The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-02 00:00:00

FRENCH VIEWS IN AMERICA.

reoatatned !tour our i.!aper of Aug. 401
• ifPispolation. hes prodigiously ad\ tweed in the,
United etas, since their sae:sae:sit ; but there is
no reason to expect it stnallts progress in the
French. oir neighbours, iin arr.; id: present,
in thas.krate, in whirl, the dia,td* Cpl these 1;11;117
bersiXthe adding of milli, its to millions ; tool a
State in whieh titeduplicate ratio will be. etpedly
prOdactiee In Lettisiamt, is disi,,nt. The eir-
ettuestances., however, which will briog this stem
nearess are not few or inveasiderahle.
_..:",Tisere canton, iu the first place, l)e imagined
a distrieS. more fevousable to settlement. In el-
ditioo to, a genin: etiolate and. soil; there are the
utmost, facilities of commonicatUnt and commerce.
The:whole. district is the Shirting side of a valise,
throogh which run deep • and navigable sit
which begiu their course in the remotest bordcts,
earls which rill terminate in -the 'Central stresio.
This stream, one of the longest and widest in the
world, is
,remarkably distinguished by iih dspth,
nod freedom from nat..ral itupediuu It flows,
a gulf Which contains a great number of po,
in islands. Among these •islunds are !ionic-
ronspassages into the ocean which washes the
Shores of .Enrope. Thus, not otrly every part of
the district is easily accessible by Means of livers,.
buethe sanie channels are ready' to convey the
products of every quarter to the markets most con-
tiguous and ntost remote.
-
The progress of a nation may be obstructed
hybsd laws; and by natural intpedintents.
Will not plant avid -reap for nothing. They will
not leave their present homes without the prospect
of,. bettering their condition. In the spot that
chance may throw them, they will exeend no la-
boor in raising more than they can cons it me, un-
less they can exchange the surples for something.
necessary or agrecahle, the fruits of the labours
of others. -Subsistence must alWays be scanty and
mean, and the great spring of pOpelit mist,
of consequence, be languid and powerless, svben
supplied by our sing!e ingenttitynnd labour'. tai tidy
men most ethitbitte their various slidl and dill-
geuce to make life a blessing to each, mild inspire
hint with: inctinatiott to give others.
" A batten soil may deny to Our utmost Ororts
more than a scanty 01111 precatiotts subsistence. if
the soil be fertile, yet there may be no method of
disposing of its surplus products. There may be
00 streams, which are tie easiest couveyences to
distant markets. The surface may he broken 'op
into hills and rocks, whose Summits and defiles'
are impassahle, or passable .only tit such Inhour
and expense as are disproportioned to the won;
The rivers, 'if there be any, may he impeded by
catertiet, oe-their mouths be barred against Its by
some hostile nation that may possess them.- The
interests of rival neighbours rimy deny os acce,4s
to the.most eligible marts, or all these obstacles
may be absurdly supplied by an evil government,
which marprobibit the, etiltivation or export of
those products, which the condition of the soil,
or the prudence of the planter, would naturally
Suggest. -
Which of these obstacles will have p' tee. in
this new colnoy Only. One, or a few, of Ale
• •
Ineatii of opulence enjoyed uy 11,
LIC most
opulent nations cannot boast the possess,“ll of
every blessing. Either the rigonrs- of theelima,,e
and. sioiltire redressed by the wisdom of the govertF7k
as in Switzerland and llolland ; or the mis-
chiefs of inisgovertoneot are sower, hat eonipens
sated by the bounties of. uatore, as in -Egypt .angl
Sicily. But fancy, in her hspp;est mood, canuot
combine all the felicities _of nature and society in
a snore absolute degree, than •will he actually
combined, when-the valley of the rdississippi shall
be placed under, the auspices. of France. Not one
of the impediments to opnieoce will he found here,
Not one of the advantages, the least of which
have made other nations the envy told admiration
of mankind, will here be wanting.
" The Nile flows in a torrid climate through
long and„parrow valley. The fertility which its
animal immolations produce extends only two or
three leagnes on either sitle of it. The benefits
of this fertility are marred by the neighbtoirliood
of scorching sandi, over which the gales carry in-
tolerable heat and incurable pestilence, and which
harbour ;t mice, Of savages, whose trade, is war and
pillage. Does this river bestow riches worthy of
the greatest efforts. of the nation to gain them,
and shall the greater Nile of the Western hetnis-
phere besneglectedl A Niie, whose inundations
diffuse fertility of Egypt twenty leagues front
fitrso
Ins Itrollre,u,s,
bpetixlirivotiiiets.lsl:llt(lol,ect
tia‘vsilal
nailer
ieley
htfliiosi
evtib,te
sienr t
ailgi);:teillisg
the mostut
skeitatsd(:entsl nationul‘d which
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side, ns ;Ts ed n
r It and
y
extensive regions, over which the title of growing
population may spread itself without hiudrance or
danger. _

;, 4r But of what avail be . all these advan_
Cages, unless a market be provided for the prodnee
of the soil Now this market is already provided.
-.FO call that it can produce, Vrtmee alone ,ttp-
ply thirty millions of, consumers. The choicest
luxuries of Europe are coffee, sugar, and tobarco.
The most Useful materials of clothing are cotton
,atul silk. All these are either natives
sissippi valley, or rernarkably of -the
congenial twit. The'
cultivation of these, and the carriage to market,
,are as obvious and easy as the most ardent
ciao can desire. The whole extent of the river
will be our own, and in the lower and most ftthile
portion of its course, the banks out botti sides wilt
be our indisputable property.
" Let us consider these advantages with a little
more minuteness. Let us reflect on tlteir coin.
• session' Of them, and the more distinctly shall we
itllleexaiit,e theamilneus.rteeinetr.ve'n; deeply
tehtem spifo:r.
IP:frotelera' reheonwn cenuchrilni itibteh etsi os n'sOfr►tppicrl tghl eo r ery 6f-
sent moment:

crt, be continued.)

SXTRWSIVZ Rocautty.,—Tnesday night, the
apartments of Mr. JAmtsori, in Tottenham court.
Road, were forcibly, entered by some persons, with
pick4ock keys, who robbed the preniv,es of Bank-
notes and other propertir to an immense amount,
with which they left the house withont beinr
detected.