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

any fep Of rcdreis. The fecond point
bears leis upon the prelent queitlon; but
i IS ofextreme importance, and may
hereafter prove meafure of ferrous en-
quiry. The way in which ! look att is
The. eaabli!hment OF the French power IN
the Wet Indies earlier than 1t would
o,herwiGe have taken place and which
fit had not taken place 70 early, would
not perhaps have ever been. eRablilhed at
all. This is of the more importance when
we conGder how much expectation has
been formed Of the chances and events
which time might produce in the IN
certaia and unprecedented fate OF things
which the worll has 70 long prefented.
We do not know what effect delay might
have had, or what advantages 1t might
not have given Us. We are therefore IN
| litua.ion in which we fhould not other
wife have been; for whatever may be
faid of the policy of the meafure on our
part, nobody will contend that by it we
| were tot giving before the concluhon OF
peace helping hand to that which during
the war we had expended 70 many mil
lions ofmoney and lacriiced 70 many lives
to defroy.
Thethiri head is that which relates to
thofe points en- which the Dehnitive is a
departure from the Prelilninaries. Un-
der this head Mr.. Windham noticed,
fra tie article refpeaing priloners; and
iecond, the cetIion Of Malta--on which he
obferved, that infead Of providing for
Malta in the lpirit of the Preliminalies, a
covered we had been dcviled by which
| England is completely oufed, and France
put in poAenion. The revenues formerly
belonging to the order in France, Bavaria,
and difsrent parts of Germany, were al
ready confteated, and thofe in Spain were
on the eve of becoming 70 making in the
whole 4 5ths of its ancient revenues, and
reducing it TO that produced on the iiland
only, amounting to about 5o,oool. fer
ling annually he contended, therefore,
that the order muG ioon fall for want Of
fuPport.
! The next point is the Cape of Good
Hope. France has always been mi9refs of
a happy knack ofexprefion, and l do not
find that the Revolution has changed her
file. She has fiPuiated that it fhall be
delivered over in full sovereignty to Hol-
land. Now there is nothing to bind Hol-
land fro.a making it over to France, aud
putting aFrench garriCon in it the moment
he lhall receive it. When, then, we
conGder the word Sovereignty was uled
in the safe of Tufcany and the iiiand of
Ellie, we canot luppofe that it was intsn.
ded to be 0tglus, mere idle term in the
| Deanitige Treaty. On the contrary,
this indu9rious ule of it affords lively
| per(ualion that the fame will be the refult
with regard to the Cape.
| | lhall now pats on to things occurring
/ in the Dehnitive, and which makes no
part whatever ofthe Preliminaries. The
frit is one of gigantic nature, and the
total ,abieQce of all previous treaties. 1t
is the fst inGance of the kind. Itopens
TO world of conjecture. It is argued
that we .[hall gain as much as we fhall loie
by it; but how this is to happen,I am at
a lofs to comprehend. It.may be iuppofed
| that the renewal of thefe treaties would
| have embroiIed US with the continent.-
But do not know what thefe obligations
are thar would have outweighed the benc-
fits of the treaties becauie theie treaties
were not made for France, but againf her,
and for the protection Of the other powers.
The non revival of thete treaties leaves US,
however, with relped to other countries,
jua in the fame ftuation in which we
food before; 70 that, by this diplomatic
analysts, France only is relieved. But as
was faid at Life, Why get rid of treaties
all.in lump! We were not in the itua-
ton Of a man with his hand LIMITED TO