The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-07-21
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Whdt will be the effect Of the iatutnatfon OF
AUSTRIA and her overthrow, the affairs of nati.
ons
This is now an enquiry most interesting it
concerns the whole human race it is but the
prelude to a new and more astonishing resolution
than the uorld has yet Known.
Civilization, science, observation-disclosures, re.
lIgion, morals--power, war, commerce, will I'M
dergo such changes as no previous anticipation
nor the boldest conceptions can state with accu-
racy.
How will it operate these effects, is the theme
1t will begin with cenin,erce-tllat master
power, that Proteus which has caused the ex-
tremes OF the world to be drawn into neighbour
hood, which has given wings to inanimate matter
aiui conquered the elementary powers, the air,
and ocean, and space that Protean power which
has spread abroad civilization and crmes-sci-
encc and rapine, and brought back gold and dis
ease-luxury and avarice-that power commerce,
which has, as 1t were given to nature new ere
alton, and mode mankind at once more intimate,
and more capable of approaching and practising
virtue-and OF alternate murder and siavement
which has embellished the earth by multi
plying the resources of refinement and the arts,
and conhagrated the monuments which it had
erected, by exciting avarice and giving to ava
rice power TO wrestle with genus, and out
rage the bounties of nature and the behests of
God to man.
Commerce. which has been the source of so
much good and evil, is about to avenge man
kind upon itself, and by the resources which have
hitherto encountered human society with SO ma
ny Affections.
The revolution that is to fellow the fall of the
Austrian monarchy, will he either general
peace, such apeacc as will place hors de la Ioi
the enemies OF human concord AS the buc-
cancers ota barbarian age punished those who
violated their predatory compact the enemies of
human happiness will be excluded from inter-
course with the world-a aeSokate island will be
their precinct, and from the society OF nations to
whose peace they are opposed, they will be, bv
the common consent of the civilized world, ex-
Guided.
1t is difficult to anticipate with any plausible
exactness, the march OF the human genius in
magnificent enterprises but it is not so difficult
to investigate causes which we know do exist,
and then, by comparison, form judgment of
consequences which seem to be their necessary
results.
At what period of time, from the year 1890 to
the present day, could any mar imagine, in adj
vance, what was TO follow at the period of one
year next alter? The most sagacious have been
surpassed in their conceptions, and among the
statesmen of modern time, only two men nave
dIscerDcd IN the progress OF events, any thing
like the consequences that were TO arise cut of
them. These were men OF dissimilar character,
but of penetration greater than their cotempo-
raries we allute to the late Charles =. Fox &
LanSdolpH 1.-THE lord Shelburne of our reyolut;on,
these men foressw the folies of the coalitions
fomented by the British Cabinet, the overthrow
OF all the thrones OF Europe--they foretold them.
but were disregarded, and their predictions are
now history.
But how is this eventfu revolution to be pro-
duced-while the fleets of Britain command the
ocean without rival, or even a prospect of a
maritime competitor?
The answer to this question may not, perhaps,
be so difficult to give it may on a superficial
view seem To- be-
There are means of two sereral kinds, each
OF which would, ofitself, be adequate /; and both
the means presented by the practice of the very
power which provokes them.
The first is, that which has already been he
giin-and only begun--in the Berlin decree of
the French emperor; in other words, a blsckade
% est,nSion, and exclusion from the whole coast
OF Europe.
The next, still more effective, and what al.
ways gives efficacy to law, a measure founded
on tile principles OF acton pursued by the onfa7ved
nation.
The navigation iazps otr ENGLAND have been the
sources OF that power which have sggrandized
her, and made her the curse of Enrobe, Asia.
4ftica, and A1lericd.
The navigation laws OF England need only be
COPIED ON the continent of Europe and what
follows
II she has been aggrandzed by the exclusion
OF The ships 0fother nations
1t she has been enricled by the exclusion of
the goods and manufactures of other nations
II her wealth bias been derived from com.
merce and the industry of her people nursed by
excluding the industry Of other nations:
Change the operaton--they have but TO esta.
blish her system.
Those nations who adopt her navigation laws
against her, must prosper by retaining their
resources and encouraging their own industry.
Her exclusion or the levy of duty equal to
the value OF her commerce, retaliates her navi.
8stIon laws upon herself, and retains in the hands
OF those who before sent their wealth abroad
To enrich her, those riches for them selves and
4 she trades with them at all, it must be 10 en-.
rich themselves !