Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-10
JosErH Birch,
SIMON SUMMERS,
JoHN BALL.

TIE tolltaoii4g orAcle is f,9m tie Loxaoa
Carrier ef -41I 80. Speaking The I'm
nmeuts Of fbe French Govsrumenf, as
zue my se4Jouabs Jappele II does, il
may Be cagfd.yed as one ef The msf IN
p9ytaut, zvc 57qe for j5me time reeeived.
P,gm tie Gazette De France.
Every body, perhaps, has not remarked
with the fame attention pafage from the
hta difpatches from Gen. lie Clerc, in
which he obierves, that the guns, cannon,
and powder, which were found at the
Cape, were furnifhcd by the U. States Of
America.
Perhaps it would be unjua to found up
On this circumstance ferrous reproach a.
gain9 government fuppofed to be at
rached TO France by principle, by interef,
and by jua tentiment Of gratitude. But
if we connect this fact with feverai other
things; if we apply it TO general fyttem
ofpolaics adopted by the United States,
under the proficiency Of Mr.. Jeferlon's
predecefor, the aforementioned palage in
General lie Clerc's letter may not appear
infgni6cant.
Some months ago we puhlifhed in this
papcr an anecdote, which, though it re-
manned unknown for long time, did NOT
lels delerve ferrous attention. It related
| to an interview which took place at St.
| Domingo between Toufaint Louverture
and the Commercial Agent Of the United
States, at the moment in which the reiut
of ths famous battle of Marriage had been
made known. The plan of the American
Governments was raen 10 act in concert
with the Britifh, TO determine the Negro
General to declare the independence of St.
Domingo; and that was one of the prin-
cipal inGruetions of the commercial agent.
Conferences continued TO take place up
on this fubjeet, when Touaaint, inform
ed.of what had taken place in Italy,
changed his refolution all at once, and cgi-
ed out, in the accent Of delpair Ma pas
c0Anoitre ca PIE devenir; majs lNGringo la
TIER maj. know not what ali this will
| produce; but this Maringo kills M J.
and upon this the negotiation was put an
end 70, or at leat fufpended.
That MIR. ]eferfon, become fnce Pre-
6dent of the Federal Government, has not
followed the political fyftem of his prede-
ceG3--that he has adopted mode of con-
duet lels MachiaTelian, appears incontelfi-
bic. But the ideas, either more or lefs
liberal, of man who is placed for time
at the head of an elective governments,
ought nor TO be ofany weight in the judg-
ment which may be formed upon the order
of things to which he belongs eventually /;
and when it is neceGary to examine the
general interefs and iituation of America,
the private opinion of MIR. Ieferfon be-
comes almolt matter Of indifference.
IF we pay attention to the rapid jim
create ofthe population, the induery, trade
! and wealth of the United States, we cannot
avoid forleeing that that power is defined
to place under its yoke all the Welt India
Colonies. Is it NOT the interef of Europe
Eto,endeayor, while it is yet time, to re-
move thar epoch TO greater difance
and does not policy require that there
E-ihould be eGablAhed as foon as pofible up.
on the continent of America, barrier a
gaine the pretumed ambition of people
|. 10 whom nature has promifed the empire
of haltthe world
The idea of se-attaching LouiGsna TO
the domain of France, is, perhaps, of all
political conceptions, the wileif and the
mott important. England herlelf could
, not avoid applauding the plan of efabllih-
| ing on the terra -f,ma of America, an Eu
ropean power capable of impoilng an I'M
penetrable barrier TO the torrent which
might one day, without tiiat precauticn,
| ipread from the North TO the South, cover