Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-02-22

ho!d their fees for five years.
s. ID yoa think il was expedient Or
jua in Congrels, at their Taft f-llioo, to
take the taxes eff Of pIeaiare carriages,
whiiley an white fugar, and TO continue
them on hohea tea, brown fugar, coA-e
and salt ?
:. D. you approve of NJ. Jeaerfon
rem oviag men from Office, for no other
r~aton than that Of their lot agreeing
with him in his political opinions, ana
putting in their places only fuch as do
think with him in politics; and partlcu-
larry do you approve of his removing old
officers and folders of our revolutionary
war, againa whom there was no com
paint as to their conduct in Office Sach
as Col. William Heath, Of Petersburg,
who was valiant officer III our army;
and who, while collector of the cultcms
Of Petersburg, atfed mott faithfully tow.
srds the po9lic, and againit whom Mr..
Jefericn eSald not alledge 1ingle fault,
except that OF not thinking with hin in
politics
8. Do you approve Of the conduit OF
the Houfe of Representatives, in refuiirg
to rsquef the PRECEDENT TO give them iusn
Information as he may have received re-
fpetting the cclion Of Louitiana, by Spain
10 France, il, in his opinion, II would be
proper to give the information I; and do
you believe the PRECEDENT has been as At
tentiye to this fabjeet as he ought 70 have
been Do you thin8 he has ever yet offi-
cially called on the French or Sqanlard:,
TO fay whether the cehion has been made
or not?
9. Do you approve Of the expence and
delay of tending Mr.. Monroe to Spain
and France, when in each county we
have mlnifeEs who have but lately left
America, and who muG be as competent
IS Mr.. Monroe TO negotiate on this lub
jeti ;
10. Do you not think that if il is pro-
per TO fend lpecial envoy TO France OF
Spain, that he ought 10 have been tent
fix or nine months ago and that the &C.
lay which the Pieiident has been guilty
OF in this important buhnets, ploves him
70 have been very inattentiYe to the int
RIFFS Of cur weRern citizens /?
II. Do you not believe thai Mr.. Jst-
ferlon wrote the letter to Mezzei, Ia
which the executive, who was General
Wilmington, is charged With endeayofirg
10 introduce the principles Of the Batth
government into our own, and with be-
ing at the head of an anglo monarchic
AID arl4ocratic party; and do you be-
lieve the charges are true
IL. Do you not believe that Mr.. JEFF
ferfon is Delft, and it 70, is be pro-
per perion to be ar the head OF a people
who profeEs themielyes to be believers 10
Chriltianity
13. Do you not think that the demo
cratic party in Congrefs, II directing
monuments to be erected to the memories
of certain officers who were killing dpr-
iag the war, after they had Tetuted TO
have one erected TO the memory OF Gen.
Walhingtoa, thew the reaion OF thar re-
fufal, to wit: the expence was not the
real ore, but that it proceeded from a ha-
tired TO him, and a with to busy as icon
ponible ia oblivion, his ierviccS as a Pre-
iident of the United States 70 that the
influence which recollection OF the Ter
vices might have, in opPoilns their views,
might be foen destroyed.
A FARMER.
Estraa Of letter rom General N,32w-
jan, to hi, friend mar Nafehez, d4ffa
on fbe Tazo0 river, Dec. II 1902.
81 have after ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and objections unexpected, unProyided
for, and slmoe inlnPerable, prevailed on
my red slociates to agree TO the ex'en-
iion Of the Bsitiih line, ard 10 efablifh a
Boundary on the eaf bank of this river !;
about eleven miles above that called to-