Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-12

New Grenada having obtained the that
State to be surveyed its engineers and its expense
What has come of the expenses Of that survey Of the
plain rights which thence accrued to France and Of all
the elements which that survey offered to national
industry Another agent of Central America sent TO
Franc an accredited representative to solicit its political
protectorate, and to offer passage the Pacific
ocean, and important market for our productions
Why uere these offers declined Just The whea Ling
land was nrsntg her King Of the Aosquoss and soleniy
establishing him under the protection Of The British fagY
That admirable peninsula Of Samana of which SO muck
talk has been made of late, and the whole Domnicar1
Republic offered about the time the French
Government In exchange for its flag and its protection
Why ras is proposition rejected the Others had been
In order that the mind Of the reader may decev
ed upon this subject let it be said that the enlargement
of French influence in America the expansion OF it's
commerce and Of its industry, found their obstacle
the part of England, the part Of Spain The
hindrance from the Chambers and from the fear
which was inspired by the timdity Of the majority and
by the audacity of the opposition Hor should Froner
congratulate herself that this state of things longer
And that in Whdeter undertakes the Government has hence
forth only 70 take counsel Of lis good Of justice and
Of The general interests Of the couatys
The French public, generally domestic in its habits,
and accustomed for long period exclusively in
terna policy wholly occupied with the stres Of parties
has conception Of the elements fruitful enterprise
within the reach Of all spirits and worthy Of every ef
fort that contained in distant regions and
the very possessions Of France The old and glorious
traditions Of fathers stories of the days when French
men coonized half OF Americas and OF the Antilles fro
Canada to Guiana when they covered the
OF Africa with their counting houses when they felled
the forests of Madagascar and rxed Bourbon and tho
Isle of France and in India what England is
prosecuting there with much profit and gloryai
these things have become old chronicles and dead let
ter. Finally, the Government is examining at
the present moment, with audabe soictude various pro-
positions which have been made to it for the establish
ment of three great lines Of transatlantic navigation
for Brazil another for the Antilles and the Gulf Of
Mexico and the third for New York Whichever project
the Government may adopt is not permitted to doubt
that this magnificent enterprise will receive prompt
sanction Thus every thing to call the attention
of France upon America to invite ither its merchants
its capitalists, and its intelligent and active people
This will be France itself pouring itself abroodnot
have hitherto the France of adventurer but that
of of labor and of wise speculation. This viii be
for agriculture, for industry, and for
field to be fertlzed and reaped and to politics viii
afford powerful derivation, destined to effect the alb
sorpton of the vicious sentiments and false ideas which
had been engendered by the revolutionary pestence
The above article is in part intended to throw dust In
the eyes of England and deceive her to the real OBJ
ect of the great scheme of transatlantic navigation now
maturing in the French councils 1t would fan inspire
the belief that this enterprise is really what it pretends
be, purely pacific and commercial in its and
ends and not preext for the increase Of French mill
tary naval power.