The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-02-26

From The London Morning Chronicle.
DIFFERENCE WITH AMERICA.
= Continued
Continued. J
STR,
TO THE EDITOR.

But to return to the interests OF our own
country. It's said. that our losses and pri-
Varions, which it is admitted must follow from
war, would come back again with fresh
advantages with the peace, which our arms
would speedily enforce. Nothing can be
more fallaCious than this expectation. fthe
present dispute should ferment into national
hostility, America will manufacture imnIc-
diately FOR herself; and it will be extremely
difficult to prevent the emigration of your
spinners, whilst the stagnatien OF our trade
continues, even surprising it to be bat tenn
porary. The raw material she has already
the rice plantations in Carolina have to
great extent been converted TO the growth
of Cotton, and Louisiana alone would grow
enough to manufacture for the whole habita-
bic world, But, surprising her manufactures
not to reach at first TO supply luXuries (Which
thev certainly would not,) she would manu-
tacture cheap goods--would make il NATL
onaI distinction to wear them, and penal to
wear any other. ] know that this was con-
templated during the American Revolution,
IT the independence had not taken place &
that 1t Is talked of now from one end Of A
merica to another. This is most serious
consideration. The effect of such spirit of
industry, turned suddenly on manufactures,
would not cease again upon any peace which
the pressure OF our arms might produce
When the ordinary course of human iuxu-
res and necessities is stopped up, so as no
longer to run habitually upon the fabrics &
commodities of particular nations, who have
enjoyed kind Of prescriptive monopoly in
the commerce of the world, no. man living
can anticipate its return, or know what
course II Will take. Like the sea or mighty
rivers, which when forced by foods or tenn
pests out OF their accustomed directions,
seldom come back again. to the ancient beds
Before l leave this subject, let me warn
his Majesty's present Ministers to beware
how they try any rash experiments Upon the
trade of this country by an universal block
ade, in consequence of the attempts of
France to obstruct it. Let them not wean
Europe from our manufactures, by attempt
ing to shut them out altogether, lest new ha-
bits OF luxury and new channels to supply
them should start up. Let them take their
chance Of finding their way till the storm is
: eysrblown, and by policy. as il regards
AmetiG5s, let us look to the infinite resources
which almost from pole to pole the new ives
tern world presents. sous-Thc late ill-con-
trlved, abrupt, unauthorized landing in La
Plata, proves nothing against the probable
success which may be expected hereafter
from the meditatcd plans of vigorous and
prudent government. We should have looked
merely TO. commerce and not TO settlement.
We should have held out to the inhabitants,
the safe pursuit of their own interests, and
not have attempted to plant the standard Of
conquest in such distant regions, which,
with our limited population, it was impos-
sible to maintain by force. This mistake
may, and hope will be corrected hereaf-
ter. The people of England ought more
G,heerfully to subscribe to the expences of
such p, ans, howver unsuccessful in the begin
hing, than to the visionary attempts of weigh
Ing the powers of Europe in an imaginary
balance, which, after the labor of centu-
ry and half, has ended in our scale being
kicked up in the air, with the loss of five
hundred millions of our money, whilst all
the nations of the earth have descended to-
gether in the other Who knows but that
by this wiser policy the Divine Providence
may be preparing the light of the Gospel,
and all the blessings of civilized life which
follow in its train, for nations in the shadow
of darkness and that this favored nation
may still be made the day star (as she so
long has been) of the most extensive human
blessings? Who knows but that the Empe-
Tor of France may live to see that instead of
obtaining universal empire, by ways that are
unjust and unwarrantable, his ambition is on
ly raising up more numerous and more vir-
tuous communities to balance his power, and
in due time to break it into the atoms which
compose it But the age of miracles Is past
1t is only by human means that human adj
vantages are 70 be obtained, and we must do
our parts: We stand upon the vantage ground
Nothing conceded by Great Britain can
be imputed to fear---she will only rise in dig.
nifty b. the Tniidness and moderation of her.
Councils.
Let us now examine in very few words
the amount and value of the controversy be-
tween this country and the United States
confined, It's it now is, TO the perpetual and
vexatious search of merchant ships for de-
scrtersi III their voyages in order, coollv to
determine whether it Can be nationally con-
sidered, as an object fit to be put in the scale
against the advantages of peace and good fell
lowship, with a growing and Furnishing ma
tion to be sccuredby some amicable arrange
IDcBt on the subject.
1.-THE American government las has been
asserted) Systematically pursues the encou-
ragcment Of our sailors to desert the service
and cause of their Country, or should refuse
TO enact such laws, or faithfully to execute
them when enacted, as might efFectually pre-
vent the ovi! complained of, / should consi-
der it tobe a just and necessary cause of war
whatever might be the consequence but
il, OIL the other hand, she will bona tide PROF
fer G.. Britain every protection against the
evil which wholesome laws aud their faithful
execution can produce and every facility
10 reclaim deserters, bv authorised and as
sisted search in her own & In all other ports
and by snch regulations torender the system
efcctual, as might be agreed on between
the two governments ! sbculd tbink IL eorpJ