Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-09

!; rope. Hisfoes are become his hteIlit.s. Au[
stria. the German fates, Psufil, Naples, and
perhaps Sweden, feeGed to have been fa,ed like
CONNECTS to "a Rock with the iun, NOT to thrut
him from his orb bur 70 fupply his waite of Gle.
mental fire. Bonapsrte NOT only fees The ptow-
,ets OF Europe at his feet, bur all its force and
treafare IN hi. hands. Wesexceps Rullia and En- J
gland. Bot Ruaia is one Of thofc comets on its
execution into the void regions Of space, and is
already dim In the Political sky. England pal.
fes like Mercury dark fpo. over the fms dix.
And to Bonaparte himie.t ihc seems like the moon
70 intefcep, his rays. He. eanno. endure TO fee
her 10 near his fplondoar without being dazzlsd
Or consumed by it.
He wants nothing but the Britih navy to re.
alize the mof extravagant scheaes of his ambi.
ton. A war that lhould give him poGefion Of
II, or peace like the iaR that hould humble
England and withdraw her navy from any fur
thsr opPoition to his arms, would give the ciyi.
lied world mater. All the French, and Of
courfc all our Lyal democrats have effected to
treat that Appreciation as chinercal. Yet who
even among tho!e whom faction has made blind
could refuie to fee, that the transfer of the Bril-
tfh navy to France would irreveIiibly fix the
long depending definy of mankind to bear the
weight and ignominy Of a new Roman domina-
tioa -, 1855 -,
.Wrmay fay the aggravat.d weight, for Rome
preierved Fer morals, till Che had achieved her
conqucfs. France begins her career as deeply
corrupt as Rome ended it, The Roman Repub
lie after having grown to agigansic fature ifunl
rs ioundneis, rcned when it died. Bat thar, Of
ffance, surviving the principles and ar length
The name OF repub.ick, has drawn aiiment fson,.
dfeafc, and we OF this generation have i-sn it
ctas'l like folEe portentous f-spent from ?omb,
g'Iheaing and bloased with venom from ita loath.
icne banquet. 'Flance has owed the progrsis Of
her arms to the prevalence of her vices. Thrfe
were the caule OF the feyolution, and the revo.
luton has in tu,n made thefe the in.trumedis OF
French aggrandizement. By the perfecu,ion OF
all thar was virtue, the leaders gave incoufage.
ment to all that was vice, and thu, they NOT On
y acquired the power to fpehd the nations laft
drilling. but impaired to the rabbIc all the ardour
OF entahtiafm and all the energies thar the love
OF novelty, ofsplunacr AID vengeance could in.
iP,re. The means They'll commanded were not
1tush as aarife from the Jnf and orderly govern.
ment Of fate, but from its difIolution. The
priefts, the rEh and the mobiles, were offered as
human facrihces on the alter Of the revolution,
d'ftill fnore emphatically of French ambition.
Thus France, like Polypheme in his cave grew
rat with carnage. Osher Rates could ROT, with
out fuSmisting to a like revolution oppafe her
With equal arms. So far from ii, they found
that all shofe whom vice and want had made the
enemies Of the laws of their country were band.
CO together as the friends OF France.
Taus it was that the FIeach armies no fooner
entered Italy, than they asrayed in arms an 1.
taliaa fabble TO hold all tho(ewho had aay thing
70 Icfs IN fear and inactivity, til they c&nld be
regularly piunderea The leaders Of this raboie
were invehyd With the mock dignit,ss OF tho CT.
salpine gosernnknf. 1'hc like was done in ffol.
land and Switzerland.
The new yoke therefore which the abiea ma ;.
tions are 10 near taking On their neeks cannot Be
light. Thatfrsnce may rule eVely where, the
WORT of men msR be permitted every where to
rule in the WORT Of ways. The Roman yoke was
iron, ard il eIufh-d as well as weafied the pro.
vincss But ths domination of ealp,its ard OUT.
laws, claiming much for thsmfdyes and exact
,1g more for their matters in France, will place
the peopie in tic upper and ncsher nA. Rohc.
II the tnilerable Log2as and MitcheIls, 70 !
lsyal 20 the Commands OF d French envoy, four !
Monroes and Livingaons and AfG,ftroRgs in Pa
ris can With deitfuttionto the Bsisiih Eavy, and
can really think American liberty the iafer tor |
its failure tenure by the good pleslure Of Bona.
paste, fuch men are f,rer fuSjcas for medicine
than ARGUMENT. Where fnch ientilnenis do no, /
(orine from the rotennefs OF The h.art, they mutt
yfeape through lome crack in the brain.
Thee was a time when the iniatu,tion IN fz-
yor of France was a popular mslady. At thzt
time has 70 far psE.d over thar her can either
think or feel as Americans oughl, it mutt t. aP.
parent, that Bonaparte wants bat little, and is !
enraged that he 70 long wanss thar ii,tle, 70 be
he worlds mater. Yet at this awful crifi,
when the BrtIlh navy alone prevents bis daal |
fuccefs, we of the United STATES come forward |
with an otentasion of hoaiitv 10 ENGLAND 70 |