The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-06-20

of which were the progenors OF The modern Coyf.sas
an alliance b. new colonies VIII lerve to defroy
prejudiees which want but lome fuch almilation to
render them tcarcely objels of coaverfa,on feeling
the glory which Corran geais has ihed upon France
genius educated and ai inflated once by habit and
by glory, TO her fame and detinies.
10 the Morea there will be founded thoe colonies
winch France wants--there ports harbors, ma
terias for naval equipment and the moi ample re-
iourees that now exi(t for universal commerce At
every heP cailic example aud emulation furniih in
eentives TO enterprze and to fame Achaa Iycaonia
Cor'nth, Argos, Tigala and Lacedemon, MefIenia
and an hundred other places memorable in claiIic
htory, give iusereR and importance to the ant;ent
Peoponnefus, the modern Morea; ana on the ada
cent hores formed by the Saronc and Corinthian
guiphs, Aehaia and At.ica--Athens and their fame
Niagara and rheGpia, The5es and Beo,ia and
their thouiand aiiociate nations, TheIaly, Macedon
and Ep'rus fulh upon the mind-hsre the frrir of
nation proverbialy vivaeous and elevated by GLORY
and triumph uuexampled, find theatre TO fatiate
their an,bton-and refources already prepared To
crafty the mott covetous cravings of commerce.
In word, there erih at once the means of temp
atlon and qualification fuperadded political ne
Gently, ariiing out Of the meditated denruciion of
France by the conpirators at Pilnts- which conpels
rance TO rule and to counteraa all thofe who would
have deltroyed, and would fill dearoy her.
Notwithstanding that the Mediterranean was once
the centre OF universal commerce, and although even
nfee the PALACE round the Cape of Good Hone il
has been the chief mart of Europe the KNOWLEDGE of
its immenie refources and riches-has been by the
ipIrt OF mercantile monopoly, and felihnefs conf
ned 10 lew companies and few adventurous mer
chants IN different countries, who have ever conder
cd 1t their belt policy to keep within themfeves that
knowiedge, which if DILUTED might excite competi-
ton, and over trade the market.
knowledge on this well as all other fubiecfs, al
ways yields to enterprise; the American merchants
nave penetrated the remote bays and inlets-the III
ands and guiphs OF the Levant-Syra and Egypt,
Cyrene and the African flores have fent their winds
M the American canvas and to dplay the colors
of the new world
Through The indu1ry aud libera!ity of an Ameri-
can, well acquainted by long reGdence and audi
Gus attentionto the commerce of the Levapt the It
l'an and Barbary coaGsand the channels of the Pro-
points and the Euyine, are poIefed of abundance
OF facts from which the difpaionate and dircernpg
reader will be able determine with what decree of
reaionable probability, we have formed ,nany of our
antcipations and coneuions on thofe political relati
ons OF the powers of Europe which we have connapt
~ dcuiled. Thefe data fhall be the BATS of future
sfays. ''''
The difcufhoa will enable men who think correctly.
20 nueover the INTAKES OF thofe who declam from,
paiiIon, rather than conult common fenfe If will
NEW that even ambitious are not 10 Indifferent
to common ienie or to the hyperion and more pepdid
indictments OF their particular interefts than uperfic
al writer's are willing allow or capable of di(cerp
ing; and IN proportion thefe truths are rendered
clear Ineligible and ncontrovertible will be able 70
ime at the fanatics with which we are Cone,;,,ss
anuied by tEoe who for want of data or fober reec
of fact. r'"Ne'