The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-21


pid as tooelevc one {yllable ofwhar he
has affirmed. How can France be
termed remote power Is MART
nique or Guadaloupe, at 70 proaigious
a diitance Cannot any man, that
knows the uie of the mariners compa(s,
fail from theie Hands 90 New Orleans
in fix or eight days But, indeed, it is
the fummit OF abiurdity to call France
hertelf remdts, as long as we are able to
remember the iicge of York I own. En-
| gland is quite as remote as France ; but
rhas did NOT hinder her from ravaging
this country for eight years. In 1898,
profound writer Of newipaper para
graphs thanked providence, that, be-
tween this country and France, there
are 5000 miles Of iale water Half the
fame diGanee of dry land would have
been much more likely to protect Anc-
RIGA from French invaGon. France will
depend upon Loviiliana for -four, and
other articles, TO fupply her Welt India
iilands. Hence, we may be perfectly
iure, that lhe will not futfer her colony
TO be cfulhed. Does this writer mean
10 fay, that New Orleans has only ous
avenue 70 the civilized world? Did the
man never fee a map the mouth of the
MiilidiPpi He might as well have
iaid that Ireland, or that St. Helena,
has only one avenue. How did he find
out thar this one avenue, TO Wit, the
/ gulph Of Mexico, is within our com
mand But 1t is paying TOO much
reiPe6t TO fuch abftirdity, to give it the
honor Of refltarion.
This writer proceeds TO recommend,
In cafe of neceGity, foreign connections.
BY this, he means Bsiriih alliance.
This alliance, if atrainablc, will ineyi-
rably be fold at the full price which it is
| worth. Every nation, and England
among the ref, cares only for its own
lntereR. 1t is 1he remark Of Polybius,
! the mott intelligent and well informed
hlitorian of antiquity, that between
| two nations, there can exit no {uch
taing as friendlhip. And pray, fir, how
far do youthink that two millions Of dol
lars would go in manning a1i vi6tuaI
Ing Britith feet, when William Pit,
for tho fake Of a few car-fkins at Nootka
Sound, expended, in four months only,
three millions OF guineas, although his
fleet never went TO lea What figure
would your lwo millions Of dollars make
IN the corner Of the treafury OF nation
thai lpends thirty millions itcrling upon
Jingle cainPaignf Does not every
body know that The federal adminiitra-
ton was broke up, by loan of five
millions OF dollars, and an aGeiled tax
OF TWO millions of dollars per annum
Sir an kngliih miniiter would hardly
| give a London banker his dinner for
| Iuch frivolous alIittance. Has not VII
liam PITT borrowed twenty millions ter
nng in the courle of two days and
would not an arrempc TO expehd half
thar fun break up the public credit Of
thls country In the United States,
people have too much fcnfc and fpirit to
iufer themfeiyes to be dragooned and
robDed Of their laf farrhing, to crafty
inc ambition of a few speculative and
unprlncipled ltateinen.
| We had originally defgned 70
quote only one paragraph from the
Walhingcon Sidney. The prodigious
length, and the profound folcmnf1y Of
his performance, induce US 70 quote ano-
ther. Ii is in rhefe words
| " On this intercRing fubiea there
" is one iuggeition Of the highef i'm
"portance repeatedly made by the op-
petition. Ii IS this : The citizens
" Of The wefern Safes viii lccede from
" the union and form an alliance with
France. When that event happens,
the fun Of our happiness viii iec for
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