Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1803-12-17

ration. followed II TIC II aiiA " 800.
the fate Of kingdoms appears to have been
not unfrequently decided by their intiu-
ence.. IN consequence ofthe introduction
Of one inarument, intelligence has not
only been communicated with a degree OF
ceIerisy nearly equal to that of found, but
with all the exa6titude of literary commu-
nication while another, untlllately con-
fdered as a Toy, has been rendered iuo-
fcrvient, on one occafion.at leait, to the
attainment Of victory. !,
Thus ended one ofthe longeit, mott
interefing, and mott bloody, conteitS
which modern times have witnefed. Its
not a little fing;lar that no one OF the great
objects originally aimed az by any OF the
beIHgerent powers was.obrlined by an ap-
neal 70 arms !: while, on the contrary,
thofe few nations which food aloot dur
ing the fruggle, derived immenss bene-
fits from their prudence or good fortune
The vanity of Machiavelian itateimen
ought to be mortified by the rccolle6tlono
that no event has ever more notorloutly
belied their hopes and predictions while
thofe men who, reafoning from the anal
ogies of nature and of hittoTy, calmly de-
duce effect FRONT caule, and, under the
name of philosophers, expole themielves
to the fufpicions and lometimes even to
the Prescriptions Of ignorance & preiump-
ton, cloathed in the garb of authority,
mutt be allowed to have poiefed the rare
merit of calculating the phafs and fore
telling the re(uIt of the revolutionary war.
s'The treaties of Luneville and Amiens,
by changing the relative fituations OF the
various itates in this quarter of the globe,
have forced Europe to afume novel as
we'll as an ominous afpe6t. The boalted
balance Of power is changed, and the Po-
litical chart is henceforthsto be calculated
by new fcale.
sTwo of the northern powers, profit
ing by the contentious of the neighboring
fates, have cultivated commerce, manu-
features, and the arts Of peace, in the
midf of the mott calamitous fruggle,
and derived immenfe benefits from thole
confids that have beggared nations and
dettroYed Kingdoms. Sweden, ftripped
of the precious metals, and obliged TO re-
cur to the wretched expedient OF leatheFn
money, in confaquence of the brilliant
but de(trudive achievements OF Charles
XII, has increafed her lhips, her manu-
failures, and her. commerce. Denmark
a!fo, by reaping the obvious advantages
rcfulting frora polite neutrality, has ad-
ded greatly to her PROPERTY and the CT
lies Of Copenhagen and Altoona, under
the adminiifration.of a prince regent, have
received an immenie accefion Of wealth ::
the cloud has pafled away which threaten
ed the navigation of the Sound ); and the
trade ofthe nations on its borders has been
lecuredi in cafe of a future CONTEXT by new
and advantageous concelhons.
seRufha, towering like coloauS above
the neighboring ftates, has neither added
to nor diminilhed the extent of her do
minions by the late conflict; but fhe feels
eonfciouinelS of her own power and pre-
ponderence and while ihe acts, even
now, occaionally, as the mediator and
the umpire of contending nations, bids
fair to realize thofe gigantic projects Of
ambition, which originated in the genius
of Peter the Great. Alexander Pauio-
witch appears to be preparing new keiti-
ny for that immenfe empire, at the fame
time that he is acquiring liability for bis
own government. BY removing the feu-
dial prejudices againf commerce, he has
opened new iource Of wealth and induf-
try for the nation ) while aware, by the
dire experience of a father and grandfath-
er, of the evils as we'll as the dangers Of