Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-14
TRANsLAgED BY Mr.. NANcnRDE.
CONCLUDED

CONCLUDED.
In this view, the. commerce OF the Z
dited States is conGdeyed as very proilta-
bic to England, but when French manutac-
lures fhall have obtsined all the i'iprove-
ment Of which they are capable when
commerce lhalI be eflsblilhed upon iuita--
BILE BATS, it will prefent much greater
variety ofarticles upon which to iupport
i,fslf than the commerce of England. -
Wooden articles ard hardware are the
only articles which America receives from
England but France lhall furnifh NOT on
ly all theie, but her agriculture will
gain blythe fale Other wines, her brandies,
and her oils. Tholc advantages, added
70 the relative fifuation of Franceand The
United States which removes every fuf-
pieion of rivalry between them, both by
fea and and, have exhibited France as the
natural ally of the United States, to the
rye of thoic who have conGdered, IN the
extern of her power, a new pledge OF the
fecurity of their commerce and their future
tranquility. They have done homage TO
the wifdom Of thofe itatellnen who, at the
conclufion of an advantageous war, have
thought that France would gain more by
occurring the fold friendfhip of the United
States, than by acquiring territory which
would be for them an objea of jealoufy,
and might again force them under the do
mination of a people whole yoke they had
juf afiRed them to fhake off.
am DOT ignorant how delicate it is to
foretell political misfortunes which might
relnls to France and the United States
from the poGel1ion Of Louilana and the
Floridas by the former. | mutt either
conceal that which truth would have ne
fay, or, on the other hand, frightcn GER
tain queroIous minds, who may fancy
they Zee threat in my ti2nkneis. Ne
verthele!s, a citizen of one OF the two IA
tions, and frongly attached to the other,
i hope that thoie TO whom this memorial
may be delivered, will be able to let
,iui} value on the motives of my conduit,
and will fee in i, nothing bat my exerti-
ons to remove every fubjea ofdhpute be-
tween two people, formed 70 afle one
another and although / am too well ac-
cuaintcd with the relources Of my own
country, to dread the power of any of
the European nations, it will eaflly be
feen that am incapable of conceiving
tie ridiculous idea of threa,ning govern
ment which has feen all Europe bend tie
knee before Its power.
] have obferved, that France and the
United States are in REFLECTIVE ftuation
60 fortunate as to have no point of COLI
ZION. They may alliR, without being
tempted TO hurt one another in any man
ner. This commerce is uiefnl to both
nations; this union Of fentimen.s and in.
tereRsTe upon principles which ought
TO form the maratime code, and deliver
the univerfe from the tyranny founded by
Great Britain, which ihe maintains, and
which never will be combated with fuc-
ceis, until the other powers, bynniting,
will abridge her means, by transferring TO
nations, more moderate, a part of her |
commerce; and as there is no nation on
the globe whole consumption offers toto |
reign manufactures reiources as vaa asthofe t
offered by the United States, if we conf |
der with what rapidiry this confumption |
encreafes, the means which America has
Of creating navy when per political flu
alton ihall-Tendcr it necelfary, we fhall be
obliged TO own that France mutt have We
ry itrong motives and very powerful, TO
induce her to abandon thcie advantages,
and change natural ally, from warm
friend, into fufpicious and jealous neigh
Dor, and perhaps hereafter into declared
enemy.
Experience has proved, that two natl.
ons could not be neighbours without be- !
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