Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-11-01
NdTAL PROTECTION.


Our democratic editors 10 various parts
of tn Union, (says the Augusta Herald)
,ppear extremely soicitous for something
like MAJ al protection TO our commercial CT.
gems; knowing as III, y do that our govern.
pen, derives almost us lnure revenue from
commerce and finding this commerce con
tinuallv harrassed, and insulled, they ask
with earntstness for something like federal
aid, to ssts il from total Destruction, aud
our merchants from extensive ruin. lhese
hypocritIcal, time serving sycophaats, seem
10 have 70 goysen, that few years ago,
they joined The cry Of those pow IN Office
sgalnst the former administrators, because
as twas asserted they had introduced az
expensive naval establishment, which vas
pledged 10 be foundation for incalculab!t
evils, ingencing 10 corrup, our seamen, to
assimilate car government TO that ct Eng
land, and hoally TO rrthrow our republican,
institutions.
This therefore with every other wise
measure of the former administration was
eprobated, aud the ships they have provd
I'd, were dismantled and sold, or LAID up to
OF, while our commerce was left a pree TO
the unprincipled freeboosers of all nations,
and our seauleh subjected tots1e insults CT
every maritime power upon the globe; TIL
the losses of our citizens exceeded by far
he expence Of the naval establishment, and
until the mildness with winch one act OF IN
lbs ice was borne, inviting a repetition OF
aggressions, the insults and injuries are
brought home TO our very doors, our ships
are taken ae,the very mouths OF our rivers,
ard universal emulaion appears 10 be ex-
cited between the ships and privateers Of
Great Britain, Fraece, a9d even Spain,
Which shall.br mos. benefited, by depreda-
ions on a commerce, which seems as it
we're. 10 be the common sport OF all the
world. And now forsooth we hear these
7qsriotic editors with Acknowledgements
ms of regard for the interests OF their fel-
ow-citizens, asking when we shall be pro-
ected from these accumulated and daily In.
reasing evils? and even the adminlstra-
ion rousing from their trance OF tancled
security, and rubbing their eyes after their
philosophical slunbers, have Fl ted out the
irigate Adams, calculating probably that
ner name will at least be respected, and
commanding her TO go on the coast andsee
how things are going on there: and it is
SAID in several papers, that arrangements
are making for Completing six seventy
fours.
The pr.fent administration will yet End, that
no; only 10 Pfeierve ther PopsAa'iy bu even to
save the country, they will have to t low the
f1oreeps Of their predecef rs Eew more rs.
ING and frtting furs, will unf ID 70 the whole
communit, the difference between found and !nb-
Aance. between meatures Of pc manent and fub-
lantial policy, ard the fupetfcial Arrangements
Of Temporary exp5dience; and he, will and they
have exchanged that fyfem which alone en- rem
der the natl digni6ed and respectable, tor the
,xbeuGve economy ofpolitical Humiliation, and
have difplaced their real 9n9 hful fIenas. for
mulhroom politicians, and Philosophical ,heofifs.
FROM CoBBETT's CRITICAL REGIS7 Err.
Naval Victory Since wriilugtke above
news Of Sir Robert Calder's victory over
the combined fleets has reached me. Upon