Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-08-03 00:00:00, page 2

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, FRIctDAY—z' :AUGUST s.
" '- - From the Freemans Your-nal.
T o the People of the United State;.
The secret- simchagc of the Presidcnt of
the 6!_h of Decocnbcr, 1805, which was an
1 nexed to the last number, opens an ample
field for investigation and criticism. lc 15
pot probable that all history can furnish an
lamanne-e of conduct at once so unprinciplcd
fraud undignified, in the ruler of a free peo
ple, as that of Jeﬀcrson upon this occasion
will appear to have been, when fairly and
_ full) developed.
7'? bound to know wnat me commanas or
ctss France were, and to obey them. France
would not suﬀer Spain to make an arrange
;;uent with us, unless we would give our
' 'discharge in full for what France percmp-{ct
-- torily pronounced an unsounded claim on:
" our part, that of payment for French spoli- :
ations carried into Spanish ports. And(
why? Because as happens to leak out, to
sswards the conclusion of the message,—
" France was prompt and decided in her
declarations, that our demands on Spain
for French spoliations, carried into Spanish
. sisictporls, were included in the settiements be
_ sssslween the Unitcd State: and France." That
--1che, tssn ceding Louisiana to the United
si" States,"_loolted forward to all the-difficulties
Fhichsisheomission of boundaries must na
" turaliy' produce, and that she even then in
jsssitended-to talte that advantage of her own
wrong in this respect which she has since
done, by preventing an adjustment between
us and Spain, except upon terms which
should replenish the French treasury, there
can now—be no douubt in' the mind of any
man of common apprehension. it was one
object, indeed, to have a plausible pretext
for evﬄing payment for French spoliations
jssisim Spain, the existence of which proved
that, politically apeaking, there was no;
Spain. But it was another and a greater
object to keep the boundaries of Louisiana }
onsettled, as the instrument of establishingY
.a Strong French inﬂuence over the Unitcd ;
States, whether in expectation of obtaining
more money from us or not, is quite imma— ss
terial. Yet {acts abundantly and conclu
lively chew that .such an expectation must
have been entertained. M. Talleyrand was
then chief counsellor-to his imperizl majes
W ; and had he not been, Napoleon would
have known then-ne character and Situation
of our country. He knew our extreme love
of peace; our deep-animosities againstzEng
had; the in conduct of England toward:
' go; out irdent attachment, from -revolu
- w munfiom, to theft-each nation;
Acknowledging the duty incumbent upon
, - the executive of the .United State-s to re
quire from the government ol Spain indem
'nification for our injured citizena, the mes
sagesi-bnnounces that a convention was ac
cordingsily entered into between the minister
of the United States at Mndrid, and the
minister of that government for soreign af
fairs, by which it was agreed that spolia
ct__tions committed by Spanish subjects, and
carried into ports of Spain, should be paid
for by that nationctss and that those commit
ed.- by French stibjects, and carried into
"Spanish" parts, should remain for further
discussion. .sictlt would seem to appear that
the transfer of Louisiana by France to the
'{Imted States, occasioned the rejection of
this? domntion on the part of Spain. But
;; is believed that this was not the case —
In this, as in all other instances, Spain was
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" lcouMERciAL a Pou'rchL.
"mio AND runsiuunn n'!
'SAMUEL SNOWDEN,
:;siRoval-clrcet, Alexandria.
Lefsitcrs upon French influence.
No. IX.
'siss , Gazem ' 6 Dollars par annmn
Country Gazem, 5 Dollars.
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would attend the creatiosin Of armies and na
vies* , the idoiatry of the people for the ex
isting administration- , the probability that
that idolatryw would continue while the peo
si ple should be li'- te the administration to be
ctdevotcd to economy and peace , and the
certainty that, should we be impeiied to war
'with a foreign power, every disposition
would exist amongst us to go to war wjth
,acqsiuainted with ]eﬀerson s philosophizising,
sitheorizing, and timid disposition , with his
total want of nerve , and with his ardent ha
'sitred of England, and prosound devotion to
Francea He knew that the same president
There were several statements in the
:message, which, if not in fact false were
extremely deceptive. After the president
had spoken of Spain as the efficient power
7 in reference to the contested boundaries of
;Louisiana, he incautiously admitted, in the
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nvery same paper, that France was manag
! ing the business to promote her own pur- ;
; pose, as appears by the singular expression,
i !Vlzate'ver direction BHE might mean to give
these a'z'ﬀZ-rences— that is, whatever direc
tion France might mean to give to the dif
ferenccs between the U. S. and Spain. He
was sensible, indeed he had beeninsormed
by his agents in Europe, that France in
tended to give some direction to those dis—
t'erences, and he aﬀected to be ignorant what
it would be. Yet he perfectly knew what
it was, and was at that moment secretly la
boring to give those " disserences" the very
same "direction" which his fuiencl Napo
; leon contemplated. This may be consider
: ed a high charge, but it will be amply sup
si ported by unquestionable facts. The di
sircction which France meant to give, and
si_ had in fact given, was, that several millions
; of dollars should he paid out osthe treasury
of the United Statcs into that of France.
; We could prove the fact to the satisfaction
iof any independent court or jury in the U.
l States. But as Jeﬀerson knows that we
can prove it, we shall not be called on for
the proof. We cannot exhibit in these let
ters the same sort of evidence, either as to
this point, or as to a presumcd particular
correspondence between ]eﬀerson and Na
poleon, which it would be in our power to
command in a court of law.
But yet I say,
If imputation and strong circumstances,
There is no hesitation in asserting that
]eﬀeison, more perhaps through fear than
from corruption, had made up his mind to
carry into eﬀect the " direction" which
France " might mean to give to the diﬀer
j encea"- between the U. S. and Spain,. He.
will not deny it. The public may'cxpect
sithe proof. si'
The publicatioa of the secrsset documents,
," m EXTENSO," is suspended for the pre-ct.
ssl sent. When the public reﬂect upon the im
si portance of those parts of them which were
i discloscd in the seventh number, and which
completely proved the fact of the subjec
tion of ]eﬀeraon's administration to the in-si
ﬂuence of France, and reﬂect also that docu
ments of such importance had been known,
far-—four or five years, to exist, by 50 or 60
inﬂexible oppo'nents of the administration in
siCongreu, they must have some idea ofsithc
ry and navel power; the unpopularity which -
wrongs of France in so strong a light as
those of England, our. deficiency in inilita
fame, had, staked his reputation as a a writ
er upon a prediccion that the Son of Bri
course that he was deeply interested to turn :
[one, for the great and good work of com.
pleting the destruction of Old England.—
He could not therefore but espect with con
fidence a perfect submission to his dictates
in regard to our relations with Spain.
tainsss glory was about to set forever, and or
his own prediction into prophecy. Under
England rather than France. He was also
]eﬀcrson, excessiveiy ambitious of literary s
a iool to doubt that the American president I
was ripe so far as depended on himselfsia- '
all these circumstances he must have been ss
our eossnse'qnent indispoaition to view the "
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That lead directly to the door of truth,
Will give you satisfaction, you shall have it.
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receive.
ss Psi S. The defence set Up by Mr. ]esser
son and Mr. Madison, in the National ln
ss telligencer, against the charges contained
ss in No. VlI. will be examined at considera
ble length in No. X. to which will be add
ed an appendix, very much to the point, in
which two great statesmen will be cut to
pieces with their own savorite edge toul's.—
ss It augurs well that those gentlemen treat
this subject so seriously, and it would put
to the blush, if anv thing ;ou/d, the few
. wretched Prenc h paragraph m tkers who as
? sect to ridicule a developemcnt which their
! met-stars feel to be (raught with death to all
, their hOpes.
From German [ba/lers received at tle: office
i of" the Baltimare Federal Republican to
the Air! of ﬂing.
COPENHACEN, ﬂsay 1.
His majesty has accepted the resignation,
ss on account of health, of the count de Bern
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foreign assairs. The king on the same day
appointed to replace them, the count de
Moltke, privy counsellor of conference,and
; M. de Rosenkrantz, who is now on an ex
1 traordinary mission at Paris. The elder
count de Bernntoss, will retain the Port Fo
lio of soreign aﬀairs, until the return of the
new minister.
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} CONBTANTINOPLE, March 10.
) The Turks appear to recover from the
ss state of ssstUpOl' in which they remained dur
! ing former campaigns. The grand scignor
( is about to place himself at the head of the
; troops who come from Azia, and in whom
i he has more confideocc than in those of Eu
l ropc. He has illmsc'ifcxcrt'lSCd them for
l some time, and given them fire arms after
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BOSTON, Yulq 28.
'ery late-from Spainss—Last evening cap
tain Vinal, in the brig Enterprizc, arrived
ss here from Algesiras, (Spain.) He furnish
es :] detailed account of the seizure by a mi
litary force, and sale, without form or trial,
but in the name of the French imperial go
vernment, at Malaga, of the brig Two
Marias, Doane, ol' Boston, with fish ;
sch'r Four Brothers, Grozier, of Province
town!; and sch'r Hope, Noble, of Paris
mouth, with cocoa, logwood, &c. put into
Malaga in distress.
The French were in possession of Ma
laga the lSth Inne. King ]0. had visited it
but had gone to Granada,
Capt. V. lelc Algesiras the 19th ]une.-—-—
On the 18th, 5800 Spanish troops, under
Gen. Laci, arrived there in English trans—
ports from Cadiz. sheir object was said
to be an attack on the rear of the French
invaders ot Cadiz. Two pctrivateers were
the 11th of ]une. The isle continued to be
defended with vigor and skill ; and the shot
of the French were returned with spirit.
The allied defenders were not in want of a
nyfithing. The city was crowded, & some
ofthe useless mouths were shipped oﬀ. No
fear's of the snlsszjugation of the city for many
month: were entertained. The old mar
shal duke of Dantzic [Lefebre, a most ex
cellent engineer] commanded in front of
, 'NEW YORK, ﬀuly 31.
A letter was yesterday received from
[Bootsion (written just before the closingoof
poqetk of that eharn't which binds the ment-. '
hers of the national legislature to secrecy in
certain cases. it appears new to be uni
versally admitted that there is no constitu- :
tional or legal Obstacle to the publication of
those documents. But the writer finds that
some of those whose judgment he cannot
but highly respect, are not quite so clear as
to the perfect proprz'ety of such a step.—
All the members of congrecc have uniform
ly agreed in opinion that some parts of the
papers which were laid before them ought
net to be given to the world. More, much
more general information upon the subject,
however, the public are entitled to and shall
ready for sea at Malagn, and two Others fit. ..
FROM PORTUGAL.
- ct. Our—Gloucestor correspondent yesterday
furnished us with Lisbon Gazettes to 12th
]ttne. They do not state any change of po
sition in the hoetile armies. No battle had
been fought ; and the spirit as _well as the
discipline of the nation appeared increasing.
Cindad Rodrigo was invented the lst June.
ting ont.
CRdiZo
the European fashion.
MZQfd—m
storﬀ. minister of state, as well as that of
his brother, director of the department of
We have account: from Cadiz down to '
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just received by Fame-s Kennfdfiv s"
Baakscllar, King-street,_ 9
The Scottish Chicfa, an Histoncal
manco, in 3 vols. by Miss Pm'lcl'a ad ,
of Thaddeus of VVars-sitw, His-villss'issct
that portion of Scottish history in "me
Ballant Sir William Wallace acted 50 si
guished a part. _ _
A BRIEF VIEW sissssctct
Of the Policy and Resources of , the U- til
Comprising some Strictui'es 0" 3 . s
the Genius and Dispositions of the:
the mail) stating, that the brig Caroi'sisi
arrived there fromFal mouth, With Let .
papersto the 7th of Iuoc, two an"?
than former accounts. The pass" !:
that by accounts from Holland, hap It.
that Louis had abdicatcd the thn-sisijfsi'
left the country; that there was muctl ::
mehtation ; and that in Amﬄtrdam
French troops had been sissailcd in some?!
stances. Hoiland, it is supposed, is";
incorporated with France. Repong of,:
pected War between Russia and France,;
Also, of an insurrccuon at Stockhffimssnfd
vor of the late king- The Caroline w
]uly 3, in lat. 53,_ 9. long. 40, Zossssss'si
Latonia, Herrick, from New-Yorkssiss.
verpool. "she C-ctu'oline was from Nsisi
bound to Boston, carried into Falmosi
and cleared. si
Govcrnment. -
E'LLA ROSENBERG-a BoMo'ss
By William Herbert, Esq. With"!
Spanish Outlaw, ' " ., ' - (43
Iuly 26.
By the Spy, from 'Fobago, we have
ceived Bulhdziwls papers to the 17thisi:
but tnr-y contain no news. We learnt};
the captain of the Spy, that all the Bill-"
ships ot'the line are ordered home sross-si'
W'cst-lt'tdiew
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BALTlMORE, Augzctst 2.
Let-jest from Corumzsisil.
Captain Luce, arrived yesterday lil' _
Corunna (N. W. of Spaiu) says the retr
at Comnna when he sailed, jttne 29, I"
that the combined armies of brittsh, 5?
ish, and Portuguese, on the fronticrs3
Portugal, were 150,000 strong. and:5
French about 70,00U; that .Masscm "9
waiting l'or t-einsorcements ; wtttchwcrflsi
their march, that when they came"?
would attack the alliea.
The English had several times attcssiP'ct
to bring the French to an engage-ment ss
could not eﬀect it, as the French Cuntlﬂusi'
retired. The alties would not pursue
sena far, apprehending an atnmtscactI .sis
The French army is reported to bcslclctss
and their lines lrcqtlrutly weakeucd b}
Set tion : the German and Dutch Pﬂfficsisi
LV, desert from the French. ficﬄsi'
them came into Corunua, and wercv
captgin Luce. ,
Salt could not be had at the lslc of )"
for some time, on account of thfsi
their mules, &c. as before reported
We have seen letters from Havzna dass,
the 8th inst. which contain the following,:
teresring particulars. "
The San Lorenzo and Srm Fulzessz,
Spanish ships of the line, arrived at liavisssisi
on the 7th, in 50 days from Csisidjzsi Li
board of the latter was passe-tiger lit-ure,.
Alva, who had taken charge of hisuffiss;
capt. gen. of Marines oslthe island. h ,
said that the general brought ouc with;-si.
artisicers for the purpose of proceeding
building immedtately another ;trsenal,:5
of the line, l'rigates, &c. T hrce mo,-crsisi.i
of the line were hourly expccuzd, on but?
of one of which is lieutenant general L-si.
dia, who is appointed governor olss Havzsisi
and general of the lsland, to supcrcczjcsig.
Marqnis de Somerttelos. He is sxid tsissct
a man of great personal bravery, of tal,-11
and deciSiou. He was formerly il Cdptct
of the king's guards, and brother to & gsiu
ral now in the Spanish army.
Captain Clough, olsi {he Richard fromict
]ohns, inlorms, that some with: Frcntvssss
hathitants had left Porto Ricn hastily, it:!"
out arranging their business, and that oil-:j
were preparing to leave it. it was any;
ed that on the 15th us ]uly the Spusiir ;;
would commence sending all the Frcntn s
Wc learn from captain Morgan cfsi'si
schooner ]ohn, lrom Curo, that a rcvuiuzit
had taken place on the Spanish Main. ]!
Laguira and Porto-Cavello acknowicdsiv.
Ferdinand the 7th, but not the autlmrii)
the regency, which the pronince oft:..
and Maracaiho have to the utmoSt knew
--and apprehensive of an attack lromr—
former, they were concentsirating llltllllctl
ces ; and 20,000 men marched trum Mr.-:
caibo to join those of Cora
way.
NEW PULtcssATONS
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