Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-17

nave uniformly maintained, both by rea.
ioning and force: Ia. Thar free BOTTOM
do nor make free goods; and zdly, Tb.
'Jg6t Of Search by Rips of 4oay. Attic
thefe two points, incontrovertibly effab.
itihed, would be iufficient to overturn ali
the proportions of the opeltion writer, i,
may not be uielefs to thew, tina. his de.
auctions are not leis falie than his princi-
Piles.
" France" (ayshe (" wants only tb4
r01o materials, as her e1vn arfJfs are ia,
I4terio, to tbe/e efsbe North Of Europe"
Without examining what tar and bneb
have to do with hyperion a,tjfs, we would
ak, whether one of the mott eHential
things Of which France ftands in need, in
order to the augmentation of her navy, be
NOT money or credit, without which he
can no more procure ra4o materials than
manufactured ayt,cies? We would ak,
whether 1t is very certain that the AriiR,
OF France, are 70 hyperion to thoie of the
North OF Europe in the manufacture of
Arms, either with refpeet to quality or
price We would remind him on this head,
that France has NOT only during the war,
but even during peace confantly derived
agreat part Of her arms, both thofe en-
ployed at fea and on lhore, from the Nor
them Countries, as it is proved by the
famous affair of the muikets Of Beaumar-
chais, and by the different reports made
by the agents of the French government,
reipetting the miferable fate Of the differ
ent manufactures of arms. Is it, beGdes,
to be believed, that the French Govern
ment, which can at this moment have
all the wood contained in the National
forreits, both of ancient France, and the
conquered countries gratis, ihould be diff.
poted to purchafe the wood of the North,
at moment when they are in want of
money for the mott neceiIary purpoies of
the fate! Supporting them, however, to
have money at their difpofal, how could
they get from the Baltic the articles of
which they Hand in need? The deRruetion
OF the Commerce of France, and the fu-
perlority OF our navy, make it certain
that It will not be in her own fhips that
The can venture to fetch them. Nor can
The receive them from Ruflia, whole mer-
camille fhipping is 70 fmall as TO be almoft
a nonenity. 1t will not be Denmark or
Sweden, who will be carriers, fnce, as
we yeiterday fhewed, the Prohibition, en-.
forced either by confication, or the right
OF presumption, is extended, with refpeet
to thoie two Powers, to the ,a4v maternal
as well as to the manufactured artiele.-
1t Is evident, therefore, that as far as re-
iates to the frh principle, the Convention
OF Peterfburgh, joined to our maritime flu.
Periority, places US in a fate of perfect
fecurity.
Nor are our interefts lefs fecure with
refpett to the right of fearch, in fpite of
the folly and impudence with which the
writer in quefion aGerss, that this right
is given up. He has not chofen to fee
that all we could defre on this point, is
ipecihed in the treaty, fnce, as we yeiter-
day obferved, if, notwithstanding the for
malities to be obieryed towards the fhips
OF war which conveys, there exits gsod
motive far /sIpieion, the fearch fhall ne
verthelefs take place ;-and if afterwards
the captain Of the fhip of the power at war
fnds jgfandJn6fcieat rea/on to detam the
merebanf,@ he is authorized 70 to do,
and to carry it into the ports of his own
country.
On the whole, he mutt either have very
little Judgement who does not fee, or We
ry little candour who does not acknow
ledge, that the more explicit treaty is in
its form, and the more proviGons it con-
tains in its arrangements, the more it is
calculated TO prevent all future alteration
and to turn to the advantage of the con-
tracing parties. This is the cafe of that
now under confederation. 1t has at length
a 4 n e