The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-07-25 00:00:00

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NOTICE UPuN IioI.I.AND.
(1,101111 Tilt CIA'S 0l; catitticr.)
There has been lately poblished upon Holland,
upon its population, as commerce, its peptic spirit ;
upon its means, whether fir maintaiiiiiipt as a state
in its independence, or restoring to it its former pi
sperity a: a commercial nation ; a lilemoir as re-
matkable for the moderation and frankness of its
opinions, as for the elegance of its style, the wis-
dom of its principles, and the clearness of its
reasoning.. The author disettbses in it two great
questions, to the solution of asich the Gar or
the Batavian people appofrs to him ese;“•.l.'
attached. Ought Holland to be united to F..
Ought France to ennfine herself to an Ull-pov.citti,
influence over Holland' [he ut.ion of Holland wills
France, say; the author, presents ?teat inconve-
niences and almost :r.surmouotable difficulties.
rt.vir is much more liatavia, than england
hingtaad, than-France is France. It it aot InveraNy
its patrimony that gives it this irtiantuakii and. OW- $
nal charafter. It is car sky, the land, the climate ; it
is a mode of living which resembles tiot);ng tattle
seen any where else um' the globe. Among mo-
dern nations, which have a history and celebrky,
there is ta. one whose territory is so small. astd
whose population is so weak, and there is. lot utile
perhaps Which has so great and well merited' A *-
flown. That what the Batavians hive undensitin
and executed, in the space oft co collieries, fills dm
memory of man with Cats .ss iutc.ortant as the hbh
tory of France and of Engl..r.t;, th.wn to the pre•ernt
zra in which we live, nn one can ennteet, and the
Dutch boast it. This glo!r is ever present in th6r
memory. They attach to it tlittr happir.e.s it is.
as it were, their .xistence; to lose their name, would
be to them to lose their life.
The author of the Memoir thence concludes, that

the union is impossible; but he think, the all-power-
ful influence of France over the destinies of 1101.
14nd may be able to procure much greater atlt.in-
Liget for the two nation's. Ail the produoions of
the Fret ch territory ; all the creations of our mane-
failures, the works of otir arts, of taste, would ritriith
the commerce of the Dutch. 'I hese new foods
would soon increase, in economical and iidustrious
hands, and become more proditdive than the herring
and cod fishery. Holland and her colonies set tad
be for ever secure agaiitst invasion; and het opticitee,
supported, as we may say, upon the Fr..•:•;i set',
ii‘oull find itself safe rrom the chances of ..c.o: and
of fortune. France, on her part, would &tire :4. eat
advantages from the proteCtion which slur +veld
grant to H,..114.ni1. All the capitals which tat idle ails'
perish among the Dutch, fin want of emplilmer.t
rdhciently advantageous, would Arrive in oitr ;sorts.
in our masked; and the proiluCtitimi,.l our lsrtits
1 of oar naasigtalikateerat pet arts, would Nit Cons.l2ll.
-.•.!1y "carried tow the v i.d. olts thz two woi, ••: by i•a-
vigatot; who frevent them all, and who il All 1.• n
well I • -ive(l. We vroold see the thatch:. rr i scantly
itcc• 4-icy, and desci-nettng- our rivets an 4 canals,
witnesritig every wilt-re ti• example and thus.. •of
that wise useastonsy which has prep ired,their spier,
daur,„and tvi.ich alone hitherto Appeai yr t a q6Yee,r,,...
• vented their ruin.
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eRn, INVESTIfiNa*, SP.CRETS.• DI.KO-
VERILS ,n PH.f.i.tuift3AVil. •

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We have spnken in ~ f ..raiet rap_r o r .h...,ln-
vention of wild-tire, by Gatlin;; v., in the year iii' ;
an invention which is sinse totally lost.
We .hall relate on this occasion, that in the year
1"45, an artist named Chevalier, made at Vim, nnes
end Menden, different pyrotechnical estserii iirs.
in presence of the Commissioners named by the
Minister of Mswine, who were Messrs. Rosily And
Missiessy Burgues, the on- bcing at present Vice Ad-
mini, and the other Rear A ditsi-al of the Sas al int CCS
of France. These united experiments 'assure the in-
vention of the method of spreading over the eo..my's
vessels a flames which cannot. De extine,nished.
This is the first which tended on:y to annoy the ene-
my by burning their sails. Stroog costibuoibles
fitted to small sticks are introdncei ins-) Itisees
charged with powdei, which in going off commti-
niceinw the fire to the combusts lee, are thrown
amongst the rigging and sails of a vcsaeLand attach-
ing themselves Ow by the assistance of hooks • i
strong wire placed at their head. burn every thi,.4
near their inextinguisisslde fires :his expression is
not too strong, and we support it by the Aid of an
experiment made in the year 1797 ens . le the
walls of Brest, in a pl ore known by i!'e mane
of Postrin, on the bolder% .... ihe sea. they
raised there a mast furnished with rig.,,,ing, a
Tartrarnl. Add an est:omitted sal. Iwo this .:.iii shey
fired the comblistihl .; from the fuseee; whicts yeet-.. - -
rally took etroft. and instantly set the entire wail on
tire. 'Case same s.iiterittiel,r was made, at V s.i....enness
in I repeated litany times n ith catii.on. At N4,•1 :an
they tried the experimeat On a larger wale, •Asi::ig
to it the night sigea!s, the erorthasubtses• ~bir.g tnom
the fusces to an immense height, and f.: qaii.g a su-
perb
train of Ve, Ahich in fatting made 4 spas ',hog
arch, the circnioference of which touched !Awe...tulip
and the two els. emities if the e sr.h
The second .experiment was male in tha'l.avons
at Meudon, and was no less w • sae! tul Massy
globes, as large as eighteen pound b ills composed
of itidammable matter; were thrown into a large
Imams, one after another, being first set en Fite.
At titsr, we lost sigh: of them; but they soon re-
:wee:tied on the surface of the water, Isunimg ss..!h
an inconceivable aflisity, and throwing but a rely
,strop.: blaze. which lasted many minutes.
'l' ha Commissioners approved of the discnveryi
and the Minister of Marine, wishing to encourage
the artist Chevalier, gave him the means .pi °vide
for the expenses of his experiments ; but the it- for-
tunate man lost his lite a few years after, a vialui of
[ a plot against the safety of the State.

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