Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-07


MI Offices under the approaching govern
nens. Not doubt remains bur large
contribution viii be exalted of the citi-
zens of this place very foon after their ar
rival.
No -four can now be exported, when
once landed ii cannot be taken away,
decree of the defendant to this effect will
be pa5lilhed tomorrow provi6ons, you
know, mutt be c0meatabA for the French
troops.
A fchocner yeaerday arrived from Bal
timore, 70 days padage, the news lhe
brings has not yet franfpired fully, but
we know fhe bro't dispatches from the
principal coniul from France, reident in
the United States to the intendant, they
were delivered by Mr.. Foerey, to whom
the fchooner was confgned, the Intend
ants receipt taken hnce which he has
been very falky.
/" BuGnefa is dull, and money fcarce,
though cotton has taken imall fart
within few days"
While the Americans not only endure,
but in many inaances encourage the indie
feniblc proceedings of the democratic a
gents-their fslfhoods, their caluInnies,
ard their mott foul and injurious perverG
on of matters Of fact, denia,S Of truth and
ailertions of falihood-while one party
chuckles and rejoices at the fuccels Of the
frauds and impoGtions pra6lifed on the
public mind, and the other TOO often laughs
at the unblulhing impudence and ihe open
exultation and triumph which thoie PEG
pie have gained over computation and mo-
raj feeling, and all fenfe of right; they
do not know the extent of the miichief
they arc doing, nor Efficiently confder
what deep foundation they are laying
for an univerfal fyfem of depravity
and confequent national dilgrace defsuc-
tion..
Mutual confidence is the lie, the foul
and the trength-indeed, the only real
vivifyirg principle Of national sexifence
and national honor. This mutual coph-
dence is founded on eaablifred aud ap-
proved lincerity, and when fincerity flies,
mutual confidence, and with it national
honour and exiGence, mutt fly alto. Truth
and fidelity, in word and deed, are as eff
fential to the we'll being of a body polite
as to the credit Of an individual, or as
breath is TO animal life. They are the
foundation of juaice, and IS to be perfect
ly lift is an attribute of the divine na-
ture, 70 it is the glory Of man to be juG
and true, in word and deed. The mind
without truth, fays great philosopher, is
a mott frightful wfeck-yet we every day
ie. people who conlider it as vile bondage
% be tied TO il, and burf alunder the mo-
raj ties to get rid OF it.
II we look back into the lives of the
great men of antiquity, we fhall find taem
ali exemplary for their love of truth and
iuifice. Ariaides, though in low cir
cumltances, and of mean extraction, o.
tanned the glorious fuTname of 5gf, and
rofeto univerfal fame, from his rigid ad-
herence to that virtue; ard lurely no one
will deny that he delerved the glory he
obtained, when ii is recolletted thar there
is no virtue OF fnch general ufe, as It's be-
n.fts extend to the greatelt number of per
ions, and as il is the foundation and in
manner, the foul of every public office or
employment, and of all focal inter
courie. There is an anecdote of Ari(-
tides, which his hiographer and panegy
rift, Plutarcf, relates, that will thew how
well de deferyed that title-how much he
was eReemed, and how highly the Athe-
mans yenera,ed truth and jufice.
Themiaocles having conceived the de.
fgn of fnPplan,ing the Lacedemonians,
and Of taking the government of Greece
out oftheir hands, in order to put II into
thofe of the Atheniars, kept bis eye and
his thoughts con&anily fixed upon that
great project; and, as be was not very
nice or fcrupuous in the choice of his