Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-02

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FRENCH REPUBLICANISM.
Never did the Csayt Of B4a3arte as.
ford ftonger idea of what was formerly
called the Levee Of the Kings Of France,
| that it did during the two 6tlt Sundays of
his relidence at ST. Cloud. sHorfe and
foot guards were placed at all the gates,
and the whole length of the magnihcens
avenue was filed with carriages. Up
wards of 400 public fundionsries, all 10
brilliant uniforms feven or eight Arch
hifhops mixed among the civil and military
funtaionaries The procsi1ion of tie Eirlt
Confuito the Chapel, and his return his
manner of laying few words to the prin-
cipal pe.lonages prelent all afforded an
idea of the Leyee or MATS at Verlailles.
1t appears to be certain that the con!al
will tx his abode at ST. Cloud, and come
10 Paris only on the day great nation
al lolemnities. The Cabinet of St. Cloud
will foon be fpoken of in the fame way az
The Cabinet of VerfAilles was.
At ST. Cloud no perfon is to befeceiv-
ed but full dreAed and in powder I; q the
confals ard MiniN.rs begin to drefs in
shs forme, French ayle, with fwords by
;heir Gdes. There is aiio an etiquette Ell
rabiihed for carriages-Some, the generals.
and Nliniaers, mayl drive up to the great
door; others are to flop at the gates
There is alto an etiquette of ffft and lsa
cond tables. L9n. Pap.j
ON THE THE DECREASING roPULATIoE
or THE U. STATES.
The rapid increaic of this country, ss
we'll in number as in wealth and freneth,
is very aaonifhing, and has rarely had
parallel lnce men began to multiply upon
the earth. The population of the He
bSews in the land of Egypt has been fox
more than three thoufapd years, a conftaus
theme of admiration. Within the COM
pats OF four centuries, they multiplied from
ieventy FIVE fouls to fix hundred thou!and
grown men ard if we compute the wo-
men and children 70 be in proportion to
the men, as FIVE to one, their whole nuns-
Der thar left Egypt was three millions
and fix hundred thoufand.
The increafe of popujation in this ccun-
try has been fill greater than that of tie
Hebrews in Egypt. 10 leis than two cen
turtles, and from very fmall beginnings,
we have grown to the vaG number Ct be-
tween Ave and fix millions. The lsf ten
years have increaied our numbers twelve
hundred thoufand. According TO this ra-
ito, that is, computing four millions,
(which was nearly the number of inc in
aabitants of this country, ten years ago,]
to produce an increafe Of twelve hundred
thouland. in ten years, the Whole namter
of the inhabitants Of the United States.
in half a century, lif my hsay computati-
on is corlectl will amount TO but little
fhort-of twenty millions; and, at the cIoie
of the preient century, it will amount TO
between feyenty and eighty millions.
Indeed it is not to be expected that the
increale of population in this country will
be as rapid, for a hundred, or for fifty years
to Gene, as it has been in the .Iaf ten
years; bur unleis iome dreadful calamity
lhouId betal il, our nation, within Gems
tury, and even within halt a century will
probably be exceeded only by very tew
among the nations of the wcrd. Bah