Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-08-19

FROM rHs, n. r. DALI. ADvERrlsrR.
To tbt, Edasr sfs6< Dali, ASsss'gss.

To tbt, Edasr sfsd< Dali, A@sss'jss., :.
SIR, - SO !
In two Of this mornips.eapers I have asnas
60 juffify III. Spa niark for the en"rmitfes, COM
mitted aaaiuG the citizens Of this country
From paper openly bsllise sthe rights, sntl N:
,ereA, Of tie Uoi,ei states, redted by . foreign
-&r, whs f-e.s not our wrongs, fdeh ienti"sms
were tobe expcaed. Blu, that u,en who prcfeis
a,,ashn,ens 10 shcir csoairy.. mould give eprrsn-
-cy 20 pa!siasioa Of ush sebhtries, confsfs that
nv aanniihment vss noe1 little excited. Inc
writer after fome introductory remarks, proceeds
-. Bv che syani(h eslosid hw<. ~ foreiga na-
s;ops are sisorauny excluded from tsadiny co any
part OF n: 5panih poll fion., under the exPrei'
cua,sic, Of the eonkieaiion OF Hips and cargoes,
and the ;incSriibnuse6e Of their trwAf She r.
land of Cuba was however exempted from this
regulation. Thar the Spanifh colonial laws were
iuch will not difpase. but !hsy were not cnfore.
cd. Its well known fae, that trade was
permitted to be carried on, and that TO noa OF
her colonies, not oEdy by the United Seates, but
BY Other neutral nations Asa proof, OF what
raEcre, cafe was lately tried in England Of
which the following is,he fub0ance: A Dsnih
hip with valuable. cargo of Dry Goods clear
ed out of Iondon for Rio de Ia Plata, onsher
paaase iAe was captured by Birth cruz,
fer, xakeu into Jamaica ana conjcmned as Spa
niih. property, the Eng'ih court OF ad.
miralty however ordcred reltiru,ion.
hit to beyfuprolsd that ,hc cautious Dane
aould- iabjed his properly TO eonffeation and
himTe,f and CREW 10 imprisonment, had the trade I
he.u unlawful on the part Of the Spamfh govern
men, It nun have been allowed, eiie he GER
family would not have yensu-ed +, much. But
.hs de,entian. in cushion, Conceive, are j VIC
lasion Of the .7h article # the Treaty Of, Sans
L0kcnzo 81 Real That article fays, I" and it is
agreed that the lu j.cts or citizens o each OF the
contracting parties ther ytles, orefeets thall not
be Liable to any enhargo or detention on the part
ofthe other, for aay military pedision or other
public or private rufpoic Whatever" / would
ak any candid anhis not this article been mott
groEy violated. h cruSlties which have been
praait.d upon cur unofsnding citizens, would
appal barbarity itelf, aud all has been viewed by
our own gov.rnneut with reprehenliblc apathy
The iafalts aud Injuries winch have been heaped
upon US BY the Spani4rds, they would not dared
to have offered 60 the mott nhgmhcant maritime
State upon the globe--and are we, the fecond
commercial ration. with the means and power of
redref, in our hands, to fu. mir 70 be trodden on
at every corner, by race cf generate puiillan-
NOUS fave I trul that we are not ye, 70 corrupt
or debated, bu, sha, poheaed of>the power, we
will vindiea,e our ish,s. The Aurora proceeds,
neither ecnffeadon has taken place, nor have
the commanders or crews tecn treated with the
Gevcri,y which the law commando" g Yet
wha, is the language CT iheie men, (fhe captains
and fupereargoes ofthe detained yedels) concern
ing the Spanih Governors, they treat them with
inluls, and deleribe them in the blacken.coIours,
they intimate corruption, and yet their elanor,
prove NO, only the incompatibiity hut the hui
mani OF the Governors" That the Spanfh \
Governors have treated our citizens in purinit of
q lawful connmer;s, with a barbarlty which
wculd difgrace lvage,, that the eoiors in which
they have been painted, are no, efficiently black,
and that corruption aud irhamspity 60 hand in
hand, the annexed letter believe will prove
BY CRYING il place in your impartial paper, you
: will much obiig- Il
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