Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-21
Fran The Nezu England PaM dun.
POLITICAL REVIEW.
No. L.

war of the cultom houle has commenced
between France and England. More than
ever their policy relates to the concerns
of other powers; and the consequences OF
their competition will thew, that the fame
act, which has given peace to thenlelses
has lcattered the feeds 0! ditcord among
their neighbots. To Ielfen the commerce
OF England will be TO leaen her power.
Bonaparte, will, therefore, try all the
means that his policy can employ 70 make
his rival defencelefs before he forces her 70
be hottie.
It's not clear that the people Of Eng
land were willing any longer TO proiecute
the war; but it is now unqoeitsonsbly
clear, that it was their great ultimate in
tereH to purfue it. Peace has brought
with it no new rslources, il hes dried up
thole which lpring up with fate OF war
for war makes naany of It's own means.
Peace divides the commerce that war gave
TO her entire. Her enemies, who lately
did not own a lhip, are now Ensland's
competitors. The .buGnefs was to defroy,
now it is to produce and TO fabTicate.
They want lels they fuppiy more.
They diminih her means, and they recruit
their own. England looks at the peace
with mingled lhame and dread. Shame,
becauie lhe is already degraded in the eyes
of Rransers if nor in her own. With dread
for France has gained new power, & hews
her old ambition.
Tits childith to fay, that Mr.. Pitt ought
70 have proceeded with The war, il he IN
derfood the petition of things. He IN
derGood it, but it is alledgea, and per-
haps it is true, thas the Bfltih ration
preferred pre{ent cafe, which they expect
ed, aud have failed of realizing by peace,
to the glory, the burdens and the dlfant
ultimate lecurity of war. We Ameri-
cans choole 10 Gay, and we are vain glo-
rious enough to believe, that the people
are not counted for any thing any where
except in America. The trath is, the
voice of the nation, when it conveys its
wifdom or its deliberate INTAKES, is more
fure TO penetrate audibly and with efett
the recefes Of ST. James's than thofe OF
Monticello. The Britiih nation was
weary of the war, and therefore it ended.
Peace will preieas an afpett Of danger,
which Its courage will not be fumnoned
to face. The only quefion is; whether,
on yiewing its formidable consequences,
its policy will be able TO frrmount or e.
lude them. A nice problem it ls.-Ame-
RIGA is infinitely interelfed in its favorable
folution.
When we behold France with power
70 vaft as to excite and enable her 70 under
take almot every thing, and fpirit Rill
more romantic and vait to prompt her to
atchie4e impombilities, we are led TO think
of : new roman empire, ueder which the
civilized world is ara to bleed and then
10 (weat in chains. We fee again Rome,
after the frf punic war and alas, we fee
Europe WltnOUt TIaili9oaA, ouiSio w lo"r>
for him in Eng!ands' Melton or Smith.
The little aates are nothing they are
aayes PAID by titles for hewing wood and
deawing:water. The King of Prufia, tho
powerful, is no Philip; he is only an Ar
taIus or Eumenes, under France. Spain
has nothing of an independent monarchy
but the name. AS to Holland, Swltzer-
land and Cifalpine or Italian republics,
they are republics during pleafure; they
are fovereign, as Deiotarius or ATlarthes
or Pfufs were, to tame them for iuhjec-
ton. They are new recruits for the
French republic, committed hra to the
drill ierjeant, before they are turned into
the ranks. They will be crdgelled if they
prove refractory. They will be made to
obey like ilaves, and yet to fay and to