Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-03-24

A1sSp1 sAAS " sS6SSA~3 "i'3 s"S . o.S'NS
let US turn our attention to Britain, the
land of our fathers fepuIchres, the nation
with whom we hare the neareR affinity
in blood and in language.
Sometime in the 10Th century, COM
mercial adventures from England, as we'll
as from the other trading nations, fettled
in the EAT Indies. They were received
into the bofom of that devoted country,
and were treated by the natives with hof-
pitali,y and uniufpeefins confidence. In
the year 1000, Ia fatal era to large por-
tion Of the human race, the Britifh EAT :.
India company was eaablilhed. Duringa
comfortable time, it feems that they con.
tented themfeIves with the vatt gains which
a peaceful commerce afforded them, III
thoie regions of unbounGed wealth. But
a, length, their ambition increafng with
their circumstances, and their ..exorbi'ant
avar;ce rendering them totally untee!ing,
they formed tie internal project OF fubdu-
ing ana enilaving the country. Accord
ingly, they artfully flowed .he feeds of dh-
cord among the inhabitants, and having
Efficiently weakened them by creating d.
vitions, the company, al lat made war up
on them, and by their armed forces, under
the command OF colonel Give, defeated
the Nabob, in the year 1857. Ever free
tina, period, the company have been extend
ing their conquets by the fword, iriomuch
that, at prefent, they rule with an iron
fcep.re over no fewer, it is affirmed, than
iixteen millions of people, although that
country is 70 depopulaied by wars and
oppreiiions, that it does not contain
one half its former, number of inhabi-
tants.
From authentic documents, which will
be produced in the next paper, 1t would
appear more than probable that thrice tbt
num5er eff tie p,eifut xbaditant; Of THE
United States have been de!troyed by the
Britith EAT. India company, within the
Latter half of the laf century.
My God "A country, that was" Like
blooming Eden fair rendered defolat---
people gentle and humane in their diipo-
lisions, and highly cultivated and ingeni-
Gus in arts, fallen, as wretched vietims
TO death, or to opprefions and miGeries
worie than death, by the united fraud and
force of company of merchants, living at
the diitance of many ,houlands of miles
aud who have riored on their ipoiIs ans
fported with their tears and blood -
An awful warning this is again& ex-
tending too freely the arns OF national
hofpitality.
Mr.. Jtferfon, in his meGage to the
Congrefs, AXIS, +" Shall we retuls to the
unhappy tusi,ives from diireis, that hof-
pitalisy which the favases Of the wilder
ne!s extended to our fathers arriving in
this land !"-Let hiito.y aniwer this i'm
portant queftion. Let the awful and i'm,
partial voice Of hifory teach the inhabi-,
tants of theie United States the extreme
danger Of ipeediiy receiving foreigners to
,heu'conhdence and to participation in
their elections and in their public Offices
and affairs.
Let the wretched remnant of the natives
of Indotan, and of the Spaniih, and even
of the Anglo America FAY, whether they
have NOT saule to curfe, in the bitterness OF
their hearts, the credulity of their fathers,
and their miiplaced confidence in foreign
Adventures.
ANTI AVARO.
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