Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-10-15
From a late L0ndaa. bater.

StultYs WtlSu iupst ilAItCOtdtCiJ SulkC eve.
~ man upon the first glance. They begin
by telling us that there is but one way Of
making peace. That they will have the
peace of Ameins, !" the whoepeace of A.
mems, nothing but the peace of Ameins !;
France will never sign any o,her.'' Five
days afterwards they declare, !" that there
are TWO ways of making peace: rhe one
either to subscribe to the peace of Ameins
or TO consent, with respect to the affairs of
the continent and of India, To the maritime
right, and to the right of blockade, TO reci-
procal compensauons and resolutions,
which were not in the contemplation ofthat
treaty" From these expressions, aud III
deed from the manner IN which the subject
is treated in the official paper, 1t is evident
That the French government themselves
have abandoned the idea of re.establishing
the treaty of Ameins, and that they are pre-
pared TO negotiate upon a different basis |;
the basis of reciprocal resolutions and
compensa,ions. They then communicate
to US their ideas with respect to the nature
of those resolutions aad compensations, &C.
companied with preliminary panegyric
upon the emperors moderation.
If the Moniteur has correctly stated the
nature of these resolutions and compeusa-
tons, it would be easy 10 predict in Amiae
the issue OF any negotiation which might
be opened with the French government.
We ars rot to be permitted to negotiate
upon any basis calculated to restore the
equilibrium of Earope, without conserving
to restore the equilibrium OF the Eass-Iu.
dies. In all these discussions upon the
equilibrium of Europe, the French consi-
der no other power TO be a, all interested
in it. bus Grea, Britain. We who are less
concerned in it than Austria, RUSSIA, and
Prussia, are called upon 10 make all the
sacrifices and resolutions which France
may deem, to De an equivalent for her con-
senting TO restore 1t. BUT the equilibrium
of the East Indies! Does France mean bJ
that expression, that we snail consent 10
give her such footing in the East Indies
as 10 enable her, with the Mahratta pow
ers, to establish balance against our pow
er and preponderance IN thar part OF the
world? To the restitution OF her anclen
possessions on the coast Of the CoromaE.
del-there would not probably be any OBJ
section but wa are sure tina; no minister
Of this country would ever consent 70 any
increase of her territory in that quarter,
more especially after her intr gaes which
have been discovered with the Mahralta
powers. But the French always keep tha,
part of The subject out of sight--.they rouse
the Mahratra powers against us, and then,
because we reduce them to submission,
and do that which we have clear right TO
do, cripple their power, they characters
us as influenced by nothing but the most
rapacious aud inardinate ambition.
Another demand which the French make
is the abandonment, Of the right of block
ade. Upon this subject the official paper
maintains some curious doctrines--it wish
es the right of blockade to be thus defined:
a place blockaded on all sides, by land as
well as by sea. What would be the effect
of such definition? The whole advantage
would be on the side Of France for when
could We be in condition 20 exercise 1t.
Suppose we were to blockade Rochetort,
L'OrieEt, or any other. port ever 50 closely
by sea; of what avail would II be We
mus, permit the enemy to receive, by sea,
stores and supplies which she could not
perhaps procure In any other way, because
we have no. force blockadinS those parts
by land as well as by sea. This demand
arises, We suppose, out of Bonapar'e' 8
Laws of Nations. Vattel expressly says:
-" IfI lay siege to a place, or simply
blockade it. have a right to hinder any
one from entering it, and to treat as an enc
my whoever attempts TO enter the place, or
carry any thing TO the besieged without my
leave" He says too" In the long and
bloody war carried on by the United Fro