The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-14
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
RUSSIAN COMMERCE..

NOoolhN SOMXUENSE.
Whit France and England are combating
for their reciprocal manufactures, and CONNER.
cialindutry, and exhaufing their ftrcngth, and
dim ciihing their population, for diftant and un-
healthy colonies, Rufiia, without any pretenGoi,
to internal commerce, or external colonies,
grows rich in proportion as its population aug
ments and twenty years uninterrupted peace
will make that extenive empire the mot hou-
riihing and powerful in the univerfe. Vergennes
tGd /" that the letters of the world were forging
IN the north" What would have been the Mi
nifter's opinion, had he lived to fee the official
report Of the Rufian Minifter of Commerce,
Count de Romanzow This report, 70 intereG-
ing, though 70 alarming, to the freedom of the
world, contains twenty one articles, in which is
publifhed the general fate of the RufTan trade
with foreign nations, or rather the trade of TO-
reign nations with Rufiia. The 18th and 9th
articles are very curious, and ought to be diff
tinguiihed, as they give an exact account OF
the benefit Rulfia obtained of the commerce OF
tranft betree- Europe and Atia.--Thefe arti-
s,es are again divided into FIVE parts containing
the particulars, concerning the commerce
on the B7ltic-o. on the White SSa-1. on the
Cafpisn S,1--and S. on the Internal Commerce
--During the year 1902, the iinportations from
the Baltic alone amounted to 32,934,4lo rou-
ls4 rouhes. The clear profit was, therefore,
l3,sss,7l6 roubies, to which is to be added
the fun of four millions of roubics in gold or
hlver, imported either in money or in bullion
IN fuch amanner thatthc commerce ofthe Baltic
prccures to Ruf1ia, annually, clear gain OF
near eighteen millions Of roubles for raw pro-
ductions alone. During the fame year, the i'm
portations to Archangel and TO other ports in
the white fea, amount only to 549,732 roubies
Whit the expectations amount TO 4,7e6,ol7
rohbles, or benefit enormous, confdering the
importations of the great fun of 4,245, 2s5 rou-
bies. The profits of Rufiia on the black fea,
and on the Cafpian fca, are equally great in pro-
portion to its trade on thofe fcas. Do not
the!e facts clearly prove the immenfe refources
ofthe Ruf1ian empire, and that they are as re-
alas the danger of all other countries have to
apprehend from them, fiould the fovereign of
that empire know his true interef, and CONT
nue. only for thefourth of "A century ia peace
With all the world? During that time, the
trade of Rufiia mutt neceGarily improve and in
create yes, that period is efficiently long to
collect all the fractures of the univerfe in Ruff
3, and to reduce England to fate of penury
and beggary, which, it is to be wiihed, for the
welfare of mankind, it had ever left. The re-
{onrces of Rnfiia are real. thofe of ENGLAND ar
tyfeiat; let the Englifh government ceafe to pay
its creditors let the artificial credit of the En-
Slifh bank lofe too long pofefed confidence
Great Britain is ruined without relource, while
al the failures and toppages in the world, the
blowing up of the banks ofLondon and Anfter-
dam, or thofe ofVienna and Madrid, will not
make more impreflion uponthe political, militia
Tyand financial fituation of RufIia, than flames
ofVeflvius or the hurricanes on the coat of H.
dia. Next to Rufiia, France certainly pofei1es
within herfelf the mott real internal refources !;
but luxury, the confequence the height of ci-
vilization, to which Che exclu6vely is arrived,
makes her external and artificial wants greater
than thofe of Ruffia yet only bali eiOiiized.
Were not this the cafe the Englfh fhop-keep-
ers, in che midt of their magazines, crowded
with the mott elegant productions of India,
would be farving. The time, however, when
This viii be the cafe, cannot be dfant. Our
government has already founded the alarm,
ftewn all nations their interef, and mott ports
in Europe are already fhut asainf thofe tyrants
of the feas, who import their extravaganza and
unnatural pretenGons only by the want of fpi-
rit, honor and patriotifm, in other nations
lie Memorial Anti-Britanaique5, BY Ba-ve5r.