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London, England, 1818-10-02 00:00:00

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rapidity with which the current
of r • from the EaMetn Stales of
North AsherieO soenwrls shove of the Ohio and In.
sod the Sr oriel, of the Illinois. has al.
produced • very important 'lteration in the
,re cooditions of what are now familiarly called
end New Asserku. Population is increasing
its the hitter, while in the former it is sups
to have of late years considerably decreased.
circumstance Las given birth to speculations
regarding ilw vrobable effect it might exercise upon
undo of the preseut Northern Confederatioti,
rid opinions are not wanting, founded epos very
plausible rrasooiAK, that eflisio sin very great space
of time a sooner will ariee on the western side of the
:Ilegheny altogether independent of the
Coogress at Wasli;iigion, 11'e quote the following
remise ks on this subject front ion article in The
Qtrererrk Review, elimmenting upon •• Mr. Birk.
. hates as America :"
Leisil being at too high reprice in Ilainilton
county. Mr. Birklieck determeiird on proceedis
tr westward, sagaciously refleetisig that the
..e was fast approaching when the grand inter•
canner with Europe would not lie, as at present,
through Eastern America, hut through the great
rivers which communicate by the aliasirsippi with
the ocean at New Orleans. • Its this view.' he ob-
serves, • tie approximate to Europe as we proceed
to the writ.' The tide of enoigratioo is undoubt-
edly setting with exinoordinare osiodity in that di•
tedious ; and • Old America, to the eastward of
the Alleglustsy moositains, is very soon likely tu be-
come. as our Cambridge 'Wend expresses use
thimiest part of the wedge.' 'live South-wester,.
States have not merely the advantage, in point of
local situation relatively with the rest of the com-
mercial world—but the soil used climate, iss places
where cultivation prevails. are preferable to those
is Ihe 'Esstern Stiles. Under such eircuinstatices,

and considering the character of the provide who are
'docking to the oilier side of the Allegheny chain,
the opinio►► is by no means chimeric:A. that • New
Aortic-a' will he induced shortly to shake off hie
allegiance to the permit Strafes, and set op a Can-
ines* or her own. A few inch settlers .as Morris
Birk'reck (who seems to think that every little
society of men ought to govern itself) will marnel.
Ions!), expedite the separation.
" Another circumstance may probably teod to
hasten the event, MO it residers the provinces beyond
the Allegheny wholly independent of the Eastern
or Northern States of • Old America :'-..theisevirs.
film of the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Nlimirsippi,
opens a ready cominanication with every part of the
extensive country behind those mountains, and
establishes an tivercourse with the shores of Europe
within two mom Its, soil with the West India islands
in the course of two weeks. To every other part of
the world they !wive a nearer as well as less danger.
ons navigotion than from • Old America.' They
have already strem.res.els of four hundred tone
burden plying nit those rivers, and their average
rate, when deeply laden anti against the stream, is
about sixty miles a day. 'Their products are pre.
cisely the same as those of the Eastern and Northern
States, which can neither supply what they require,
nor take off what they produce ;—what possible
bond of union then can lusts subsist between Old
and New America ? With no great desire to in-
dulge a spirit of prophesy, we cannot help stirring.
ing that the late Navigation Act, drawn up, as it
would mem, more in a spirit of Political hostility
towards England, than with a view to any cont•
mereial advantages that could be hoped to result
from it to America, is well calculated to hasten the
event. Can the Congress hope to throw an ingots.
sable barrier across the Mississippi, and thus pre.
vent a supply of provisions and limber for the
West India islands whenever such supply shall he
demanded ? The back settlements are already too
strong, and they know it, to submit to navigation
laws that shall operate no detrimentally to their in-
terests. We consider all apprehension of the West
India islands being starved in tint. of war with
America, to he now removed, and that in war, as
well es ut snare, the steam-boate of the Mississippi
will britig flow.' the produce of the New Provinces
into the Atlantic; unless, indeed, winch is as-little
to he epprehesided, Old Antetica shall be aide to
blockade its own river with a superior squadron."