Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-28

cilS - ldOLAS Nl ES1 ID Hu,tASg
more than {" the guarantee 10 Eaa9cR
for Louifana, till France hall have oecn-
piei il" We quote the verbatim from
thefe official P spers: and now We ak any
man of The democratic party 10 explain 70
US he can, with what lhow Of Pfapriety
his Catholic Majeay can PEomiie Us that
be will hereafter come TO an agreement,
or make treaty with US refpetting Ger
tain territory 60 which he acknowledges
he has no claim, over which he can exer-
Gle no jarilasetion, and which he only
keeps the potIeilion OF as the guarantee
for France. The rightful owner? Fell US
M. Lxas##ssssa, you, VINO new, for
getful Of character, are 70 budly engaged
n runaing about The city with thele hand
bills, fhew os, If you can, that this IS any
thing more than atheer, downright impu-
dent attcmpt t, impoEe upon, ard TO gun
the people Of The United States in 'lie mott
erofs and financial manner ?
But admitting every word to be pre-
c;fly true and orretf, what is the amonnt
of Il !? The place OF depoiit is 10 be re-
itofed for the prelent-aa and what then :!
Is ary repafation of lofes promried Is
the conduit Of the Spanilh lntendant dli-
ayowsd, or himfelf cenfured IN even The
aiehsea manner Not fyllable OF all
this.
Let me put familiar cafe-I have
way in common with my next door neigh
Dor, which is efcntial TO my convenience;
he leaves the country and put an agent
in his houfe during his abfance, who fhuts
up this way and obliges me to be at great
expence inproviding fome other out let. l
commence law fuit for reparailon (; he
hears Of it, and writes 10 me thar ne has
fold the premiles, and has no contronl O.
YER it, but thar he has ordered the way
70 be opened, and will agree with me one
of theie days for its further continuance
bur fays NOT word OF damages, nor add
mis- that his agent has been to blame.
On this IcaIl my neighbours in and hold
day Of rejoicing. Now lam a sman OF
lenfe and fpiirit, or am ! fool and dfivel-
Ter
The truth is, this conduit Of his Catho-
lie MsjeRy backed with the fame fort of
language this fneae in Uniting all rel
ponibility of his own acts from his own
thoulders on 10 thofe of fome of his CHI,
GERS has been the practice Of the Spanllh
Court for more than thirty years. ln the
great affair of the Falkland Hands after
having committed violence againft the
rights of Great Britain Gmilar to what
has now been committed againf the right
Of this country, his Catholic Majet}y then
difowned the act, as he has now done,
and charged it upon has intendan,. he
then, too in the fame manner as he has
now done, promiled reltltation, but behold
the great Earl Chatham liing with dig
uity in the houle of Lords, and exYrefilng
himfelt in the following juf, and lofty,
and iorcible language.
!" Certainly, my Lords, there never
was more odious, more infamous talie-
hood impoled on great nation. IL de-
grades the kings honour. L is an IL
(ult to Parliament, beg your Lord'hi2's
attention, and I hope ] fhall be under
food, when l repeat, that the Court
Spain having difavowed the act of then
govetnar, is an a5f2lute, a falpa6ls Jaye
ko.d. Let me ak, my Lords, when the
hrf communication was made by IN
Court Of Madrid, of their being apPriieli
of their taking Falklsnd's Hands, was II
accompanied with an offer of infant reht,
tuliou, OF immediate tahsfa7ion, and the
bunjl6menf of the SpanIfh governor! |.
il was NOT, they have adopted the act a
their own, and the very msntion OF a an
avowal is an impudent infult offered to ths
kings dignity. The king Of Spala dli
owns the thief, while he leaves HIM IN
punifhed, and profits by the thest In
vulgar Englih he is the receiver of ito'en
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