Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-09-07 00:00:00, page 2

- jsiimd all his Land adjoining; and lying on the *
ssctsi practitioncr o. taste, in the choice of his
..ctLTTYRENT, )
HE STQRB, with or without the house ss
in which 1 now live on 14 anlsisix meet,
in good repair—Posscssion may be had my
' mediatdy, on application to R. }. 'l AYLUR,
or
, T perfinc Yellow Bark.
' DR ssSrANssDFORD' S improved Powder of
Bark, having being used and highly apptoved
of by Vany phy sicians of distinguished cha
mote: m different parts of the United States,
lie ts now encouraged to oﬂ'cr it to the facul—
ty generally, under the persuasion that no
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63- *Mahoga-ny, Go". for Salt.
HE snbscribcr has sust received SOOO
sect of Boy Iliabogany in the log—he
si ' hu aiyhmd, 4000 feet St. Domingo Blahogzsi
uyin-ssnhnk, 8500 sect of Bsy Ma/zog'any in
Planxsi'ﬂhich he oﬀers lor sale, ior cash, or
: shqrt mdit.
N. B. lle still continues to carry on the
Cﬂbffi si, Chair—making Busznecs in the neat—
I" and mt suhionablc manner.
wefis, can fail to be gmtisied' m the use of
south side of tbe'rozuj from the Falls church
_ to she-new court house in l-ss-sizirsax county, Va.
the :ubscribar (A Alexandxix county, in the
glistrict of Columbia, has obtained sxor 1 the
Orphans Court 01 said county, kss-ttcxs of ad—
mmistration on the person \l estate of 1'-bc1t
Abozcronxbiqlntc of he count) afomsuidssicr' (!
--All persons nating claims against the said
dec'd arc hereby named oexhibitthcsmu,
with the vss'ouchcxs t ..ereof to the subzcribcr,
on or before the 6th day of March next,
or they may by law bc excluded from all be
pefic to said estate ; and those indebted there
to are required to make immediate paymcnt.
Given under m) ] and this Gth day of Sept.
1810
which will be lai-si! oﬀ imdtwo or mmc loxs.
as may suit the purchascrs : This farm is
about 13 miles sxom Alexandria and I: from
. Georsi-ctown and the Citv of \Vashington—
_lhekmproffiement> and fertizity of me soi'
Will be best kncmx byx icwing the k)1em'n<.cs
and crop now on said l.:nd. One 11qu of
the amount os sales to be pessci I in six monthass.
the other half in fifteen monthz. Bondz with
approved securit) to be ghen, \ ith ] gz-l inct.
crest hom the date, if not punctually pslcl.
_1he purchaser; mxy sow small gxain, plo
iidcd thesiy [ny the tcnants for any damaz- ::
done, as per agreement, nhosc term as to—
nants wiLLexpixe on the 25th day of Decem
ber ne xt.
Wanted to Rurchase or Hirc,
A BLACK MCIA son a house servant ——4'
Mply to t13e Printer. 1
_lmgsiust 15. *. d }
"bly to the Will of John Sommers, cleceased, ;
this elegant preparsslion, which in strength,
,ssctALMANACQ
ssss rov. 18: 1, .
Just published and for salc by the grass, !
en or singk:
Cottom & Stcwart.
ct__August15.
( Daily Gazette 6 Do]! ars per annum.
Country Gaunt, 5 Dolct'ars.
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whekeun the said Sommcrs formerly livedsiss
()zdmedsthat (See administr at wi: of Robvt ;
Abercrombic, def ',d do insert tlxe i=>llowing_ \
four weeks, in the Alexandria Dctily Cuzct'sie
'_scste
" Scptember s. eotf
advettiscmcnt [luce t'm es in each neck iox \
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steedes, and certainty of operation, will be
ound greatly to surpass the bark in common
se.
Said tract of Land contains about 400 acressi,
commodatc persons of every description, by
James Kssennedy, sen.
Bobksellcr, King street.
_,—.)LDITBD AND PUBIJIBBD 11!
s'A'MUEL SNOWDEN,
. si Royal-nreet, Alctaidn'a.
Alcxander Moore, Rag.
This 15 to give Noticc, ihat
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WHEN TO; ,____ ELZUMYYZ
:,Thess welf-known Plantation
Alexandria Daily Gazssette,
COMMERCIAL &POLITlCAL.
Elizabeth Wilson.
Auguitjs. _ (}
ssfLssANnssr-ox sAu—L.
N luesddyss'ssssthe 25sih of Scpt inst. wi}!
be sold. to the highest hidden: agwea—
Simon Sommers, Ex r.
Sfsiptembcr 5. i 2awfic
Orphans' Court, A
Ai'cxaml: 50 C'Otmty, Seþt. 'Issezm, 1810.
It 15 sold m parcels of (. iﬀcrent sizcs to ac
,' _ 'si-mctss SssEPTEMBER 7.
\ Martha Abcrcrombic,
Administssrauix o! Rt Abexﬂ-cxomhie
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_ Before thcsictct-French sssitcvdufion, ;Ettrssopr
tsixh'ibit'cd a very diﬀerent spcctacle srqm
siwhatit does now. Its governments were
a" of them vassstly better than they now are.
T he work of improvcment was very visibly
ss going on in all of them ; and many of them
7 promised to become in the course: of time,
ss very temperate and well- regulated governssvsigss
;- ments. si Providence, however, has pleasec!
? to put : smp to all this, by a succession ot
thcct most wonderful .revolutions- that the
ss world has ever witnesscds France, into.
i whose government the revolution hasin
'si suscd such a martiat Sp'tr'tt, and so much
cttet'gy, has been the instrwnent of these
changes. Reformat'tog and Zmprovcment
"With. the first object which the hadcrs in that
? revoctlution, had in view. Finding, how
?. ever, that their visionary schcmrs must sail,
that the wandcring dclir'tons hopes which
they had indulged concerning the future
happiness of their country must be excin
guished; that the people ns France, instead
of living under a republic, must have a
* strong encrget'tc government established 0
ver them ; thty began to srsigmsiesi' plans offia
tional aggrandissment-V This, I am per
suadcd, tt-as hot the first objeCt which they
had in view. ThOSe men were not sore:
sig'st-sid and mmprchensive enough, to see
sssssictssthat the stars: of arrarchy which prevailed
'"si'sram '90 in '3-5, tvuuhl' eventually and of
cnurs:s give rise to the estabzishment of a
('u'z-putsilc gsir-ssxctzttrssnt. They were so mi
scrably (z.fsi'ctss..tz-xc in mind and tahmts, as
not tssvc, :c u:si.Jsiz*st:sind that sundamental
mnxim sim polizi. =, z'hsiat gnt'crnments must
tthimatclv gz-csiw usiai .ui'she state of socicty
where the.) cIZZS'. Vss'e are to :ttts'thute the
French rrvrziesstt'mn to nothing else, but the
inﬂuence of ixtszsi'td'ity and jactsizh'mism among
the pcOplc. T.}c course of things was t'et'v
witlcly diﬀerent however, from what wn's
expected. A tJ-ctspotism, insmnd us & t'e
pttbiic, was esmbhshrd ;-——d government
which, as I have- ah'cas'tjct remarked, is in
an eminent degree: fitted sur Cfnss-qUCSs.
ever eloquently and fancisully we may rea
son to provesstbat the new order of things
which have risen up cannot continue long :
yet facts and actual appearances, when ex
amined with calm and attentive observation
will almost deseat our eﬀorts to think so,
and extinguish all the ﬂatteringhopes which
? We may have indulged. —
\ Calculationsfavarable to the "duration of
the French empire, ctmay be made from the
{following cqnzidsxessM-Z ' " si '
It 13 frequently said thm t'nc _V havc : but !
d :n 1! 11 nct' at the ass rtion is WCH tound
co- It is truv, that l.uropei 13 ixsmitely
morzc civilized now, than it was 1800 years
ago, and that the art of \\ sin and the means
01 interna! and ex crnai defence arc far be:
tcr undz—nswod now. . But, it is also true,
that France: is a much more powerful na
tion, am] endowed with vast'si—xp more strcng th
than Austria, Spain, ltaly, Prussia & Hb-ol
] 1.1;anz' in just as great (: m-aþa rlim us
If amc' formerly was. she conques: ot Eu
rope, aithough on the wnule & greater wonk
an ! a greater 1:\ ENT, non, than it was 18
c-ss-ntuncs ago, has not reali \' been accom
plis' 1ec. wish greater difficuity. "he French
are as much better soldisscrs than the (Scr
mctns and Spanisizrds, as tnc Romans were
than the ancient Gaqu and Britons. To be
sure, the French have practiscd arts and
intrigusi sol a peculiar kmd to cnsure their
conqucsas. 'lhc inﬂuence ofjacobimsm a
mong the nations 01 Europe, has eﬀectual
ly prepared them to be subjugated. And
__Bcnapa1\c has in numclous instances, T
bought over the encm). But, the: contcst
haso been extremely unequal, independcnt
of these things. And with tcgard to jaco
b'mism, as the nmions where it has prevail
ed, w-sire, by their corruption, prepared to
izs introduction and inﬂuence among them.
it would be fair 10 amibute its lavagcs as
much to thus weakncss as to I*1"ench m
How long Will the French despotism last,
is a question in which every civiliz-zd nation
on earth must be deeply interested. lf the
governments os Europe are to be shattered
and in the end utterly destroyed by this new
power,- it is impossible for the mind to &
gnre a more deplorable and gloomy specta
cle than that quarter of the globe will aﬀord
in twentv years : a state of things perhaps
as had as that of the first ages of the chris
tian zera. " A change of fourteen centu
ries will have past away. it "will have gone
back so much, and Attila, the scourge of
God, will have come again." And how- 1
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been a more equal match for her than tnc ss
samcn nations Wcsc iur the Roman cmnirc. '
It'mnctv be q1: sz'm .n-zd whether the na
txons which hance— has subjugatcu, have:
si REFLECTt'b'Hs, ss
Duratiart of th; Frenclz'Empssiz-ct,
Frsiom the Fca'eral Reþublz'cm'z. '
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ssarchdukc Charles shoqu die, even that
But the force of all these considerations ]
is very much diminished when we investi-. !
gate s urther.
Although it is true that the French poli- !
tics have proselyted almost all the nations
of Europe; yet, in many of them, this,
seems to have proceeded more from fear,
and want of exertion in the princes who
govern them. tban from anv love of Bona- -
parte, oros jacobim'sm. if Russia, Den
mark and Austria were each of them ruled
by such men as the archduke Charles,
France Would have met with such sormida- ct
ble opposition in the commencement of her
ambitious projectsss as would have complete
ly humbled her by this time, and kept her
kingdom within its ordinary limits. When
Bonaparte dies, what man will succeed
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: Henry the Great of France, was forming a
kingdom will then be gigantic, and a per
lect nuisance to all the world. The Dutch
entirely lost the tune of heroism which
their ancestors discovered and exerted with
so much success against the usurpations
of Philip [I. of Spain.—---Bonnparte will
find no difficult)! to make them sight his
battles.
sion. Holland, we are told, is soon to be]
made a part of France. The size of thatsi
.and that it wi}! be oslong duration.
essecting a consolidation. All of them will -
he rendered so weak, as to be obliged to
take shelter under the power of France,
and to continue under her dominion. She
will not follow the Asiatic made of conso
lidazing the conquered territories with her
own; but, she will render her own power
so fortnidable, and theirs 50 weak, as to
keep them perpetually in awe and submis
lo the third pktce, Uonapnrte has taken
such precaution to cansa—lidute his concLUeSts,
as to render tt probable, when taken toge
ther with the other circumstances, that his
empire win he permztnent and durable. It
is true, he has divided the [Lsl'ilOsiCS he has
conquered, into a great number of propor
tions, and raised up a great multitude of
kingdoms; but, this is the surest wav of
power will sssxll a me)- to France. TN:
crowned heads of Europe, of the present
clay, a-re nemzukzzbly wcuk men, and dcsi
cient in mlxctnts and cncrgy. 'lss'hc empc mr
Alexandcr is a benevolent amiable man, but
possesses nnnc us (he martial spirit and he
roism- os Catharine II. The kings (,l' Dcn
mark, Schen and Prussia, and the empe
ror of Austrin are very weak princes. ' In;
worscosit is, thatt'ney scrl themselves to
hc se), and make no cxsi'rtions to opposc (he
armics otsi Francsh
Ya-ring' councih, cmnpkctttd her rum.-—,ss
).ssssw, Ausu'ia, hsi-sidz—s Frances i*ss the (miss. 1
In the first plan, she-sact that-dmsioat all
the n'sinions of Europe have. embraced the
same sysccm of interests as France '; many,
of them with apparent willingncas & cheer
sulnesssi; whicsitsissgo very. far towards estab
Iis/zing the domusiuon of France _uv:r them.
Bopaparte cxcrages as sovFrgugctnsia sway
over the hearlS-Of the jtahans, Germans,
In the second place, the states os Hu
rope, are the most of them, so exceedingly
frail in their conssijcutions and enducd with
so little energv; as to render (he suhjuga
tion ofchcm, by such a power as France,
compamtiver-easy, and make it probable
that her dominion over them will continue
soralong periodos time. Excepc Ruszin.
Austria and Prussia, there was not a single
government on the continent of Europe at
the commencement of the rcvolution, which
Cuuﬄ. be mHed powerful. Przctssia, how
ever, was tsi'zzctnbrcmhing cut the military
spiricwhich Fz'edr'rick the Great had kin; ss
dfed ; and which soon expired. And hcrss
king and minisctm by !hi'lr *.'euk and wsi- ]
their lives and liberties. Dcnmnrk, Run
siassand Austria, he cannot be said to have
subjugaced yet. But the two first have
sition, with regard to his vicw's; and have,
in fact, gone very lar towards clcstroying
their commerce, m order to please him.—
states ; for France was (0 01: [He nena.——-—
!: is altogether improbable, that that mo
narch w0uld have succeeded, ('Ven with the
assistance of Sully. But Europe has been
totally changed since that time. Now, the
same interests, the same pursuits. and the
s-sszme governments cxisting shere, have pre
pared it, isnotfor a CUUfssc<lCI'd")', PrC least,
for & consolidation of its s'tmcs. It is
perfectlyunaccnuntable, that Russin, Den
mark and Sweden, should have desemctd
the coalition ; so it is however ; and when
we see such powerful states (and so remote
from the Centre Of the war) acceding to the:
schemes os Bonapartc, we have every, rea
son to believe that his empire will be firmly
estansh-zd in the course of a fexv yezsirs;
plan, when Ravaillac killed him, of unizing
Europe into one grand confcdﬂ'acy , or ra.
ther of essccling a consou-dation of (he
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From the As. Tsr/E 1. vening Pctst.
Dark Ggess-T-Ve have on our fihcts the Uct'
cure of Bonapartc ralative to pr'zming ist
France. As it is long, we have thougffi
Pr0_pe_r to give a summary of its contents.
1 This rs :: precious morssi-l for the friends 0
the emperor. It is a part of what Duanc
would call the continental sys-tem--si1 system
_ which is to reduce mankind to astacc of
[ barbarism, that tyrants can more: easily ruic
)them. The system of dcmocrac-y in this
,country, goes hand in hand with Burn
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llplzance 12 suppoﬂed, and kn-zwhfdgf an;
si cmlizaciun arc: disrczardcd anrlsi discou
; ragcd. The most igndsiram and abanclsimrd
of mankind arc raised to places of officc5
- and "UST, While the: culightcncd and cnnu'
arc neglected and oppressed. Our govern
men} have nok yet suppressed insonnatiuﬂ
by mterdicking the press, but the pcopf
passe done every thing to keep clncmsclvct
m 'Knorance which they can possibly do
Dcmocrals will read nothing in scdfisﬂ' Pa'
PCTS; they will take no pains to compasc
dssatCS. Or to find whether what they read "
true or sal'sc. \thn People are thus if"
si, retained to be ignorant, what is (he: me "
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A'Wf 3", W': must debvcr usi) (he great
part ofthc work of rma/zctivatis ): and m
r/sifOWW-si'ss " to the interwsuion and are
sssi siscablc hand of the p're'at dibpnc, r."
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ss wnll not be able : govern au cznpircui'sm
. disposiscd, in the state os anarc
' to subduc the power of France?
' Bonapartc should vacate m,"
it is impossible that the nc-rmle osE-z.
ropc can live long. notxssit. .smusilmg wir
love: of jacobznism and udmimticno. 'ctct-Buna
parte umltr his m ucl cxn-tinm, and Znt'ncir
present estate of dz-si :sp-si ru- e S.:v ( 'essV- And};
iact the YFSUUICCS of lct-zm-z ( 34 {hose coun
taics whicn szz )si'si—lzc-d l-cr f..1.m<;=:s :uctd a:
mivs. must sow be: so far tX!":;:sil.i<:} hyxlz:
prohibizion of cnnumctrcc, and by the ;ctczpc
tuui war in which thsi-siy are cngxg-ss-ci 'm Bry
nupartc's service, as to leave him alms!
dcscizutc of the: means of su_fu;;ze:'m;; Rsi-s
_sia, Dcnmark, and Austria complete!)
TheSc three last powers (c-spccizsilly the: two
sirsr) have not been cxhaustcd hzxfl'ns much
as l'mncc, and her inzm'ess/mct- drunssini-ms.
And then w. H thmctutc, in the (.)an 0!
Bonnpach s (learn, be able to m.;k :) lur
midublc opposicism tn l'czc: powsifr of France
NO'PRS.
'ssct ]Ur. Burle It/zinlz, does nctmyz! 7'7'
'I/Iis [cakcd outj/am him ((ftrr sl'ze (70!
t/c qsAuetcr/ztz. ** I/z. Juszrzsiml amif
cast me more than my own" .s-a J /.zc
i lustria CXCC/)l6'c{,si w/zic 'z lzouss-rvf'z
scrms to have received a ma; m! N'siuss'; 6")
ansiz/ late, to be so exccc-dmssr/y dis siaummz'as'
to have no dispasz'tionta made cur,] f'szuu u-s
csi'ﬀ 01 ts.
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'Þ'src, hndcontrcnl all the state'ssict
in their present spheres? May' [We
and Denmark. :ctmd Spain and Actme. {uzgsisi
the diﬀerent princes scmed on sht-sissruswffiss
bessembnldcncd to recover the',, ssirr sone,!
smon and comcquence? Wi'l thess-u ;ctsi
gigamic size.
it must be confesscd, that the rmmsiss
events, which will takepiaccin Ellrn , s
ter Bnnapartcss's death, lies 50 sher-si-Zsi
the vci],*.vh'zch covers events 0!" sumysiss. fisisi
almost entirely hidden from sizssn- I'H'Wu
soresigZss-t. But it seems so imprssgsisisssssil
(hat Providence will susscr that q-ssn-ctsirssss (Is.
the glnbc again (0 1): plunged in barbasiffi
and anarchy, that we cannot help calz'ui.=_;.
in'r szworably for the sunne, and bzljzss'si
that the.- prcqcnt rcvulutinns are: to be th
strummts ofa better state us things, T
are a multitude of ﬂattm'ing CUWssi-cmziursis
which are invuchd in this: which, how
ever, we need not enter inn; hsirc.
Bonapartc's dcat/z will be exccssdimiss
discouraging to the French psi-Oþtssct. wo'm
will hardly preserve their present lle'r- sisisi
of heroism, or be able to fight such :;i-uiwzz
battles under any other man. [( he [in
male issue by his present \vise*,l}1;lls.fzn'.rsi11
not probably be: more than twc-nzyycz'sirssiz
age, when he insihcrits the kingdom; ;,sssiu
* 3' tsi-ctssn'fsi
Europe up order to seat ﬄﬂtxarctsi'ﬄsii]
own a/zpazntmcnt upon them, Wiixsisi act si-u
like Alexander's sncrcssqrs, usi—k: sisictnsi'mssss
of the sum of distracci-m sis-dssssfmssisi
whicnsi will take place; um} W—h :sictctssf
for the lion's share? Is Bsi's-s-pasissisiss'sisi"
succeeded by as great a man as sictsiiusizss
France, even with her mztrxisti [vrz-sisissfsictjsssisssi
and the heroism which hvr glsissss [:nsiisiwct
liant successes have- inspired, wsisssict [;sictctsssisi
able to maintain her ws; pnssctssctsiiffiff
.l'he French pcc-plc sissssm 8lequ simsi-a-sszctsi.
put with considcrablc kaimsss uzsisi
them ; or else: they will become ],
helpless ?. zd wretched a Sctctsi us vasssisisszss'ﬂs
as they were between the: )Tctfsiss 1ng it::
1800. *
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