Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1815-04-22

xHe eUecfS gVHich 7v0ufd De |lr0Quced IN Bu-
] rofae. by the de6asemenf or advantage Of
other nations.
To settle this point. it will be proper to
! take COUP d'ea of the situation of the u
| nted States, and enquire to whom the aug
| mentation OF their domains would be dam
| gerous.
ENGLAND.
England and Ireland contain about Is $780,.
| 900 inhabitants
The number of slaves in the West Indies,
form $4,000 whites, and soc, 900 men of CO.
! lor.
The inhabitants of Canada, and Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. under the con i.
troll IT England, amount to 625,0C0 whites,
and 10000 men OF color.
They haze in the East Indies about sia,fu
! million Subjects above 70 million.l
The whole population governed by Eng
lana go 10 sevenfy seven millions one hun,
| dred and .ffty thousand nen---lS6, 900, 600. !
This result will appear incredible, but
| nevertheless it is exactly contormabIe to
truth.
Behold this population see now her geo
graphical position.
England is every svhere, and every where
she is mistress.
They possess Malta, bv which they pro.
the exclusion of other people, and particu
larry France. They possess also Gibraltar,
and by the means of these two places, she
commands the Mediterranean, and the ma.
vigation ut this sea is under her juri <diction,
They possess the Cape of Good Hope, and
the lsle,of France; they dispose of the So
vereignty of the Indian seas. To them be.
long the spices of Ceylon and Sumatra, the
drugs of Arabia, the coffee of Java, and all
the productions of the Asatic territory.
The colonies of newfoundland. of Cana
da, of Nova Scotia, of Labrador, give to
them the fisheries and the free trade. St.
Lucie, Tobago, and the establishments OF
Trinidad, and the Dutch colonies Oh terra
hrma, give them the means of com n anding
| the commerce of the windward islands and
the Spanish main. They found in Bermu
Ga an asylum TOR the pirates they employed
to control the commerce Of Furopeans be-
tween the two continents.
Care de Words and the Azores, they hold
| the first of these two possessions, facilitates
the means of their traffic on the coas. of
| Africa.
She is mistress OF Madeira-she gov
erns by her policy, Portugal aud Holland
and looks with hope to the government of
Spain
The western colonies united with those
hey have torn from the Dutch !; /, People
whom they have made their dnpes and
whose colonies are in a perfect state of pros.
peri!y and cultivation.
lake from Europe the commerce of the
Cni;ed States-and what remains? MO-
THINGi
france had colonies one parts restored
DIT IN what condition The greater par
were deprived oftheir laborers WHO cultiva-
hu II l.
| iIcendiaries, and without those they could
not support themselves: time and patient
labor alone could retrieve them: England
! knew this, and it was AT this moment she
chose to make a brilliant display of her phi.
idnthropy, under the aeecta,ion CT human
" Tor the negroes-she fla.tered France
with belief lhat she was under an obiga
tion--and IN the end, by a series of delays.
the only bonn bestowed Is the conviction,
that the ruin accomplished by England in
the French colonies Is so connete as to
render.a restoration remote or desperate.
Ihe Americans understand and respect
the laws OF humanity. The cruel trade in
men had devoved upon them from England.
long before England had discovered that pi.
ty tor the blacks and that sympathy for AT,
RIGA which has IL latter years become the
instrument OF her poiicy-But they remem-
1871 NAV I've SAdSt Oi tneSe
had been long time pleaded by men who
made an union Ct politics and fsDaticism
species OF trade, such as Wnberforcet and
Reeves. Above ali, Fox whose generous
and sincere eioqueHce, did not obtain the
success their hearts wished. They foresaw
the extraordinary change produced at the
moment OF the abolition OF the black code
IN the French colonies, and when England
might dispense with it, without suffering any
inconvenience, her colonies being sufficient
ly popular. And while they held IN India,
sixty millions of slaves which they could dis
pose OF 20 fill up their population, they con-
sidered England purely as performing an
act ofhumaBity.
Such is the character of this despotic ma
ton On examination, ask what becomes
OF the balance of power, the object Of so
much discussion and negotiation in Europe
The answer is mournful--it EXISTS oniy in
name
In this curious state Of things, the revival
OF the projects ct England gainst the Uni.
ted States, will be the last effort against the
freedom of Commerce and the liberty Of the
seas.
All nations, particularly those she has
subsidized fer twenty years, at length &C
knowledge that the humiliation Of England
is necessary 70 the security aud repose of the
world--the augmentation of her power al.
ready so Colossal and so murderous, the
only source OF prosperity which remains
to concentre all in her dangerous hands.
49, e. = 4.