Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-10

Characters would nos maintain .'si
gum. ak the is defined to occupy, II at
10. head of her caoipet ne naa p,e3u;essu
rnsn NJ, ~. W.aibam. Oar readers will
u.s. ,I. hi, piece with attention, Ia. and we we
CA ~ ,s. not merely becaufe It ditcusies
i pl:' a,rirs of politicians here, but becauie'
~ -, conciIla,ory language which It u
b ND. -, our Miniary, more aattering
Is 'y than they delerye, and by the
''l '",osIs with which ii endeavors TO juiti-
r. nsace TO England, an aschievment,
. tas no, very difficult. it exhibits a
p .,r' ismp;on, and the furea, which the
a l.;o5 permits, of pacidc difpoftion on
:. 0,,, Of Frauce. Here's The article
T N THE LATE DEBATES IN
rus ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.
The hiaory OF the few lat years is toll
4 + o,obIens which time only can develops,
II 4 important lenoas, che develops
mn, Of which it will 4iIia. To pseiervc,
however, this folution, and to undcTitand
~, developemenr, We ought to attend to
n. luminous traces which they leave be-
hind hem. Ii enlightens by degrees
wbatsye. is fscret in the relations OF peli-
,;c, whatever is o5icare in the connection
;, events, whatever is myRerious in Their
e,ll,s, or sqoivocal in the morality OF the
nr;Ocipal ACTORS. IL collecting all The
,,vs which il has icattered in its progrcls,
we have the opportunity of entertaining
me part which wifdom has taken, cl The
paGoas have ulorpea in tie conduct OF en-
r,i,s. The inRrreiion which under this
uoiat Of view the lalf debates in the En-.
pliA parliament are calculated TO convey,
cannot have eicaped the notice Of any one
yho has in the fmallea degree turned his
stentlon TO this fubje1. 1t is now diff
eSyered that in the year 8, lord Granville
md Mr.. Windham oppofcd in the Cabi-
ne, treaty of peace whenit was propofsd
BY the Chief Confnl. Itaaay be fuppoied
that they would now be undsI fome diff.
Guilty in juaifying themfelves ferp,unsins
their country in the dangers with which II
was furrounded; but in place Of thipking
Of their ratification they aaume the cha.
raa:r OF accuiers and in reading their
fpeeches, it's impoaible almoit to conceive.
ina; lnch aGurances could exit as thatwish
which they play their part.
1.-THE treaty of Amiens was not as ad-
ransageous for England as could be defr-.
ed, 10 whom is this to be attributed, itnot
TO the Miniaers, whcfe obainacy and ca,
price prolonged the war, when they had II.
their power the means of terminating 1t
with honor?
Aud who is it againf whom they now
direct their accufation? The Mlniiter,
who, repairing their faults, has been a lie,
By his prudence, by his frmnefs, and by
his capacity, to give peace equally TO the
North and South, to reconquer Egypt,
and to reaore it to the Grand Seigniof, to
reeGabhih the Order of Malta, TO maintain
the integrity of the States Of the King OF
Naples, and thus to preferve the Medi,er-
ransan from the ihAuence Of France; TO
procure the reaitution OF the King OF I'm
gland ofhis pofeiions in Germany, {eized
By Ticking of Pruaia, and on the eve OF
icing occupied by the troops OF France !;
to fave Portugal, the ally OF England, at a
crihs of almoa total ruiz in fire, to fix
the power Of England in the two ladies,
on true bates, by giving up what it wac
g'elsis to preferve, by preferving for its
llnmerce us true refJurces, and by fet or
ing to it commanding advantages in poins
ofpohticn, 10 cafe of the renewal Of war
1t we carefully con6der the favorable
opportunities Of making peace which the
late mlniaers iufrred to elcape them, or
the d'uation 10 which they placed Eng
land, II is impofible not to be convinced
mat this power never hgned more ad :
analogous treaty. fnce no one ever rre-