Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-12

Have other nations. Is Jolly Tor
man who lives in the world to pretend that
the world is nothing TO him. Il is folly
on q more luxurious fcale, for govern
ment to fuppole i,ielf, ike Robinfon Cru.
foe in his iiland, disconnected from all other
governments. Miitakes, Of this deep alb
iurdity, are never committed in politics
, without diiaaer.
1t is, therefore, proper for intelligent
Americans, to mark the progrets Of war
! ADD intrigue in Europe, Our commerce,
navigation, ffheries and dome&ic arts, are
all more or lefs concerned in the events
that materially concern Europe, and ei re.
cially France or Great Britain.
Every American, who wines to fudy
political fcience, ought carefully 10 note
European events, and their circumstances,
cauies, and effects.
1t is fehool for the wife obferver. 1t
is the patriots k.oaf, to fee danger at
difance.
In that fcheol, however, we are not
vain enough to be preceptors. lnforma-
ton reaches us 70 late, 70 obicure, and 70
mutilated, that the buhnefs of found judg-
ment cannot be performed with advantage
till events have 70 far pafed away as to
lofe their interefl and impreilion. The
laf years hihory is like the la1t years al
manac, which will thrown ~, but ought
not to be thrown Qqvay.-lt fhould be
preferved with iome care, if it he kept
without any attention.
The minor powers Of Europe, are of
little Importance. Turkey has fort of
whiAy rebellion raging in her European
provinces, which one can fcarcely con-
ceive 10 be very formidable, without de-
ftroying her government, or very weak,
without being itfelf fpeedily defroyed.-
The empire of Turkey contains more peo-
pie than Great Britain and France. Its
government is deipotifm, Whole chains
fuperRirion has riveted.
1t ought to be infru6tive TO US, that
long eGablihed defpotii!n is ever weak.
We are ready to fuppole depot can bid
it thunder, and at wofd can finite OPP
petition TO the ground. The fact is, no
old defpotifm has energy. AT hrf tor
rent that ovelbears every thing, it foon
fcoops for itfelf channel, that confines it.
1t can do no,hing that is mutual its
banks are higher than its foundations.
How far France intermediates with Pass
AwAN OcLoU's affairs, we know not.
This at leaf, is evident, the Turks are
no longer Of any importance---it ieems as
if their empire could neither much longer
endure its old evils nor bear their RENE
dies. In fome inyeterate political mala-
dies, medicines are as fure to kill as poi
lons.
In the north of Europe, we fee the Bal
tic powers reduced to political inhgnlh
canoe. We muf except Ruliia. In that
vaa empire, the caafes of aggrand,zemcnt
are greater than is generally un3eritood.
Like Amer;ca, its population IS extreme
iy thin compared with TIE extent of It's
territory, Its increafe of people is flower
indeed than that of the United States; but
it probably far exceeds that of any other
European fate. Time IS, of courie, ma
king Ruaia great fafer than ambition
can certainly fafer than commerce does.
For her wealth is fill in her foreAs. She
wants money, yet RuGia alone feems capa
bic, or difpofed, to counterbalance the en-
ormous land force Of France.
For Auaria will need many years OF
the wifeh administration Of her affairs III
peace to recruit her loaes. Deprived of
the low countries and of Lombardy in TIA
ly, lhe has acquired a part Of the Veneti-
an Terra Firma, I9ria and Dalmatia. She
may form hopes of becoming navalp pow
er, in confequence of her pohefing ports
on the Adriatic. The(e hopes cannot be