Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-17

oouii'Y " Fay laGd, with
whom Francois at war.
The Warrington administration hews
great deiire, that the treaty be,weeo
France and the United States be pre!er,e5.
Nobody can doub1 their tincerity uooo
this matter. There is not a Birth nj;
ni.ter, a Britifh merchant, or Britifh fsi
lor in America, that does not anxiougv
with .he fame thing. The treaty with
France lerves nov as paGpott to laDDlv
Eog!and with naval flores and other arr:
cles Of American produce, Whit the fam.
articles, when coming TO France, are made
contrahaod or fcizsbLe by jays treaty
with Eag!.a1. The treaty with Frame
Jays, that neutral ihips make neutral pro.
per,y, and thereby gives protection to En-.
g.ifh property on board American hips.
and Jays treaty delivers up French pro-
perty on board American lhips to be ieiz.
ed by the Eogliih. 1t is too paltry to
talk of faith, of national honor, and Of
the prcfervation OF treaties, whl& iach
barefaced treachcry as this flares the world
in the face.
The Warrington Administration NAV
fave itielf the trouble OF proving to the
French government its mgq faithful in.
tention Of prefeyving the treaty with
France; for France has now no defre that
il thould be preferved. She had nominal
ed an Envoy extraordinary TO America,
to make Mr.. Warrington and his govern
ment pFefent fthe treaty, and to nave
no more to do with that or with kin. 1t
was, at the fame time, officially declared
to the American minitter at Paris, that The
Freucb reptile had yafbtr haze The 4.
msrcan governmeat as open enemy tbaa
treacbsyous fyifnd. This, Er, together
with the Internal diRrattions cauled In,
America, and the lois OF character 10 the
world, is the eventful cr5f5, alluded to in
the beginning of this letter, TO which your
double politics have brought the affairs of
your country. It is time that the eyes Of
America be opened upon you.
How France would have conducted her
lelf towards America and American CON-
Inerce after all treaty POPULATIONS had ceaf-
ed, ard under the (enle of (ervices render
ed aud injuries received, ! know not. 1t
is, however, an unpeafant redeilon, thss
in all national quarrels, the Innocent, and
even the friendly, part of the community
become involved with the culPable and the
unfriendly; and as the accounts that ar
rived from America continued to nianifeR
an invariable attachment in the general
MATS Of the people to their original ally, in
oppodtion to The new tangled Wilmington
taftion-thc refolutions that had been Ia
ken were fufpended. It happened alio
fortunately enough, thai Governor Mo-
ris was not minilter at that time.
There is, however, one point that yet
remains in embryo, and which, among O.
Their things lerves to flew he ignorance OF
the Warrington treaty. makers, aad their
inattention to pre-exi&ing treaties when
they were employing thenielveS IN ran
ing or rasifyiag The new treaty "i'h En-
gland.
The fecond article Of the treaty o COM
nerce between The United States & Frame
-
fays: " The moi} chrl&ian king ana tie
United States engage rausaally, not 10
grant any particular favor 10 other natl
ons in refpet Of commerce and navigation
that (hall not Immediately become CON-
mon to the other party, who ihail enJ'y
the fame favour freely, if the concsi' on
was freely made or on allowing the i','
Compensation If the concedion was ccna''
tional.''
All the conceaions therefore made 10
England, by Mr.. Jays treaty, are fo 10.
the medium of this iecond article IN 'l''
pre-exii}ing treaty made to France a"l
became engratted into the treaty %i''
France, AID can be exercited by ner as !"
matter Of right, the fame as by ho8IaOu'