urces of taxation will be necessary for the safety
of the State. For though I am decidedly of opinion, we should take no
part in European quarrels, but cultivate peace and commerce with all,
yet who can avoid seeing the source of war in the tyranny of those
nations, who deprive us of the natural right of trading with our
neighbors? The produce of the United States will soon exceed the
European demand: what is to be done with the surplus, when there shall
be one? It will be employed, without question, to open, by force, a
market for itself, with those placed on the same continent with us,
and who wish nothing better. Other causes, too, are obvious, which
may involve us in war; and war requires every resource of taxation and
credit. The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case,
would give efficacy to our desire of peace. If the new government wears
the front which I hope it will, I see no impossibility in the availing
ourselves of the wars of others, to open the other parts of America to
our commerce, as the price of our neutrality.

The campaign between the Turks and two Empires has been clearly in favor
of the former. The Emperor is secretly trying to bring about a peace.
The alliance between England, Prussia, and Holland, (and some suspect
Sweden also) renders their mediation decisive, wherever it is proposed.
They seemed to interpose it so magisterially between Denmark and Sweden,
that the former submitted to its dictates, and there was all reason
to believe, that the war in the northwestern parts of Europe would be,
quieted. All of a sudden, a new flame bursts out in Poland. The King and
his party are devoted to Russia. The opposition rely on the protection
of Prussia. They have lately become the majority in the confederated
diet, and have passed a vote for subjecting their army to a commission
independent of the King, and propose a perpetual diet, in which case
he will be a perpetual cipher. Russia declares against such a change
in their constitution, and Prussia has put an army into readiness, for
marching, at a moment's warning, on the frontier of Poland. These events
are too recent, to see, as yet, what turn they will take, or what effect
they will have on the peace of Europe. So is that also, of the lunacy
of the King of England, which is a decided fact, notwithstanding all the
stuff the English papers publish, about his fevers, his deliriums, &c.
The truth is, that the lunacy declared itself almost