Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-13

1t soon latter fortunately sprung up q breeze,
we cleared the batteries and fort and reach
ed here next day in safety. A Danish
captain just arrived, from Port a Plat in.
forms me- that the canoe came out deter
mined 70 take lis; AID It wefesisted 10 mas
sacre u.s.
WE are happy to be enabled to state,
upon the authority Of an irish gentleman
lately arrived in America, thar the descrip.
ton of the condition and state of Ireland
given in letter, which found its way from
Dublin to New-York, and thence into Sc
veral OF The public prints, and upon which
We lately made some observations, is far
from being correct, and that the people of
that couatry, whatever their wishes may
be respecting their independence Of Eng.
land, are very far from being wiling to &C.
cept it through the medium of France. 1t
is melancholy consideration 70 reflect up
on, that the British cabinet should in so
many. centuries. save during the short liv-
cd administration OF the Rockingham par
", never have seen clearly what was the
true policy to be observed with respect to
the people of Ireland, though the wisest
and ablest men have been continually sug-
gestng il to them. From the letters Of
Lord Chesterfield. (not those unworthy
ones written to his son) the British govern
ment might have taken a salutary line Of
conduct; but they minded him not. We
give our readers the following extracts
from his Lordship's letters. Had his adj
vice been acted upon, things would not be
at this day as they are in Ireland. He was
lord lieutenant in trying time, viz. the
year 1745. (Ghas. lou.
| wish, my country people, for I look up
on myself, as an lrishman still, would but
attend half as much to useful objects, as
they do to the purity of their claret. Drink
ing is most beastly vice in every country,
but it is really ruinous one to Ireland !:
nine gentlemen in ten, are impoverish-
ed by the great quantity OF claret, which,
from mistaken notions Of hospitality and
dignity, they think it necessary should be
drank in their houses. This expence
leaves them no room to improve their es-
tates, by. proper indulgence, upon proper
conditions, to their tenants, who must pay
them to the full, and upon the very day
tina, they pay their wine merchants"
g To descend to this world, and parti-
cularly to that part of it where YOU reside,
your present state seems TO me an awkward
one your late ferlnent seems rather sus-
pended then quoted and | think I see
matter for second fermentation, when
your parliament meets. Some | believe,
will ask too much and others, will grant
too little. wish both parties may be VII
ser and honester, and then they will be,
quieter than they have been of late. Both
sides would be highly offended, if one were
to advise them to apply themselves to ci-
vii matters only, in the limited sense of
that word: | mean trade, manufactures,
good domestic order, subordination, &c.
and not to NEEDLE so much with politics
in which I cannot help saying, they are but
bunglers. No harm is intended them
from hence; and if they will be quiet,
no harm will be done them. The people
have liberty enough, and the crown has
prerogative enough. Those are the real
enemies to Ireland who would enlarge ell
Their at the expenee of the other, and who
have started points that ought never to
have been mentioned at all, but which will
now perpetually recur."