The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-18

RICHMOND.
M+2 l8ts. 1908.

>'N"NN IA liiN It1S tlicill, or TIC JOINT Slt-
tors OF the Virginia Gazette, to iuppoie
that they can take offence at our cxer-
citing the freedom; and the righ1 OF
cFucltrn. Their paper, Of the IIth cur
rent, contains az article OF their own
competition, which, after all shac we
had feen ofgazette paragraphs, we could
not peruie without comfortable fur 5rizr.
Before proceeding TO fate our objections
TO It, we fall, according to our cuff
tom, and agreeable to The rules of iui-.
tice, give the paiiage at full length and
fortunately that length is but E1orr
one. Here it is:
From the accounts received from
Bolton and New I ork, pubnl1ed n
' this days Gazette, there appears 10 DC
no longer doubt, bur thai fiOSTI-
: II / LES have commenced between
" GREAT BRITAIN and FRANCE
ihis circumstance will fortunately
Preierve Louiliana from the arms of
BonaParfe for the pfelcnr. But ;3rear
Britain viii roIt probably arle,npe the
poi1eition of it, as we'll as the navi,sA-
non OF the MliGiNiPpi, lince ebe Unir-
ed States have lacwn 70 much ia4;-.
ference concerning theie important
acquiiltiohs. The advantages which
!" would have ari.en 20 France from the
colony OF Louiiiaaa viii rhcreforo
!. DC transferred TO Britain, and rhi-
:, country will at all events, be depr.l-
cd iii the courie OF few years Q. ,r,
: navigation ofrhe Mlflilippi. Such ar,.
x the caiamities and national evils Wick
= invariably proceed from weak ana
PuhNanimous meaiures in Govern
inent. Had ctr executive acted with
: that flrmnels which becomes Ane,i-
cans, New Orleans mi2hr have been
levrsai months fince in the poacf1ion
. OF the citizens of the union, and th4y
;, would have had nothing to dread
: from France Or Spain
The writer let our with faying, thar
the Preient war viii prelerve | ,oIl;Gans
from the arms of Bonaparte. IF vo,,
viii itlr out the tenth parr Of an inch
70 the lefr hand-Gde Of the fam. CO..
Iunn, you Will find rantinp French
n'anlieito, by which it appears thar
Loulllana is already in pollelion Of =
French army, under rhc command of
general Yi6tor, for nothing el1e can be
the meaning OF tuch a proclamation.
than that Preach army has landed.
Our humble opinion, therefore, is, thar
to lay that che colony Can be prclcrved
from the French arms, is 70 tay, sbsr
yeiterday VIII not arrive. Indeed ;r
was ttated in the papers, foIne time AGO
that The French bad attual]v ,ao5eI II
they haye nor done 70, G;lI, thcy nave.
10 entirely the fart of B,irain, in poinr
OF tlme, that it is inconceiyable wbat
contingency could hinder them from,
accomplishing their acquilition.
IT'S certainly erroneous in the writer
OF the above article 20 fay that the Uni
TED oTates have lhewn indifference CON
oernlng the 4cquidtion OF Louifana FIa.
nor Mr. Rols, at the head of the f-dr~
raj iqUad. P!.oPoied the rafting an enor-
NOUS army ? Did he not, in efe9 and
lnoifance, although NOT, perhaps, in DO
huye form, propoled an Immediate ar
TACK upon the legitimate territories of a.
natloo, wich whom We are at peace. and
with "hom VIC pretend to Be il treaties
OF ifleh5ihlP Was not his fpeccF,
quo,ed' AMI celebrated il an hundred
NIX he"iPaPers, as one Of the frt pro
ou,tions CT f1e human mind ? Was r.
.''e language Of Indifference, to propofe
("7 Pfo3.Oie ademblage Fifty thou
,&n1 militia, ana The yojing millions tn
- h3h2na 70 tle preGdrnf, in order ia
pay 'hen We lay again, rhatif thja
DC 'He ianaia { 81 Indifference, we ars
tOLaiIN Mracn11Ainrel ,,.;.L IL.