Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-18

we're priests, WnllSL statesmen regard eiicIu
as public instruments. You blindlygive
| your belief to a doctrine which IS only a
! means to confirm obedience on the part OF
the people. | complain of you Madam,
without any idea obtaining you; butthose
errors | point out, ought not to be permit
ted to creep into the mind Of your son.-
He will one day hapet to succeed to the reins
of governmentwhich his father has Quilted.
This should seriously occupy your mind /;
| and if he cannot draw, with propTiety, rules
of conduct from his fathers a1winistrati-
| on, it belongs to me, his protector, TO SUI
perQise his education. The event OF my
arrival at the Supreme Magistracy Of a
|! great country, ought &c serve rs q ics8ea 30
kings. Ny example ongi,t 20 TX their
! power more firmly in their hanes- ! have
demonstrated to them how mankind may
be conducted; howi lis prajudices may be
| conquered, In order to render it sslomls-
sive to the restraints which the state OF So
ciety demands. Every regulation, all the
systems which govern empires arc destroy
led by the ravages of time, and those ofphi-
lanthropy. / have refXed every thing; /
have reeeneratod every thing. o,ght
| not to withdraw from this career Of bene-
6cence and glory. / cannot moreover, de-
liver the countries which are under private
influence country OF my own creation,
a prince whom / ought TO make acconnta-
ble to me or my successors for the prospe-
rity of his states, for the happiness OF his
subjects, / cannot, | say, deliver 80 many
superior interests into the hands OF i1cxpe-
rience and error.
propose to appoint then, Madam,a
tutor to your on; a regent to his dominic
ons. But | by no means intend to deprive
you of the exquisite pleasure of receiving
his caresses, nor of an acquaintance with
his progress you shallpossess the title of
Regente, which your connection with him
claims. General Clarke is to receive your
orders for the internal affairs, which have
no relation to the administration Of the
kingdom; but it is from ne alone from
whom he shall derive impulse, as it is to
me that he shall give an account OF his on
duct. / will add, Madam, that faithful as
you are to the principles ofa religion which
dictates the denial ofone's self and SUBJ
mission to the superior powers specially es-
tabhshed by the will of the Most High
Sod, you oughtto feel the less repugnanee
to consent to the propositions | have pre-
sumed to make. If, however, you think
proper to refuse the Difference which J soil
cit Of you: if you cannot resolve to.see your
son confined to the able and faithful hands
which shall guide his studies /; | shall feel
myself necessitated to take upon ne the go
vernment of your estates. AT the same
time, if YOU have any solid objection to
General Clarke, | am willing to confer with
an envoy deputed by your Majesty, for the
selection ola person both c~onsonant to your
taste and my own but | must provide, that
this choice do not fall upon any man in
Italy,"
Capt. Quin, arrived at NewbEryport, on
his passage from Berbice, spoke the Eng
lish sloop of war Aspine, captain Auspin,
who informed, that an English squadron
had gone to take possession OF Cayenne,
Surrinam, Berbice and Demerara. He
likewise spoke a French privateer, both of
which treated him well. /
Capt. Sloane, who was spoke at sea Oc-
tober 8, ~twenty.days from Martinique con-
firms the above, and says further that De-
merara, Surrinam and Berblce, have actu-
ally been captured.
The following advertisements is copied from
Nequ. yeyy Journal: /" lobe sold, on the 9Th
Of July, l3l laf IN haqo. the 3roptry, Of an e
lninent Attorney, about TO retire from business.
-Nose, the clients axe rich and~o9Yiaa.sl"
The Legislature of Tennessee; which conven.
ed OH the roth ult. has passed an at %instiualng1
their renre. entatinnsn Cangres S. to aid IN prncur