The National Register.
London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

THE .NATIONAL REGISTER.

back to boyish obedience, we are content to look upon them
as independent trad.-rs ; in ,vhich character it shall naw be our
hairless to state 0,,:r opinion upon the probability of a good
result from the re-ol cuing of trade with A r, c
In tl.at spirit of commercial ignorance which we have before
alluded to, and which has so long bewildered nations, we have
been very desirous of considering ANt cate A as an infant state.
rude in all her arts and impoverished in all her means ; and only
a desiraLle customer, because she wanted tbe ability of manu-
facturing for herself. For some years, we have had too little
intercourse with her ; and, from recent accounts, we shall find,
that being driven, by the embargo, and the war, and the conti-
nental troubles in Europe, to look to her own resources, she has
begun to manufacture very largely, for home consumption ;
and is almost as independent in fact as in spirit. In thinking
otherwise, we have deceived ourselves; and whatever our read
ers may think of our patriotism, we regret it not. Trade is
always best preserved with independence ;and all our principles
of trade are fallacious, if the richest nations are not the best
customers.

Whatever AMERICA has gained, she has gained en-
tirety by the freedom of her constitution, by the equality of
her laws, and the absence of all privileAes or exemption from
the law, and of all those prejudices of long-rooted absurdity
end grovelling superstition, which debase and impoverish the
fairest portions of the Earth in the Old World. AMERICA is
free and rich. Rich in a vast and increasing, and a happy and
a bold, population ; active in peace, and not timid in war.
Preferring. thrOugh patriotism, to see its Capitol burnt, and its
public buildings destroyed, rather than submit to an invader.
Such also, we are assured, is GREAT BRITAIN, and from the
same cause, the possession of a Constitution, which is, or
with a little repair may be• made, effectual for all the purposes
of good government; but impotent and ineffectual for all the
ends of tyranny and oppression.
In the actual state of taxation, and the division of property.
ENGLAND and AMERICA differ materially, as the few following
facts will chew. Poor's-rates and taxes are there very low; here
they are very high. Meat and bread arc there cheap ; wages of
labour very high. A farmer's servant, in AMERICA,. is paid 351.
sterling a year, besides board. Here not la In both places the ex-
pense of a farm is, from recent accounts, nearly equal. The differ
once is, that in one country the produce is all divided among
the productive labourers ; in the other, it is chiefly devoured by
the taxes and the poor-rates. We shall state the Account just
received.—

AMERICAN FARM, 200 Acres.

The like in ENGLAND.

JAN. 21.

if we do not contrive, by PAP ER or by, some other means, to
keep up the price of his commodity, how easy it will be to
drive him entirely from his farm.and stop the growth of EN List(
corn altogether.
•

We must, for the present, drop this subject, with this plain
conclusion, that, from the short account we have just given,
it is clear, the AMERICAN PEOPLE arc getting rich, whether
their GOVERNMENT is rich or poor; and since, from that cir-
cumstance, it is probable,they will he able to pay for all we send
them, we congratulate the country on a Treaty which will ena-
ble us to open a trade with a vast continent, where we are cer-
tain of never being paid in bills for subsidies, nor in diau,ghto
on ourselves to supply the fuel of war and desolation.
In this way, we know, that, without a pang or a blush, we can
receive whatsoever AMERICA shall send us in exchange.—
We are quite certain she will send us nothing for which she
has not something equal in value received, or to be received ;.
and this we hold to be the true and oily BALANCE of TRADE,
and the great advantage of COMMERCE.