Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-01

an appropriation OF 1861 900 dollars for
carrying into effect the convention between
the United States and his Britannia Ma
lefty, which was read three times, engrod-
ed and pafed.
The ollo4ymg megags qvas delivered 10 The
tquo b0gles on Iasfdap Aaf.
Gentlemen Of The Senate and eftbe
H5aJe of ReprelsatQtfOes,
The commliiloners who were appointed
10 carry into execution the 9th article Of
the treaty of amity, commerce and navi-
gatien between the United States and
Greaf Britain, having differed In their
confrueion of that article, and feparated
in coniequence Of that difference, the Pre-
iidens OF the United States took immedi-
sate meaiures for obtaining conventional
explanations cf thar article for the govern
ment of the commifioners hnding, how
ever, great difficulties oppofed to iettle-
ment in thar way, he authorized our mini
fer at the court of London to meet pro-
petition that the United States, by the
payment of fixed fun fhould diicharge
themielves from their Responsibility tor
fuch debts as cannot be recovered from the
individual debtors. A convention has ac-
cordingly been fgned, fixing the fun TO
be; paid at fix hundred thouiand pounds
fferling, in three equal annual infalmcnts,
which has been ratified by me with the
advice and content of she Senate.
] now ,rantrnit copies thereof to the
two houfes of Congyeis, truaing that, in
the free exerciie of the authority which
the conAirution has given them ON the fub-
jee of public expenditures, thay will deem
it for the public inrereit to appropriate the
iums necefary for carrying this conven-
ton into execution.
49,. III. JEFFERSON.
April ~, 1907.
Here follows the convention, as lately
inherited in The Advertiser.
Gsrat is truth and ii qvill PreVail, we
nave been often told by the democrats !;
they will find it 70, to their colt. Poll
tical error had not prevailed federal lnen
,ad exertsd fifth part of that inAu-
nee TO prevent, which was exerted by
rhe democrats TO increafe its circulation.
Times are now in fomc degree changed.
| Men begin to. fee the gulph into which de-
| aocracy is driving US, and beflr them
ielves 10 fhun it: imminent as the danger
&, its not too late to avoid il. The
! orefs has been the cauie of the evils with
which we are {urrounded the prets mutt
| ,epel thcfe evils.
This infrument Of ALTERNATING truth
| and error, political purity and political
! corruption, IS nov about to become highly
i ufeful TO federaliin. Democracy dies,
when tie people at large have full and
fair hearing of both parties; but in the
| greater part of the country, one voice
i only has been heard, thar OF jacobinnm !;
The late increaie of circulation given to re-
publican papers begins to open the other
eye. and men no longer look with the
left eye alone: tie confequence begins to
/ Be felt, and in the voice of the people
will ioon be arongly expreaed.
| The great change that has taken place
! a Mafachufetts, ana that is fat taking
place throughout the U. States generally,
uuR be attributed to the greater exertions
made to diileminate political truth and
sets. The republican papers of Bottom,
the Centinel, Palladium and Bottom Ga
| zerte, have, during the paf year, been
uncommon!y .yigilant indilcerning and IN