Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-17
from THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
l. F. Z T E Z

ter of difnGffo1 IN London ION roe CON-
>Inercial Interets offks Uuned States
and Great BritA.1-- 1vrittra in 1897.
NEW-YoRK--
Sir,
The embarra1ment in which the con-
: tefts and rivalries Of Europe have involv-
: ed our country. invite all good citizens
to confederation of the meaflres, which it
will be expedient to plrfue to prcferve
{ peace and maintain our eHential interefs.
Your petition IN the metropolis Of one Of
" the mott comfortable of the belligerent
!, powers, and of the hrt commercial ration
/, in the weird, renders it important that
you fhould be perfectly well informed of
the current opinions of your countrymen
not only of the friends, bur of the foes OF
our administration. My opinions are ehofe
of private citizen and as iuch they will
. be eitimated by you; and you know me
300 we'll to believe they can be deGgned to
mi1ead you, or to place any great value
on them. Such as they are, they are Of
fered without referve.
The revolution in France is doubtless
an important epoch in the Hiiory Of Eu-
rope. 1t appears to me that it is defined
to change the political afpea Of thar quar-
ter of the globe, more than the wars Of
preceding ages. ground my opinion on
the changes Of ebara6er introduced and
introducing into the nations Immediately
concerned, and into the fyftems of finance
which mutt be at leaR modified, perhaps
overthrow, by the extraordinary exigen
cies of the times. 1t has been the policy
of nations to Intervene their iyitems of
public credit into their political iyitems,
and one can hardly be (haken without en-
dangering the other.
Bot my particular Object in this letter,
IS to offer fome views of the policy which
ought to regulate the intercoorle between
Great Britain and the United Srates.-
This intercourse appears TO me of mo.e
confequence than our own citizens or tie
Britilh miniitiy iee,n to imagine.
Great Britain is the greatee nation on
earth in refpea TO her nasal .f,eagfb, her
commerce and her manufactured. Theie
three articles are intimately connected, and
the t4v, fyf are 70 dependent on each other
that the ruin Of one mutt annihila,e the
oiOer. In eating our eyes over the world,
we ak where and what are the means which
will enable Great Britain TO maintain her
commerce, and give it esteshou? This ee
neral view will reiult in the following ge-
neral concluion, +" That Europe ano Ala,
being already we'll peopled, cannot furniih
new markets for Britifh manufafures.-
The number and the habits of the conium
ers of Brit;lh manufactures in Europe, A.
-frica and Alta, will not experience any
fpeedy alterations favorable to an increafe
of the confumption. The change Of cha
raaer in France and.,he neighboring natl
ons On the continent may even operate un-
fayorably for Britifh commerce; for when
ever peace ihall refore induHry, and the
ravages of war fhall be repaired, the vigor
Of men may be encreaied, and domeific ma
: nufaetures may lefen the imports of thofc
nations. At the fame time, lhould France
be able to give herielf an efficient govern
Inent, and adopt navigation act fmilar
10 that of G. Britain, which has been pro-
pofed, ihe will in time become a rival in
commerce and naval Rrength far more for
midable than formerly, with difpof;ion,
If pohble, more hottie than under the mo-
narchy.
On the whole view of things, it appears
TO me that the defruttion of the fcudal
fyfem and monkilh inltitutions, with the
pride of family, which was extremely hof
tile to commence in France, as ii is in
Spain, will ultimately rife againf Great
Britain powerful commercial competitions,
and probably rival navy, that will wref
from her the tridenr Of Neptune, unlefs the
policy OF Great Britain ihal encourage