
it ltaly or Geimany, might bave created a
diversion tiuly beneficial. But then the
Fnglish ministry were employed only in such
cxpecitions as that of Copenhiagen. Vhey
thought less of serving their allies than of
weakenine all of them, and ol destroying
even the very shadow of a maritime and com
mercial power. Their conduct have discoy
ered their secret, They became sensibie of
their error, when the unexpecred victories of
France deprived them of alt hope of repair
ing it. From that moment, as a war by land
they ought only to Lave tuken a defensive ai
titude ; yet, all of a sudden, they assumed
the offensive, when they hod nothing else to
expect but the useless loss of men and mon
ey. Out of one error they hove fallen inwo
anothery, and put to huzard their internal se
curity, without re-conquering the military
honour they had lost. The suome spirit ol
absurdity mace them undertake and miscon
duct the expeditions to Spain and Wilche
ren They will exhilit veariy the samie re
sults n the bistory of the war, Hitherio the
Fngiish army seems only to have kept its
ground because there were no French to
contend with i, But the ministuy themscives
have mo serious intention of defending
Portngal when it shall be regularly attucked,
Soon they will- only be embarrassed as to the
means of saving the frapments of un army
that would have been better employed in the
defence of their own territory.
“ Never, perhaps, was the ity a scene of
greater conlusion, thun It was during the
whole of this noning. DBusiness seemed
almost atl a stane=—und the Stock I xchange
snd the avenues ieading 1o ity were crowded
1o excess, to ascettain the particulwrs of an
event which we ere slout to miention. It is
the death of Mr. A. Goldsmiath, ene of the
preatest contrectors for the loun ; ond we
gricve 1o uddy, by his ewn bonds—He shor
himself this nmorning, sbout 8 o’clock, at his
house at Merton. ‘The stute of the publick
funds, the sttenpts aguinst which we wdvernt
ed to sounie days ago, and consegnent depres
ston o! the loun, perhaps too, the reccut
death of one of the contractors, Siv Froncis
Batring, had for some duys produéed at titaes
an nriebility of temper, ond af others; «
despondency, wholly loreign from Lis natural
disposiion, which was mild, equable, ana,
cheerful. We huve heard that he has of Jatc,
when in his office or in his house, burst invo
paroxysras of what be deemed to be a .com
bination aguinst bim ; in the nadst of whicly
he wouid burst ¢ut of the reom. ITa the mo
ments of bis anguish be hus been heard to
declare, that he suffeced meore thon he could,
bear—he would reiepse into despondency’
and silence. DBut stll he wis aclivey, allen
tive, and even in his business.
I"he funds have flucruated more within the
last 3 weeks than they have done for months
betore, GOmuium has been at 8 dis. One ol
the greatest causes ol this depression wos the
futlures which have rendered latge sules of
Stocks necrssary. Money became scorce,
and the diticulty of borrowing, great. This,
was peculiarly unfortunate for those concern
ed in the war, which could noty, under such.
circumstances, but be at a discount. When
however being at 8, it had oniy improved to
5 12 dis. great hopes were entertained that
it would improve still more. But move fi
lures took place yesterduy, and it left off «t
6 1-2. Mr. G's, Lnimde is said then to have
forsaken bim, and we have heard that he ve
tired from the stock market i the deepest
despondency. There is a report that a very
jurge sum was to be made up to duy~=how
true this is, we have not been able to ascer.
tain. But the first intcliigence which reach
ed the Stock Esxchange this morning, was
that of Mr. 3. bad put 2 period to s exis
tence | Words ste insdequate to express the
suiprize, the._ lhﬂlt. the dismay that were
“ England, en the contrary, cannot beheld
this revolution without sinking iuto & power
ol the thitd order. In vain would she pre
tend to engross the commerce ol the wiole
world by the superiority of her navy. This
supetiority, as we huve alrecdy observed,ny
be disputed with her. Besides, she eagerly
ciings 1 the extent of her celonial posses
sions, which she must delentd. In the event
ol u general separation ol the great colonies
from their mothier countiics,ihey wiil acquive
commerciul independence, England wiil then
have to maintain in all purts of the world,
that contest which hus been protrocted, for
these last three years, with the United States.
The terius of the contest may vary, but the
sthstance will remain t e sene 5 and its in
evitable resuit miust be the abolition of the
odious laws which Greut Dbriwin wishes to
impose upon the rest of the world.
“ Whiist the grend epoch is in train, a
chony e, tatal to the interests of Fugland, 18
operating o the coromerce of Farope. The
continental communicatic H, of une stute with
wnother, are Legining to be canigd on with
more reguiarity 3 then industry 18 imiprov:
ing : thelr wcrculiure gmakes remarkoble
progiess. dhe dmpolitick wer n which
Tuikey bas besa mvelved, revords the epoch
Wien new ronics will be cpered o bwiopean
commerce 1o the very heurtc of Asia. But
whatever be the issue of this struggle, Con
stuniineple must be the rampurt ot the con
tnental svstem, Great rvivers foim @ con
veysnce trom the extremides ol burope to
the very toot of its walis 3 & lund-locked sea
curries its vesseis to the centre of Asita ; and
aguinst such adventages the Engiish navy
will be absolutely incthicient. Constantinople
is the terror ol the British convmerce. Hence
the ministiv bhas alwuvs cudeavoured 1o keep
thet power tn iguerance of her nieuns, or to
wuke her misspply them. But the revolu
ton which niust secur in the commerce ol
the world 1s upprouching, «nd that reveiution
wiil reduce Logland 1o her proper station,
some catastrophe do not precipitate her ruin
in o more viglent manner.”
From Messva. Laxc & Tinxer, to the Keeper of
the Fachunge Cojee-dicuse Books, Lusion,
' orrees ]
The ivwia salled Lom Livery»ol Get. 1,
brings Loenden popers (¢ 28(h Sept. They,
bowever, contan but dittle news. The tol
lowing 1s froni the Courvier i=—
LONDON SELT. 28, 1810,
wbrlirdly seemis to rejoice, advirces the e
poth of that which must lnevitably cfiect, in
both hemispberes, the independence of colo
nies powerinl enough to defend themselves,
and vich enough to subsist wpon their own
resovrces. Ihe English minisuy, blinded
by ambition, batred und cupidity, have leng
beforehund, been preparing thuse calamities
whieh witl prove futal to Lnglind alone
The French enmpire, where the revenue, the
expenditure, the populaticn, and the tilitary
establishment, are so completely hurmenized
requires in reulity, nothing tut a tree com
merce, in order to avall berselfl of all the
wealth of the universe. Her industry, and
the surplus of her territoniul produce, will
procure for berali the enjoyments ol Asiat
ik luxury, ataless (xpoence than the estubs
lishment ol distent colenics,
Aew-York, Saturday eveming, ) ov. 3, 1810,
LATE FROM ENGLAND.
in the aficrnoon of .‘lauu‘dai' lust, snother palsying
blow waus piven 1o onr Militia system, by & law ex.
cmplng every porson from duty who is censcienrrons.
ly o vpulons €5 ainet bearing arme ! AX of 20,0600
deltars wus Jaid ; 10,000 of which was appropristed
toward the puyment of the Siute debt, wnd thoee
federal commissioners oppoinied to purchase the ev.
wences. In the Serate the bill was concuired, witly
the sddition of Nuidamiel Hazard, Feq. and retuined
tothe House. The manugers of the majority weic
cutrageous ; they declared the senate bud no wight
to atter oradd 1o their menew-Bill ; (a 8 it was termeg ;
that \hey did pot know Mr. dlogard, in that Assew.
by ; was not n Member, und therefore should not
he ath'cd; (xithough it is the well krown prac.
tice of the Assen Lly to sppoint thoese who are not
men bers of committees )the gentlemen woiked then -
selves into & fever ; ot the erisis of which, the vote
was taken, and 3 majoriy of foer confirned the &) .
pointment of Mr. Horard At the very heel of the
session, notwitl st pding the anpropriety of the pro.
codure. an sttcmpt Was made 10 o 7 point fedveal! Jue,
tices ~f the Peuce .fu; » wumber ‘oidwm in the State,
Rogadon of Sew h-Rmwgaivun, it the van, wnh his
list; e way fotlewed by Salisiwry of Forr-Green.
wich, Alueen of tlus Wwurn, ey of Nereh Providence,
IN our notiee last week of the proceedings of the
General Assembly, we were led into an errour rc.
spocting the cowrse of proceedings on the Woolen.
Xanufieturing Compary charer ; 1t was swated,thoe
the eharter hud passed the Senate, and was sent o
the lower House {or concurrence ; this was the infos -
mution we received, and thus we goveit to our read.
crs: the facte, however wre these @ the charter wag
first pesonted in the House of Represectatives,where
it miet with the most determined opposition fiom the
sentiemen spoucers on the fude al side of the Hou e
(as m ght have been expected from the enemics of
domdstick, ard friends of British manufictures)..
its reference to o select committee was refused—und
it was orderad to be laid or the trble '—* where 1o
doubt it will remain so long as there is a federal
msjority in the House : for the petitioners are Re.
publicans ! One fact respectivg this afluir should
not be ewitted : *“the flippanmt J. B. Mason,” no
doubt considering a correct statement of the pre.
cecdings sufliciently disgrceful to Lis party, pu -
lickly in the Hense on Setwodoy lust, mentioned and
corrected the ervour vwe had nadvertently made.
This political dubdle will be more purticulsrly no
ticed hercufter.
Statements of the situation of the different Banks
in the Stute, were repoited to the Assembiy at their
lute session, #piceably to law, of which the folow.
g is un wbsiract : .
The federa! party in this State, who had at the
lost session of (be Generul Asscp Liy,u petty major.
ity in the Jower House, it secns, were not contented
with continung in force certsin laws, which are ot
only repugnent to the best interests of the State,and
disgracetul in the extreme ; but they did ot the il of
thesession, pass a law which exempis from Military
duty, fatigue and taxation, «li such persons as are
“CONSCIENTIOUSLY SCRUFULUUS AGAINST
PEEARING ARMS '
THE MILITARY SYSTEM GF THIS STATE
DESTROYED.
visible. Tke first price ef 5 per cent. wa!
65 1-2 ; they fell dewn to €3 1-4 end wer
et €4 when cur paper went to preste=Cnini
i Legen at 7 dis. fell 10 10 end was at 8 ¢
one o'clock. The Stock Exchange, Chapdl
Courty and even the Royal Exchunge, wore
crouded—all perbeps eagerly making encui
ries about this event, or forgetting »inwost
every thing else. Those concerned in the
Stock Market were making up their sccovnts
and-little or no reel business was dcne. We
question whether peoce or war suddenly ever
created such a bustle as the death of Mr. G.
He went to Merton last pight in the greatest
distress of mind—that he rose this morning
@t the usual hour, and without speaking 1o
eny of bis fomily, went into the water-closet,
where be biew his brains out ; he expired in
stuntly ! ‘I his is the secend suicide in Mr.,
G’s fomily ;3 but the first one proceeded from
different cuuses. Mr. G, wis a man much
beloved, liberal, hespituble and bumane. He
wes the promoter of all charituble instituticns,
‘nd theie are many persons who owe all their
success in life to Lis kindness and protection,
Let us hope that such deeds will be accepted
as some atenementAor this last act, commit
nitied in o mement of phrenzy and distrac
won.”
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