Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-29
Fran Abe, PALLADIUM.


ONEctthe conlequcnces of,he progrei
o. ancient Rome t, empire was to lower ii
ipi,it of all other nations while The rail-
he: owo. Already Bonsparte talks in til
tone OF a matter and lis rivals ana enc
mics, ! Ike lves. The emperor Of Ger
many has congratulated hirl III lorol be
cauie he has elected himitlf pretidens Of sh'
Ialian republic. l'hc grand Turk has re-
n.wed ms old treaties with The man, whoE
expedition to Egypt, in the pIotouae
peace, lhewed his abioluse contempt OF
their obligation. Railia ino,ii4rs her an
ger on .accounr of Malta and Corfu. All
Europe is arriving to make lis hypocrify
conceal lis terror.
After every former war the qpelon in
every fate was how 10 arrange its con-
Germs f. as belt to profit BY The natal
dread in which every power liood 0. its
neighbour. Since the treaty OF Amians,
the little powers are extinct, and Tie on
" concern is now TO find defence aga;nlt
FRINGE. There is but enc Leviathan
and half a icore Of FINAL an.
Bus as France emala,es old Rome, i, is
material to rofe The points OF difference
and resemblance.
Rome achieved her conqaea while lhe
was republican. France is now. imperial,
preciieiy in the fate in which Rome be-
Came pacific and began TO feel dcc,.ne.
France IS as corrupt, ani has had as
mueh TO corrupt her as Rome had, after
the horrors OF her civil wars. Yet il is
probable BonapaTte is leis Of 4 politician
and more OF a warrior than Augafus, th-
iecond Roman Ccl4r. Tie Roman, 100,
rad no foe near him. Pdrshia lay beyond
the Eu,hr4tes, and detart OF parelins
land, without tonntaias Of wafer, divided
the two great empires Of Rome and Par
thia from each Other. Wars, when they
were wsged, were therefore, produced by
vain glory, and very little inlereaed the
paaions of the people Of either Of thefc
fates. In order TO make the compari
Ton fairly, we mutt fuppofc that Cornell
US Sylla, inlfead OF advocating the cida-
to-lh;p, remained at the head Of the Ro
man armies the Ronaparte of Rome Even
then we hal! fcarcely Gnd Formidable
enemy left. Gaul and Britain were bar
bafous. Carthage, G.eece, Macedonia
and the Syrian monarchy under Antio-
chus, were reduced sofubiet3ion. Where.
as the modern Syl!a finds in England, Au
ftria and Ruiia, a Hsnn.bll, Philip and
Mithfidates.
France, then, as military as Rome was
under the Cellars, finds, in thefe obltacies,
infinitely greater incentives to her ambit-
on than they did. She has enemies near &
in force. OF neceGary confsqnence her
fyitem will not be pacific; to make the
power Of her enemies lcls will be the fam.
thing as 10 make her own greater. The
power of Englaod, depending upon her
navy, viii secenarily engage her active
hoeil.ty. She will try the utmof efforts
ofher policy ard diplomatic Asill' to &C.
tactl the y. States from being culfomers
ofGreat- Britain, and will, ifpoaible, hitch
them on to heiielf as auxiIiaries 10 her
fchene of aggrandizemcnt. We have lome
thouEanAs CT jacobins wicked enough, ard
foine gcns of thoufands Of democrats weak
enough to ieconl her plan. They are
ready 10 make the United States the tool
of France, and, in that luxurious charac-
Ter, to revive The famous reiolutions Of
Madilon, and the report Of Mr.. JeRe'ion,
on the privileges and rearistions of our
commerce with foraign nations, 70 as to
render congrels the inisrumenr of their war
upon Sheffield, Manchester, and Birming-
ham, in England. Mr.. Madlon, who
knew great deal lefs than nothing at all
of this iubjef, fancied that we could
i}arve thefe manufactures, and becauie VIC
could be bnInapsi,, and wiCslp Unified thar