Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-21
alerancrta anberSiser.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER II.

he editor Of fbe (Ne4v- Tork J Commercial
A4OeriySr ond4be Spectator, otier 9
If40 ufrodus7,y ol/tyvatious, in zvbieh
be mentio"s bis baviug ag5ciafrd qviti
6Im/fy, Ptg/oN @ rrtbc9abNty nun
talents, mokes tbf />Aloqoug jadic,eious
ard tru5 Amcric0n ,rmu,ks -
Ii is his determination thar the "a
rers ihali atall times, be under the direc.
ton OF perion of objectionable talents.
and Juit views. of the true intereHs Of tn.
United States. If they ihou!d not he diC
lngulihed, like many other public prints,
for Perfonal invetaive, low farcafins, and
verbal contentious with printers ard edi-
tors, II will be becaufe the proprietor is
convinced, that in criGs like the prefent,
irritation Is 1v0yje tbax n/eirii. Men Of
narrow views, and exafperated minds. Of.
ten intake moderation for imbecility.
and a'gmatize prudence with tie name Of
timidi5y. But mankind in general have
more correct views Of found policy, and
ieleet their principles, as the Vicar OF
Wakefield did his wife, for +" fuch qua
lltles will wear we'll" The country a.
bounds with newspapers, calculated for
the amufement of dram fhops, where men
are taught to deipife virtue and fcience, TO
hate government, and TO riot on the fpoils
OF injured reputation. For fuch ufcs, rhe1e
papers are not intended. land GaonId the
depravlty of morals, the corruption of
tate, and The contempt of private repu-
tation, which the rage Of party fpirit is
rapidly introducing and fpreading in this
country, render it neceAary to iecure pub
lie patronage, by departing from that line
of temperate di!cud;on, and impartial re-
gard TO f,mtb, independents of men which
has hitherto Characterized theie papers,
the proprietor will looner abandon the bu-
Gnefs, than content to be acceEary 70
this degradation of national character
The papers folicit the continued patronage
OF thoie upright aad Intelligent citizens,
who prefer morality TO vice, truth to four
rility, good order and religion, to Iicen-
tioufnefs and modern philoiopy and who
evince by their prat1ice, thar they love
their own country, better than another.
The friends ofthc federal government,
who have uniformly befriended thefe pa
pers for years paR, while they rcprobate,
and very juftly the late arbitrar, GifmiG-
ais from Office, by the authorities Of the
general or fate governments, will not
furely, by difconrinsing their patronage
Of papers devoted to tie beft intereRs OF
our country, add the ianttion Of their
own condntt TO a procedure which they
coniider intoleram ard cxcpfstfable.
We learn from the Mediterranean, that
in the latter end of Auguf, thc Danes fuc-
ceeded IN making peace with the Bafhaw
of Tripoli. Capt. Dale quilted the bIcc
kade Of Tripohpn the sd Of September,
to proceed to Gibraltar, where he arrived
on the 10th. Hence he fent the fchoonet
Enterprise with difpatches TO go, eminent,
from the confederation of the feafon sP.
preaching, when both in the Meditcrra-
mean and on the American coah, il woulo
3e hazardous for her TO be at iea. The
Tripolitan admiral had abandoned his
three ihips at G:bIa.;ar, AID gore 10 Nal