Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-14

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will be1of very tnconsiderabIe win. g.
France, when the foreign capitals shall b.
taken from it, or rival city shall be e.
tablished on the American side. Fron
the best information, | find tina, one third
of the best commercial houses employed
III New Orleans, are American. M
sooner viii military government be es.
tablished in the country, than al these
commercial houses, with the capitals
which support them, will pass into the u.
States, to that place assigned then, by the
treaty with Spain, or to the Natchez.
where every vessel which may go to New
Orleans may be received. Large vessels
from France have already arrived there,
and unloaded their cargoes without diff.
Guilty, and as the soil is SO much the more
advantageous as we penetrate further,
there is very little doubtful establishment
will soon rival that of New Orleans, when
the AmericaE capitals shall have been tax,
en- out OF it. When the u. States shall
have declared the Natchez free port, N.
Orleans will be very little as place Of
commerce, and only an object OF useless
expence for France, and an inexhaustbe
source Of jealousy between France and the
United States.
The ce{lion Of Louiiiana is nevertheless
very importsn. TO France, if Che appGes
it to the only uie which found policy teens
10 dictate. ipeak of Louiiiana alone,
and, by this do not mean to compre.
bend the FIoridas, becaufe | think they
ale no part of the ceiion. As il can, by
1lls ceilion, acquire the right of earryiHs
on the Mididippi, q free stfade, if Gt
knows how to profit Of this cireumaance
by perfect understanding with the Unit.
ed States, fhe will find markets loI a very
erea, variety of articles, when lhe bias &C.
cultoned the inhabitants Of the weaern
countries to pr eief them to the Englith
which ihe can only obtain by telling them
cheaper, and fhe can only fell them cheap
er, by inteyeiting the American merchants
to fell them, TO have the ule OF their Capt.
tails, and by engaging the government Of
the United States 10 give them the prelef-
ence. All this can take place only By nc
ccilion Of New Orleans TO the u. States,
zv;tb The rJfrvt q The ,isbi u eaf,y, az
all fimes, free fran allotbe, dsties tba9
hJele paid BY Amyicau psDslt tegef5tr.
1vub The. ugbt IF navigation an me
MUlEb3i. #-This would give her vsl.
{els az advantage over the yeRels Of all
other nations; will retain and even in
create the capitals of New Orleans,
where the pfoyiGons for the iiland
will be bought at the cheapeG. Fate pof-
Gble,. ADD where the articles OF her manu-
features will be introduced in The wetern
countries-the Unifed States will have no
interea in preventing it, for every reaion
ofrivaIfy will be removed. Then France
will command rsfpett ,"ishour lntpring
fear TO the two nations Whole frlendihip
is the mott important for her commerce
and the preicrvation OF her Islands and
all thcie advantages will be obtained
without the exPeece of eaabliihmrnts
which ruin the publ'c tEeaiury, and diyefs
capitals from their true Object.
But if, on the one iide, France keeps
New Orleans, by attempting 10 colon'ze
Louiiana, ihe will become al object Ct
jealouly to Spain, the United States aud
England, which powers will not only dli.
courage her commerce. bat will compel
her 10 make expendye Embellishments 10
f.cu.e the poIeilion OF il.
In the foregoing observations have
confined myielf 10 oblervations which
prefented themlelves, without having re-
courle to fubtilties, which only ferve TO
miAead the Judgment. | have ezPoiad
Gmple facts, with c4n,iour and al! the hG7-
plicity Of language. Ia reply Is made
-f,,,,c- CONTRARY COufE.