Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-28
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS

are at this particular time SO very anxious ioi
am alliance offensive and defensive between
this coaatry and France, and for war with
Great BRIAN. The American Citizen thinks
that nothing short of Bonapartes legYons can
pufthe politics OF this country to ngass' anu
therefore homes soon to see them paffoiiilsss lhs
streets ofthe city OF N. York.
Tie Aurora says that g England will not &c
us Justice or, any thing like justice. 1 ne
inference is drawn in the following WORDS s..
s x Asin 1865 and Z A, by our present partial
non-i4nportation act, America mas once ii'ois :
put.her hands to the plough. " pefseVereu
then, and success liberty, and inoePehde az.
rewarded our courage and constancy. - | ne
measures. nav on the verge OF execution mus.
be essyoresss z1s4 fdilq2ed 4ls.----Bfifain must
be trsayed as you would party with an assassin
of any Kind G We nope that the adlnliiS-
3 traitor. and congress will act At the moment OF
s meeting Of the next session if ample lndem-
nity for, the. past and security for the future pc
not ,hv that tisne given--as if no negoclEatioh
was pensiug--that IS to stop ali l'nportaation'
Let Americans act once more as IN ffI2, &C
&c.
Such are the sentiments held forth IN the
Aurora. By 50 me extracts which We this Gay
make from the Citizen, it will be seen that as
to France aud Spain the democrats THINK we
have no cause of complaint whatever thouSn
every mail brings accounts OF encroacnneh's
which they are making npon our territory ana
insults of every description offered to our 60.
ysfnrnent and nation The president hlmseh
has told us oeficiaAy that Spain partsnaclously
refuses all indemnify fer spoiiations as Wen as
al arnicable adjustment of disputes respecting
Boundaries. Yet against France and oPalh'
say our patriotic democrats, we need no de-
fence but principle. England, on the contra
nv, has never refused to make us the most no
norabls arat. ample compensation for spollau-
oas committed by her subjects, and IS noW'
as the government paper at Washington m
forms us, IN train ofsnogoclatlon when pro-
misses speedily to terminate in the most satlS-
fsctorF manner.-,20o matter fer that, says the
.AuFofa; +" England viii not do us justice or
any thing like iustice, and congress ought
therefore g to act as If no negotiation was
pending. Let Americans ne excia'ms'
& act once more as in n that is, take up
arms and go to war
Those who know the defenceless state OF
our country win perceive that this is IN per
feet unison with the. Citizens wish that two or
three thousand French troops would come and
scour New-York and Danish the scoundrels
that infest it--that is, the native inhabitants.
We have lately heard that Turreau, the French
minister, had applied a considerable sum OF
money to the establishment OF a French pa,
per In New-YorlI. By the complexion watch
the Citizen and Aurora have recently assu-
med, suspect that he now directs ms pay
ments to different purspse than that OF e7s-
tablisising a aezv French paper.
Al;ance offensive and defensioe zoithGreat
Byitain.--O On this important subject which
has been lately brought up before the public,
we cannot enforce the opinion we hold and
have more tban ouce expressed. in Any way
DWELL as By presenting the following I'M
pressive extract from the farewell address
OF Washing,on:
/" The gsca. rule of conduct for US, 10
regard to fereign nations, is in extending
our commersialrelaiions, 60 nave with them
as little political connection as possible. So
far as we have already formed engagements
let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith.
Here let as stop. Europe has a set of pri.
mary interests, which to IS have none or a
I very remote relation. Hence she mustbe
engaged in frequent controversies, the caus-
.es of which are essentially foreign TO our
concerns. Hence, therefore, it n,usi be
unwise Ia usto implcasc ourselves by arti-
fetal ties in the ordinary vicissitudesofh her
politics, or the ordinary combinations aud
collisions of her friendship or epmi,ies.
Our detached aud distant situation invites
aud enables Us TO pursue different course.
If we remain one people, under an
efficient government, the period is not far
off when We may defy material injury from
external annoyance; when We may take