Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-28
MESSAGE.
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recalled +; compelled BY this c'rcunstance,
the Ambassador of the Republic has Quit
ted country where he could no lonpe,
hear the language of peace.
At this decisive moment the govern
ment submits to your view, and it viii
submit to the view of France and Of En-.
rope, It's first relations with the Britannia
Ministry, the Preparations which Were
terminated by the treaty Of Amiens, and
the new discussions which seem to finish
by an absolute rupture.
The present age and posterity will
there see all that il has done to put an end
to the calalnisies of war, and with wha,
moderation and what patience it has Ia.
boured to prevent their return.
Nothing has been able to interrupt the
course Of the projects formed to rekindIs
discad between the two nations. Tie
treaty of Amiens had been negociatcd
amidst the clamours Of party hostile to
Peace. Scarcely was it concluded when
it was the Object Of bitter censure. /.
was represented as fatal TO England, be.
cause it was not dsgracefu TO France.
Soon after, alarms were disseminated;
dangers were pretended, on which vas
established the necessity of STATE Of
Peace saCh as TO be a permanent sigaalof
new sosNiities. There were kept in re.
s4rve, ard hired, those vile miscreanu,
who had t6ra the bosom Of their couq.
~. aud who were intended to tear it
anew Vain calculations Of hatred! We
are Nc. Logger that France which was d.
vid d BY factions, a1d oufeted by storms;
bue France restored to internal laws, ard
reaay TO fall, with her whole weight, up.
on 2baceysr foreign state may dare TO at.
tack her, aud to unite with the bandits
whom an atrocious policy woul o c .mrs
cast upon her shores to organize pdags
and assassinations.
At length an unexpected message, al
al once, terrlties England with imaginary
ornaments liz France and Batavia, and
supposes the existence Of important dis
oussions which divided the two govera.
ments, while no such discussion was known
to the French government.
Immediately formidable armaments
took place on the coasts, and in the ports
Of Creac Britain the sea is covered with
her ships of war; and it is IN the mldstnt
these preparations that the Cabinet OF
London demands Of France the abrogatlon
of a fundamental article of the treaty Of
Amiens.
They wanted, they sad, new guaran.
tees; and they desplsed the sanctity Of
treaties, the execution of which is the hr;t
of guarantees which nations can give to
each other.
In VAN did France invoke that falia
which has been sworn IN vain dc Sic
appeal to the forms received among nau'
ons /; in vain did she consent to shut LIEF
ewes to the actual non execution OF the
article of the treaty of Aniens, from
which England pretended TO RELEASE Der.
self: in vain was she willing to delay TAX.
ing dehnitive resolution until Spain aad
Batavia, both Of them contracting parties
could have manifested their disposition :
in vain, in short, did she propose to requss
the mediation Of the powers who had been
invited to guarantee, and vino, u etfeef
did guarantee the stipulation required "
be abrogated.
Every proposition was rejected, and TN
demands of England became more imP'A'
Gus and more absolute.
1t was not in the principles of the g.
vernment to yield to menace; it was %
in their power to bend the majesty OF IN
French people to laws prescribed TO t9Tn,
with forms SO naughty and so new. nov
they done SO, they would have consscrA'
ed in favor Of England the right OF annu''
ling, at her sole pleasure, all the sT'PuII :,
tions which bind her towards France. >
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