Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-05-20
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A~u6iaHu, " SneW tuat THAT country Is Inde-
pesdent Of commerce, and that her resources
arewholly rithip herself AS general pro-
position, it may be, admitted that agriculture
is TIN enly foundation of wealth but this
must Ne taken With relation to the whole
world at Arge, ahd it may not follow that the
cultlvationyof ne soil, to the exclusion of
other occuINtoSs,S viii be the policy of every
country any neee than of every Individual in
a society. Theafaetis that agriculture, ma
nnfactures * commerce, have all been found
to be the reaEsource Of national greatness -
and 1t IS not therefore from general principles
and abstract reasonings that we are to give an
exclusive preference TO one or to the other ~
How far they are to be niointly or separate
~ encouraged, must depend upon due con-
sheraton OF various circumstances, to which
the writers alluded to have not sufficiently at
tGded; such as the extent of territory, the
fertility Of the SOIL the insulSr or continantal
situation Of the country, Ind the talents, ac :.
qllements and disposition of the Inhabitants.
Accordingly as these are judicicasiy consult
ed the true interests Of a colntryw be- pro.
mded, and it is by this diversity of pursuits,
ani tn. consequent Interchange of produc
ticls, talent and labor, that Providence has
United together the great society Of mankind
To what cause ere we to attribute the power
OF Venice in the beginning of the 18th centu-
ry, when she Withstood, both by sea and land
the whole force of Europe combined AGAINST
her in the league of Canbray Or how are
we to account for the former greatness of the
states of Holland: the most Formidable mari.
time foe tina. England ever encountered In
these instances manufactures had little, and
agriculture no concern. How then can it be
denied that commerce may Sc rendered a
source OF national wealth? That Great l3ri-
tain derives d considerable part of her riches
from agricultural pursuits is indisputable -
and everyseHort to promote them is entitled
to the highest praise bat her peculiar chs
raCter is that oil manufacturing and CONNER
cia nation. As mere agricultural state she
would stand low indeed in the scale Of nations,
but if, i'll aeiditionto her agriculture, she ex-
ert herself to maintain that superiority in her
manufactures and commerce which she has
already acquired, and secures those atlyanta-
ges by the establishment of peace, she may
look to lhe continuance Of her prosperity not
only with probability but with confidence.
Bonaparte has adopted very extensive
plan for the Improvement of Paris. Among
other subjects al the streets between the Ca
rousal and Louvre ere 10 be pulled down and
another gallery corresponding with the gale
ry OF the Louvre, to be built with an open, ar
.cade, leaving in the front Of the ThuilIeries
parade sufficiently large to exercise an army
of loo, 600 men. Another new bridge isnow
building over the Seine from the middle Of
the Champ de Mars, and several new foun-
tains are erecting, and the new national monu-
ment in the cemetry of the Magdalens, and
the triumphal arch in the garden of the Thu
illeries, commemorative of tie victories of
Napoleon, are prosecuting With activity. The
other national works going forward are
column so feet high, in tie place Vendomc,
to the French arms, with an avenue to the
Boulevards; martial temple on the Roule-
Yards St. Honore, to contain the st9tutes Of
the different generals who have distinguished
themselves; on plates Of gold, the names of
AL the officers and men who fell in bottle are
TO be displayed; and on PLATES Of silver the
names OF those who survived those conflicts;
a temple 70 Victory at the barrier Of the
Champa Elysees, of immense magnitude;
new sarade to the Legislative palacefin the
pantheon Of Geneyieye the quay OF Desaix,
which is to be faced with piazza; ana the
scolumn of RostoCk.
The Dramatic Authors in Paris lately a.
mounted to 2l42, comprehending tragic and
comic poets. melo-dramatists, moro-drama-
lists, vandevillists paradists, and latoninists.
When performers of en,inence become su-
,peranuated, they are supported by the state
ol, the liberal principle, that those WHO have
contributed TO the public pleasures, shonld
be supported i'll the decay of nature by public
gratitude,
From Copenhagen we learn that the
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