Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-10-18
noNApARTE's COMMERCIAL POLICY.

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Lamentations ef tie Continental Nations Of
Europe, upon the interruption Of their
Commerce addressed to all the, Princes
OF that part Of the r0o,la.
Soyeseigns, Princes, Fathers of Nations,
Dtign to listen to the complaints extort,
ed from Us by that universal system OF pro-
hibtion TO which our commerce is subject
ed. The justice and the high importance
of these complaints are sufficiently demon
strated by the affecting condition to which
the people of the continent are reduced.
Now that this system of commercial war
fare against England, from which We were
taught to expect such mighty advantages,
has been carried on for some years, we may
be permitted to enquire whether it has in
fact been productive of any advantage to
us.
From this enquiry we shall find, that,
while the continent is every day more and
more embarrassed, impoverished and dis
tressed, Great Britain is advancing in a
course of prosperity and wealth, and feels
none OF the ruinous consequences OF the re-
straints by which we are tetteied. SO far
from it, she every year has been able to rem
der herself more and more independent OF
the continent; TO open to herself new chan
nels Of foreign commerce, and to discover
within herself new means Of supplying her
wants in the same manner rs the attempts
which were made from 1898 10 1886, to
s,arve France, by dePriving her of all TO-
reign c0n, only served to develope her re-
sources, and to stimulate her to an improv-
ed cultivation of her own soil.
AT present, England is supplied with
corn from America, Barbary, Sicily, and
from her growth at homc, where cultivation
is every year extended and improved. In
addition to this, she has effected great
saving In her consumption, by prohibiting
the use of barley in her disillierles, which
are now confined to sugar. This is bencfi-
cial to her in ano;her way, by taking off, At
tain price, that surplus quantity Of sugar
which the continent is prohibited from re-
ceivlng.
Wine The obtains from Portugal, Madei-
ra, the Canary Islands, The Cape of Good
Hope, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Greece, and
indeed, thro' many channels, from France
Itself.
South America furnishes her with hides,
and North America with timber; hemp she
gets from Bengal, and she viii soon raise
enough of this article for her whole de-
mand, in Ireland, where very extensive
MARSHES have been drained for the cutiva-
ton of it. From thence, too, she supplied
herself with yarn and linens.
She has rendered herself independent of
Russia for tallow, partly by the substitution
of oil, and partly by the use of the infam-
mable gas. From the coal which is EN-.
ployed IN the production of this gas, she
extracts pitch, tar, rosin, and sort OF tur
pentine; and she has discovered that the
fish Of her own seas will furnish her with
as much lsinglass as she may require
In her silk manufactures, the raw mate
rial of India and China is found capable of
being used without the intermix,ure Of any
other and her clo,hiers have been equally
successful with British wool.
With respect to the expectation of her
own produce, the European blockade affects
Great Britain SO little, that her manulac-
lures are scarcely sensible of it. Such is
the prodigiously increased and increasing
demand for her goods throughput India and
America.