The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-31 00:00:00

LONDON:
TainISDAT, Dltet?4Ullll 31, 1812.

The Minerva packet, Captain WILLSAIek 'er. 1
iieed en Monday at Liverpool, from New York, u
a Flag of Truce. Mr. Ross, employed in the lite
omission from this country, arrived in this vessel with i
disietchn for Lord CASTLEREAGH, from Mr. RATES,
the British Diplomatic Agent at Washington... 6
These dispatches are stated to be of great import..
asce, but no account of their tootents has yet trans.
plied. We have received by the Minerva New
Tok Papers to the 111th Sit. from which we have
•made a variety of extracts, among which is a letter
of Commodore RODGERS, announcing the capture of
the Studios') packet. Another Message has bees
transmitted to the CODirtill •by Mr. MADISON, ac.
companied by faither correspr ndence relatifs to the
orerturei made to our Government.

Our im, olitic war with France drove that nation
into a belligerent attitude ; and now our still .more
impolitic ear with America is fordng her to oectine
cianufactural. In this vie • of the relative 4tate of
tLe o countries, it is truly awful ! Our reflections
of yesterday, ,on this so
.1 •ct,'l.oe how almost im-
pos.ible it is that we can keep clear of jealousies and
collisions with any State in Europe, under our pre.
sent exorbitant!), expensive system of. Government.
Notwithstanding the excellence of our articles of
trade for exportation, the grievous Leavy taxation
laid upon every article of life, renders it impossible
that tea should not be undersold in the foreign
waeket, Those home commodities which are net
reached by direct imposts. are, nevertheless, ens
banced in price by the proceedings of the Bank, and,
its paper, to nearly the rate of twenty.fiva per cent.
While we left the limited States to be agricultural;
and commercial, the natural pursuits of an infant!
state, they never aimed at the establishment of. 00.1,
nufactorlea. That would have been a work WWI
deferred. They would have been contented to buy
every nail of us for half a century to come, and
were v.?, much in the habit of purchasing every
luxury from England. The higher-classes of the
women of America thought nothing of a dress, no.
leas it was chiefly composed of materials from• this
ametry. Oh ! what o mortifylag reverse 1 Thwill,
triotic of both sexes have been forced to Senonit9
every thing of British workmanship or production,
whether in dress or furniture. Their shipping the
the last twelve years has more. than doubled is
amount of tonnage to that which they employed pre.
lima to that period.i—Thefollowiog is the flourishing
condition of their manufactures in one State, since
they were led to apprehend a war with us, viz.:—
STATE OF MANUFACTURES IN vim STATE Or xvir
TORE, IN THE YEAR 1810 OR 1811.
Lentils, 33,068.—Yards of cloth (all lands),
9,G99,703. Value in dollars, 5,002,891.—Ten.
works, 867. Value of leather in dollars, 1,299,542.
—Distilleries, 591. Value in dollars, 1,685,794.—
Breweries, 42. Value in dollars, 340,765.—Fut,
'ling-mills, 427. Value of cloth in dollars, 679,126.
Paper-mills, 28. Value in dollars, 233,268.—i1at-
factories, 121. Value in dollars, 219,035.—Glass-
wniks, 8. Vallie in dollars, 716,800.—Powder-
mills, '2. Value in dullarst 10,400.—Rope-walks,
18. Value in dollars, 538,000.—Sugar.houses, 10.
Value in dollars, 420,706.--:Oil-mills, '2B. Value
in dollars, 49,283.—81a5t faruaces, It. Value
in dollars, 205,300.,...tAirafereaces, 10. Value
in dollars, 156,720.Cut-nsit factories, 41.
Value in dollars, 276,932.—F0rge5, 48. Value
in dollars, 185,210.—Trip-hammers, 49. Value
in dollars, 2,603.--Total value in dollars,
' carding-machines, value
included in cloth dove, and 26 cotton-factories not
included above, the cloth there mentioned being the
manufacture of families only. The above returns
are, moreover, believed to be short of the real
amount ; no tow-cloth was returned except for two
counties. Instead of one formerly, there are now 10'
or 12 rolling and slitting-mills. The nail, hat, peper
and rope-factories, reach exceed the nosiber Wonted.
Alt the woollen factories are omitted. It insykANlN.,
ed, that the present minuet value of the MIN&
named manufactures exceeds sixteen tufltiOnsat•
lars. In viewing the progressive increase of perpnia•
tian in the same state, we are also not encouraged to
augur success from Ito rash or foolish a war. In the
year 1786, it was 138,806 ; in 1791, 340,120; in
1800, 586,000; and in 1810, by a recent census, it
was augmented to the prodigious Timber of 960,000.
Was this a country for • wise Ministry to provoke
to war ? Lord Nowny and his adherents lost the
sovereignty of North .America; and _Mr. Pvvv's
wretched followers, and their supporters, have lost
us the trade of it.