The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-29 00:00:00

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LOIIIDON :
TILIDAY, DECCI6BSR 29.

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Tut .commanications which have been received
from Various points align .C.ootinant since roster-
day *warning,. tend ge,neral4 to confirm thClocor-
potation :of lifulland Oue letter
only speaks of the event being tusinow.
terditus.,.bo 294.; . • '.." •
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Tie are entirety ignore/where. et Rs s a owes. WS
as terrier thine iloveAmeifi. • S'n steps hitie )iftieen raker
to idler the presunpfizte of Oityp,",
Rut in a Izttor front' thif same place of an earlie.r.
datr, there seems to ':e no etpz.it entertained,•of
the measures that will be adopted. . •
ROTTERDAM, DEC. 9.
" There ar- a great nrtorshi heie !naffed o r'a 11. it
Gey are treatlter-hound from tfie severe gales—and foul winds
frels (he ,ott:l2-wtst point." •
14 lie Danes have alrr.ady shewn an. eager for.
wardn•lss to promote the views at France--:the let-
ters f..ont the Continent concur in repreenting the
regulations to be executed with
gr,:at %entity the R.ythtr, where British proper.
ty to a large amount bag been seized in .vessels un.
tler American colours. This is but the continence.
nem th- System of Exclusion, which our met.-
autahit.tortoonly scratched the war, may now
c: art. Al rady have Ministers taken the alarm.
_ %, ere yesterday, without hesitation, gran-
for vessels to sail, in ballast, for France, and
k with Corn and Burr Stones.
I*,,n erethosearticles to be purchased ?-.by gold
-,...essifer only. The foreign vessels in our ports
it is true, received licences, permitting them to,
:.nrn to France and Holland, taking cargoes of
lonial prdsluce and British manufactures; but
cnneeire this permission of the British o-
Itiletit to be an absolute nullity, unless that of
rocs:Qs be:.!so obtained. To carry into con.
• effect the project against the commerce of
.:teat Britain, NAPOLEON Will, as we think, to-'
• illy disregard the,u ants, or even the convenience
of the Lontinent—to paralyze the commerce of
F..;:and, is the ftinda.nental principle on tvhicii
the grant Costfirrital Confederacy is formed ;
and the Con:11"Itt of Europe, restrained by the
paramount ascendancy of NAPOLEON, will be
ea.renelled te...:ubmit to the privation of those co.
pftultietions, which minister to the artificial
Ant:;, ereatel by the discoveries of India and
ttnerica. Alneinling in torn, cattle, wine, WOO!,
11 :1. and silk—in forests and in 'ilium's, what
digicraly can there be in cutting off all
~ercourse with bath England and America ?
le inhabitants of the Continent of Europe may
mble, but they will not starves nor will
naked. The privation of sugar and
, is nut so terrible as to be intolerable.
.4 he total silence of the Expos,:, on the sub-
: of the experiments of making sugar in France,
'nay be c nteluiled that they have hitherto
u:isereessful—admitted—the inhabitants of
the potioeot are then reduced—to the situation
in which the} were, before the use of that beauti-
ful p. of the earth became general. The
printeetion of Cotton in France appears also to
have:been Ull3 ttt:Ill,;(1 with success.but in the
neighbourhood of Naples the experiment has sac.
crested—and from Turkey supplies are derived in
sufficient abendauee to supply the coarser manu-
factures. Admitting, however, that this supply
is whJl:y inefficient as we itiLell believe, there
art. ample materials on the Continent of Europe
witi•ia,4o-•6114ey- the population.
Let but NAPOLEON seal up the Continent for
fivelre months from all external intercourse ; anal
we fear it will be seen that the pressure of reduta-
tlanry will, its England, have been more heavily
felt than 'hat of pricalion on the Continent.
It ha too long the fashion, even with men
of understanding, to abuse, • ithuut qualification,
the conduct •,1 the exv:al.rdinary man who now
reigns paramount over Lila Continent of Eu.
rope. As:Ail •:1 front every quarter in which
En4land possessed sufficient influence to ex.
cite hO ;edit If—NAPOLEON has hitherto been
compelH to defer the grand attempt against our
commerce. Tho successive wars with Prussia,
RUSSO, Austria, and Spain, have given us a
breathing time—from which it has most absurdly
been inferred, that to injure the commerce of
England is impracticable. That any thing like the
(lasts fiction of that commerce can be effected by
closing the Continent of Europe against us, we
well kinsw.....hut the species of paralysis that may
be produced we can very well appreciate by re.
coring to the recent situation of our manufacto.
'French troops are now pouring into Spain,
::!I)tough British troops and artillery are at
~•• . osnment embarking' for natural. the