The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-17 00:00:00


jicators of Europe. They have, in every quarter,
left the meterials of change' and mutual annoyance ;
because they have left the People discoolented, and
because, with respect to the People, they have almost
every where put themselves unequivocally in the
wrong. By violating good faith, breaking promises,
Sacrificing the weak, despising all idea of oationaf
right, and of public principle, as unworthy of a States.
man's consideration, they have destroyed the confi:
deuce at first Deposed in their integrity and wisdom :
tfiey havitaggin mankind that Coerts are not to be
7 treated. fee the redemption,..in prosperity, of pledges
given under the pressure of disaster • they have
planted every where, not adversaries ofthis or that
dynasty,.hot natural enemies of the esistiOg arrange.
Irma of Europe. It may be vain, and it certainly is
winless, fa, enquire from what quarter the attempt
' will proceed,' to encroach upon the limits pre-
scribes] by it to each State. One thing, however, is
Manifest, that danger may again appear in any quar-
tet, Without the generous efforts to repel it, which
freed Gerniany from the French yoke; and another
thing is cosily certain, that where so many nations
ere held in subjection to foreign masters, the first of
the Powers that is disposed to break the league,
• which, after distributing millions of People like
cattle to their masters, now pretends to stifle the
voice of nature by force of arms, will find allies
every where to aid him. The stability of the system
(as they call their patchwork) is thus at every mo-
noat endangered ; and the power of putting down a
formidable enemy of national iudepeodeuce is tit-
, Climseribed.
" That England should have bornesoconspicaous a
part in these transactions, is seriously to be lamented:
Slie has lost that high character for liberal policy
and strict priuciple which once not merely ennobled
her in the eyes of other nations, but strengthened her
hands in regulating their affairs. The best service
that a lover of his country can now render to her, it
to show, by his protestations, that the crimes of the
' Cabinet were not shared by the nation.
" But have the lute eats not produced conse-
quences almost as fatal to our influence abroad, as
the Treaties which closed them ? It is alarming to
reflect upon the necessary inactivity to which we
must now be doomed, stiouid the peace of the Coo:
fluent be broken. All invasion, indeed, or any other
imminent danger to our own security, would be
strenuously and successfully repelled. But ,there is
the man who can expect the People of England to
engage again in wars, to prevent the growth of re-
moter mischiefs? The Sinking Fund barely coven
the yearly deficit of our Peace E.tablishment. Ad.
miffing that the Income Tag could be raised to meet
• a War Eapenditure, thirty or fatty millions more
must be annually borrowed ; and the history of the
' last eight years demonstrates, that no new taxes can
•be raised to pay the interest. The incalculable dis-
' tresses from which the country has hardly recovered,
after three year's of peace, must be renewed in far
worse circurestances; and an immense addition made
• to the load of debt which is already hardly to be endu red.
As often as the necessity is mentioned of watching
over the balance of Europe (one of the first duties of
an English Statesman in good times), the frightful
picture of 1812 and 1816, will rise in the People's
recollection ;•atl the danger of perishing, by present
famine, is likely to make the risk of eventually falling
by the sword be disregarded. A less lavish use of the
splendid resources which England once possessed,
would have preserved her power entire, without any
Injury to her honour ; and it is melancholy to reflect,
that they who have squandered away her resources,
tare also been the first to sully her fame."

COMMERCE OF VIE BLACK SEA:

LONDuiv

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1818.

—row—
We yesterday stated on the authority of the French
Papers, that a cause of dispute had arisen between —me—
the Courts Of Constantinople and St. Petersburgh re.
The contents of the American Official Journal,
specting some maltreatment of a Turkish vessel on
She Black Sea. We shall subjoill from an American the National Inteiligencer, do net accord with the
Paper some observations that appear useful on the pacific professions iu the PIIESIDUCei Message.—
subject of the flee commerce desired by various Go. The Intelligencer states, that nearly the whole dis-
vernmeuts in the waters and ports of the Black Sea. posable force of the United States is in motion to the
it is es ident, ROW this Paper, that the direct trade
Southward, but whether fur Amelia Island, the Flo.
a ith Russian ports in the Black Sze has long been an
ricks, or a gainst the Seminole Indians, is a matter
iehject necessary and desirable to American commerce.
Since the conquest of the Crimea from the Turks, of doubt. The force! ordered to march are those
the enterprise of the Russian Government, in im- from North and South Carolina and Georgia. It is
proving the ports, forming settlements, and building probable they will be divided, as Gen. Games re-
towns on that coast, has given the highest import.
quires reinforcements against the Indians, and Ame-
Anre to its contmercial character, not only by deve.
la Island, though report has stated that it bad been
loping its resources, but by diverting the inland trade
of Asiatic Russia, and the internal commerce from evacuated by Auttv's troops, might not be agues-
China, into a new channel, which opens the greatest dered without a struggle. It is known that
facility to the enterprise of our navigation. Hither. an espedition for the subjugation of Amelia
o, through the waters of the Baltic, that great sailed on the 12th of last mouth from Charleston.—
inspire has received its necessary supplies, and . is
It difficuit to account ((sr the movement of any
through the same conveyance has exported its pro.
further force towards that quarter, unless the oecu-
ducts. Its possessions, however, on the borders of .
the Black Sea, and the combined advantages of soil pation of the Florida' is contemplated. The Ame-
rind climate, are daily attracting the commerce of rican Papers have assured os that the GOTOMMeIIt of
the north into a quarter, affording from its position
, the United States is in treaty with that of Spain for
more certain facilities to trade than any other part of
the cession of the Flotillas ; it must certainly sp.
tlie Russian dominion., from which the empire can
pear a little strange if troops have /been sent to take
receive its supplies through the navigable waters
which disembogue themselves its the Black. Sea. possession by force of these territories at the very
The Russian Government, foreseeing all the ad- moment that a oegociation is carrying ou respecting
*snug" arising from their possessions in that guar- them. It the United States have recourse to force,
tar, have eparel no expence to render their harbours
both countries must, of GUMP, be involved in war.
safe and commodious. The port of Tangarock, at
If , on the other hand, the American Government
the head of theses of Asoph, io addition to its local
supplies, always affording a ready sale, has a depot wrest , Amelia Island from the Independents, the
of China goods, and furnishes the interior of Asiatic Provisional Government of the Spanish Colonies
Russia with foreign articles, through the rivers Dou may be expected to retaliate by depredations on the
and Volga. Odessa, situated between the Dneister,
American commerce, and thus a state of discord and
is a flourishing and important port, from which, as
animosity will be engendered and perpetuated, very
far back as 1808, no less than one thousand ves-
sels of different nations cleared out with cargoes in inimical to the harmony which should exist among
one year. The ports of Nicoleff and Chelsea are States whose political affinity is, in other respects,
rapidly. improving, and in these various harbours a of the closest nature. Soch a condition of things,
constant 'apply of wheat, barley, rye, oats, tallow, .
to regard to the emancipated Spanish Colonies,
beeswax, iron from Siberia, hemp, fie:, hides, cord-
would be very uncongenial with the interests and
age, canvass, spars, naval stores, hair skins, and
general feelings of the People of the United States.
East India goods can be shipped, on an average, con-
siderably less than from Riga or St. Petersburgh. In fact, except in the particular of the measures tend-
They require, in return," such articles as- we now ing to the emancipation of the Negro Slaves, insist-
supply them with, viz.. cotton, twist, coffee, sugar, •
ed on by some of the Patriotic Leaders, and some
dye-woods, indigo, cochineal, pepper, &c. and which
• uncongeniality in religion, the Constitutions of
produces an additional profit to that obtained in the
Government and the political privileges desired and
ports if the Baltic. Goods also may be placed in
rutrepot, and cQntinue there eighteen months, fret, I enjoyed by the inhabitants of North and South
of'sluty —au impatient poiut. It is uhriouq, then, America are the see. It has been Indestrionsly