Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-18
4 THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.



ter Of dijfinl7ion liz L01H7x--on Tie CON-
mercial InterefS afthe Uuned Stqre,
and Gren: Britain in 1877.
(CoucIuded fran pr hf.)
A treaty OF gen,rai alliance, oAenfive
and ,cfeniive, would not be received in
the United States. Ii would contravene
the fundamental principles of our political
fyitcm-whch are, to keep free from the
contetts Of rival European nations. Nor
would luch an alliance be neceHary or ufe-
full 20 either party. Great Britain and
her colonies mua be defended alnoil foley
BY navy-The United States want a
navy only TO protect their trade and their
fhore. Land forces, on either iide, can be
lupplied by each nation for its own de-
fence.
| have heard it often aderted that @.
Britain is jealous of the riiing and grow
ing commerce of the United States, and
that fhe wifhes to Zee it fettered and de-
preaed as much as pohible. If this is
true, il is an evidence OF lefs diicernInent
10 the councils of that country, than am
willing to acknowledge. 1t is certainly
a jealoufy without an object.
In the tirlt place, no reitrictions, no en-
'barraRments which our trade can fuher
from all the nations OF Europe united, can
ultimately prevent nor much, retard, the
ehabliihment OF naval power in Ameri-
ca. All the inpediments which, can be in :
tefpofed, will be mere itraws in the way
of the Commercial Greatness of the Unit
ca State
In the fecond place, man mutt be blind
not to fee that every flock given to A.
merlcan commerce ehcntially Injuries rhe
manufacturing in ereits of Great Britain.
Our imports depend on our abilities to
pay-and all the fixtures and confilcations
OF American veilels and cargoes by the
belligerent powers, leiien that ability
The multitude of bankruptcies among our
citizens, in confequence of the capture oil
rzorI5 millions of dollars, location i'm
menie defalcations from our imports from
Great Britain. This fast will appear Oh
the Cufom- Houfe books of the United
States and of Great Britain, at the clofc oil
1897. So intimate is the connection in
trade, between America and Great Britain
that every lois of our citizens, affects, in a
direct or remote manner, the intcreit ofG
Britain.
If we look to the projects of the French
we laall fee not only the policy, but the
neceility of unicn between Great Bri-
tain and the United States, for the pro
lection of trade. The preient war, if it
did not originate in, is now prolonged by
the French, on the maxim, " delenda Ell
Carthage" EuglW Commeree muf be
aumibilatea. If France hould periile in
this project, her extent, population and
means, may, under the operation of her
military Republic, enable her, at fome fu-
fure time, to go far in accomplishing her
objeet.
To counteratt her accumulated and ac-
cumulating ftrength, Great Britain muA
ieek lome powerful aid. Where is it TO
be found Spain is debated and crippled
by a defpotic government, by the corrupt
remains of the teudal (yi item, and by her
monkih establishments. She is proverb
ofnational impotence. The Gnall nations
on the Baltic are too uncomfortable, if
thrown into the fcale with the Britiih en-
pire, to counter balance the energy of
Republican France. Ruilian aid, cauti-
oufly afforded, will not extend beyond the
North Seas. Germany is not commerce.
al, and cannot be.
THERE'S, therefore, no choice for Great.
Britain. The United States form the on
ly commercial power on earth capable Of
efeftpally fconding the naval force OF G..
Britain, and Of protecting the trade of the
Atlantic.
1t is remarkable. that the Americans,
oext to the Birth, make the beit feamen
IN the world and with the Eme fyffem,