Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-21
From co55et's Political Register Of 18th .daSS'
SUMMARY OF POLITICS.
NEGOCIATIONS FOR PEACE.
TcoNT1NUED.]

II their master mao nVGo, duu tnCy H"o
continued in power, the evil, upon each
occasion successfully complained of, would
NOT have existed. What insupporsable i'm.
pudence! When every evil under which
tbs country groans can be and has been
proved, clearly proved, to have originated
IN the shallow brain aud the selfish heart OF
their lsquacious leader. To crafty his
selfish ambition, his passion for donlneer-
ing, his hatred Of every Que who was not
ready to Aatter and 10 crawl to him to this
end it was, that all the measures, which
have finally led to our present situation,
were adopted. He cared nothing about
the country; nothing more than about the
wids of Am=rca self, his own self his
own power of ruling, by means fair or
foul, was ell he thought about. We are
sacrificed 70 his ambition, and now we are
TO be insulted by being told that if he had
lived, that is to say, if we had contsaed
to be sacrificed TO him We should have been
much better off than we are. Wha, folly,
good God. What foo!ery is there that he
was not guilty Of, and that We did no,
of corruption shall have been dissipatcd;
when the nation shall no longer be the an
uuitants of the state; when men shall,
once more, recover the faculty Of thinking
rightly, aud ;he right of expressing their
Thoughts freely, how they will vent their
Indignation upon our heads, fer suffering
ourselves to be ,tamp!ed upon by man of
mind SO puer!e and contemplate His
followers appear to have acquired the rights
of their master. They nov hold, as near
~ as they are able, the same sort of Ian
guage that he held. The grand operator is
gone, 20 be sure, DO, the same impudens
pretensions are uttered By the underlngs,
First they forRn coalition, which they tell
the poor nation, is 10 save it for ever, and
to hurl Napoleon from bis imperial throne;
and they tell ,hem, Misc that the emperor
of Russia is to be the main spring Of thjs
coalition. The coalition is broken up
Napoleon remains upon his throne AID
the emperor OF Russia sends an humble
embassy to ask peace at his hands. Nov,
one would, under such circumstances, ex.
ton aud, when they saw their successors
endeavoring to obtain peace as well as
they could, one would expect them TO act
as if they thought themselves fortunate at
having escaped from punishment of some
scrs or other but instead Of this, we hear
nothing bu, their insolens attempts al jas,
shca,ion; nay they do not stop there, bu,
have the abominable audaci,y to affect to
blame their successors, that things are in
bad state upon the continent, and that we
are likely to have hard terms of peace
Rightly, however, are the new aainistry
served. They were well told Of this !,e.
fore hand. They were duly forewarned
that unless they caused faithful report OF
'ahe state of the nation 70 be made, they
would, and they ought to be, answerable
for all the evils that should be felt during
sheir administration. The Fox part of the
ministry had not the courage to attempt
this. The Grenviles and the Addingsons
were implicated in all tina: Pitt and his
crew had done; and, though Mr.. Fox
clearly saw what must be the consequence
of emitting to cause report, such as we
have just spoken Of, to be nsde, ne had
not the resolution TO say, "upon that con.
di,ion only will enter the cabinet" II he
had, he would, at this day, have been mi
mister indeed and, as he would have a.
voided all the painful occurrences of the
last session, it IS probable that he would
have escaped that bodily illness which is
now subject of SO much regret. He fell
beneath the Grenvilles. Not for the want
of forewarnipg, to be sure; for, it was,
from the time of the discussions relative
to lord Melville, impossible not to per.
ceive that if Pitt had wished for seven