For the Nvilmingtonian.

THOUGHTS ON MANUFACTURES.
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A great deal has been written on this sub
ject, but have no recollection of having seen
a review of the situation of those nations who
are Agricultural, who are Commercial and Ag-
ricultural, and those who are Commercial, Ag-
ricultural and Manufacturing; tho certainly
amidst the conflicting opinions, which the con-
troversy respecting Manufactures has given
rise to, a farer criterion of the relative advan-
tages, and the degree of ease and ailuence APP
pertaining to each of these situations, could
hardly have been desired. will therefore take
IA brief sketch of such nations, and leave the
reader to form his own judgment on this mo
mentous and Interesting subject.


Poland may be considered the first nation en-
tirely Agricultural, in Europe. She supplies
through the Baltic ports almost all the grain
which the necessities of other parts of Europe
require, and yet, aItho' blessed with fruitful
soil and fine climate, the situation of her far
mers and peasantry is extremely wretched, and
she enjoys less of the blessings of civilization
than almost any other European nation.


In many ports of Hungary and Transylva-
MIA, altho' the the soil is extremely fertile, yet
for want of market for the productions of the
farmer large tracts of land lay perfectly uncul-
tivated and in state of nature.


Such is likewise the situation of the two pro-
vinces of Walachia and Moldavia, which are in
great degree uncultivated, though no country
under Heaven is more capable Of rewarding the
tolls of the husbandman.


The Crimea, formerly the Taurica Cherso-
ncsus, celebrated by the ancient Greeks for its
Commerce, and for its exuberant harvests, had
so tptally degenerated, that when conquered
| from the Tartars by the Russians, it was merely
employed for feeding their focks; but since
Odessa has been made free port Agriculture
has been greatly revived, and immense quanti-
ties of wheat are now exported from thence,
where, not great many years ago, grain
scarcely grew.


Russia, now the largest empire in the world.
and fastprogressing in Manufactures, in Com
merce and Agriculture, was, not a century ago,
scarcely any thing more than desert waste; but
by the fostering care of the Emperor byintrodu-
cling Manufactures, and by encouraging Agri-
culture, its Commerce has increased in an as
tonishing legree; and at no distant day, Rus.
sia will become great Manufacturing nation
and her flag will be found floating in every
part of the world.


Prussia, when the Great Frederick came to
the throne, possessed scarcely more Agriculture