Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-10-04

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IsGenoa's putting herself under the protec.
tioa Of France, which she has been 80 often
forced TO implore. Its Of little concern to
/ Germany, TO Russia, TO allthe etherPow-
Iers that Gcnoa should b-longso France ;
since She adds nothing to her continental
/ force. The fifst decree issued in Genoa
by the Emperor of the French, established
that there shall be no conscriptisn there tor
the army. Lis then merely with regard TO
i the navy that Genoa il of any adyantaseto
4 France; and even this advantage can only
| be made use Of against England. Hence
lis is England alone shatihas any interest IN
preventing this union. Now all nations
must wish that there should atlength arise
people who, preserving their independ-
jencs and the dgnityof their navy, may re-
| ssore TO the others the liberty of their COM
n,ercs and the honor of their insulted flags.
Now If it be examined what force and
/ pre- ponderance France should have for her
own safety; for the defence of the rest OF
Europe, she will hardly be found sufficient
ly powerful.
She is the most ancient monarchy in Eu.
rope: at different periods she has had the
preponcerance, without having ever at
empted TO encsoach on the general liberty |;
she has, on she contrary, often defended il
against the incursions Of barbarians: she
shielded it from the monarchy OF Charles
the Fifth. She was more powerful under
Charlemagne, she was as formidable under
Lewis XIV The weakness of govera-
men. is no prescription Of forfeiture for the
nation: when there appears sovereign
worthy of it and of his rank, he is bound
to restore to his people the lustre they had
[ lost under degenerate kings. This is what
the emperor of the French has done.
The present situation OF Europe, the
changes eff. eted in the other statss had
rendered the increase of France necessary,
| This subject has already been too clearly
developed to need any further investigate
on. 1t sufices to observe that there is this
difference between the power of France,
| and that of Russia, that France has naeu-
raj bounds, and the other will acknow-
Hedge none that France borders on
all sides, upon the great states, upon which
she neither can nor will make acquisitions
unless new war should again bring the
| political existence of nations into dispute,
that France has religiously respected the
territory of her aslles, that she is arrived
at the term at which she must naturally
stop; that If she is powerful by Ter popula
ton, this population can scarcely augmeni,
that she is by her. nature FIXED STATE
| making an independent member Of the
great European family, sufficiently potent
70 defend herself, but impotent to Cypress.
Russia, whom the cabinet Of London in.
vokes in the name of the independence OF
other nations, is no doubt very far from az
fording them the same guarantee. Ever,
step she proceeds is an advance towards u
UNIVERSAL empire. Her emperor more pow
erful in territory than all the monarchs OF
Europe, has only to leave IT to time to rem.
der him also the most formidable in poPu-
lation. BY wise administration disem-
barrassed of foreign influence, BY giving
free exercise to che industry of his people.
h ga make m ire real conquests than ay
deyouring new provinces. Nothing seems
more contrary to his interest, at the present
moment, than war which should dry up
the scource of his population without aim,
without any reasonable hope unless Ii DC I
prolong for some time the maritime empire
of England.
There is nothing but the case of war
so strange, SO hurtful to the interests q
r 4
delaying the progress of his enormous III
crease of power.
When one reflects indeed that it not
above an 100 years since Peter The Gre ~
came, at the head OF new and barbarous
/. people, to take place among the powers q
| Europe. & when one examines the gigan-
tic increase of his empire in SO short .
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