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Wte- liadl..i~~iiw c that the project of the. Chamber of ,ommerneghad.rdceived.its death-wound, but bear that it svtifi lingers ori4bie co nfifics of life and is n&qiiiie eutinct. WVe tarp sOrry to, witness h protracted dissltution in the place of.a speilyoryrather imnediite erid. Wheni the ab_ ':3yrdity: o'f,.a rjeastfrd i:s clear to all ratioial s.nd iimpartiaV persors, ,tliky iWust; be interested -notives' Which prompt men'stilf- t,b ss that measure 4or. acceptanee: upon the yiJdirAg 4li,8ption of' mankind. X'b C mb Un0er of Corn. rerce, i; 4reatly decided poun, 1;, g'eneral indifferenae; or aversion,r .Wllhy not. t it.pass qiiaettyinto:.,thelimbo of j abert cts ? - :Wtat want, -we ask, exists at present, u.htch this Chiamber,iC"it u ere in. operation, couildsupply ? Ti n`i,iOfval- method of destr4ying time woad,i3 rnde'0,.xe. .suit frem its es,tabTihm'ent hui'ea .el;nowv of no- other uefi? Ofeotti 1h it., uld,produe, Let us suppose a manAftWs, rnotgetnt upon- ~t epoinlt o? .undert,EIn' stome greaf eom. xiiexta1' eiterprise. and .'ini iVani of information' uotoa t.ne or rmor, impo'.butant poltqtg, would not the-.follo*.. irn,,be pjyvry crazy kind of coinplaint 'for him-to minal? >-. '<jOh twhatnapity ji s.therc. i'io, OArniercial; Chatuber " inL- Lon.i a. present for me toDojiadit ;for.ti1 ", ai - ihe'. ' . :wh . , consti tha nbr "it is impossible they should 'eithlir tkiiow so m'tili;or bU A'~ - * .1 O' , eTTflT ..t r..o ,vplrS~4u C abletoanswerso efectually, as u' they were ali got to,otStr ';itn one Chambher. Tbe- faculties are so invigorated, theil erceptior so sharpened, by the. liuzz and bustle of a. *public room, ihai. a man can hardly be.Saiid to bethe saTne creature in the' retirmenk f his ciinutlfihoett,e nd in a noisv sense-kindlig union of his fellow-Mep. *Xisdon ferrntents in crowds,and, throws off' good couinset, asmassesolfbeer discharge yeast." This,wesay wbuld be the complaintof a tnan, who, needisg iriJ6r%9tfiMi;upotP .ay commercial subject, should regret that be bcd not a Chambe5 r of Commerce, to which he might go, instead of ('?11Sulting the indiTiduals cogmizant in the several branches of his a'] ventUre, in the tranquillity of their own closets. And a verv rotional complaint it would be t But funther: if a mian were nDt disposed to consult the C'harnber, the Chamber might be inclined to direct the * aii. This would he a great advantage to independent com- rnercia] houses. They would be relieved from all necessity of thinkihg fer themselves; for if they thought differently t-orn the Chamber, then the Chamber might control, or e'vcn punish therm Few, Spaniards go to the Inquisition to cOnfess their doubts and give up their books, (of hetero- doxy, -e mean), and therefore the Inquisition goes to the ZPafniards, and kindly assures their minds of whtat is right, and true, and nece.ssary for their salvatio,L'A Cham- ber of Comnmerce would act the part of a comnmercial inqgii S;t'Ofl,-infailible in its doctrines, and therefote omnipotent in Vcnforcing ther_