Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-12-03

month, and things there are to be refored
TO their former footing. Il is mentioned
too, BIZ, en- doub fui authority, that Ofra-
bursh is to be given up, and Will be fecu-
Iariied, IN order to be thrown ;n.o the
fcale OF indemni,ies in fettling th- peace
Of the Empire; and TIA, Hanover is to
remain entire, but ihall be obliged to con-
| tribute IN money, &c. to the fund of in
IDENTITIES. \ commercial treaty between
| England and the Frerch Republic (hai! be
negotiated which will include the Batavian
Republic. All hofilties fhal ceaie in
Europe within three months, and in other
parts Of 'he globe in fix, though it irems
more probable that a notice TO delft rom
all hofilities will be given as loon as he
prslimiQa-ies are ratified, All prifoaers
20 be re!tcred.
T." Bl.G:d is lie man aiOme tknt sives rs
peaee 20
Peace is 70 grea, bleains, 70 deep a
benefit that it is difficult; to fay whether
the mc& brilliant and glorious war In
which any country ever was engaged be a
fuficient compensation for having under
taken it. Very certain are We that the
people will not think that the iucseles
which have attended this war are any COM
penfation for the lo!s of blood and Of trea-
fure, of liberty and of life, and the accu-
mutation of taxes and of debt, which have
been the confsquences of it. Awful and
important indeed is the lenon which 1t has
read TO Us. We recclleet with what proud
prctentioas, what exuiting hopes we enter
! c! into the con,elf. A'l the low objects
! that human ambition generally purfues
fcemed to be as duff and drofs in the ba-
lance. We deGred not, we obtained all
acceilion of territory ; we courted not
I" the pomp ard vanity Of this wicked
world" Our minds and our purfuits
were elevated to fublimer prcipeets-and,
affirming part of the province and preten-
ions of "a divine being, we arrogated to
ou.ieives the Office of chafifers Of the bad
and the protane, the eager avenges of the
infuted cauie of virtue and good govern
| ment, of morality and of focal Older, Of
real freedom, and oftrue religion. When
the people compare the hopes we hold out,
with the objects we have accomplished,
.hAp will learn a leGon which, however it
may mortlty their ptise, w., -,
abundant caution and diicretion for the tu-
sure.
Undoubtedly ifhis Majeay's Miniaer'
could have obtained better terms, they
would have done it. The queition then
TO be conhdered is, whether theie terms are
lach as ought to have been accepted In
the prelent Gtuation. Some, perhaps,
there are, who may be inclined to doubt
! whether that war can have been iucceis-
| full, which j, has been thought neceAary to
| terminate in fuch manner. Others
there may be, who, believing and boating
cur energies and refurces to be inexh'ulti-
! bic, may conceive that luch energies and
reiources ought to have tecured bitter
terms. Our own opinion is in favour of
the Preliminares of peace. 1t is in IA
| YOUR of the Peace, becaufe the continuance
| of the war would have been ruinous !; be-
cauie another year of hoRilities would
have added 70 many millions to our debt,
and perhaps rendered an increafe of the In
come tax necelary; becaufe France had
taken petition from whichit was impof-
ibe to drive her; beeaufe we had neglec-
ted that i" tide in the affairs Of men, which
taken at the height, leads OIL to fortune -
becauie we had rejected the frR overtures
of the chief coniul, and thereby paved the
way for the victory of Marengo, and the
confequent fubjugation of AuRria. To
the preient MiniRers, indeed, that rejection
| is not imputable. Iftheysconcurred in it,
they were not the authors of it; it was
the offspring of that old administration,
which has deducted logifrom every pea
ans's fire, ard loaf from every Peafant's
table.
| But though the peace may have been
necefary, will any man gravely anert,
after having compared the objects we held
cut at the commencement of the war with
the objects we have accomplished, that it