Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-15

lance, as the consequences dtteHulHS ~
which / contend were grofs breach OF
good faith. When the preIiminaries were
iigned, we were given TO underfand BY
by them that the dominions OF Portugal
were 10 be.maintained in their integrity.
Therefore, when the Treaty of Madrid
came out, which violated them, there was
general outcry and alarm. We were
told it would be given up. As for my
felf, could not underfand that the French
would have made this excuriion into the
Portugufe territory purely for the Purpofe
Of giving it up again. 1t Teens, howe
yer, they did do 70, as his Majeay's mi
nilters take credit for making them give it
up, and take another. A few leagues Of
wilderness in one place or another are no
great Object. The queAion is, the COM
.mand which Il gives them of the Miaiaip.
pi, and that they have as much by the one
as by the other. Either boundary is e.
qnally breach Of faith. They lhould
have gone TO the treaty Of Utrecht; for
to impole a new boundary upon US is e.
qually fraud, as if they had retained the
former. As to the Treaty Of Badajos,
| which has been referred to on this fubjetf,
there is no .luch paper before the houfe,
and therefore leave it out ofmJ conGdera-
ton. What | complain of isthe FRAUDULENT
exchange. 1t has oeen fad Of a Peace,
that it was only charge Of War; the
French mode of plain dealing may be per
haps lubeita,ion Of one fraud for another.
The next point in this riGng climax OF
frauds, is the ceaion Of LcuiGana. Into
this fubjett l am NOT now difpoled to en-
ter infinitely.
By: .acquiiition the French are eta
biiihed in fpace as unbounded asthe view
il opens, whether north or foasi,. What
preient have we made in it to the Amc-
ricans! We have placed a ferpeat at their
feet, by which they will be ultimately
devoured. We have put them in that
fate in which they naua become willing
| laves under the dominion of France. We
| all know fomething of human nature. We
! know that men detel the inerument leis
than the cauie, and turn their refentmeDt
upon thole whom they can make feel it
mott. They will not of, courfe ,hefitate
| between US and the French; and thus we
lhall eventually forfeit the friendlhip OF
America, by the aggrandizement Of the
| French in that quarter. As to the wealth
which this eaaolilhment opens to them, it
has no limits but their will. On.lhe con-
tinept Of South America there's no power
that can-reGf them. There are the fources
of the wealth of the world but if gen
tlemen do not feel thesc nfequenceot their
| paAing into the hands of the French, it
| would be 10 vain for me to impreis them
| with an idea of their importance.
have now gone through three princi-
| pal points, which, though not known in
this country, exiled at the time Of the
Preliminary Treaty. There is not one
of them that does not call for the .eviiion
of the Preliminaries, and cancels The OBJ
legation.
Now, Sir, under the next head of things,
namely, thofe that happened in the inter
val between the Preliminaries and the De-
hnitive Treaty, the catalogue is not nu-
merous; but what it wants in number, it
makes up in magnitude. 1t conGAs of the
Italian Republic; and next, though not
70 great, or bearing 70 directly upon the
prefent que!sion, the naval and military
force ient out from France, and now effab-
lnhed in the Wet indies. The frf is
the queRion of a new kingdom (for whe-
Their kingdom or preiidentlh;p, differs but
little in the language of the fPrefent day.
it the heart of Italy. | fay, that il fuct
aGtuation Of things had happened without
the act or interference of either party, it
was competent to a miniiter to. fay
g Here comes change upon which we did
not calculate, therefore, is quite.a new