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THE next paragraph makes an sfay
tOcUar6f an. attempt TO inform US, that
Fr5nce has laid additional duties on
American importations there, amount,
ing 10 prohibition Of the, article this
is done in the following phrafeologY !:
" We find in fome parts of Europe
mcnopolizing determinations which in
the form Of duties, tend efectually to
prohibit the carrying thither our own
produce in our own veaels = but then
he hopes negotiation may Be opened
TO induce her TO take thole duties of,
which hope is announced in the follow
ing frikiDg and fplenlid ltyle: " From
exiting amities, and fpirit of Juice,
1t is hoped that friendly. difcuaion will
produce fair and adequate reciproti.
ty" Ii may perhaps be a: queliion,
whether in the puriuit of inflated Ian
guage, he has not loa fight of fenle--
Friendly difcudion is 10 produce ltats
OF things here, which fhall be adeq uate
IL reciprocal, or reciprocally adequate,
(for the terms are, here, convertible J
that is to FAY, mutually esuai to the ltare
OF things in France, that is to. fay,ad
ditional duties are. 70 be laid here
amounting to a prohibition-all which
is 10 be expected from +" exiting ami
ties" I" But this 5ddiaage is hardly fuiteti
to the fubje6.


On the reforation of peace in Europe.
this country found nerfslf 70 augmented
in population, irength and refources,
that fhe might .iaaly be called pow
erful nation. 1t was manifehly within
her reach. and ought to have been her
poicy,to have taken high s command
ing htuation with regard TO the European
powers and by an erect and bold atti.
,ude, to have made herfelf refpeaed by
all, and feared when neceaary. lnfead
of which ihe has p,eiented a miferable
a!ped OF feeblenels and tinidity, with
Chief Magiarate utterly deltitute of
any Of the enlarged views Of a fats(.
man but who makes temporary
popularity his great and primary obJea.
In puriuit of this darling phantom,
nothing is 70 much his averfion as rnea-
fures Of energy, and every approach 70
war, left it fhould expole him to reiort
TO "fifcal exaetions !" nothing 20 much
his delight as to Indulge in dreaming
fchemes Of a plauGble but ihoit tfghted
economy.


Is it to be wondered at then, that
obferving this, isms part5 Of Europe, have
already taken advantage of it, and that
Others are following their example p
Thus we Zee, that while our relative
htuation with none is bettered, with
Others it is much worfe and worfe it
will continue to grow, notwithstanding
all MIR. Jeferion's exiting amai6s, till
that very fate OF affairs 70 much his
dread, fhall come upon him IKE an aymed
man and find him terror-llruck and
powerleis. But more Of this hereafter.