Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-17

b: detected. Mr.. Warrington may now,
perhaps, learn, when it is too late, 10 be
OF any ufe to him, that nan, will PATS
better through the world with a thouldnd
open errors upon his back, than ii being
detected in ONE fly falihood. When one
is detected, thoufand are fufpetted.
The ti5it account that arrived in Paris
of treaty being negotiated by Mr.. Jay
| for nobody fufpeaed any came IN an
| Englih newlpaper,s which announced that
a treaty oftnfvs and defsyGve had been
| concluded between the United States Of
| America and England. This was imne-
| diately deniedlny every an ericsn il Paris,
| as IN impotlble thing and though il
was diGoelieved by the French, it imprint
ed falpicion that fome underhanded bu.
foefs was going forward At length
the treaty i,feif arrived, and every we'll
affected Americana Iuihed with lhaEe.
1t is curious to obferve how the appear
ancc Of character will change, Whit the
root thar produces them remains the fame.
The Warrington Administration having
waded through the Tough ofnegoclla1ion,
and Whit it amuied France with profefl
ons offricndlhip, contrived to injure her,
Immediately throws off the hypocrife, and
affirming the f3aggering air Ola bravado.
The party papers Of that imbee'le admi-
n;fralioa were on this location filled with
paragraphs about Sovereignty. A PATRON
may boat Of his foyereign right to let
another kick him, and this is the only
Kind of fovereignty ihewn in the treaty
with England. Bot thefe dafhing para
graphs, as Timothy Pickering well knows,
were intended for France without whole
alliaance in men, money and lhjps, MIR.
Warrington would hays cut bur poor
figure in the American war. But OF his
military talents | fnall fpeak hereafter.
mean nor to enter into any dilcuiilon
of any article Of jays treaty: | ihall
fpeak only upon the whole Of it. 1t is
attempted TO be juaifed On the ground
ofits not being violation Of any article
or articles of the treaty prc-exiling with
France. But the fovereign right of ex-
planation does not lie with George Waih-
ington and his man Timothy France,
on her part, has, az leaf, an equal right !;
and when nations dif Pute, it is not 70 much
about words as about shings.
A man, fuch as the world calls thar
per, and ver{ed, as Jay mutt be fuppofed TO
De, in the bubbles Of the law, may find
way to enter into engagements, and make
bargains in fuch manner as to cheat tome
other party, without that party being able
as the phrafe is, to take The lalu Of him.
This often happens in the cabaliiiical cir
Gle of what is called law. But when this
is attempted to be acted on the national
icale of treaties, it is 100 de6picable to be
defended, or to be permitted to exit
Yet this is the trick upon which jays
treaty is founded, 70 far as it has relation
to the treaty pre- exiting with France. 1t
IS d lllt'-tiCdtJ " tt'oI ''>oNJ 'A'N
perverts all the great articles Of that trea-
II zvas the tm5ayraDmsnt into qObicb
The Affairs and credit Of Amerlf4 qvere
tbro4vx at this m2Gut By the reporf a60Ve
ALLUDED to, that madr it neceD@y 10 fOu
tradifF il, and that BY every means nry-
i;xg t,vm o3isiou or foaudtd rpm autboyiy.
TIE Committee IF Public Salty, exiting
at that time, bad agredi 10 t5e.txArxeeatioa,
an tbtir part, Of tie neaty 6efqveSn Ame-
rica an Franee, not1vitkfanaiag /oms
equiyocal louda9 on fbe part Of tie Ame,i-
can g6vtruul:nt net gerry cogGRsxt-si bt {
good Iaib ofan ally; BIT tbcy qvere nat
in diIp5ftiou to be mb9/ed rpm BY a
counter treay. I5at Jay bad no nitric
tious beoad tJe prints above .foted, or
uoue that could p9Di6k be ee1qraed 10 ex-
rndto the tngtb THE BntJ@ treaty goes
4Uas n matter beAeved III America, in Eng