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F?.oi,i lhu-'t IVr.TKcr Mi twct*. ILLUSTRATION Os tue Po.itus of Europe. The prints in dispute between Grcat- Britain ami other powers, as they refpeli the n ulral Trade. IF we examine this queflion calmly, we shall discover that the advantages which the enemy de rives from the afliflance of neu trals, in carrying on his colonial remittances, and ail the other branches of his distant commerce, arc by no rrcans unmixed with lerious injuries to his prosperity, and that the neutral flag can never cover hirn from the tffeft of our maritime fu[ eriority. In the firft pi ace, the luperio rity of the liritifl; navy must upon any rupture with an enemy, coot pc! him ro employ neutials in almost every brench of commerce and commir .cate that fhocic to his mercantile affairs, which they cannot speedily recover. No di.rig is more t> be dreaded in a trading country than furfi fuel . Jen and exten/ive changes, as mere is fcarcrly a merchant in l ran re but moil fee) the tonfe qucnct 1 , of our inf-.nt‘transfer jug all the navig .ogn of the country into the hands of neutrals end compelling Iris trade to a circuitous and more txpenfive courle. In the second place, the total fuf, enfion of tlie enemy’s trade is an injury of the greatell mo ment to his general power; it is preeifely that fort of injury mofl desirable to our own interests, and the natural confequrnce of onr naval fuptriority. While nculrul fliips and Tea men arc employed in carrying on the commerce of Fiance, her only nurlcry of i.iilors isdeftroy rd ; she loft s her only chance of a navy, and as a marafime Pow er she is degraded into nothing. We have been told indeed that the exciufion of her seamen from tlie mercantile trade gives hra: greater command of recruits for her vtflcls of war ; but this can be nothing more than a tempo rary iupply. vVnen the Engl.fh navy lus taken and deftroyccl tlie crews thus procured, or when in a few years to v have died away, whence are their places to be lup plied ? To what new itock will they turn ? What other grannery have they to exhiull ? The trade’ of France mull re vive, it mult be eftablilhed for iome years bes re her navy can be placed upon the footing which it had when the Neutrals began to lend her their afliflance “by cngrolling her foreign trade.— The ruining of all ,her liopes of ever acquiring maritime Arength, is as eflcdually secured by our maritime iuperioricy driving her ‘trade into neutral hands, as it could be by our preventing her from trading ac all, And let it be remembere 1 that this is ait the injury which it is our intereff to fe-l from the war. The def truftijn of an enemy’s trade is net to be desired, jit order to annibilat- his national wealrh.-- By the ‘indivuluil prolpiricy of his iubjeds we ourieives me gain ers ; b; their progre.’s in riches we improve ou. own, and though his puiahe revenue nay be aug mented by his increalc o c public weabh, we mull nect.ll.iniv aug ment our own revenue by tiie increalc which our wealth recei ves from his. The man whom I live by trading with, 1 cannot wifti to reduce to a pauper. 1 ikftroy my own market when i reduce his. Trade can only fluurilh as there is mutual wealth; the buyer mull have money, and the lellcr must have flock. The lurreiiner ol tho French commerce to the neutral nations, is the bell expedient that could be deviled for limiting the growth of her navy, and degrading her as a maritime power. But, lastly, the operation of our maritime power upon the naval affairs of our enemy, be iides destroying that part of his i'yftgm which alone it is our in terest to injure, confers impor-’ tant benefits upon those whom it is our interest to aflift. It trans fers a large portion of commerce, wealth, and a capacity of acquir ing martime power, to nations naturally allied to us, by blood, by the relations of political in terefl, and by the intercourse of trade. The Americans in par ticular with whom our mofl ex tensive and lucrative trade is car ried on, and whole friendlhip, in a politcal point of view, we ought to court, as being the only ref peddwe state beyond the in fluence of our enemy, are gain ers by the commerce in queltion 1 to an aftonifning degree, both as a mercantile and military peo ple. How much her commercial gains are, our gains need not be pointed out; neither is it requi red of us to fliew how greatly it is for the advantage of England, and of the v/orlci in general, ih*i what the French power lofVs fliould pass into the hands of a flare who Can never become the (pod of the common enemy, • . hole ambition cannot be perni - cious to Europe—a state where so many circuinftances occur r<. cflub!ifh the influence of English principles and conned ion j, and where,the other powers of tlie continent, without having any ground for alarm, may always exped to find afliflance as focn as its means are coinr.enlurace with its inclinations. It may be here laid, that we are advocating the cause of A merica, to the neglect of the fil tered of Great Britain, and a con tempt of public opinion. Ear from it—we dii'dain the insinu ation ; but we are ready to as- I'ert, that nothing can be more impolitic than to encourage, at the present period, any vulgar jealousies againlt America. A strong objedion we know has been urged, and with mud-, popular effedt, again!! our en couiagement of the carrying trade of America. The mei ehaiitqpen of America are, ir Items, manned in a great degree by deserters rom the Britilh Na vy. Whiitl the emigration of our Teamen info their ftrvia prevents England Iron putting uer llnps of war into com niliion, die Americans are ready to c flablilh a form.id.iblc marine up on the ruin of our’s, for the maintairunce of their difpuied claims. It happens, however, to be the neceffiry con icq tie- ICC of our ficuation that fueh an emigration lhould tike place. The similar ity of manners and language, which determines the ordinary course of emigration from this country to America, has i firm- Ur effett upon the emigration of our Teamen. The higher wages, in the American lervice, the ex emption from press- gangs; the total freedom which it enjoys, cannot fail to attrack a number of lailors from our merchantmen during war. But how can this pollibly be prevented ? Mo re gulations of Government can dellroy this similarity o ; manners or compel our merchants to r*iiV their wages, in order to retain crews tor tlie rude grasp of a Prtfl-gang. Nor do we feein willing to abolilh that mode of recruiting our navy, which, if coupled with an advance of wa ges, would probably have the de ified effect. It is laid, however, that we may infill upon the right of searching all American vefiels at lea, and imprefling the Britilh Teamen found in them. Do we mean then to deny to our Tailors alone, of all classes of people, a right to leave the country, and feck employment in the lervice of friendly powers? A lailor, working in an American ship, is m the predicament of an Englilh farmer cultivating an American plantation ; the iearch of the Ihip, for the purpose of leizing the Tailor, would be an act of as violent aggiellron as the search of the country for the leizurc of the farmer. i The only c! ftcrence betweenj the cases is, that we have the power in the former case, and not in the latter. But by going to war w ith America we may prevent the further emigration of our seamen, and require a right to reclaim those who are alrea dy gone. By turning all our vessels into armed* cruisers, and engaging in a universal piracy, we might ft.ll further enrich ourselves, seize upon the ocean, as France has seized upon the land; we may perhaps find a profit in preferring a war with the whole world, to peace with a Angle nation, who happens to have rights and advantages re pugnant to our fuppolcd inter ests. After all, however, laying a side the justice of the case, can it be our interest to quarrel with the only power which remains unhurt by French influence, & to loofc our intercourie with the nation belt calculated for the advancement of our commercial prosperity ? The trival impor tance of all that could be qained ”>y excluding the neutral traders bo n vie enemy’s commerce, has already been lhewn. No words! are required to prove, that the olajiks occasioned by Tome Tail ors leaving our lervice will fpce dily be filled up : that the num ber of Britilh Teamen will, at a given period, be greater in con sequence of our breeding for the American navy, just as the num ber of our people is upon the whole augmented by the demand for men which our colonics cre ate. We may feel Tome inconveni ence in the mean time from the progress of American commerce and the desertion of our Teamen to neuural powers. But it is ungenerous to repine beeaufe circumltances, not of their own iecking, have thrown a species of commerce into the hands of [lie Americans, of which no o di'-r people buc themselves could profit, which, in no case what ever, England could enjoy ; which, if not taken up by Arne ricans, would be wholly loft, to ‘he great detriment of Europe • n general; and onr own particu lar injury at a future period. If America get*-rich by ir, so! bid Holland in the last century ; so did we in <ihe firft French war. A general policy can ne ver be justly modelled according co fucti feifilh and temporary confideratioiix. The evils and difficulties in queltion are the consequence of-the long war in which we have en engaged.— They are part of the fucceflion to which the present ministers have fallen heirs. The world is ilrcady in arms againlt our com merce. All the demons of centraband and prohibition are excited against us ; let us there fore hesitate before we shut the only market which, in 4he courle of a very lhoic time, is likely to remain open to us.— America may be angry with jullice, bu: it is her incereft, as well as our own, to be on terms of friend ship, copartnership. ANDREW KNOX, IN TENDING to close the bufintfs carried ou in his own name the lad of this month ; of which all concerned will take due notice. After which time, he detigns taking into Ccpartrterlhip Mr. BENJAMIN S. POPE, (who has redded for upwards of four years in the house) under the firm of KNOX <Sc POPE, Who will continue the FACTORAGE & COMMISSION BUSINESS, and flatter themselves from their industry and perfeverauce, to meet a share of Public favor. They exped a general supply of GOODS, suitable for the season, which, together with a general and well chosen affbvtinent of GROCERIES, will be told on as liberal terms as any in the place. September 19. ts. 411. BILLS of LADING Fur Sale at this Office. FOR THE REPUBLICAN. THE LIMNE R, No. XXXI. Opimonum comments delet dies, natnrx judi- ■ cia cpnfirmat. Cicero. Time obliterates falfe opinions, and eflablilhcs the decision of natures. IT is pleasing to trace through the inftruftive medium of history, the vari ous mutations, which the popu!aropifiio n upon the molt interesting subjects, hag, age after age, undergone. In the md e , and unpolilhed Rages of society, the natu ral energy of human intellect has not that wholesome guide, experience, to di rect it, in the pursuit of truth. In bar barous agC3 the human mind from the excercife of its native powers, unafEßed by tlie refinements of arts, forms to ltfcfl a fyflem of opinions, hypothetically cal culated to conduce, to the ameliorating the condition of man j hut it remains for experience t demonstrate the inefli cacy of fueh system. I fay the ineftica cj ; for every system, not founded upon J experience, must confequentialiy, be in efficient. It is diffi u!t fcnietimes to trace efleifts to the real fouice of causa tion ; and this allertion receives addition al strength Irom the authority of a cele brated Latin poet, who has thus written : “ Caufa latet; ref est notiflinia.” “ The cause is secret; but the eftedf well j known.” Then, moll undeniably, if after some thing is produced, it be a hard taflc to discover that, which did produce it ; l it is almost impolfible, accurately to conceive, what particular .fleet will emanate from a cause before untried We can readily conjeAure what will be the result of adopting fornc special rnea- j lure, with regard to the nature of which we are enabled to form an opinion, from experience ; beeaufe similar effedts are produced by the fame cause t but imoi refted by experimental knowledge, we are truly groping through darkuefs, in pursuit of light, and it u ten, to one, but we advance a wrong way. Jn the origin of empires, insidious, and defignißg characters have always impos ed upon the weakness, and credulity of tlie multitude. The ignorant are very ealily allonifiied ; and as wonder is a pleasing emotion of the mind, they receive with avidity whatever is calculated to ex cite it. In things of a marvellous, arid improbable nature, they are observed to place the molt firm belief and as wonder is produced in their minds, by the rela tion of a miracle, lo the effect of the story told them, is itfelf the producer of theit faith. Whatever is prodigious they de light to hear, and pretend to believe, 1 wnat they have not ideas to comprehend. But sober, reflecting, and enlightened men will ev.r conscientiously deny their’ belief to any fubjedt, which infringes upon the eilabhlhed rules of nature. The Cardinal De lletz, (famed for Ids politi cal intrigues) when he flew from the per feciuion of bis enemies, visited Spain, and palled through Saiafafta. He there saw a man, who had, as was universally I declared, for Several years been deprived ot a leg—die luddenly recovered the use of his leg by rubbing oil upon the ft amp ; this was teftified by numerous perions. who affirmed that they had been eyewit nesses of the fads. The Cardins! relates this (lory himfelf; but dots not place any reliance whatever in its reality, for he was a man of great genius, and phih-fo phic It j dies that genius had been devot td. He knew it wa3 a pretended mint cle, which knavery had effeded to ope ra r e upon credulity and weakness, and although, he could not obviously unfold the nature of that knavery, or how the art was io fucccfsfully pradifed ; 1(:M he doubted not, but it was viholiy an impo lit’.on, beeaufe it was repugnant to the unchangeable principles of nature. This Rory is related by Mr. Hume, and (as I tranferibe it from memory,) though it is not here told in his exad words, the fubtlancc is carefully preserved. But further ; let us suppose, that an individual was reported to be dead, and that funeral obsequies were paid to that individual. After the expiration of fome months, feverai persons fulemnly teftify, that they beheld the individual so interred, and arrayed as when alive and apparently poffeffid of every facul. ty attached to the living. Now the wife, upon hearing fueh a story, would enquire into the chara&ers of the wit ntffes. If they were persons of unim peached veracity, their concluiion, would then be, that the artifice of the knaviffi had effected this fteming prodigy ; and that the pretended death of an individu al was the ground work of that artifice. Although, unable to discover what the pretended death, wasdefigned to effec tuate, they would still believe that there was villainy in the case and that it was intended to effect something. I can never confider human tellimony, as fuffi. cient'to convince me, that any event is real, which requires the interference of lupernatural agency. The followers of Mahomet placed the moft implicit confidence in the tale he tcld them of his facrcd mission ; or they would never have jeopardized their lives, and fortunes to promote his interests. Some of the molt diitinguiiheJ among the Grecian fagee, were led alt! uy by the duplicity, and the artifice of ihe felt Ity. led prophet Alexander; and indeed, the emperor, Marcus Aurelius, placed iuch firm belief in tbe gift of preiciruce, with which he thought him endowed, that he felt no doubt of success u his military excursions, whea favorably picdictcd ’t>y the (kit:ding impoiior. i’ufie preter. ‘rd r :r>oni> : cß from ■'eaviß have unde, (through th,ir oour.dlefs ambition, and hull of power) the page of history too sanguinary fer the mind of man to contemplate without horror. But, thank heaven, the fun of reason, which the mills of superstition too long overclouJed, has long since burst forth in meredian majesty. His foul-in vigorating beams have shed their genial lullre over the mind, and dispelled the darkness of error. It wa3 Lucian, who full fuccefsfully exposed the deceit of Alexander ; and it is truly to be lamen ted, that every itnpoftor does not meet with iuch an able exposer. M. THOMAS STEWART 7 IN PLATE WORKER , HAS removed his Store to the house formerly occupied by Mr. Jospeh Davis, two doers ealt of the Buci’t Head. T. S. returns his mofl fincer? thanks to hi* friends and tlie public in genera!, for the liberal encouragement lie has re ceived from them, and hopes that by un remitting attention be will merit a con tinuauce of their favorsi HE HAS ON HAND, A complete assortment of Articles in his Line, which he offers for sale ou the mofl; rea sonable terms. Orders wili\be thankful* Iv received and punctually executed. LATELY IMPORTED, a complete ailbrtment of the heft and . molt fafliionahle Bell Ranging Materials, I which he will fix in the ueateft manner, j cT* The highest price given for old Pewi kr and Lead. September 30. 415. ’ KNuX and POPE, * (Barrack Gicbos’s Wharf,) Have j’tfl received and noru opening, art exlenfi’ue effort meat of Welsh and Yorkshire White and Bias Plains, Rose, London Bristol Duffle Blankets, liiverneis and Dundee Cotton Bagging, Flax and'flow Oznahurghs, Oznaburgh, white and colored Thread* Cloths and Kerfeymeres, Pattent Cord, for Vlts, Worsted and Cotton Hoficry, Caps and Mils, Calicoes, Romal and Pocket Hhdkfs. Bed Cords, Seine and Shop Twine, Bombazets, Dtmanis, and Calimaiicoes, Irish lrinens, white & brown Piatillas, Gentlemen and Ladie’s I lats, assorted, A general assortment of Saddlery, Cutlery and Hardware assorted; Patent Sc Carolina Hoes, Trace Chains, Powder, Shot, and Bar Lea r, A few feta Table Crockery, assorted, ALSO, ON HAND, Bar Iron, and Share Moulds, Salt in sacks or by the bufliel, With a General alTcrcment of GROCERIES, O&ober 3. 416. John Jackson, Hat Rcceitd per the ship Eliza, and Missisippi, from Liverpool, A large and general supply of FALL GOODS. ALSO, An extensive and complete af lortmenr of IRONMON GERY, confuting effj. every article in that line. A L SO y j Crsttes ( CROCKERY, assorted fur retailing, Boiled Linseed Oil in jugs. \ - ) 3 by 10 Whit jj* ; < > 9 bf 11 Spanish Brown C * B )io by 12 Ytllyw Ochre j) J 20 casks best. Brown Stout . ON, HAND, Swedes Iron , flat and square bars . Sept. 30 41$ -ll , m Miller 8c Moorhead, Have Just Received, in ajdrion to their for mer lupply of Dry Goods & Groceries, WELSH PLAINS Humhums, Men’s fine Caltor Hats, in small cafe* iS hhds. prime Mufcovado aod Loaf Sugars y hhds. 3d proof Weft.lndia Rum All of which will he told on reafonabl* term.-, for csfh or approved paper. Sept. 19 ‘ 41J Robert cc J ohn Bolton, HArt for Sjlc, SH'CEDS Iron auorted Brow u So jars per Hogfliead L >af ditto per Bartel Inferior Cotton Bagging Crockery Ware in Crates Northward Rum, and ; Otaer articles from Boston Coiog e Mill Stones, g ttet diamee^ Stacked Stine Lime. Sept. t vj