The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-27 00:00:00

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common cease with Franco and" England (on the hy.
', potlsmis that these tro Power's should unite cordially
and siticerelj ). Lt wemayneer heliport* a jniraele
.180 extraordinary as that of this Triple ATliatite, it
woblitrate. Prussia, which always has its eyes died L
.epotr Westphalia, Ina- the 'WOrtheiW provinces of
Hollalnil .woeld add. the alsengds• of Haeover to
that-of the Netherlands, Isla* toli-14t4tislve fron-
tiers would be secured
_on all gsfr;ts., Ibis union
might tit the sequel be into aced in the south by
Spain, Sevoy, and Naples; 404 on the north by Swea
den, Deleon rk , end the Haiwasticrtities4 P These con.
tigunus Powers would form an inexpugnable. marl.
lime line,
,on which they 'tiould, rest with. seeevity ;
lied in case 'of 'aggression they might concentrate,
'lestiend, and divide their forte as necessity required,
std successfully resift the 'evasions' of the north.
The Alliance of the Netherlands is not to be dis.
gained. Holland formerly proved, that • small
m • ontry with bat a few inltlibitants may, by its sit"-
tion; its tride, indite PAM, Wince the fortune of
a great' State ansPepopelotill Nelms .whether we
tompare thins. fee litrengilt or foir riches, there is
nothing which wierelpowerfutly tends to establish this
equality than a eterisse and commerce.. The "so.
tress of commerce in all countries immediately follows
tie progress of the marine ; and the marine lending
*tags to commerce inbreales its prosperity, and pro.
metes its extension. . = •
,The Netherlands want at Chid alt meent every thing
that is necessary to form an agricultural, manufac-
turing, and maritime posier of the first order.—.
When 110:gium and Holland united shall be fall/
aware of their strength, their means, their resources,
end the advantages of their sea and of their geo.
graphical position—when those two countries,
amalgamated by policy, shall be blended together by'
confidence Red their mutual interest--wbee they shalt
reciprocally favour the exchange of their several ad.
vantiges—wlien a solid credit, and various relations
shall be establisbed between these two parts of the
same whole, we may predict, without presumptino,
th,t the kingdom of the Netherlands will be of great
weight in the balance of Europe.
Let us cast oar eyes upon the past; it is the school
of the Notre. In 1699, Holland and Zealand cue.
Wiled a million acres of land, and France then coy-
faired 9,000,000 ; yet the riches' and strength of
lirolend were estimated at one-third of thosenf France,
and the rents of the lands iu proportion to those of
France as 9 to 1.
The butden of all the vessels belonging to Europe
in the same year, 1699, amounted to 2,000,000 et
tons ; the English had 500,0(X), the Dutch 900,000,
The French 100,000, and the rest was divided smock
the other nations. The semi levied 'small the United
Provinces amounted to the halt of those levied in
01 300.000,000 of souls, of which the po..
pulvioit of the globe was at that time estimated, the
Dutch traded with 100.000,000. Look at the Austrian
hleriatchy possesses a great territory, a fertile soil,
and ab klidaet mines, and yet it is in the greatest embark.
rassmept its respect le its finances, and this embarrass.
meta has nested Oise 25 years. It has created paper
currency of various descriptions, which has but in-
creased its distress; it has adopted a great many
pleas of finaoce, none of which have had any success;
and notwithstanding its good faith and its good will,
it has not yet been able either to repay its loans, or
even to discharge the accumulated interest of them.—
Whence comes this incurable malady, notwithstand.
ing all the entleaeours of empitics to remove it ? It
comes from the obstinacy with which the great Poweri
persist in maintaining in time of peace a military forte
disproportioned to the revenues and to the popok.
it is this false system which throws Prussia
into financial embarrassments, from which it tries to
extricate itself at the rxrnce of France.
We see by this that it is not the extent of a king-
dom which constitutes its strength and riches, and
shit-the Netherlands, under a good Auministration,
may, in the sequel, go on the same litre as the
Powers which now seek to draw into their orbit,
what they coil the States of the second order.—
(Journal de la Belgique.)

FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER 01 PEERS, J.% K. 2?.
The discussion was resumed on the Project respect.
iog the Press.
Two new speakers were heard, and also Count
StutuN, Commissaire de Rol, who deluded the
Project.
'file discussion las:closed, and adjourned till to.
morrow.
Mim•••••••
CHAMBER QF iIEPUVIES, sin. 23.
The discussion of the Project reSpicting Recrett.-
ment vies resumed.
M. DE BotscHAttE*Av proposed an Amendment to
the effect of applying. volontarY enlistment to all the
corps of the army.
M. BELIGNOT took en historical review ofite modes
of Recruiting the French Army since the commence-
ment of the Monarchyond contended against volan.
tary enlistment ate insufficient. He supported the
looposition for an annual vote with regard to the
emoonj of military force, and with this qualification,
after a very long speech, he coecluded by supporting
the Project. .. . . .
M. BENOIT. 0 pPOR4II ythe rittileat on the USN
grounds as M. de Villelet, • - ~
M. COVRVoiSTRIViplikis in homer of the Project,
•but reserved himself to suggest some amendments.
The discussion was adjowritettill to-morrow.
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Prat-, JAN. 92.—ACC011.11111 Live been received of
a very violent shock of an earthquake having been
felt on the 13th ultimo, at half past ten in the morn-
ittz, at Cattaro. There cereals° very violeatshocks
ia the territory of the.Montenegrins. •
Five per Cents. Thoreau, 435 f. 95. c. 1
VIENNA, JAN. It—Oar Sovereign„.it,is said, pro•
poses to take a journey to Dalmatia next spring.—
The arrangement of it ari3 probably depend open the
que4tion as to the Intersiew of the Emptier with the
Sovereigns of Russia and Prassis. ft. li,. known
bete that tie Emperor of Russia intends to petaileod.te
.'Odessa nest month, and proposes to be at %way .
'in April. . •.
It is said that the Cabiuet of London bss eon.
monicated to our Court notifiationi of the 'hi Mit '
sit' political Interest with regard to the stairs of i
America. .

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