xo to iJ pr cant, from what it wa> formerly: Can credit 011 thsfe ce -.ns De to oar beuelc ? Is it no. rather toocir ruin ! and (hill we urge our prefenc im.n; ife load of deb. to i -eat Britain as areafon why we hould accumulate inj.-e and more, link deeper anl deeper : ic un kby incereit, bat the tyranny of habit alone, that we are kept in bon dage—as France oil the one fide, and Holland on the other, p efents many advantages as our en couragement to fabllitute an open trade with them in lieu of our present injurious traffic with Eng land : The former is not inferior to Great Britain in any manufactures, except Hardware—her lilks, cambrics, Sic. are farfuperior and cheaper, though (much to our benefit) we cannot there obtain extensive credits—yet for what we may purchase ihe will receive in pay our ihips, tobac co, oyl, naval stores, and other natural exports, while in her extensive coafling trade a large num ber of our veflelsinay find employ, and 011 condi tion wewill not interfere with her carrying trade from thence to Europe, she will consent to open a free trade to her Weft-Indies.—We can obtain from Germany through Holland the best of cut lery and other hard ware, where our rice has for some years formed a better remittance than to any other part of Europe, and with whom owing to their large capitals—extensive pofleflions in that country —knowledge of the trade, and cheapness of navigation we can obtain many In dia articles of our consumption, on better terms than in our present direct intercourse ; for spices we are altogether indebted to them—and many are the political motives whichmuft operate with us to preserve a good understanding with that country. —It will be found not only advantageous but necellary to the extension of her commerce, that America should have her Consuls and other public agents in many of the great; ports of Eu rope, to ascertain their relative commercial in terefis with this country—explore the benefits of a connection with thein, to be bottomed on ex plicit contrad: or treaty, and not fubjecfl to the uncertain tenure of legislative decrees. AMERICANUS. NEW-YORK, AUGUST 1789. EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL INTELIGENCE, in britf—(by arrivals at the Eajlward)—(laics, THAT a quadruple alliance has been enter ed into by Ruma, Austria, France and Spain I hat all hostilities between Sweden and Den mark are at an end— That Rullia is at length listening to terms of accommodation—and that Great Britain is to be the principal mediator among the belligerent powers— 1 hat the Emperor of Germany has so far reco vered as to dine in public— That the Turkish army on the right bank of the Danube consists of 150,000 men ■" That the Turks were compleatly routed in a late atftion with the Ruffians, in Moldavia, and loft two pachas with their artillery That the Austrian army amounts to 276,600 men, exclusive of artillery and volunteers That notwithstanding the rumours of peace, every appearance indicated a bloody campaign- That feverallkirmiflies hadtaken place,in which as usual, the Turks fell by thousands, while their enemies had only a few men wounded, and lbnie horses killed or taken— T tiat England and Holland are endeavoring to mediate between the belligerent powers, &c.— That the King of Great Britain is in such a state of health as to be incapable of attending to pub lic business : He is affliifted with an extreme lassi tude—that for the benefit of his health he is go ing to Hanover, the Queen herfelf, with her own hand, having written a letter to the King of Prussia upon that fubje 3 ® fill right that man has afliimed of buying h>s e low man ; of depriving him of liberty, ' u J fl '