The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-11-08
Political @isceIiany.
From the AURoRA.
INFRLUENCE OF BRITAIN.
No. YIII

IN my anteriour discussions it has been
shewn that the influence of Britain in the
United States, subsequent to the revolution,
was In principal measure, the consequence
OF the American people accepting the credits
offered to them by British merchants, and "a
DOPING the use OF the manufactures of Great
britain, which came ready to their hands
and abandoning the pursuit of American man
utacturcs, which at the period Of DIR. Frank
lihgs agency in England, excited SO much a.
larm and though more tedious to bring to
maturity, would, if they had been carefully
nurscd by the American people, after the re-
volution, In due season, have placed this ma
5y 6ess apns5 nssS5ftion best
stances of family, who produce w;th;r 49,
selves, whatever is necessary 70 eio.ha .ns .n,
AFFORD them comfortable existence 4
we should hot for the last eighteen ,,..u.
,:N, s,o ueen the football for foreign nations TO
h I'm "oou' tne unIvcrsc-and we should have
peen exempt from the passions which have
Soen constantly excited to maintain that ;,1-
nuence BY agitating our country nor would
shose unnatural sympathies have cxixtcd e..
loreisn nations which hare degraded our
country IN the eyes of the world, and sunk +
even III our own. We have seen that the
progress and advancement of British Is9u-
enee mas been consequence of the Great
mass Oh the people OH the seaboard, having
rclinquished their habits of industry. and =.
.onomy, their virtuous primary avocations.and
'u.nca .heir sole attention to the inordina.c
spirit OF speculation in foreign commerce.
ana 'hat commerce, if not wholly summarized
~ ,east materially assisted by British capitaI
and British credit. We have noticed too ,h.
great influx of British traders into the un;.
ed states, tor the purposes of commerc;at
operations only, not to settle and become MART
u Tree people, but to indulge luxury anJ
become rich, and leave nothing behind Them
N their departure, but the fatal example Of
heir wees or their evil habits and we NAV
e"'ark iurther, that although they did not oi-
'ays make their enfre into the country i,
ui'e SO gonrishtng style as their country.
man, the Marquis Wellesley, lately did into
'Paln-that Is, with the colours of France Fri.
mphantly spread on the wharf by wav Of
arpet tor him-they found no difficulty in
naklng their way into what have been ritl;c.-
lously called the {" first, families 20 snecies
aristocracy which l have already noticed.
indeed 1t has beef n remarked that their yo,r;-
:. ""S UGH Sougnl Dy those 0krSs
'miies," with ayidity, not exactly in accor.
ance with any discretion, and not always pro.
ucing either real or even the imaginary
appiness of durable ostcnta,ion.
a youngstcr from behind countcrip Len
'o' or from packing loft in Leeds, Man
'es'e'' or Live'fooi, whose political conse-
renee M his own country had never extcn-
- beyond an opposition to the dog tax, and
no was sent here to gather money-not to
'eno it-suddenly feels himself translated
om plain JSckx Blunt, into thing resem-
ing IN seem something indicative of spu-
'us nobility ;-herc he swells into a polite
OF immense 6aik, and although he has not
MS whole life read two volumns of the his
y OF England, nor apagc of che history of
J, other country, all Of which like a true
OF John Bull he most gravely dcspiscs,
can with amazing Aueney pass chccmnms
every thing appertaining to Great Britain,
q approve OF every. act Of the British Gov
rnmsn'' frem its conquest by Crsar, Sowp