Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-29

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rever did rhc pulte Of the French beat
isher than on Thar eceahon. But the
VI cit India merchants ard planters con-
triySd to hid favor 10 Tie fight Of the
Iiakinfons and Dpndalcs, their cries were
keard, and in the abiencc Of the leading
members OF the Portland party from the
Birth cabinet, th: army with the sx-
ception Of handful of men were ient to
the Wet Indies, where forty thoufand
died, without feeling az enemy's lhot or
boyonef. To the eternal diigrace of
.hofe miniilers, the French Emigrants
who entered into the Englilh feiyice only
on the faith Of being employed in the ex
pulion Of the jaco5ins from France were
fenr there in violation Of every right OF
honor aad fidelity.
For ar example Of the folly and exc
cradle wiekednels of that tranlattion we
refer onr readers to Burke's Letters on a
Regicide, where they will find it pour
trayed with the hand of mater. We
extract from it a parsgraphor TOO as q ipe-
cimen of the remainder. After ihewing
what might have been done by tending
the army TO La Venaee he proceeds thus
& Unfortunately other ideas have pre-.
vailed. A remote and eypenGye, mur.
derous, and in the end an unproduttiye
adventure, carried on upon ideas Of CON-
| mercial knigh; errantry, without any Of
the generous wildnefs Of puixotifn,, is
conlidered as found, fold fenie and a
war in a wholefone climate, war at our
door, war directly on the enemy war
in the heart of his country,a war with an
interval ally in combination with an ex-
ternaI is regarded as folly and romance.
(" lncarrying on the war with the Wet
Indies, the hottie iword is mercitul 1.-The
country in which We engage is the dread
ful enemy. There the European conquer
| or finds cruel defeat in the very fruits
of his fneceis /; Every advantage is but a
new demand on England for recruits to
the Wet India grave. Ina Welt India
war the regicides have for their trops a
race of fierce barbarians to whom the poif-
oned air in which our youth inhale Ger.
tain death is falnbrity and life; to them
the climate is the fweet and mott faithful
OF aAirs.'
lCoar'e,.j
Foreign Iut<lhgenee.-By the two
last arrivals from Europe, we have it in
our power to afford a very copious supply
Of interesting fvuga nteAigeaer. The
unanimity which is said to prevail in the
House of Commons will be grateful to
those who wish well TO British politics,
though we confess We hardly perceive ei-
| ther the cause Of the dispute between the
| Ministry and the opposition, or the cause
| of the reconciliation. To talk Of the me-
| dlation Of Russia IN the present state Of
things, appears at this distance to be very
idle: and indeed seems to be thing
| gladly resorted to, by the ministry and
Mr.. tox as pretext for that union which
both seem to have been DESTROYS of effect
ing. A war without an opposition in the
House of Commons, will indeed be such
war as England has not often, if ever Wit
messed. But the circumstance calculat.
ed TO arrest attention, and occasion aston
ishinent throughout the world, is the high
handed measure of the first consul in ar
resting the persons and sequestrating the
property Of the English in France. He
| says indeed, it is in return for the un-
warrantable conduct on the part of Great
Britain IN making captures at sea without
!. a previous declaration Of war. Unques-
t'onably the English would not be lussi6-
| able IN having done so and if any such
irregular and unjust captures have been
! made, they ought to be restored SO, for.
merry, IN the treaty Of AK la Chapelle,
between England on one side, and France
| and Spain on the other, it was stipulated
| that all prizes taken before the formal de.