Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-06-26

} ments Tor Spinning, and manufacturing
cotton, who were exposed to greater or
less loss in proportion to the capitals they
had employed. The repeal was good In
itself ascending to the true principle of
commerce, but it would have been desira.
BILE that the suppression or repeal had been
gradual, and had not commenced till flu.
ture period after the publication of the law.
A wise administration will avoid the
shocks and sudden changes in all CONNER.
cial laws. The aunihilation of cap:tal in
I the hands Of merchants is rare ano seri-
aus loss to the State.''
| This man is certainly a sound politician
for a Frenchman. Many years have pass.
ed away since we have received such truths
from the French Press. They are not
without their use in our Country, in which
some statesmen seem to think il as harm
less to change their Commercial laws. as
their dress, or their principles.
In his next chapter he is very Justly Sc
we're on monopolies so common in France
and so rulnOus to trade, but as we have no
danger from that quarter in our country
we shall not notice his remarks ON that
subject, further than to state, some of the
objects, to which the system of monopoly
extended in France.
| There were companies exclusively emit.
tied to the India trade, to that of Africa,
OF Louisiana, of Canada, and of the West
Indies. Some individuals had the sole pri-
lvilege of manufacturing cloths in their own
town, and thirty leagues round.
Public hackney coaches, ferry boats,
passage boats on rivers, funeral ceremo-
MES lin the Office of undertakers), were
Iall exclusive monopoies.
Stage coaches continued to be such till
the revolution, when free rivalship was
permitted, upon which this writer, who is
friend to the old system in general, re-
marks, that since the free cons ion, the
carriages have been lighter. more expediti.
Gus, more clearly, and what is more re-
markablee the price of seats has fallen in
the ratio of from four to Que and an half
Heavy duties are still laid upon them. a.
mou nting to two millions of francs a wear.
100000 dollars,) and yet they make for
tunes. Such is the effect of free competi
ton.
Two or three years since, Bonaparte
seized upon the manufacture of tobacco in
to snuff, and its other various preparations.
as mOnopOlyto government He turned ev.
lery man engaged in the trade out of EN-
Ipioyment, without any indemnity he for
lbade almost all the departments of Franc
from raising tobacco where they had been
accustomed to do it, and those who did
raise 1t were subjected to domiciliary visa
its and great vexations. But it proved
less productive to the government by seye-
raj millions, than it had been in the hand,
OF individuals, and with the advantages of
lprlvate competition. We had heard of
this enormous act of tyranny, but did not
know it was so bad as is here stated. This
IS the man whom some of our republicans
regret, and whom they still consider the
friend of liberty.
-DIED--At Piza, in Tuscany. March
18th, in the seth year ofhis age, Philip
Mazzie, formerly citizen of the United
States, and author of political and his
tOrical work on North America.
MazZie was descended of respectable ma
rentage IN Tuscany, and received the best
education Its universities Afforded. He
early applied himself to medicine, sci
ence, however, to which he was not at
tached, and it does not appear that he eve,
made any great acquisition In it, Endow.
ed with mind free and independent. and
ldisdaining to reside 10 country where
superstition, bigotry, and tyranny opposed
a barrier to all generous efforts in the
cause of liberty and freedom, his affections
were soon directed from the place which
gave him birth.
! After travelling over the eastern part Of
Europe, and acquiring a little fortune by
trade, he established himself in business at
London. But the ordinary routine of
commercial transactions was little calcu-
lated to engross mind like that of MAJ
zei, which sought wide display for its ia
Tents. The rising colonies of Great Bri-
tain attracted his notice, and he was in
duced to embark his fortune for Virginia.
where be attempted 60 introduce the Gull
ture of the vine, olive, and other fruits of
his native country. In a short time after
his arrival, hOstiIities commonwealth which
he manifested an enthusiastic zeal in ia
vor OF the cause of liberty. In I770, he
was sent by the state of Virginia on a Sc.
cret mission to Europe. In 1895, he re-
turned to America, but shortly afterwards
re-embarked for France. We next find
him at Paris, member of the " CORPS d.
plomatlque," at the French court, in the
service OF the king of Poland. Tile revo-
: luton IN France drove him to Warsaw, in
1892, where he was made privy counsellor
orto Stanislaus Augustus. The subsequent
D ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland, and the misfor-