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civilized country, desirous of remaining civilized, yet it may prove 
a question neither useless or absurd to sit down and occasionally 
count the cost. 
It has been proposed to raise silk worms, and manufacture in- 
digo in England : and that nation was ready to go to war about 
Falkland’s Island, and Nootka Sound, and Oczakoff ; would the 
raising of mulberry trees and silk worms aid the agriculture, or 
the produce of indigo, keep the manufacture, or the commercial 
wars about these distant places, assist the commerce of that 
country ? Is it a question of no importance, whether we 
shall protect a trade that brings us in a hundred thousand dol- 
lars, by a naval force that costs us half a million ? Is it ridiculous 
to consider whether we shall support a manufacturing or commer- 
cial speculation, which would of itself be forever a losing concern 
to those embarked in it, if the rest of the nation were not taxed to 
afford them profit ? May we not without much waste of time, ex- 
pend an hour or two, in considering the relative value to the com- 
munity, of capitals embarked in argriculture, manufactures and 
commerce respectively ? I have readers of both opinions. 
T. Q. 
NOTICES. 
M. Berzelius is announced as having analyzed asot into 45 
hydrogen, and 55 oxygen. We must wait for the details of the 
experiment, before we can give full credit to this important re- 
sult. 
I cannot insert Mr. Graafs communication in this number for 
want of room : nor Mr. Latrobe’s, or Mr. J. Cutbushs^s (which 
I much wished to include in the present number) for want of en* 
gravings for their figures ; which I have now in train to be cut in 
wood. I want to add my own remarks to each of these papers. 
My trials met with the same result as Mr. Cutbushsh They shall 
be inserted in the next Emporium. 
