Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-21

| of oppoG ton. The Koyallts mght lee
| the alteration with regret, but their OPT
| Mons would have little weight, and the
| Republicans are now efficiently enlight-
ened to know that the fare mode Of pre-
ltrving the mare of Liberty, which ci:-
cumAsuees allow them, is tocondua them
isIye, with tscit acquielcence to the IT,
sums ssK. Tribunes and Legtaators
are eagEtty looking cut for places under
>the new . ,dtref hmgs; inlead of enjoy
ing thenfslves, during the Adjous nment
of the Sef;op, with their families in the
Country, macy ct them remain at Paris,
to watch over the great interef, nor OF
the Republic, but OF their ambition"
From The Cr.sussk Isdzer.ijer, u NGy z3.
The AMERICAN States icem to be Alarm
ed, and not without great reafon, for The
coniseuences Of the exchange made te-
tween the French and Spaniards Of Loul-
iiana, narrow trad of land which ikirts
the States en- the South, from The eatsefn.
mott TO the welernmoh extremity, that
is, from the Atlantic Ceean to tie mouth
OF the Mia.Gppi.
Tie Southern rivers OF Ame5ica, as
we'll as all the weaern ones, which emp
~ themeriyes into the Chic and tie Mill
Mppi, are therefore liable TO be Cut CT
iron thei: communication with the ,GuIph
CT Mexico whenever the Freuch chufe,
as al ofshem run !Mcush the ceded terri
tory. 1hoie fine rivers that are thns cut
off, or are liable TO be 10, water near three
fourths of the whole Of the United States,
and by far the mott fertile portion, tho
not YET the mott numeroully inhabited.
Much bufle has been made III Europe
about the ihutting Of the Scheldr, wide.
deep and beautiful river, but which in
its extreme length is rot above SO miles,
ard at no place 80 diRant from The fea.
How different the rivers lhut up in Amer.
ca, which, without counting the MIL
fljppi itfelf, water more than halfa million
OF iquarc miles of fine fertile lands, fomc
of them 1000 miles from the 'lea, ard be.
yont mountains that render land carriage
almoa impfatticab!c! territory larger
| than England, France and Spain Joined
together, will Re defroyed, If TIE French
get petition Of LoriGana; ard it is from
tina. very terroitry from which The manu-
faeiurers of this country are to expect the
mott extenfvc market for Engli!h goods
ofrevery kind, if thoie rivers are kept
OPEN. 1t is true that great Part of our
manufactures are Efficiently light to bear
land carriage from New York, ;Phiadel-
phia and Alexandria, to the wefern ccun.
try; but then the weaern fettlers cannot
pay .for our goods, un!efs they canfell the
corn, 'herp, tobacco, timber, &c. RATED
on their lands, which is only to be done
by floating i, down the rivers into the
Gulph Of Mexico. \
The bef wheat may be had frequently
on the borders Of the Ohio river, at 3D..
Englilh money per buhel. Flour, which
they grind in The country, is proportion
ably cheap, ard the wood for faves to
make caas is found on the fpot; 70 tina,
by floating the produce down the river Oh
RATS competed Of he trunks OF trees, an
operation ,ha, takes from the mott diGant
point only three weeks, and colts liule,
a man and a boy guiding the raft, the
whole may be fold with great advantage
at New Orleans, for the ufe Of the Wet =,
India llands. In cafe Of the rivers being
left open, the welt country fettlers will be
ia fhort time the mott sHucus and eaGe9
people on TIE face Of the earth. IT thofe
rivers are ihut up, the fettlers will on the
contrary, be co,t.ned like the inhabitants
of the interior Of Africa ard Ala, to live
on what they ,hemfelves produce; they
will be dsbarred from all the advantages
of Commerce, and connettion with the /
ref of the worli.
Ex,raR sfa h.te, from Paris, dated nd
'Jxns.
Gen. AHpREossI, who is appoint