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defend only foreign interests, is on the eve of figUng
--pro aris et Aces ; and then it is that her weakness
will become manifest. The actual superiority of her
manne, and the vast extent of her colonies, cannot
sa►e her. 'We have just Avail, that she will be
compelled to augment her navel expenditure; to
which the profits of her commerce will be inade-
quate. Meanwhile, she will neither have foreign
seamen, nor ship.tirober, nor iron, and the other
materials, which she has hitherto procured at a
low price from the North. If she designs to follow
up b.f system of hl.ekade, she will require an es-
tablishment double of what she now has; and her
cnriziupf squadrons, always weak or ill-supplied,
will be, at length, beaten; or foreedlo shun the con-
flict. 'the lost of twenty naval engagements will
not compel France to abandon her system ; within
her own territory. or that of• her allies, She will pos-
sess all the means of rrirvring her losses. If she
gains *single battle, the' enuritinne superiority of
England will have vanished, and 4;0,000 men, en-
camped at Boulogne, will make those lords of the
ocean tremble to all eternity.

to the enormous extent of the colonies of Eng-
lund, there is undoubtedly something to Satter the
pride of those who judge superficiaMy of the force
of a state. But this coins al pi-wer carries within
itself the seeds of destruct ion. The colonial system
received a violent shock by the sepuration of the
United States of America. The revolt of St. Do-
mingo gasltt the second example. The bloody in-
trigues of the English Ministry in Spirit, may Israel
to the independence of the Spanish colonies and
this revolution, in which it absurdly seems-to re-
joice, advances the epoch of thrit which mug in-
evitably take effect in both hemispheres—the inde-
prudence of coloniei powerful enough to defend
themselves, and rich enough to subsist upon their
own.resourres. The English null'', blinded by
ambitioti, hatred, and cupidity, has, long &fore-
hand, been preparing those calamities which will
prove fatal to England alone. The French Em-
pire, where the revenoe, the expenditure,- the po•
pulatian, and the military establishmeut, art so
completely harmonized, rerimres, in realiti, no-
thing her a free commerce. 11l order to sivaillfterself
of all the. wealth of the universe. Der industry,
and the surplus of her territorial produce. will pro-
cure fur her all the enjnyments of Asiatic luxury,
at a less expense than the establishment of distant
colonies.
England, on the contrary, cannorbehold this re-
' volution without sinking into a lower of the third
order. In vain would she pretend to engross
the commerce of the whole world by the superiority
of her navy. This imperiority, as we have already
observed. may be disputed with her. Besides,
she eagerly 'Limp to the extent of her colonial
possessions. which she must defend. In the event
of a general separation of the great colonies from
their mother countries, they will desire commercial
independence, eater est ablisliiiig political indepen-
dence. Etigland will then have to nratutein, iu all
parts of the would, that contest which has been pro-
trncod. fur these last three years, with the United
States. The terms of the contest may vary, but
the substance will remain the saute ; and its in-
evitable result roust be the abolition of the odious
laws which Great Britaiu wishes to impose upon
the rest of the world.

Whilst this grand epoch is in train, a change.
fatal to the inte:ests of England, IS operating in
the cnmmerce of Earope. The Continental com-
munications of one State with another are beginning
to be carried on with more regularity ; their indus-
try is improving; their agri.mlture makes remark-
able progress. The impolitic war in which Turkey
has been involved, retards the epoch when new
routes will be opened to European commerce into
the very heart of But whatever he the issue
of this struggle, Constantinople mug be th, ram-
part of the Continental system. Great rivers form
a couveyauce from the extremities of Europa to
the very foot of its walls; a land-locked sea car-
ries its vessels to the centre of Asia; mid against
such advantages the English navy will be ab-
solutely inefficient. Cun.tautinople is the terror of
the British commerce. Hence the Ministry has
always endeavoured to keep that Power in ignorance
of her means, or to make her misapply them. But
the revolution which must occur in the commerce
of the world is approaching. and that revolution will
reduce England to her proper station, if some ca-
tastrophe do nut precipitate her ruin 113 a more vio-
lent utauner.