Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-11-21

them in England,s superior feet saips
of the line and of frigases was absolutely
necessaryto prevent its being left to It's
d-ssiny, without any probability of sue
coufs from France This caused Bona
parte to enter into negotiation and sign
paci6sation with this country. He-hoped
to be able. during peace TO raise anavyer
qual or superior TO. ours. But the passions
Of apetty individual got the better.of the
policy and prudcnce OF the ferocious Chief
j Magistrate az period most necessary
80 conccalit, hisIrage proclaimed his ha r-d
against this country. and that tn. DIES sructi-
on ofthe British empire was his settled de-
termination. Insufficient 4, his means
then were, he declared, Notwithstanding, 10
Lord Whitworth, ,ha; army should be sa-
crihced after army, until the object of his
barbarous amois.on and vengeance was OBJ
tanned.
When the last rupture with this country
took place, Bonapsrle had the art to make
the war popular, by persuading not only
his troops, but the Ignorant mass of the
French nation, that The conquest of this
country was q easy as his former achieve
NESTS. Every body opened, or wa, fore.
ed to open, his purse, to subscribe for
building gun boats, &c. whole forests dis
peared every river In France, Italy. and
holland, was covered with floating timber !;
and lis banks were crowded with carpsn-
tiers !; all sailors, found or known were put
| .lnro requlsltion every where; and. within
some few months, we see opposite our
shores, an armament more formidable than
ever Brlions Witnessed before. aud, what
makes it more so IS, that our security seems
to increase with our dagger.
Isn months ago, when .Boulognc lar
| bour contained hardly vessels enough to
carry over some battalions, the belief OF
an invasion was general, and the attempt
| was daily expected: at present when ac-
cofdiag tckhe lowest cale ulation, vessels are
collected at Boulogne sufficient to carry
over $4,000 men; after experience has
taught us the impossibllity to prevent the
junction Of SO msny gun boats, fat bot
| toned boats, CUTTERS, praams, and trans
ports, fatal and impolitlc disbelief has
seized our nation, though we have to re.
member that the man, whom fortune per-
mittsd in 1898, to escape our squadron,
with numerousarned feet, and four hun
dred transports, and landed in Egypt; and
in 1899, to return to France with acme
liev frigates, through our blockading squ2.
drons on the coast of Africa, amp our cruz
GERS every where In the Mediterranean,
may well expectto succeed in an attempt
for which it hardly requires so many hours
Of favourable circumstances, as it did
zeecks in his former desperate undertak-
lngs.
ltlooks as if Providence would blind US,
and destine us to submit TO the same fate,
which has made wretched all other nations
surrounding revolutionary France. With
an absurd and false alarm last year, ws act
ed the part Bonapartc then desired, in the
same manner We do now, BY a security dan
e .rl Us in the extreme, and as blameable at
present, as our different conduct was last
autumn.
Lion. pab.)
Fran LLO17S LIST, receiOed at the office
fthe Mercantile AdYertser.
Sept Is. AT Gravesend--- Hantonia,
Rollins, from Savannah; Two Friends,
-, Charleston; Alexander, King, Yjr-
ginia. AT Cowes, Alexander, Wilson,
Iexardria Nancy, - Baltimore. At
Plymouth, Colombo, Day, Virginia, bound
to Dunkirk, detained by the slosp Nautilus.
At Falmouth, Prince EIntsts and Lady
Arab-aa Packets (sailed 15th) New York !;
Reward, MERTON, Virginia At Dover,
General Mercer, Miller, Baltimore; Ca
thaline. Lawrence Virginia. Al Dea4 i,
Alexander, Vose, New York; Washing
ton, Scott, Charleston. At Guernsey