Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-02-16 00:00:00, page 2

There were" motions; scarcely less ur
gent thy; those springing out of the gene
.ni pin- of enoquest, to precipitate the at
-1pch otf Proesia. Gentz, one of the politi
;dtrtiters of cthe contiricht, has declared,
Rag? Manner to d Hauterive, that nmhing
"its: the uniono! Austiin and Prussia could
art:": the eareerct of France, and save the
-'other "But of Europe. 'lhe cabinets of
Beriil Vienna h-gan to see the neces
sity of an approximationsi Prnnce felt the _
expedie'ney of deaiing an immediate hiow,
in order to (lissipite' the strength of Rin
oin, before Atusitria, after her recent dien:
ten, eoulsid colleet the means or summons
'- up the reeolution to eo- operate in a pian
'of mutuz! defence, which the course of e
_ vent! pained but as the only avail-able re
-si nougusor' both n. itions. To have le-lt Ani
' tsirin and Btmia at peace for a length of
time nuffieient to heal their wounds, with
'thn leapt for 'nmbitioua designs, anzl the
mond if Witment which the ex
*thedon of Prtmizt oﬀended them, would
hnt'n endangered the power of Ftauce mon e .
sithiip sinn'yss;mert!)' possible union between the
-- cottrtn of Buliu not! Viennn.
The growing power ot Rtmin kindled
= an tied-m- jenluuw in the enbiuet not! a
- Whipeeubtive politi'timit ot France.
The close connexion of the former with
! Ep.!nntl—the exeiusion of France from
. n!l thnre' in the negoeiatimu with the—Di
'si wan, served to inﬂimess this. jealousy, and
.to produce the most hastile feeling! on the
1 tide of France. To estrnnge the hot se us
I mine from Russi. !, " to throw htck the
latter into her- vant eleserts"-to exclude
R.- Ml my inquiries. during my rcsidenc: ss
abroad, concerning the true chzirnctcr and
nmount of the Russian means of waile-se, .
led me to the conclusion that they are ge
nerslly much oresssratesid. Her m mnine _-ss
resources cln be but at little surice in her
atrnggles with France,--3nd, in sect, are
scarcely sufficient to give" her any reputa '
tion for strength on the oeezn, A nation
essing no distmsin culonies. --without
considersble fisheries, and with am excent
of coast to hmiliariee the nauiu-s to the
danger! qsthe bean.-dance! easily ere-te
n- nary, calcpksed to render her tormida
He to the seed W wccsof Eu
up.-; The rspidndvnncctoi Russiact since
the reign of Peter the (Heat;- her vietoriz s
.ov'er. Jhn ankcte. eﬄux.- however to the
ipse-ne end pan-mity osthe Ottoman 4
genui- :Wbihetnsubordmauon of their ]
a the vast Mpan ,;(Phu territory, (in i
wss; ccts of ambition,
dis 's made of meekness); have dsz- (
of sims'rikied and produced
sgsnt hy'pesseboles trith regard to
her mniffiutysndfaubiaty resonrces.- — . ss
tinue eqsonrees- alone she must re- !
lyin _ Zegpetition with Beance.snd1 ;
on be!! motion-sting will pmvei'n-si
nufidctent secte human}- What-e ] read;,with
MM- W 'M
dseswe nssirier insnces and'
she Mesems-bkhrm, bedde- "the"
Fmgh w "I Ml consider
-*si [coxnnunm ]
of Rnssia as : countenmise to the power
of France. ! shall add claw remarks on ss
her altogether from 'an interference 'm' the '
aﬂ'sirs of Europe, was the snvoritesystem
of the old regime; and it will be found .
that their snccessore can scardely be ani
mated by more savortthl: disposition. As
much stress has þeen pin.:ed on the strength
this subject.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT He.
new.-if, FBBRUARY-u.
. . . A .
l'L ELT T siE-R
you To: ,
GBJVZUS a- DlCPOSlTlDNS
OF THE.
4 _._, -,
* 5, "The natural - progress osher strength ;
i the extension of her commerce ; the (in...
csicm of the arts of civiliZed life-; and an
; improvedsystem of internal administrntion
' within the last thirty years, have undoubt
Z edly placed her under more savorahie cir
cumstances, and greatly augmented her
resources. But when contrastcd with
those of France, there is still an irremedia
ble deficiency. Her finnncial means 'bear.
no proportion in the comparison. Inde
pendentlysiof the positive-sact, her inseti
ority, in this respect,. might be under
stood from a cniculation, adniitted by most
writers on political arithmetic, that a thou
sand inimbitantt, coiiected within a square
league, will, when compared 'with five
hundred, lprend over the same surface,
sustain much more than double the ninuunt
oitaxcs,"'and cost much len trouble u'ntl
expence in gathering them. The product
of private industry, and national l't'Vt'nut',
with no-diﬂ'nt-nt'e ewn of nuil ur tlim-te,
is, within a given apace, unisnrtnly in it
rutintnnclt grvntcr than that of the popula
tiun. - ] ﬂute this principle-, how-:vcr,
chieﬂctv with a view to illustrate the difficul
ties, to which Ruuin must he subject, in
relattion to the concerns of her treasury.
. The nlnotmt of her revenue is but of littie
importance in an inventigatiun osher ability
to cope with France. _The impussihility,
under which she labours, of repair-in;; with
promptitude my severe least-- of men {'t-er"
want of good officers; and the desecn of
her military- orgnniZation; are the molt
discournging points of comparison.
" War, as waged hctv her ent-my, 'is not
now principaliyn question os fimmce, but
of the resources of populntion. The strength
W—msi— -si.. --—-_ ——.—._
ol's-state-0pposed to France must be est:
mated, by the sum of its populationsi, 'cii
vided by the extent ol'its territory: and by
the sacility with nhissch its institutiom. ena
ble the government to wieltl 'that popttla- ss
tion. The first branch of this estimate is ss
so far correct, that many writers calm-um,]
l that a .pupttlation of six milliuns, mncen- '
trated within a smallspace, ]: equal to one
si of twenty-four, tlili'nsctl over at large sur—
l lsinct'. " [tis eminentlctv true as it relates to
? the military operations ol :t country, wag
l ing a defensive war. VVhoever ressﬂects on
i tlzespa rse character of the 'Russisn papu
ss, lution, ..ancl considers that the Russian go
; vernment is under the necessity of matin
tztining a standing army at home, in order
i— to [ire-serve domestic tranquility, will easi
t ly understand the application as the forego
;ingremarks, and must he satisfied, thztt;
l-aldtougli England (nigh furnis'n pecuniury
lsupplies, Russia, after a few seve-redeseatsi
{would be tleficient-in the number of her
troops.
" The distance of Russis-will not serve to
'sisipmtect her, when the immediate pOWCISi
{are subdued. France will then press upon ;
l her irontiet, with all the accession of num- .
ssi hers; of'treasure. and of inﬂuence, which!
ss' she must derive from 'an ssmtl'rm'it'siedsistvay i
'over the adjacent territories. The acqui- i
'sition ofsiFtnlantl, of Gellicia, or of what- I
ever portion'of Turltey may he now prt-mi-ss'
'sed, to gratil'y the blind smbitiun of Alex- ;
'ander, will be no addition to his strength ; 7
and will only conduce, by enlarging his
boundartesss.to multiply his etnblrrussments,
when the 'Siredo-s, the Poles, the' Turksssl
the Persians, and'the Chinese, who burder '
on hisitnmsnleempirc; will he all set in
ss motion to second the stuck on his impla- ;
sea-ble enemy. During the last-struggle ofsi
ssssRuss'ia, it was certainly-in the contempla_-'
'lcteion of Bepzpsetsse to erect s kingdom of
isi-Polsnd,unssder his immediazeinﬂuence, in
l'drdyto'iprompte his designs on the north.
[ "me, Put! nctomchot Naples, sees to
{have sudden} than! sceptre. In the
Let-tiding of the-dlan yhich the victory of
I
the diliculcttisiet which the sissct-ss
siin'tii't had to bird-cerned rtlct'to hath. _
[put quite "Qui-lied it the omit then
unde, although fbellevethsieictn t'e-ha great"
ly CW-si Cntharine 'llhsiorc' d !
spread no" il-iyn on this euhject, by the"
bolsitlnru and tþlenﬂsiotof her uncle-rating"
but thev teldotn required more than "one or'
two campuignv , and with, all the aid; of;
iB'Iolute pochr, she was unable to collect it
revenue equal to that of the secontlary or
der of etatcs in Europe. Her armies were
drawn from the inferior of the- empirc and
formed by means of elow and operose le
viee. ln weakening the inland 'þopulation,
they exerted a most pernicious inﬂuence
over the general prospetity of .; countrv,
which, of all others, most imperibusly ex
acts the :- zictcst econo: "} of the blood and
the steadiest application of the agricultural
labor, of in inhabitantl. 'lhc military
strength of Russin was impaired by the
frequcncy' os aeditions among the soldicr) ,
of court conspiracics, and at p: pular com
,metions , evils to which the Russian go
Sﬂﬂﬄ'fnt is still expoecd, and which m'ust
always impede the execution ol any regu
!lar pi_ sin of warsare.
jsiFtsiiecﬂndss-ssﬄ' "th 5" si PVWMR
pride-in \ but. at ass journee-nu- one .!
lnsild in-hcr pilace. m nine-4 qui-runs
'Ptsizsan'cr- by the public Rinctionnsicn run-sent.
"The ,i'uluctancc at the Pain, and the ac.
i ssuicgccncc us Alsi-xandcr in the sicrcnti-mctos
3" kingdom of Wutphnhn, put-meed she
accompficiuw ntns this plimsi' ]tctss is father,:
curious that &! simiiar one was so,-med byss
the French cahinct in 1745. A do ntutinq
of Ppiish noblemcq'was srnt hsiom iivmaw
atthut period.—to tender to the: prince as
Cmiti the wishcs'os the. country, for h'u
eventual election to the crown. - 4
" The hasty submissions of Alexanda-r at 'ss
Tilsit, and as. the names of the War which
terminated in the ignominious ctpc-ace of
that name. tend to confirm the: Man I
have suggested in the iast page-. The rr- *
;ncscutntums Of :h-f Boitish usiisijcrs who
pcompzmictl the Rusainn amm-s, put'ticu- ss
iarli' 0! lord Hutcht sun, go to prnve, that j
the'Russiune Were, at no time, in a condi- :
tion to contcncl successfully with' the ;
French force. They wanted number-:, of- 1
.siccra. a Spirit of union in the general.-".. and (
sia well rcgdlatcci comminariat ; : dcpart- ;
{ment in which they are miscrably deficient. \
,So wr_ctchcd was the PWP'M'WW for this ;
sangumary stzugglr, that the Rusgian
; troops on their own burden, suﬀered more ;
,thanthan their nssailants from the inclc
tincncyof the season and th: scarcity of
iDﬂWisions. The most sagacious and ex
fþeriettccd osthe officc-rs whom I have cited,
jsztw from the beginning no chance of suc—
Cess but in the casuitifs of fortune; the
unsiissisted skill of Bcrnnir.g*:en, and ths: coﬀ
ratgeuus, hard), obedient, ]ietsevefiit;ctvsi_cit:t
racter of the Ru-tsian sul-liery. 'l'm-y me
Yet saw grounds 0! belief, that the resmts
; ces of the Rqssian government watild ena
f ble it to withztnnd the shutk of more than
: one scvere campaign.
; _ " The division: in the Russian cnbinct,
:and the prcpondemnte ui a l"r--n-'h factiwn
[m St, Pan-thttrg, whirh now sway the nat
ss tsimtui cffimcils,tum-tient" unalhm um] giant
Lacurceoi went.-nen. 'i'hct- Burnt-It ;.cttl'ilfiﬂnl
I it:-we Itthtitt' d th'-. viy—int of Jchamicr, by
] ttn cxptmioimt ul the imput' ncy of his
means; and debnuclud his prinriplcct-si, hy
npeciuus state-wim- us lilt: lie-mits hL' it to
dctit'c from lsihnuh ttiliuncc. It t-ut at
set'tt'ti by lflt' present uppumion in Englnnd
\ that the tistctansirment of the: Ruaiitm mo
narchsmnt li.-inch pulitico. was owing to
the horror which he had conceived at the
exp-di-iun against Copenhagcn. But the
testimony of Lord Lsit'c'ttm Gum-t' prov
ed. ttndsnia'dy. that the rupture wan deci
ded uptm pretiuusssloﬂbttt went; and was
indurcd by the ten-for which the French
arms had inspired; and the corrupt expect
ationo with which Ramparte had ;;ttmpc red
the imaginatiuit os_A_lt-x.uu2ci. TN:; ini
——-_—_— _-- . -
qmtotta war which the latter has wage-(I
since that period against chdt'n, and his
Can-crpcrution with Bonnpztrte in the latt
attack upon Austria, furnish strong evi
dence us ;: conscience by no means ous-t'm
' pultms as the hyputncsis us the umoosltiul]
would imply.
" You may easllv inser, my dear sit-,smm
the opinions which I have thus t'entttrt-fl to
suhnuc to you, that It'herlfih no l'tOpt's (Us
the safety of the continent. ( cmznot con
sent to reason from ln-zse prnhahiihirs and
remote contingenciss ; ::nsil ! sne no other
shundutlon Up-m which hope: can tcss. sily
conclusinns are drawn'fmm :: view of the
sunclamental means and pusinmment rela
tions of France, and not from a conside
rutinnhsthc character of her ruler. Gsintz,
in his '*_I"ragment on the Balzsimre of Pow
er," enumerates three traits in the present.
constimtion of France; whit l], "according
to his idea, must render her irresisnhl'e':
lst, The unlimited form of her gtit-tsirn-ss
'ment. Ld, The decisivc inﬂuence us the4
military character over the whole system ;
and 3tl, The occasiunal and succeaalsiul cctm
ployment of retmlutiopary instrument; and
means. Add to then the st-deral strength
which she" has acquired by the czxtemiop of
her limits pthe torpor t'vhich neiZes almost
every nati on even arthqctssmme of Fronee; ss
the subtlety of "her . ltatesmcn; nndsitb'ess
skill of her commandcrs ; and it will he at ss
once apparent that she may bitl dt'siancc to
the Unitetl eﬀorts-of Europe,-is by any
posiibllily the could be united." .
( To be continued.)
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The " disminal. df Mr. Father: 'Zn
Frum'c" no longer (: Myslcrg—or (! full
length ' l_)i:covery.-—Six days ago. the Au
turn, the leading prinr on the sidessol the
Amcrican adminimsiation, attempted to let-!
the pulse til-the peopsile by ' : nrohg much;
and boldly recommended _*'* An alfiwwe wille
France." This ressactl ery to zbesiprq
mulgat'iop (if the Punch treaty; which 'Mra
Mndissson tun, in 1 lplcmnly belimﬂiadss
From the New-Tori But-ning- Part. si
m
O , . , _.
.Zlsi . ,
my (midst-e time
finding-"theft ss
cook pretty well. the siAusiym_ had m-siqctv
gon-- further-si: He has tusk-ed token : l.. ;
add bold mine;; He inttuﬂnctl Me lsiulnm.
ing um osseeriptcturect under pretensie ..9
fear-;.)uwodiqg'tþtpl "(the parulnl out (m..
].ttzkidn} bit -ssctw\'\*ﬂhl)'o " '1 all-n.! sun..)
men, to give hbiprrtz'the rountersidn. .
' ' ' front-llot Aurora.
1 A wicked mengcsssirfalhth in"; m..
chief; but :- sahhlul mnhdnndur in. he:-us...
, 2 Nhne phell -die...\\fslh0\lt inlttumiun;
si yet in the geeutnesoof ssyou'r folly, ye shsiu
li toruin.-- " T
8 On the path—of. tby feet popder well.
4 Pray: for-the fear .of the. Lord prn'.
\ longeth dayasig but the yemos tnsse wicked
shall he slmjrno-d. 'ss- , _
L " 5 Lest strange ra be filled with &! ' tuum.
and thy lnborg be To" the house a _ a man!
er. , - .
i : 6 Emlow thyself with truth ;, her [Ep.
,shall be estabbqht—sid forever-; but I [ging
: tongue- is but sof- : moment. - 4 _
_ 7 A crown of glory shall then be-tbioe,
? and it shalt give to thy bread" in osnnzncnt
) of grace. . :
; 8 Not a proud look nor yet s'a' lying
; tongue, nor hand: that ahed innocent btuod.
9 Surely he: seemeth the sent-nen.
10 "thou lve_ win, thou tht be wise
for thyself. But if thou i.:orncth, thou
alone shall bear it.
ﬄ— -————— _—-———_—-————————.—-—_———
a
3ctrffi- si' !: ft-Y Line Now
THAT the Mark-un of Alas MW
si> h- , in (he distridt of Cohtmbk, m
si ( um the Orphmfil! ourt us said r. "In.
[ten lrstumchtul'sss- on the estate of sit.
I F. annu. Me of the manly Ilium-'I
! dcc d. ult' person! Mxi :u: chims submit aid
[deccused are here-I;! warned Io exbi'h'lt tbb
same. with the vmnhorstharcof (03le mb
ncribersonrcssr nest-m this mmmss As An nest.
or they mn) In bw be ditch-desk fi'n be
ncfit to said cstutc. and tho'w is "(her-"
to are reqmrcd to Me ZNMQ ent.
_ wffi'sinsishm si- si
! N-htzh (72), . L'".
si Shfimuh "5 "
all , — '
( .tvcn under our hand: thy la,-I ctssjy is?
, bruary, law.
If (he: rank—s will take the trouble to 60.
Ie-stt the him:-th of cvuy tle-me, aml I."-tut
[man (I.: lsi-cturrs In the: manner here mssu-kuj,
he wsiiH find they pit (: the term-tie NAUOLZVI
ls owe turn.—- I hus when Vultuire and has
cutcmluuan insukls combine-(1 to destroy
the ( Iniatian icligion in ltumpv the \- a
great] upon and not forth as the Had-—
" (' now no: wnncu—l' I}: abme ."miclo
will be,. ngcr ly and expcdi'tiqualsiy circuiafxd
through: all the democr-ztsitc wert-p- in the:
U. Stme s, as the add-;] sue united on the
side of Franct'. And if the: Mrtlinq' Club
and l/te' Wln'g Ciub ohould holbsi of;-(Zvctbp-m' '
it and incorporate it in s-pa'xa of their resu
fuzicssmz it need not eat-prize no. -
I m: m-nu'ry h59si t'lnnhcll—[ﬄ'l jack
an must go tioned-Mr. Put-(no;, man; be
,ctua: 'ch—sinﬂ ill imsicrcOUtse wctn kin .ssg'md
cssssnn'si-si NAPM. Lqit 13 out; xusst'ctf', and
lu'u'z/fsit. ""**'* ' >
Osphans' Court.-si :.—
-A/'m'sss1.'-mria (Jewery, Fefi. 'l'ersieit'. ISl-O si "
(mia-ed. That the txccutorsvs D—WEN '.
l'. M.-\(':R:\TH. xd'cccnscd, do insert-Th' '
lczllnwinss .ul: sirtisemenc three thries-in melt
week surshur wccks, in the Aloxzmdrm
Dgily (intent-e. . ct'
1am. '
Men. Moossrc, chlsitcrsi ss
11 0! sun-salte the foolish and live and
go in the- way bsuntlt-ntmiding. ct
12. Unto the wicked their treaeuree pro
sit nothing. . , .
13. Rlcltcs profit nothing in the day of
wrztth. ' ct '
14. ln the way of the wicked ilctdnrkncn
--tltcy know not at what they stumble.
15. Keep tway from the falle that open-lt—
eth he!. and follnw not him.- — -'
16. Not those of otherl, but his own
iniquities, shall take the wicket] himself-m
and he shall holden siwith the corde of his
own sine. ;,
17. Uct wisdom, get undentmdingssk
[REMARKS.] ' ' si
When I lim uw the' ubuve, ! threw it
mitle with—" The Devil tun quote acrip
ture to his purpose." - But omen-ing it co
pied into the Columbian ltut eve-ning, my
attention became more fixed-si That Dtiane
should meddle with the Bible at all wan a
outpiciom circummnce. and on reading,
the t-crn, moot us them act-m little applio"
cnhlc to thy put-poem. ] lbnktul mon- nar
rowly, and, us is by nutqit. the followmg si
loth.-r- ntt-w tqsijny With-A sigh: .
NAl'oLl-;Asi\s !: ntv'tt utttd.
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