Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-15

a no 80 lily had right TO expect from
~ ~, ~ would have preleoted Tome
49,. a.. Jas to the Legislature on The
r r,s lpreaed in tone Of dignity and
luoJ Infead of this, he merely ~
en-. ' In, of the circumstance as an at
f,;r vsh might, if carried fnfo ets6'
90 rbauoe in 1be aLbefF efoarJoteIgn
r.Latts. Out Of hundred readets, nos
| 6ye.E may fafely be aaefted, would DC
| ahls1 afix any definite meaning 70 tEeie
wof. An explanation therefore may
| nofc unfatisfa6tory.
! very pcrfon in this country knows
I III Mr.. Jefe,fon has heretofore oeen
| o1npl, inclined to tie mott intimate and
| aadly connection with France and TO
| Nd perresually frowning afpeet towards
Ihgland that, asto the former his max
Ia has been Ill fsr love and the 4oorI4
sveNha, while againf the latter, ne e., mas
hot been above harboring the mott illibe-
raj and yio!enl hatred. Now however,
Gnce al. his advances have been but COLO
Nv received by France, his antilles
lighted, and the ardors ofhis PATTON have
met with only neglect and diiaain III
Mort, iince the fair mifrefs of his afeeti-
ons has lhown herfelf, In the arong Ian
guago of the poet) downright " tab,
ting trumpet, he turns fottly round ana
in the Ayle Of coque,ry, begins an arloroui
dal.iance with England. Our aiP:et to.
wards England mutt be changed in1tead
Of frowns and fulkinefs, we are to og!s
and leer at her with all the artifice OF well
painted patton. Such is the meaning OF
the above phra(e, rather limited than eS-
oreled il is, take it, tie fit iteP OF
4 gepteel wooer. Anl, without intend
ing any thing dcrogatory to the modeiSy
| OF The lady, we fafpcet he will lind her
astbmg Atb.'
To drop the perfoniflca'ion, howevel'
| and fpeak in palmer fyle, we VIII lay
| w;shou, hefsation, that Great Britain can
I.not view with indifference the co.oniza-
| ten of Louiiiana 10 the French, and thar
| fhe aands ready at this moment to coo
pers5e with the American adminlitfafior
| in preventing an event which lhe foreiee'
| will ultimately provefo extremely ds'fi'
mental TO her as well as to us. 1t we az
ca.elcfs Of our Mifidippi territory, As II
not of her Jamaica or OF the reit OF ne
! Wee India iflands, and the perceives the,
would never be out of jeopardy II once th'
| French became powerful in the tioFidas
more ESPECIALLY if they lhould iucceed II
conquering St. Domingo, retarded at pre-
Gent by nothing but want OF money.
/ Since we are on this iubjetf, now be
come 70 in;ereaing 10 the people OF TN
country, it may be expected thas we ihouIl
treat il lolnewhat in detail.
Louifiana was difcovercd by the Spa.
niards in the 10Th century, but hrt taksr
poaegion OF by Louis 18th of France. b
| the treaty of Paris, made between .. bri
| toin, France & Spain, the formers obsaines
a celion Of the Floridas, and free nayl
CATION of the Mldifippi defined by
| line drawn along the middle OF the rive
| Mifillippi from its fourcc to the river J.
beryille, and from thence by line draw
along the middle of this river & the lake
| Maurepas and Ponchartrain to the lea
| beGdes the river and port OF the Mobile
add all other ponefions of the latter, OF
the left fide OF the MilieiPPi, except tn
town Of New Orleans, and the bland II
which it is iituated, which was TO remain
to France, provided that the navigation
Of the MiaiGippi was 20 be equally tree a
well 10 fubjedts of Great Britain as t
thoic of France, in its whole breadth an'
length from the fource to the iea, and ex
preisly that part which is between the II
| land Of New Orleans and the right BAN
of the river, as we'll as the paiiage bot
| il and out of its mouth. In '79 Spar
| having taken part in our Eevolutlonar
| war, attacked and dlfpafeiled the Engiii
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