The Delaware gazette. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1809-1810, 1809-10-18

10 .h> interchange og'hsif commodities, he. !
as one community. The evils they endure
they will aseribe to- their common enemy.
They will impart new vigor to neutral
trade, which will at least share its profits
With England, and more effectually than a.
nv means in the power OF France, arrest her
progress to a monopoly of il.
The trade which England enjoys she still
pays dearly for, in the immense naves and
armies it requires to protect it. by a stea.
DIV perseverance, in the policy recommend
ed, England will every day have to pay
dearer and dearer for it, until, finally, her
own interest may teach her justice.
lie, us descend TO few details.
proposed that France and the nations
vof the continent at once strike off all the
shackles opposed to the most perfect free
dom Of exterior and interior commerce -
that, without respect to external trade, they
ducts even to England, and the Importation
Of her products among themselves even in
her vessels.
The effect Of this total freedom will be to
try the weakest point in the British system
Of restrictions, the avayice on which alone
itis founded. The new inducements here.
by held gu, to the qualification of this rul-
ing passion will produce ten thousand 10.
fractions of the English system by English
subjects, and1wil completely turn the tables
upon her. She will be able to do nothing
hut by coercion that shall cost her more
.tnan the temptation held out TO its violation
Neutral and English ships will at once
swarm in every sea; the profits of,radc vii
sink Infinitely below their present value; al
increased interchange Of products will TAX,
place; natural advantages WILDE cultivated
manufactures will be extended over the face G
Europe, and England will only retain one ad
vantage over other nations, the profit. Of a trade
which, by their great reduction and the imtncns
expence of her naval establishments, will 500
be Of but lille absolute value.
That these effects would be insured ther
can be little doubt from the following cohsidt
rations.
The principal value Of the commerce {
Great Britain flows from the sale of her man,
features. For the fabrication of these st
would not be-. under the circumstances SUI!
Kcsted, better qualified than France, and oths
portions ofthc continent. In these countries
is well understood that the price of labor
much lower than in England, arising fro
their comparatively low value Of provisions az
freelem from taxes. 1t may be added, tn
in compact population they have likewise,
many la ge districts, an advantage over L.
gland. If 10 all this it be added that they a
never exposed TO a scarcity Of food, while Il.
gland is periodically visited by it, We shall
satisfied that they only want supply of ra
materials at moderate prices, and market +
The sale OF the goods manufactured from ther
soon to become rivals in this respect with +
gland. The entire abolition of all restrictio
will afford then. raw MATERIALS in abundance
prices very little above those paid for them
England, and will enable them, from the lo
price OF labor, cheapness OF provisions, al
saving of freights, to undcrse, at least,
their own markets, the British manufactur,
Thus will they, by these means, at once e,ta
lish the foundations of their own prosperi
and undermine those of England by cutting
that portion of her manufactures needed
zhcir consumption nations will become IL
dependant on one another; the aggrega
commerce of the world will sustain vast
mnution: and England, with an abridg
market for the sale of her manufactures, a
reduced profits Of trade, will be compellt
consulting her true interests and glory, to br
down her immense marine, which will thene
forth cease to be the scourgc Of the civilis
World. She will realise the adage, that
commerce which requires lighting for. is I
worth possessing.
The world has right TO expect this W
policy from Napoleon, whenever reposi
from his conquests, he shall tor himself d
passionately investigate the subject.
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