in, that will enable her to go on five or six months longer; say a twelvemonth in the whole.  But, at the end of the twelvemonth, what is to be done?  The manufacturers depending on this article, cannot maintain their competition against those of other countries, if deprived of their equal means.  When the alternative, then, shall be presented, of letting them drop, or opening the ports to foreign whale-oil, it is presumable the latter will be adopted, as the lesser evil.  But it will be too late for America.  Her fishery, annihilated during the late war, only began to raise its head, on the prospect of a market held out by this country.  Crushed by the Arret of September the 28th, in its first feeble effort to revive, it will rise no more.  Expeditions, which require the expense of the outfit of vessels, and from nine to twelve months’ navigation, as the southern fishery does, most frequented by the Americans, cannot be undertaken in sole reliance on a market, which is opened and shut from one day to another, with little or no warning.  The English alone, then, will remain to furnish these supplies, and they must be received, even from them.  We must accept bread from our enemies, if our friends cannot furnish it.  This comes exactly to the point, to which that government has been looking.  She fears no rival in the whale-fishery, but America:  or rather, it is the whale-fishery of America, of which she is endeavoring to possess herself.  It is for this object, she is making the present extraordinary efforts, by bounties and other encouragements:  and her success, so far, is very flattering.  Before the war, she had not one hundred vessels in the whale-trade, while America employed three hundred and nine.  In 1786, Great Britain employed one hundred and fifty-one vessels; in 1787, two hundred and eighty-six; in 1788, three hundred and fourteen, nearly the ancient American number:  while the latter has fallen to about eighty.  They have just changed places then; England having gained, exactly what America has lost.  France, by her ports and markets, holds the balance between the two contending parties, and gives the victory, by opening and shutting them, to which she pleases.  We have still precious remains of seamen, educated in this fishery, and capable by their poverty, their boldness, and address, of recovering it from the English, in spite of their bounties.  But this Arret endangers the transferring to Great Britain every man of them, who is not invincibly attached to his native soil.  There is no other nation in present condition to maintain a competition with Great Britain in the whale-fishery.  The expense, at which it is supported on her part, seems enormous.  Two hundred and fifty-five vessels, of seventy-five thousand four hundred and thirty-six tons, employed by her, this year, in the northern fishery, at forty-two men each; and fifty-nine in the southern, at eighteen men each, make eleven thousand seven hundred and seventy-two