Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-12-08

or flag ofthe United States of North America.
shall be permitted To enter, discharge, or de-
part from any roads or ports OF this prnvince,
unless the right of such vessel be previously
acknowledged by the agent of said states resi-.
dent in this city.
Cd. That the principal notary of the govern
ment makes known TO all notaries public, that
previous tn extending contract of sale or
transfer OF any vessel bearing the flag of the
U. States oil North America, they give no
tice TO the agent ofsad states; the expenses
incurred To be paid by those concerned.
With this the minister of government and
OF foreign relations repeats To the agent the
assurances of his highest consideration and
respect.
tSigneD RlVADAVIA.
To john NJ, FoRBEs, Esq. Agent Of the L.
States.
The present state of South America, merits
the particular attention of the American mel-
chant, agrlculturalist, and manufacturers.
feldiso vast, and so abundant in all that can in
vte the exchanges and the intercourse of man
kind, was never before opened to human OPP
p0rtunity, and to -ronesarc those opportunities
OF SO much consideration as 10 the people of
the United States. Independent of Mexico
which canot long remain in its present distract
cd state, the population between the Mexican
gulph and the southern bound of civilization.
the population amounts to nearly 10 millions
OF people, who produce and CONSUME. Mex
leo exceeds six millions of the same descrip-
ton. There is no production, nor is there auy
climate which is not comprehcnded within the
space that we haze here noted for the elc-
Walton ofa that raa range of continent, places
1t above the influence ofthat heat which in the
same lahtudes of A frica and Asia is inconge-
nal with wholesome temperature.
The establishment of the popular represent
tatlve system in Columbia. decides the cast
ofgovernn,ent' for all America. The central
position OF that republic its riches, its n,,ne-
rous sea ports, lis more various products its
internal navigation, communicating with hotl,
seas, and open TO North East America and
Europe, and North West Amerc,, and Asia
reru and Chill, will follow the republican re-
SIme La Plata aud Mexico will from n me-
| cesaIty that IS too obvious 10 re mistaken.
soon follow ia the same track.
Inc American merchant should look about
him in time, it is in the new world he is TO
md the means OfcOmmerce, which can either
command or render him independent of the
pohcyso envy ofthe old.-lt is in South Anne
flca tilat North America will find the perma-
nent mart for her products of industry and
art-ior the employment her seamen. Tb,.
South Americans i'll not maintain any nav;,,
establishments; having within themselves the
means of subsisting in abundance and ease,
they will be an exporting people; they will ms.
uecd receive from othen natioas Nhatts,.r ma !
be brought; bnt it is in natiOhs WIere Lie eli
male is not prolific, that commercial enter
prise Is necessary. The same motive for eli
terPrise does not exist at Bagota, or Mexico,
or Lima, for advcnturing to the sea, that exists
at London, or Amsterdam, or Boston, or New
York, which like Athens, Rhods Carthage, Ge-
noa, and Venice, had either sterile sUi or
no soil; or climate locked up TO vegetation
halt the year--in South Americ; it is perpetual
summer. The Sou.h Americans will not ex-,
act'y initiate tie Chinese but they will il,
some measure-theyw will bold intercourse with
all nations who shall behave themselves well
They have the keys of universal commerce
! IN their hands-;nd the United States will
Ind IN their ports that employment which win
make the commerce Of all the rest Of the
world AN inferior consideration. aurora.