The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-08-01

markets. --The value of furs will be fill further
deprecated, whenever the Indians on the Co.
lumhia river can be periuaded to bring them
| ca the coat, or TO encourage the enterpriling
trader to fend their boats up the river to COL
| !ea them
Many years cannot therefore elapfe, before
our prefent trade with China mut undergo fome
| variation. The diminifhed value of Dollars
and furs mutt gradually introduce fome other
| article OF exchange but among the product
! ons ofour own country, what article promifes
70 much profit as cotton? Our expectation of
that article has hitherto been confined TO or
4thoufand Peculs whereas in 1905, the Eng
liih fhips carried no lefs than lac, 900 Peculs.
THE NAVY OF FRANCE.-Bonaparte
appears to have three great de6gns in view !;
to revolutionize Greece to confederate his
neighhouring ftates into one great Empire, and
to efabliil,a navy equal or hyperion to that of
Great Britain.-The laft is certainly not of in
ferior moment to any enterprise which he can
project, fince it is the Englilh navy which prin-
ciPalIy retrains his ambition and his power
That filch is Bonaparte's policy, is demon
Grated by fevcral recent incidents.
Fleet after feet has been equipped in his
ports, in ipte the repeated ruin of his fauad-
rons.
AL inc TopN D0rfS OF france, many or the
ports of Italy, and particularly of Venice. are
now repreiented as in fate of the utmoft ac-
tivity.
Twelve Inspectors general of the foreft have
been appointed, each with province to fuper-
intend and with particular directions to collect
all the timber fit for naval purpofes.
The author of " War in dfguife'' afferts that
in the ihips taken by Sir r. Calder, one third
of their compliment of hands were folders,
who had been put on board to work with the
feamen.
The Imperial Edit reported TO have been an
| nounced to his officers by admiral Linois, which
| reduces every officer captured by the enemy, to
| one fourth of their actual pay; the high compli-
nents 70 feduloufly paid by Napoleon to all the
orucers, VINO dlicnarged their duties inthe battle
off Trafalgar; thefe, and many other proofs
| might be exhibited, of his determination to
| increafe the number of his ihips, with the
number and valour of his feamen. Finding
| that theheet of the modern Carthagenans is the
only check upon his greatness, he is deter
mined TO initiate the fpirit of the Romans,
and vanquifi them on their own element.
The late improvements in the art of war
| however, have prevented any imitation of their
particular mode of fighting. The ancient
Corvus has aImoft loft its ufe, ince the intro
duction of artillery and netting. Since there
| fore he cannot, like them, fupply by The mere
ftrength of his folders, what he wants in the
| Kill of his feamen, he mutt meet the Engih
on their own element and in their own way.
But is there not every reaion TO believe that the
reiources which are now mutt loon be in his
| hands will be amply commemorate to fuch de-
| 6gus more particularly too, when few years
and a fhort peace ilall have enabled him to call
them forth
| Let thofe who doubt the praeicability of
this enterprife, examine the following fate ment
from Voltaire's SAGE Of Louis XIV And let
| them take theie facts along with them that
| whatever were the abilities of Louis XIV. they
are not to be put in competition with thofe of
| Napoleon that however inferior the French
is to the Enelifh feet now, il is not AS much
70 as the feet Of Louis XIV. was to that of his
rurrnirs and thar however great were the re-
tources of Louis, they were not hyperion to thof.
of Napoleon.
The one was lord Of France alone the other
of Holland, France, Spain, the COATS of italy,
with all their ports, their arfenals their forefts,
and their feamen. Throw however the re-
| fources Of Dalmatia, perhaps of Greece, anc. it
may be of all Turkey, into the tcales, and the
balance is no longer doubtful. The films 81
Sinope, fays Eaton in his ftrpey Of the TurkiH
Empire colt "a fhip Of the iine) only +. ZOO,
without their guns and rigging."-But with
fuch maritime means in his hands, it is almoR
| 'nPoluOIc THAT many years or peace can
elapie, before he lhal reduce Great Britain
to the rank of fecond-rate power.
"The fame attention which he Hbewedin FORMING Il
numerous and we'll disciplined land armies, eve: be-
lore he was engaged in any war, he liewi(e exerted
in acquiring the empire of the fea Firf the few yec
iels which cardinal Nazarine had fuffered to rot in
the harbour,, repaired fome Others are bou0bt
in Holland and Sweden and after the third wear Of
his government, he fends his maritime forces TO make
an attempt at Gigeri, the coat of Africa Tie
duke OF Beaufort clears the Tea Of pirates in the wear
1865 and two years after France has in its ports fix
ty ihips Of war.
"'rhis is only beginning But, whilA new rc-pls-
tons and new efforts making, he already fcsi all
his force. He unwilling content that his films
ihoud lrike their flag that Of England The conn
Gil OF king Charles H. in vain inf he'd upon this ri-ht
which force, induftry, and time, had given to the
Engiiih. Lewis XIV. writes thus, to the count d.
Eitrade, his ambaGsdor g The kicg of England and
:" his chancellor may fee what my forces are but thev
" do not fee my heart. regard nay honour more
IS than all other things"
"He iaid no more than what he was refovsd 70 main
tain and, in fat, the uf1rpation of the 6rn,nef,
OF the Englhh gave way to the natural rich,
and the firmnefsof Louis XIV. Every thing was e.
quail between thefe two nations at Gea. Bur while
he would have an equality kept up with England. he
maintains his fuperiority Spain. He obliges the
Spanilh adirals ifrlse to his flag by the v;r,,s
OF the folemn precedenoy agreed upon in 1869.
! Pains however uied on all fdes for the en- A.
blihment of marine capable ofiuRifving ,boCs b;b