Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-02-10
December g..
Protected Commercial Revolnt1on.

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1 December 8.
Projected Commercial RepoiDtton.
The following outline is furnished by a gen
/ tleman who lately came fromF France where he
ENJOYED the privileges cfAmerican citizenship
and was in habitsof intimacy with some Of the
persons attached to the government The
8 plan appears romantic in the extreme, and we
hope viii prove impractieable -
g The king of Sweden is to be compelled,
on pain Of forfeiting his crown, to join the
continental confederation. No more naval
! stores are to be permitted to come TO THIS
country from the North, and we are to have
y no peace but such acne as shall annIhllate
!! maritime greatness.-- For this end
/ ships as we'll as British are to be eX-
| Guided from every port on the continent no
produce from either of those countries, nor
from the West Indies, is to be received in "a
i@sly port belonging to France or In alliance
with her-Those countries are to trade with
each other & to exclude the rest OF the world,
they are to form grand commercial confe
deration, extending from the extremes OF
Enrope to Asia, and uniting the frozen regi-
ons Of Norway end Lapland with the East-ln4
dies--This trade is to be carried or inter-
rally, by means of great roads and canals, and
round the coast by small vessels protected by
guns and batteries placed on advantageous 81
tuatiens.
Gibraltar is to be taken from us, and an
army of o,ooo French and Russians are to
aid the native princes in driving us cut of the
continent of India. This being accomplished
the lucrative commerce OF the cast Is IN tu-
ture to flow through Persia, Turkey, Russia
and France, and from thence into the other
states of Europe. A canal las these people
pretend) is to be dug for the purpose of con-
Meeting the Euphrates with the river OF Plea
SAINTS, at some place in Armenia, where they
are said to be very near each other: by which
means the ancient conveyance Of merchan-
die from India, along these rivers into the
Black sea, will berestored, and the Danube
and the Don will there receive them and con-
vey them into the interior OF Germany and
Russia. The Danube is likewise TO be con-
nected in four different places with the sElbe,
the Maine, the Necker, and the Rhine con-
sequently with the rivers and canals both IN
the north and south Of France. Venice is to
recover the commercial splendor she possess
ed, when the wealth Of the east flowed into
her port by the channel aforementioned.
Napoleon, it is said, has promised the
. king of Westphalia, that he viii shortly see
bales of India goods transported from Basso-
ra TO Hamburger, by inland navigation and
the manufactures of Europe are to find their
way to Hindostan in the same manner,
6 But this is not the road that these poteh-
tates are to take, in order to reach India The
French army arc to cross the Danube, and
proceed by the Crimea to The Caspian Sea
they will continue TO march through the DO
minions of the allies, the Russians, as tar as
Astrabath; which is a port on the southern
extremity of the Caspian sea, IN S. degrees
of eastern longitude, and from thence 10 the
northwest extremity Of Hindostan is only Is
degrees, or about sec miles. Astrabath has
s been fortified by Russia, and has a fine port,
by means of which it can draw provisions irons
the Don and the Wolga, countries abouidingg
in corn and other necessaries, which in time
OF peace, are usually shipped in large guam
titles from Asoph and Kirson to Constantine
pie. Astrsbath is therefore to be their grand
depot, and at that place the Russians are, 1t
is said, at present in considerable force"
..s.ss-aA
g. The Proprietor OF the
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