Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-06

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sjsration at all as an ingredient Judging Of this
| we should rather expect him to be more prompt
4 than usual, as a horse WHO'S scared by an object
in a road as he is moving in one direction, when
he once masters his rider AMI wheels abouI, runs
| eff with more speed in the opposite.
In the case of the Leandsr, the satisfaction
ought to extend not only to punishment for the
| 7ast, butspreyenron for the future. The break
Ing af tic commanding officer would deter otFers
from such practices, which we are jas;if'be by
| the conduct Of slnlost all other British men Of
war in believing is foreign and contrad Cory TO
the disposition which the British government feels
to this country. But ifin contradiction 70 ma
tiona faith, Justice and right-and to our belief,
redress and satisfaction should be pertlDaciously
refused then indeed must the Executive be lost
to all sense of its duty, ADD the nation lost
to ITSELF if measures are not taken to exaGt il by
compulsion.
Making allowance for ordinary passages, ard
for accidents, and surprising the Executive to
have without delay sent orders to the American
envoy at the court of St. iames's to demand salts
faction for the conaud of the Leander, he can
not tor senle time have an answer--and i. is more
than probable the opening speech of Congress, now
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soon TO meet. Will enable Us to decide upon the
business; til one or other Of those take place,
little cen be SAID without ruling toe risk of do
ing injustice, ofnnfar republication, and of ex
citing injurious irri.abIIity in the public mind
Should the honour q! The ration, the security of
It's rights and the private interests or feel
ings of its citizens be lost in any unworthy, mean
compromise; or should less than ample satsfac-
=. I L. ! L. .ta e
hoo: the defaueer down, ard to lntuse into the
people just sense of national honour, and to
excite them 70 just resentment or the wrongs
and insults they have sustained, and dlgnled
yndication of theit rights. But we will not di-
mnish the force of our efforts by idle anticipa-
tons, nor cheaper the character of our opinions
by Iavishing them away in building upon grounds
not yet sufficiently firm for them to stand uFoa.
From the PltbHciste, a Paris PAPER, receiQed
By the late arrivaks fran. France.
Quos vuh ,eraere Je;neDt4t Jupiter.
Is it Pitt oris it Addington who governs
the unfortunate George? Is it to effect
change of ministers, that the treaty of Ami
ems is violated so soon after it was conctud-
ed? These are idle questions now that war
is declared.
It was the Navigation Act proposed by
] Cromwell, consolidated by Charles the Sc
cond, and, more especially BY the victories
OF Marlborough which laid the foundation
of English greatness. The eighteenth CEN
tury was the golden age OF Englishmen,
and the two oceans were the theatre of their
glory.
At the present moment, France and her
rival find themselves IN nearly the same
situation, as were Rome and Carthage after
the death of Hannibal, and punick faith has
become the maxim of the Cabinet of Saint
James.
Can we suppose that few millions to be
fraudulently taken from the French mer-
chants could have been temptation to the
! British ministry to commence war, which
may become so fatal to them? No, let us
not be deceived. Now, Carthage cannot
ndurethe grandeur Of Rome, he fears lest
the French marine should rise from It's
ashes, and produce other Jean Barts, and
other Dugne Franceins. England has
more vessels than all the rest of Europe
combined; but she deceives herself in sup
posing, that she shall always be able to find
sufficient numbers of seamen to manouvre
her fleets and a sufficient number of custo-
mers to take away her manufactures. She
will waste her gold in giving an apparent ac-
tivity to the press, and in corrupting the ca
binets of sovereigns, and engaging them
anew in continental war. She will en-
deavor to persuade them, that the balance
lost its equilibrium when it was taken from
her hands; but this talisman has lost its
spell. The world knows too well, that new
humiliatlons are the recompence, which
she prepares for her dependent allies.
Russia, Prussia, and Austria do not dis