Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-18

was then PreGdent, and it was by the al ~
OF this money and of this feet, and OF Re-
chambeao's army, tina, Corvallis wac
taken; the laurels Of which have been
unJufEly given to Mr.. Wilmington. IN,
merit in that affair was no more than n,
OF any other American officer.
have had, and fill have, as much pr;a.
In the American revolution as any man, Or
as Mr.. Warrington has right to have :.
but that pride has never made me force,
full from whence the great aid came Iha,
complicated the buhnets. Foreign aid
THAT of France was calculated upon A.
the commencement Of the revolution. II
is one of the fubjetts treated of in the
pamphlet Common Senfe, but as a matt, :
that could not be hoped for, unlefs indie
pcndence was declared.
1t is as well the ingratitude as the
puilanimiiy of MIR. Warrington and the
Warrington faction, that has brough, up.
on America the lofs of character Che now
lnffcrs in the world, and the numerou,
evils her commerce has undergone and to
which it is yet exPoled. The Britih mi.
ninifry foon found out what fort of men
they had to deal with, and they dealt
With them accordingly; and if further ex-
PLANTATION was wanting, it has been fully
given Gnce in the fniyelling address Of
the New York Chamber of Commerce to
the PRECEDENT, and in that of lundry mer.
chants of Philadelphia, which was not
much better.
When the revolution Of Anne lea was
finally efablilhed by the termination Of
the war, the world gave her credit for
great character; and the had nothing to
do but to fand firm upon that ground
The Britilh miniaiy had their hands too
full of trouble to have provoked unnecef.
fairly rupture with her, had he lhewn
proper refolution to defend her rights.
But encouraged as they were by the
fubmiilive character of her executive ad-
miniaration, they preceded from iniult to
in(ult, till none more were left to be offer
ed. The propofals made by Sweden and
Denmark to the American administration,
were difregarded. | know not iffo much
as an anfwer has been returned TO them.
The minifer plenipotentiary las fome Of
the Britilh prints called him. Mr.. Jay was
lent on pilgrimage TO London, to make
all up by penance and petition. 10 the
mean time the lengthy and drowly writer
of the pieces Ggoed Camilius, held himfelf
in reierve to vindicate every thing; and
to found, in America, the tocGu of terror
upon the inexhauaiblc refources of Eng.
land. Her reCources fays he are greater
than all the other powers. This man is
70 intoxicated with fear and finance, that
he knows not the difference between plus
and minus between an hundred pounds Ia
hand, and an hundred pounds wohe than
nothing. 4
The commerce Of America, 70 far as it
had been efabli!hed by all the treaties
that had been formed prior to that by Jay,
was free, and the principles upon which II
was eaablilhed were good. That ground
ought never to have been departed from,
II was the juNihable ground of right, and
no temporary difficulties ought to have NJ
duced an abandonment of it. Which Gaze :
is now otherwile. The ground, thel0ene'
the pretenGons, the every thing are chang
ed. The commerce Of America IS, Oy
Jays treaty, put Under foreign dominion.
The Tea is NOT free for her. Her rlgnt 20
navigate il is reduced TO the right OF elcap'
ing; thrtis, until fome hip OF England Il
France foIs her vei1els and carries tnsn'
into port. Every article Of American pro-
duce, whether from the lea or the lano'
fifth, Aeih, vegetable or manufacture, -,
by Jays treaty, made either contfaoan 4,
or feizaole. Nothing is exempt. In al
other treaties of commerce, the ar'les
which enumerates the contraband article''