Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-10-21
! fIisss foreign 5nteIIfgelae.
LONDON, August ~

these tew days, tor the purpose, u Is sup
! posed Of ,conveying Russian troops to the
: Medigerraaeaa, or TO any other part OF
!. the continent where their appearance could
Operate as a.diversion of the French ar
mics.
'ghe important fact that war with:Aussfia
is considered as inevitable, is communicate
: ed in note in the dNtonitsur of the 10Th.
The English papers hadsannonnred the orr
dsrof the British government to de.ain A.
: merican ships, having eargoes onb board not
shipped from the dated States. Upon that
order the Moniteur observes In aose go
!" The commercesof one peopls prosper
ed. Remote from Europe, strangers TO
the present war, that people were exercis-
lag the Tree industry which belongs TO an
independent state. England is at length
tifed of forgetting with respect to that peo-
-Ylc the naval superiority Which enables her
70 Cypress ali nations and all seas, and ,hc
American trade is at length aimed at Su-
gar aud coffee have just formed part of
prohibited merchandize--It is quite as cul-
pablc IN the eyes of England to convey su.
gar and coffee as arms and.warllkr amuni.
: ton. It's not sufficient that by corrupting
some faithiess ministers, she has imposed
upon several powerful Princes a barbatous
I4ssisla,inn---that she has dictated by mena-
) SEES the same laws to weaker Princes, whose
ministers she migh, disdain corrupsing--
she now places no.limi.s 70 her violence.
Nobody hereafter shall navigate but upon
her account, and to sell her articles alone.
And this order of things, SO humihaling
: 30 all states, does not Ak the attention OF
the powers of the world Il is that which
England w'shed.when she precipitated Rus.
STA into su1h false steps So long as the
northern powers had any sen.lment of their
: commercisl independence, the English
: were forced to keep within certain bounds !;
but when the Court of Petersburgh, inau-
encec by cerrupt ministers, or directed
by corrupting intriguers, carried ITS con-
descention so far Asto givd an official cha
racter TO the most contemplate pamphlets.
s of the worst Enghsh Gazette writer's, the
Cabiner of Lopgion no longer doubted that
its ewes werl, shut for a long time. When
England thoughs too she was sure of Aus
tria, whom she is precipitating into war by
sinduring her to make in the 1yrol add tia.
tournaments which cannot but be consid.
cred as the commencement of hostilities,
she ceased 10 fear.,that any state would re-
,aturn TO the sentiment Of Its oignity.-She
threw of the mask immedlately, and It is
by the Americans that she has begun the
application of her new professions. Up.
pressed Europe has but one reasonable de.
sire TO form, and ought TO place its resour-
ICES in one single hope. the re.establishment
of the naval power of France, Before a
few months are passed, the eutrages done
20 the Commerce Of nations, whose pacific
dispositions were best knownto England,
Will be quadrupled That is what Sweden
will have prepared by her Didtribes, & her
childish peIicy-ihat is what Austria will
have gaipeo, who shows herself so little
Jealous of the honor of her flag. Since the
~Yenetians have displayed the Imperial la.
Gle, they have experienced more outrage
than when they naygased under shefal.
len sign of the Lion of ST Mark. The
government of Venice WAS weak, it had
reached the age of decrrpitude, YET it still
protectecits commerce. Boz England has
<the fatal and temporary advantage of blind.
log all.nations to their own interests. The
more she Expresses the, louder the cry "a.
gsinst The oppression of France. Happily
Ftaoce does not fuffer herself tosbe- impos
ed upon by those cries--she knows the I'M
potence Of ,hem.''
Travellers from Tyrol> and Austrian lta-
aly, speak with astonishmens of the quantity
of troops and Wagons that block up all
the roads. Its difficult for passengers 10
travel, so covered are the roads with sol
diers and artillery; -
The prices of corn are every where fall
ing. inthe Londoa markets the prices q
wheat having declined near twenty shilling'