Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-25

magierate, and TO embark for this coun.
try, early in the month of May, in al
American frigate lying at Brett, and which
had been ordered there TO receive him.
The early conference which our mini.
ter had with Paine, and the publication
of the letter which he addrefIed TO him,
drew from Bonaparte, and other officers
of the government, frong expreGions Of
contemft for our country and its repre-
tentative; for 70 perfectly blal}ed is the
reputation Of Thomas Paine thar, even in
Paris, he Can Allocate only with the low
eft and vileif of the robbie. True it is,
that in a revolutionary fate Of things he
has always found employment, and has
been lometimes honored with the atten,i-
on of diitinguifhed men. His talents were
fnned to pull down, TO overturn, and de-
aroy. originally obliged to abandon his
native land, for a commiaion of grols
fraud, ne fought refuge in this country,
and by engaging warmly in the labors of
the revolution, Obtained fome di!}inttion!
bur, by a fragrant breach of truG, he for
feited the confidence of every honef and
intelligent citizen. In France he became
the tool of the regicides. and forgetting
the pompous eulogium which he had pre-
viouly pronounced upon the virtues of the
Freuch monarch, joined to inAame the
Iabblc in dragging their fovereign to the
fcafold, and erecting the ffandard of laco-
binifn on the ruins of the government
Ofthe fuceeilive revolutions in that coun-
Try he was the conf}ant and open advocate
ard whiic in originality ofMlscHIEr he
has approved himtelf to be without rival,
he was as /ab/erVisnt 10 Tie qofHofbsmaE
ters AZ az egRern face 10 the nod Of bis
Ja!feg
The corsuptiors Of his private life are
almoa without example. His principles
have prompted him to labor earnefly for
the detiruttion of every government under
which he las lived, and TO fever every
tie by which man is bound to man. Or
der and law have been the objects of his
deteGaticn-He has ufed every exertion
to corrupt tie morals Of youth, and en-
ploycd every talent which God has given
him, to defrey the foundation ct the
Chriaian's hope. His practice has cor
responded with his principles BY daily
intoxicaticn he is funk TO level with the
brutes, and his mind and body are eyhi-
.bited as perfectly corrupted by vicious In
dulgence. His blafphemies have Attended
TO Heaven, and his ieofings at the Saw
ous of the Jnivcrie challenge the venge-
ance of the Almighty. He is now fat
linking into the grave, and, covered with
infamy, his lalt days ltfikingly exemplify
this truth, tbat The e6fsas Of corruption are
mjjery and eoutemft.
This is the man whom We kindly
invite to cur flores !! He it is who
is thus diainsuifhed by the marked re-
gard of our Firf Magiarate, and who
IS again and again arongly follci'ed, as
II 1t were an object OF naiional lh1eien,
to take ihelter in our country from the
contempt aud deteaation of the European
world-He will bring with him all his
lewdnefs, in6delity, and democracy, and
his reception will exhibit the degradation
of people, Whole chief rulers icruples
not TO honor or reverence the man who
will labour to promote their lntereit
" however fragrant his vices, however en-
ormous his crimes. - (Gas. u. D..
One Of the foreA evils attending the new..an-
eled iyllem Of economy, adopted BY the preiens
iminifration, is not merely that it reiaxes and
unneryes the hands of government Tor the pre-
f.nt but Nat its efects arc likely TO DC feit tcF
MANY wears to cone. Ia vain will any future
Standardization endeavour to biiag the puolic
fenrinient to that elevated rate IN which It ex-
lied during the whole Proficiency OF Warrington,
aud part OF that of Adams. The quettion then
was, what is the true intereif Of the public
and what the wileit means Of accomplishing 1t {!
uoc. the quefian is, ".what is the neareit ROAD
III Itt fNksNr