Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-30
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Hague, April 70, 1903.
I" AMONGST the Countries diiturb-
ed by French intrigue, over.run by French
arms, vex:d by French power, and ruin
ed by French connections, Holland aands
the frft: and the liberty held out by
French emiGaries, as an allufement 70 the
ambition Of the fattious, and to the patri-
oti(m of the republicans, has beenas fatal
TO our independence as deafaaiye to our
commerce.
/" Since 1895, when we began to feel
the curfe of French fraternity, we are be-
come beggared, enaaved, degraded and
debated people, without public fpirit,
public virtue, or private worth, feeling
with the fame indifference and phlegm the
mifery of our conntrynen around Us, as
the infulting luxury Of our tyrants, who,
not (afisfed with the splunder Of our pro-
perty, debauch our wives, (educe our
daughters, and pervert the principles Of
cur ions. BY their Foundations example,
and by their deprayed conduit, they have
outraged or deRioyed the moral and reli-
gious notions OF all cIsfes of fociety.; our
hofpitals. our prifons are crowded and
more crimes have been committed IN our
country thcfe Taft eight years, than the
fifty years preceding.
6 Since rhe French frf entered our
territory, we have been more or lefs bur-
thened with their troops, bur rever en-
tirely free from them; becauc no iooner
have we clothed, armed, and paid one di-
viiion going to Flanders, than another has
fuccecded, coming down the Rhine in
rags, without arms, and without money
Holland has not only been the magazine,
the arienal, and the treafury of France,
but during the campaigns in Germany,
its hofpitai; mott of its flick and wound
ed were TENT here BY water, to be cured
at our expence,in our houfes, our public hof.
pitfalls not being fuficient to contain them.
Not ialished with thoie fraternal
tranfsaions, our French brothers, under
the appellation of friendly loans, favoura-
BILE treaties, and patriotic donations, have
laid our different governments under Goa.
tinual contributions.
We have paid for getting rid Of the
French troops, we have paid for getting
them back, and again pad for getting rid
of them; we have paid for having them
reduced, diminilhed or augmented; we
have paid to avoid revolutionary requiliti-
ons we have paid to avoid forced contri-
buttons we have paid TO prevent militia
ry executions we have paid millions in
brides to French directors, to French MI
nilfers, to French generals, to French a.
gents, to French cormidaries, to French
lecretaries, and to their pack Of co1tiers,
clerks, Wallets and footmen.
We have paid to the French Jacobin
faction for changing cur government, we
have paid the French moderate faction for
changing i. again: we have, irGxyear',
paid "a, The change Of Three csgeftafi0as :
and not long ago we were aked TO pay
for changing fourth. Our government
may make out its budget, but not before
the laf Dutchman has paid his laf ducat,
can it fix what French rapacity may ex-
aef, and Freuch tyranny extort. Our
French alliance has colt US more in eight
years, than all rhe glorious wars under
William III. and the wars to the peace OF
Utrecht.
!" IF what we have paid proves our
former riches and our former rclourees, the
disappearance of gold, the fcarclty OF III
yer, the decline Of our manufactures, the
decreale of our trade, & the uncommon pc
verify Of our people, prove our riches gone,
and our reiources exhauiled mould France
continue to injure our commerce, mock
our independence, and plumber our proper
~ we l1all in ihort tine become az
burtheniome an ally TO France, as France
has been opprefiye TO Us.
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