Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-12-08

We're the late administration to be cal
led upon 10 give resfons for the ex-
pence i, put the country TO, It can give
none. The danger OF invaiion was
bubble that fcrvcd as cover to raiie
taxes and armies to be employed for fome
other purpofe. But if the people of Anse-
RIGA believe it true, the cheerfulnefs with
which they Imported thoie mealares and
paid thole taxes, is al evidence of their
pa,riotiGa, and if they fuppole me heir
enemy, though in that fuppoGtion they did
me iniuaiee, it was ret injustlcc in them,
lie that acts as he believes, though he
may at wrong, is not conicious of
wrong.
Bot Enough there was no danger, no
thanks are due TO the late administration
fer ii. They fought to blow up flame
between the two countries and 70 in.
tent were they upon this, tina. they went
out Of their way to accomplish it. In a
letter which the fecrerary of fate, Ii
notify Pickering, wrote to MIR. Skip
with, the American conlol at Paris, he
broke og from the official fubjett OF his
letter to thank God in very exllting Ian
guaee, that fbe R4Dfaus had cut The
French 0,my 10 pieces. Mr.. SkiPwith,
after hewing me the letter, very prudent
ly concealed it.
Il was the iniudicions and wicked a
cfimony Of this letter, and iome other
like conduit of the then fecretary Of fate
that occalioned ne, in letter to a friend
in the government, to lay, that if-shere
was any official budnels to be done n
France, till regular minifer ihould be
appointed, il could not be tfueed TO
more proper psrton than Mr.. SSipWiih.
He is, Jaia I, an boasf man, and qUi9 do
6aEneG, and that qvitb go0d nanasrs
TO The government be IS eoaamilFoaed 10
af qvifb q faculty rubie6 that Bear Il
mofby Pfeketwg avaated, and aObicb the
Bear eftbat Fer, Jobn adams, afVe,
p9:Dsd.
In another letter TO the fame friend in
1897, and winch wss put uniealed IN
der cover 10 Col. Burr, l exprelsd "a
tisfatsion that Mr.. Jeferfcn fince he
was nor proGdenr, had accepted the vice
proficiency, far faid I, "Jobn Adams has
lueb talent for blandsrtag and efSnding,
ii qiN BE neeeG0y 10 keep an eye over
bin" IL has now efficiently proved
that though ! have not the fpirif Of pgo-
phccy have The gift of j;adgMg right
and all the world knows, fox it cannot
nelp knowing, that TO judge rightly, and
TO write rlsQr!,y, and that upon all forts
Of fubjc6ts TO be able 10 command
thought, aud be always matter OF ones
temper in writing, is the faculty only Of
a ferene mind, and the attribute of hap
Ply ard Philosophical temperance. The
fcriDblers, who know me not and who
fill their papers with paragraphs about
me, beGde iheir want of talents, drink
too many ainss and drains in morning
ID have any chance WITH me. But, Poof
fellows they NUT do fonething for the
little pitlsnce they get from their en-.
ployers. This is my apology for them.
My anxiety to get back to America
was great for ieyesal years. 1t is the
country of my heart, and the place of my
polical and literary ..l3sah. 1t was the
American revolution that made me an au-
thor, and forced into action the mind that
had been dormant, and had no with for
public life, nor has it now. By the
she accolnts ! received, the appeared 10
me- to be going wrong, and that fone me-
ditated trealon againa her Liberties Turk
ed at the bottom Of her government. /
heard that my triends were oppreHed, and
/ longed tosake my fanding among them;
and Il other" tines to try mrn's joal,"
were TO arrive that / might bear my
fhare. But my efforts to return were inef-
f.9 al.