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

From French papers, received at the etEce
Of the Commercial Adgsrsissr.
PARIS, Iul. 81.

relatively TO Russia, and ot the menaciug
position of Russia with regard 10 the rest
Of Europe An enlightened pabliciss has
JUST thrown grrathght upon this matter !;
but il may still be looked upon in acme diff.
ferene poiHss of view, when twill appear
that the delays used IN the negotiations O.
pened for peace, have only been occasioned
by England, aud for her own interest alone
that the pretended ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of
France, which has seryed as presext
for these delays, il natural effect of the
present position Of Europs and that, far
from alarming the neigaboring powers,
this preponderancs of France is become
necessary 10 their interest and to their IN
dependence. Let us briefly examine these
several questions.
The hisSory Of the two LAST centuries
sprsvss pretty clearly thar England has ne
yer made war upon the Continent, but
through al interest purely personal. It is
only vulgar politicians who are the dupssi
of the t2retexts with which the court OF
London has always sought TO veil its ambi-
iious prstensions: the independence of Eu.
rope is nh usual prorocoIsof the warlike
messages of his Britannia Maiesty; but il
is well known that bis aim is, TO conse-
crate, TO augment, and TO perpetuate that
maritime Empire which ne thought him
self arrived &C without opposition. France
has ever appeared the particular objec, of
the hatred of England, because she is,
more able than the other 5 ates to resist her
pfe1enstons. As long as the Hollanders
had powerful colonies, Aourishing trade,
and formidable navy, Holland was also
the object of the same enmity. Spain was
Tor. q long time subject to il, audit is TO
the inuigues of England that she is to atsri-
butte the separation ofthe Kingdom OF Por.
,agal and the hereditary hatred which has
aimee been kept up between the two n items;
Austria herself was the objecs Of her gloos
nv inquIetudey when that power attempt
ed last century to raise a navy and TO Gre
ase trading conpany at Ostend. It
England has adhered more particularly
90 her hatred against France, because France
has held out against her with more deter
mined resistance, because the national in.
dustry of France creates to her more dam
perous rivals, because her situation a,
mong the powers of southern Europe, ia
yors more strongly the developemensof her
opulencs aud of her industry The least
adyanrap es thar France has obtained Ell
sher by victories or by treaties, have been
considerable as usurpations made Eng
land. AT the time Of the succession of
Spain. William would rather have behelt
the crown of Span, the Low. Countries,
Italy and the Empire united upon the same
head, than that the Grandson OF Lewis
XIV. should have assembled the throne of
Spain. However, this was exposing Ea-
rope 10 see the Universal Monarchy Of
Charles v. renewed and there had been
an end to liberty, had France been defeat
ed in that general war.
England has seen all the revolutions of
the North without troubling herself about
their effects or their consequences she has
beheid 10 millions of new subjects pass, from
1874 to 1895, under, the dominion of Ca.
tharine III she has seen provinces invaded,
whole kingdoms usurped: it seemed that it
all this was going forward thousand
leagues from Europe, and yet 1t was in the
very midst of il that that power was insen-
sibly rising, which is At this day 50 coios-
sal, which At oace menaces both Europe X
Asia. However, the cession of . few ma
ritime departments, which made part of
ancient France, has alarmed England more
than so formidable an Empire: England
has caused rivers of blood to be shed, for
the purpose of aseertaining whether French
men should remain united TO France. Vic
tory has decided the question.
II would be highly astonishing, that the
union of Genoa to France should De the
cause of q new continental war. II might
in the 6rst place be observed that no power
upon earth. has the right to interposs be-
snteen she will OF TWO independent nations