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W e hcftr that Judge Findley is about
obtaining a patent for his invention,
\vai« h is perhaps the most imnortant
tn.u tue world has yet discovered in the
:ut of bridge building; uniting as it dot s,
gi eat strength and durabilitv, with ex
trcim cheapo ss.
J A7 TE LLIG E X C E.
London, January 0.
On I hursday morning several mer
chants and brokers waited on the chan
cellor oi the exchequer, to request that
he would prevail on the admiralty to di
rect our cruizers, alter having examined
neutrals, not to write the word searched
upon their papers, as, according to the
jf reach decrees, thru act was sufficient
evidence ior their condemnation on ar
riving at any port under the controul of
France. 1 he chancellor of the exche
quer, we understand, observed that no
auch direction should be given by the
admiralty, as government had deter
mined not to relax any of the measures
adopted in retaliation oi Bonaparte's
decrees.
Great apprehensions have lately been
entertained lor the safety of Lord Hut
chinson ; and it is now stated, that his
lordship, together with his brother and
col. Eustace, were taken on board a
pricket, and carried into Norway, by a
Danish vessel.
The amount of British manufactures
exported annually to the United States,
’s estimated to exceed ten in llions ster
ling ; and the demand lias been for some
tim rapidly increasing, to the great ad
vantage ol our manufacturers.
This increasing demand proceeds from
the following causes:—The growing
population and wealth of the United
States, creating a greatly increased con
sumption, which necessarily requires an
-adequate supply; and from the commer
cial enterprize of the people of that
country, constantly discovering new and
remote markets lor our manufactures,
imported by th< m for exportation, and
which thus find their way into distant
channels for consumption, where they
were before unknown, and also into the
colonies of the enemy, to which this
country, as a hehigi rent, has not access.
It is estimated, that a sum exceeding I
twelve millions stealing, is now owing
from individuals in the United States to
-merchants and manufacturers of the U
mted Kingdom ; which property, there
is too much reason to apprehend, would
for an indefinite time, at least, be di
verted from its regular channels, by the
obstructions which a state of hostility
■will naturally present to its just appro
priation, in the event ol a hostile deter
mination on th : part of the American
government. Such a result, it is to be
feared,would be productive of extensive
and general distress in this country, and
greatly augment that already felt in the
manufacturing districts in the North,
owing to a suspension of the dcmand for
th^ American market following so close
ly the privation of the trade with the
European continent.
Amongst the many important conse
quences of a rupture with the United
States, are disadvantages which would
acci ue to the commercial interests at
large, from being deprived of trading
through tne only neutral medium now
left them; and the gent ral inconvenience
and partial distress which must lie cx
pc rie.nceu by his majestv’s subjects "n
tiie West India islands, in case of such
a war taking place. The advantage
should also be considered, of nreservimr
the American market open to cur ;*c
toss lor timber and naval stores ; and
also the benefits which this country
might, in the pres .nt state ol Kurope,
(lei iv; from America, as a granarv,
should a period ot scarcity recur, and a
good understanding be preserved.—_
1 here is great reason to believe, that it
the late orders in council are acted upon
as they now stand, without any modifi
cation, (as they ler to articles the
growth ol the United States,) it will
tend to produce in the minds of the go
vernment, and of the people of the U
nited States, a feeling ol determined
hostility to this country; inasmuch as o
bliging American vessels, laden wholly
with the produce ol their soil, to enter
into our ports and take out a clearance
Irom thence, will he received as a novl
and vexatious interference in the inno
cent commerce of an independent and
neutral nation : and in the event of the
American government not being i win
ced at once to resort to acts of direct
hostility, (which is most to he lppre
lunded,) it may immediately' adopt r -
stricth'c commercial regulations in re
taliation, which will in effect be produc
tive ot a complete suspension >f all mer
cantile intercourse between the two
countries, and operate as an in' • nveni
ence little short o; a state of actual war
fare.
► The following Is the return of the *- *
mount of cotton imported into Liver
pool in the year 1807:— Baq-s.
Frorn the United States, 113,756
From Portugal, 1i ,852
From the British colonies, 41,~3'6
Total, i 97,344
I his account we submit to the s. ms
consideration of our read .rs, and eg
them to observe what a quantity >f uv
material is furnished by America, for
one of the most important branches, of
)ur manufactures. What then must be
the consequence, should the voice o our
desperate politicians succeed in,prompt
ing us into a war with the United
Si res ? It is quite preposterous to talk
of io capacity of the Brazils to afford
i thing like a substitute lor even h df
’he amount ol the cotton we receive
from America. Whence then is this
supply to be obtained ? It may be said*,
that America must be distressed if de
prived of our market for her cotton . out
even granting that, what is to become of
‘he immense number of our population
employed in the different departments
oi the cotton trade, should the A is m i
cav: cotton he excludi cl irom our mar -
ket—and what indeed is to become of
that and several other articles oi our
manufacture, *-hould we be deprived of
the American demand i We shell leave
these points to the reflection of the
public, with the addition of this fact,
that notwithstanding the aggravated ca
lamities of war, and the Severe restric
tions of commerce belonging to the last
y ar> yet the import of cotton from A
meriea, and the manufacture of that ar
ticle in this country, lar exceeded tha;
| of 18QG.
[ Brazil Trade.—Four ships are al
ready preparing at Liverpool, and three
at Hull, to carry freights of goods to
Brazil. Upwards of twelve are in rea
diness, in the river, to depart for the
same destination. Licenses are directed
to be prepared by the privy council, -or
the* trade to the Brazil1, upon the fol
lowing conditions :—The license is to
lie endorsed by the Portuguese amhas
; sador here, and invoices of the cargo to
he dt livered to him. Vessels are to pro
ceed ooiy to the island of St. Catharine’s,
to the southward ol Rio Janeiro,thereto
"ait the directions of the Portuguese
j gov. rnment. No a; tides are to he al
I lowed, which were not h< retofore ad
j milted in i ltugal, and they to pay thr
same duties.
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