1804. ] 
whilft they were at her command ; I an- 
{wer, that the reins of the French Govern. 
ment are at prefent in the hands of a 
man, who is either fo totally blinded by 
ambition as not to forefee confequences ; 
or, if he does forefee them, he truits to 
the fuccefs of that ambition to controul 
them, and undo all he has done. The 
latter is more likely to be the cafe. 
Buonaparte, in order to carry into effect 
his darling {cheme of fubjugating Britain, 
wants money; he will go any lengths to 
obtain it, and he has obtained it at the 
price of Louifiana. But he looks for- 
ward to greater advantages fiom the 
United States, than the fixteen millions 
of dollars he has obtained from them, 
which may all be fwallowed up by his 
numerous armies before he can bring his 
views towards Britain to an iffue. He is 
well aware that if circumftances fhould 
oblige him to prefs Spain into the conteft 
with Britain; or if Britain fhall of her 
own accord put an end to the infidious 
neutrality of Spain; a ftoppage will be 
put to the importation of the South 
American trea(ures into Spain in Spanifh 
bottoms, and he expeéts to procure them 
through the intervention ot the Ameri- 
cans. But the Americans fhould beware 
leit by furthering his views, they totally 
defeat their own. If Buonaparte once 
fubdue Britain, it will be very eafy for 
him to reclaim Louifiana, and even to 
dictate what terms he pleafes to the 
United States. They will find, when too 
late for a remedy, that they can as well 
hold him with a firaw as a treaty. If 
he fails in his atrempt on Britain, he 
knows that the game is up with him, 
and cares not what becomes of Louifiana 
or France itfelf. He can, at the .moft, 
be confidered only as a tenant for lifes 
with neceffaries. Skins, &c. of animals, and 
fome metals are every thing that can be 
given there in exchaage for articles of fub- 
fiftence, which the inhabitants have not the 
fpirit to make their lands produce, and 
for the neceflaries, for which they find it 
More convenient to pay with gold than with 
their induftry. The independent Americans 
will become factors, advantageoufly placed 
between European manufaéturers,.and the in- 
‘habitants of regions condemned by nature to 
the fterile produétions of metals. 4// the 
“powers of Spain cannot prevent this, nor ought 
even to undertake it. ** This. new confidera~ 
tion promifing to the French payment, fo 
foolithly defired in gold, ought to encourage 
them to prepare for a commercial conne¢tion 
with the United States.” 
Coliana. 
251 
who cares not what wajfe he commits on 
the freehold. 
To Britain thefe faéts are of the utmoft 
impertance, not okly as they point cut 
to what lengths the ambition and impla- 
cability «f the ruler of France will carry 
him in his sttempts to annihilate their 
very exiftence {a nation, but alfo as 
they may ferve to wide to the future 
channels through wi.<n the South Ame. 
rican treafures may flsv-~2 circumftance 
well worthy of the attentic:: o* the firft 
commercial nation in the world, Whilt 
the noble ardor of its citizens will pro- 
teét it againtt the former, their enterprize 
ani induftry ought not to fuffer them 
to wander out of fight of the latter. 
What Briffot holds out as an encourage. 
ment to the French to prepare for a 
commercial connection with the United 
States, is infinitely more applicable to the 
Britifh to extend theirs already fo well: 
eftablifhed ; and it is a very curious cir- 
cumftance, that the whole of his work 
(though partial in the extreme to the 
French) confeffes throughout the fupe- 
riority of the Britifh merchant, and is 
the moft valuable publication the latter 
can perufe on the fubject of American 
affairs. A ftri€t alliance between Britain 
and the United States feems to be the 
natural policy of both. If Britain is 
proitrated at the feet of France, the 
United States could not hope to retain 
Louifiana, nor even their own independ- 
ence. If Britain can ftand her ground, 
Louifiana will form part of the American 
Empire, or (which is more probable) the 
natives will unite with the emigrants to 
Louifiana, and form an indeperdent go. 
vernment for themfelves. Britain fhould, 
in the latter cafe, have an eye to her 
future commerce ; a great change in the 
fiate of things is evidently in prepara- 
tion, and fhe ought to prepare herfelf 
for it, ¥: P. 3 
Lffex-fireet, Strand. 
ofa 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLIANA; 
Confifiing of SELECTIONS of the curious 
Mss. bequeathed by the late MR. COLE 
to the BRITISH MUSEUM, and lately 
opened. 
PAINTED GLASS, 
HE obfervation of Mr. Edmund 
Chifhull, chaplain to the Englifh 
factory at Smyrna, is very ingenious with 
relation to the art of Staming Glals: in 
his Travels in Turkey, pi 6) he oblerves 
Lila this 
