The Colonial Policy of Great Britain, Considered with Relation to Her North American Provinces, and West India Posessions; Wherein the Dangerous Tendency of American Competition is Developed, and the Necessity of Recommencing a Colonial System on a Vigorous and Extensive Scale, Exhibited and Defended, with Plans for the Promotion of Emigration, and Strictures on the Treaty of Ghent |
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Page 44 - Europe, with regard to trade, before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered.
Page xxvi - ... benignant seasons ; and which is skirted by a civilized and kindred nation on one side, and on the other by extensive regions, over which the tide of growing population may spread itself without hindrance or danger." " The prosperity of the French colony will demand the exclusive navigation of the river. The Master of the Mississippi will be placed so as to control, in the most effectual manner, the internal waves of faction. He holds in his hands the bread of the settlements westward of the...
Page 9 - There have existed at all times,' said he, • not only personal and peculiar, but also national sins. For instance, among the ancients the Asiatics were accused of...
Page xxii - Spain from the resentment of the French government, should outweigh, in their apprehensions, all future evils, and prevail on one to grant, and on the other to connive at the grant, by what arguments, by what promises, by what threats, by what hostile efforts, shall we extort the consent of the American States? How shall we prevail on them to alienate the most valuable portion of their territory; to admit into their vitals a formidable and active people, whose interests are incompatible? in every...
Page xix - England than would follow from her acquisition of a navy, and the extension of her trade. Whatever gives colonies to France, supplies her with ships and sailors, manufactures and husbandmen. Victories by land can only give her mutinous subjects ; who, instead of augmenting the national force, by their riches or numbers, contribute only to disperse and enfeeble that force ; but the growth of colonies supplies her with zealous citizens, and the increase of real wealth and effective numbers is the certain...
Page xiv - There cannot, in the first place, be imagined a district more favourable to settlement. In addition to a genial climate and soil, there are the utmost facilities of communication and commerce. The. whole district is the sloping side of a valley, through which run deep and navigable rivers, which begin their course in the remotest borders, and which all terminate in the central stream. This stream, one of the longest and widest in the world, is remarkably distinguished by its depth, and freedom from...
Page iii - Price one dollar in boards. *„• The alarming views of the relations, present and future, between the United States and Great Britain, which are developed in this work, have impressed the American publisher with the idea that it could not fail to be useful to re-print and disseminate it here. It merits the most serious attention of the legislators and politicians of this nation. Should the policy it advocates be unfortunately adopted by Great Britain, there will be an imperious necessity for measures...
Page xiii - Throughout the whole extent, there is not, probably, a snow-capt hill, a moving sand, or a volcanic eminence. ' This valley is of different breadths. The ridge which bounds it on the east, is in some places nearly a thousand miles from the great middle stream. From this ridge, secondary rivers, of great extent and magnificence, flow towards the centre, and the intermediate regions are an uncultivated paradise. On the west, the valley is of similar dimensions, the streams are equally large and useful,...
Page 188 - ... propagated, both by newspapers, and various other means. And it is a fact, worthy the serious consideration of Britons, because it developes in some measure, the deadly rancour of the ruling party, and the dangerous principles of American policy, that these injurious comments and assertions were intended to shake the loyalty of British seamen, whom they designedly hold up, as being at present no better than degraded slaves.!
Page 186 - Gallatin?— for, as in the treaty of 1783, so in the present instance, the British delegates have been foiled by American sophistry. It is much to be regretted that some native of the provinces, was not added to the list of British negotiators, as many gentlemen of superior talents, might have been really obtained from either of the colonies.