Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-30

raj abnie and INTERPRETATION has been
more profafely ana uudsfervedly poured,
than the Pot Matter General $50 lays
Gideon himfelf, and whatever he fays
null be 70. /" He has not only diff
charged with vigilance and afiduity, the
arduous duties OF a laborious Office, but
has fuccefsfully directed his attention to
improvements in bis department, highly
beneficial to the community" Witneis
the appointment OF MieGrs. Weitcott and
Lyon to do the printing for the depart
nient, 10 the place of Charles CiR. Il
/" peculiarly 70 70 the commercial intereif,
AID advantageous TO the public revenue.
T / mould like TO know in whae manner
the publc revenue has been benefited by
the recent changes which have taken place.
Do you execute the printing for lefs than
your predeceGor did it? o. do the con-
tractors carry the mail under" the falu-
tary effects of an encrealed facility" for
LET'S than they formerly did : | have, been
informed that for carrying the mail on
one route in Maryland, proPofals were
thrown in by ieveraI different perfons,
and that the terms Of the perlon TO whom
the ccntraa was given, were ieveral
hundred dollars higher than any other,
and | believe in almof every lnitance
the contracts have been enhanced iii con-
fequence of the :" increaled facility with
which the contractors have been. obiig
ed to convey the mail, in feveral in
aances | know this to be the cafe. How
the intereG Of The public revenue will be
advanced by This, YOU muG have more {aga-
city than | believe you are pofeasd OF to
rsake appear. TIE falatary effects of
an encreafed facility OF intefcourie with
The different parts of The United States,
| atifrg from CELEBRITY ofprogrefs, ard GER
tainty and frequency Of arrival Of the
| mails, unparalleled at any former period,
are daily experienced by all, and acknow-
lodged by that portion of Federalias who
do not permit their judgments TO. be per-
.yerted, or their ingeniouinefs OF diipoliti-
on obfsused by the mad violence of party
rancour.'' That the general progrsfs
of the mail has been comfortably facilitate
ed by the prefent Pof- Matter General,
will not be denied; but that this place has
been in any extraordinary degree benefited
by its " falutary effects" l have no he.
iitation in denying, for 70 far from that
being the cafe, there have been more diff
appointments in the arrivals of the mail
under the new order of things, than ever
were experienced before" " But the
difniflion from Office of a few deputy pof-
matters has drawn forth all the calumny
and inveaive whichthe rage ofdiiappoint.
ment" It happened you were not difap-
pointed /" could luggef, or which fome
of the printers, g oppgfers If the goveyn-
aueat," are capable of venting. Their
abuie, INTERPRETATIONS, and ebiAd.@
witticiims" very we'll for man who
can place latin mottos at the head Of his
Productions, and quote Montefquieu with
luch facility have been 70 often re-
p.atel and as frequently treated with that
Indifference which proud confcioufnefs |
of rectitude infpires, that, like the muck
worm enveloped with turpitude, thy were
iulled into an imaginary lecurity from de-
teaion." But mark, how 'sa plain tale
fhall fet them down. Gentle reader
you fhall mark how an boasf tale will IN
mafk the Immaculate Gideon, under the
fictitious garb Of" a friend 70 tratb."
6 The Ratement of facts in this days pa
per, relative TO the removals from office
by the Poa- Mater General, refutes their
angfoanded a1srtioas, defroys at once the
fabric of calumnies which with 70 much
labor they had erected, and leaves them
to wait another opportunity to recon-.
mence their work of detratfion. ;" Bra
70 the Rarement of facts alluded to, may
I e. o,,obt I, ,.nfr,sveC refnfe the nx foux1SI