THE discovery of the new world, as the American Continent has been emphatically called, may very properly be said to have produced an instant revolution, in the condition of all Europe, and an important change in the affairs of the rest of the world. To Spain, France, and Great Britain, more particularly, the extension of commercial connexion, to which this event gave rise, led to consequences, which, but for the subsequent independence of the Colonies, would, in a little time, have utterly subverted the liberties and happiness of these three kingdoms. Nor will this opinion appear extraordinary to those, who are accustomed to look beyond the occurrences of the day, into the slow but certain operation of remote causes. An intercourse with new governments, and new people, must necessarily introduce new ideas, new habits of thinking and of acting; and a correspondent change will be produced in manners, customs and