A Memorial Most Humbly Addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe On the Present St
A Memorial Most Humbly Addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe On the Present St
Thomas Pownall
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He may embroil L hls [ 74 J his own affairs ; but it will become 'his beft wifdom and his duty to hit fovereign and the people, that his meafures coincide and co-operate with it. The firft of the confequences is, the Effect which this Empire, in a new and feparate world, become a great naval Power, will have on the commerce, and perhaps by changes introduced in that, on the political fyftem of the old world. Whoever has read and understands any thing of the ftate of the Hanfeatick League in Eur...ope, and confiders, it's pro- grefs, firft by it's poffeffing all the com- manding articles of the commerce of the then world, and the commercial command of all the great rivers through which that commerce muft circulate j next it's being the carrier of the trade of Europe; and finally it's forming, on this afcendant in- tereft, by the means of it's fhipping and feamen, an attive naval Power, that in all cafes could attract the intereft of, in many cafes refill, and even command the landed Powers; whoever, viewing this, confiders that this League was made up of a [ 75 ] a number of towns, feparate from, and unconnected with each other, and included within the dominions of other Powers and States, of a number of individual towns, who had no natural commimion, and only a forced and artificial union amongft each other ; whoever, duly marking this at the bafis, follows the progrefs of the power, not only commercial but naval and politi- cal, which this League, under all thefc na- tural difadvantages, eftablifhed throughout all Europe, will be at no lofs to fee on how much more folid bafis the power of North- America ftands founded, how much fafter and with more rapid increafe (unobftru&ed with thofe difficulties which the League met with) it muft grow up, and to what an extent and afcendancy of intereft, carry- ing on the greateft part of the commerce, and commanding the greateft part of the (hipping of the world, this great commer- cial, naval, American Power muft foon arrive at.
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