The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-28

OF Neufchatel
Sweden. 100000 $4,000 3,09o,0Oo
153,0ooOoO 1,o5l, $50 359. 100000
To which op I
pose G.. Bril-
tain, and the : II. 100000 10000 10000, 600
islands of ST.
The judicious reader will perceive, that
all the continental nations OF Europe except
ing France, are reduced in this estimate,
both i'm numbers and revenue, below the
state of the same nations before the French
revolution and that Great-Britain, cut off
from Europe, is estimated at the full amount
of her income from reUenEe, ta.res, and
loans.
The resources Of the continental nations
must be daily INCREASING from the mere O.
peration of internal activity, and the new
spring given to human activity, by the over
throw of decayed thrones and the ancient
arstocracies-and new energies excited by
placing in every nation natural genius up
on the same level, without the shackles of
feudal and hierarchical prejudicies.
The progress of the sciences and the arts,
are not now tramm He'd by barbarous insti-
tutions, but like the foods of the majestic
Rhine and Danube, whose streams pay no
tribute to feudality, genius now travels I'M
confronted from the Seine to the Arno- and
from the AIDA to the Oder; nature herself
feels the Cheering tread OF the human foot
steps and the grateful pressure of the bur-
dens of industry floated from nations hither-
to remote-to the banks of canals carried
through the bosom of mountains over fiinty
deClivities, and on the bosom of sloping
roads constructed, where once frightful pre-
cipices and rayines forbid the approaches
of man.
The Rhine and the Danube, the Meuse
and the Rhone, like the great arteries of the
human body, serve now the same purpose to
the continental body of Europe, and the tri-
nmphs of art and science in the midst of
war, are thus in some measure compensa-
ting for the havoc which it has made.
Such is but "a very faint glimpse of the
awful and interesting picture which Europe
ut this moment presents-and upon the con-
sequences which must speedily succeed TO
this state, will greatly depend the future
good and happiness of the Uunited States
1t is into contest with zvorid like this,
that the Infatuated mania Of British politici-
ans would lead the United States, and tear
us from the dignifed and happy repose we
enjoyed.
People of America, preserve your selves
from the deluders of the nations ofEurspe
land let it be the pride OF a repubH can ,Ain
the midst OF universal storms, to resist the
corruption and to avert the evils which have
listened to their comm on seducer and distur-
Der.
Messrs Eohkins and Earle, Of this CITY;
have just published speech, delivered be-
fore the British House of Commons, ON the
first of April 1903. by HENRY BRoucHAM,
Esquire, in support of the petitions from
London, Liverpool, and Manchester, against
the orders in Council, which cannot fail
anrNlxy IL,
10 this edition they have prefxed the SUBJ
:sequent account of the enlightened Author.
[Poaison.
10, SIn the list extraordinary men, of whom
the British Isles have produced more than
any other section of the world, may be EMU
nerated Henry Brougham, the author of
the present speech. At very early period
of his life he gave presages ofhis future emf
nence. For in the sixteenth year of his age
be became known to the public, by series
OF papers in the transactions of the Royal So
ciety of London, on an abstruse point of pa,-
slcal science, which were written with such
purity of style, and manifested so much
acute and diligent investigation, that he
was Immediately elected member Of that
perhaps, the most learned institution of Eu-
rope. Not long after receiving this hnnora-
Bile testimonial of his precocous attachments.
he commenced course of legal studies. and
having completed them. was called TO the
Scotch bar. We still wildly recollect tie
powers Of eloquepce which we have heard
him there display. But the cares of his pro
fession did not wholly engross Mr.. Brough-
ANS attention. With these, he mingled ha
bltually the cultivation of polite literature.
and the study Of politics.
6 IN 1903 when only twentv-four wears
old, he published work in two large vo-
b tunes, entitled The Colonial Policy of the
European Powers" which, though il may
not have widely circulated in the United
states, has undoubtedly been better receiy-
cd IN Europe than any other production on
polit'ca economy since Smiths Wealth of
Nations"
g Nearly about the same time. he. in con-
junction with several literary friends, win
out any venal motive, established the "Fdin-
burSh Review" to which he has i5cralfv
contributed. The articles on moral ard po
l'icai subjects arc principally executed by
him.
OF the genersl merits oil this celebrated
Journal, or Of the particular excellence Of Mir.
Brougham'sccmpositions contained in II. We
shall say nothing, public sentime0t having
s,ready assigned 20 e-ch, confessedly. tie
highest rank ia the department of criticism.
Two years ago. he Quilted the Scotch
rnc'rornils, and settled ~ London. as a The
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