Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-06-30
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4 IT,
at Paris, the M ore we are coairmed in our
suspicious that. the whole is an artfai ma
chination Of the Consular Cabinet. Bona
parte, in whom the opposite characters Of
tyrannical king AID regicide, demo rat and
monarch, Marat and Ceasar 3 srgla unite
Is no less skilled In the art OF destroying by
calumnv, than of cutting of b5, steel or
=; and in order 70 give new spring
to the fetocity of his sublugased French
subjects, has we think oily taken aivan-
tage of some circuf,1 stances which lacldeaf-
ally occurred at Paris, and Oh them bailt q
stupendous structure Of conspiracy, to
make the people of France stare, and a
larm them for the safety Of his august,
ROYAL persoa and at the same tirne to
rouze them to a nore>vloient adherence OF
England. We wait with true qujdnuac
impotence to see the unravelEng Of the
catastrophe Of this strange play and It Is
probable that on the return OF MIR. Drake
to England, communication OF some kind
or other on the subject will be made to par
lament. In the mean time it IS evident
that the letters of several Of the Anlbassa-
doris in answer to Talleyrand's note to the
Diplomatic BODY at Paris, have been die
taxed by the very men to whom they are d.
rected. That OF acknowledgements, the
Batavian, speaks the very souls OF Bona
parte and Talleyrand. The heart Of an
honest, sturdy, Batavian never could have
dictated such mean, false, detestable lick
foot stuff. Could the representative of a
nation whosegroans and screams OF anguish
under the bloody grippe of the crocodile OF
Corsica, are heard to the farthest parts OF
the earth, and ascend to heaven calling for
vengeance on the oppressor couldhe we say
if not under the influence of force or fraud
or fear, or of all together, utter such degra-
ding falsehoods to please that oppressor,
and to villify that country and that 60
vernment from which salone, his trampled
nation can hope for reliefe Impossible.
Does there not appear from comparison
of the letters of the respective ambassadors
with each other, regular gradation Of
tone, from the majestic holiness of the let
ter of the Russian ambassador, down to the
fulsone adulation and fippant, gratuitous
impertinence ofthe American EnvoY'sink-
scratch? 1t lowers In proportion to the
influence which the Corsican has, by con-
genial love, by fear, or by DESCRIPTION obtain
ed over them. We have heard Of many III
+sstances of ROBBERS with cooked pistolsin hand
compelling persons to draw bills on their
bankers. And in like manner the aiubas-
sailors are induced to sign their hands to
letters base and grovelling, in proportion to
the. humiliation of their states. The A
merlcan ambassador alone wants this ex
cuse He acts under no impulse but those
OF his own enlightened, honest, generous
feelings, and Of the spontaneous dictates Of
his own good heart.
Burke, IN h;sregicide peace speaking of
the ambassadors OF that day, at Paris Or as
he called them" pI7nipotentiaries of royal
!" impotence, sneak'ng into the regicide
presence" says & The ambassadors may
/" easily return as good courtiers as they
"wcnt, but can they ever return with any
6 affection to their masters, or true attach
"ment to the constitution, religion or laws
s. OF their country? There is great dan
$ ger Continues he that those who enter
&c smiling into that Trophorran cave, viii
"come out of it sad and serious conspira.
tors, and such will continue as long as
g they live. They viii become true con-
"ductors OF contagion to every country
e which has the misfortune to send them
"tot the source OF that electricity. At best
st they will become totally indifferent to
good and evil We are sorry to see
the sayings of that wise man no less true
than prophetic in that than in all bis other
predictions founded On he French rego-
luton.
The congenaiity of our American ambas-