Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-03-28


/ hope, they will make. The concessions
were allmade by the Pitts and the AcdIog
tons, while these latter were under the al.
solute control of tbs former. It was they
who gave Up, in the meanest manner, the
point so solemnly settled by the treaty OF
1894. That concession not only drew
from us about three millions in tagas, as
will appear from the accounts laid before
parliament, but il encouraged the AG.cri.
cans TO demand further add s.illmore dan.
gerous concessions now. Had it not been
for those concessions, the concessions now
dreaded BY the enlightened and public sp'..
fi,ed editor Of the Courier never would
have been dreamed of on either side OF the
Atlantic. This wise man talks about inju.
nv 10 opr commerce from the concessions,
which, in the tone Of the igaerant speech
attributed to Mr.. Perceval, he affects to
dread but, supposiog the concessions to
take place, they would not a, all iniure our
commerce, which consists of buying and
selling goods. II is our fleets that they
would inlure our naval power i; our means
of injuring our enemy; and, OF course.
our means of defending ourselves; all
which might be reduced 10 rothiug, and
our commerce be still as fourishing as e.
yer. sto the pracsicability, howeyer, OF
iniuring even this commerce by the neans'
of non-impor,ation act in americas the
Intelligence which | have received, aud
which comes down SO late as the I'd OF De.
cember, folly warrants all tina, / beforessld
upon the subject, and the sum Total OF
which was, that, to carry such an act into
execution, and to adhers to il for snY
length OF tine. was impossible. Isis SAID,
that some English goods have, 10 virlneoi
she act, been seized at Charleston. Bot,
az Philadelphia aad New York, if ray in-.
seligenee be correct, there was no lntsrrup
ton at sllto importation and. soitfae do
any one eSpec that the act would be enforc.
ed, that very few Importers had shusg az
prudent to order any additional slppIs IN
consequences of il. Tha, the act mag be
partially executed that clustering ap.
pearance of resolution may be exhlhitrdtor
some weeks, or for some mostns, is posi-.
bic !; ba,, tina, it should be continued 10
port, obryed as lazv ought to be obeved.
is, again assert, Impossible. Il wa, a has
~ effusion of vanity ard ignoranec. "A
sort Of trick to tsyus. And. 10 the mind
of some few persons, amongst whom we
may number the president, perhaps, pro,
ceeded from philosophical notions, vefy
GOOD in themselves, but for the acting upon
which the Americans are much too, far sore
10 contempt for every thing Got sen5irgto
the accumulation # riches. 1t was upon
the ground of opinions Ike these, ihope,
that lord Crenville gave the answer ascrib.-
ed 10 him that he told he a aaerieao r.seE-
chants, that the restraints could Got be Of
long duration; and not upon she ground Of
concessions that he had made, or gas si1out
to u1aks.; for, if he make such concessions
as are affected 10 be appleheneed by the
speech ascribed 20 Mr., Perc,val, :heG il.
deed, will he be wnfthy Of every epits1et
descriptive of baseness and apas.acy 10
their most odious character and degrees.
do ,ao,. hewevsr, bslisve, that he will
so act. 10 concede ,riaing poirt as 10
a particular vessel or two, SEXES pndtr
peculiar circumstances and @hsye sh4 sci.
cures may even abpea, TO n,lli'ste agains,
the eesccding regulations of the Pits a4a
A44;ngtoas, I. for my part, should have go
objection; but, 10 give up our right, or,
in the least, 10 relax is the assertion and
exercise og our right, to search neutral
vessels, and ,hereia to seize the property
of oar enemies, however covered, sud
wherever coming from, wond sisk my lore
Grenv,l!e ten miliien OF fathoms below e.
ven Pis, himself. ia the possession OF
this RICH, not in the mere formal Claim
recognition Of ii, but in-the Substantial
possession OF il In the porelaged exercise
of il towards al! nations without exception