Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-02-08


had eommi,tfdit, would have been al leass
as d:shonos able aud upius, as cor sefzufe
sofshe Danish feet. Whss language then.
shall We find strong enough 70 character 'ze
. basbarcus Eruption inio his dom Mons,
with a vlewto delhrone him for not CON
nitsirg this atrocious breach of faith
Here the guilt and villaiuy are accumuIar
cd: they are laid 90 TWO fold. We, with
"a vlew,o security, seize the uavy ct Den
mark; power that had Itself not been
very scrrpulcus 90 similar occasions, a. lis
conduct TO sHamburgh, in the year 1901,
testified. The vir.uous possessov Of The
{ Bourbon scepsrc dethrones a prince fo,
preserving nntsintsd homer, and bsYb..
I,ronsly oyerwhelns klagdcm Ct peop!t
Incapable Of offending hia, on accou..s Of
the Integrity Of their prince The act is
foul, and the motive mote foul still {; SO
thar, eyenif our attack upon Copenhagen
were as unjust as here represented, We
have cot TO go lar 10 guess Ct case TIA,
exceeds IT IN inquiry. beyond ailseaca Of
COMPARISON. This inuendo, however, ct
whas is 10 be the iu.ure fate Of The Ptiuce
Regeui, affords US considerable rsgfe,s--
His equitable conduct with respecito Bsi.
'nsa properly ep.iiies him 60 cur compass.
sion; We wish We could have added, thar
The magnanimiiy Of his mind bad given
him claim to cur admiration Wh3; car
ministers may have done with view 10
secure that feet, of whieh it appears the
iigasful owoer is 90 loogeT "a have the
command, we are not AZ present prepared
20 BAY: but ihst we have had al least as
Great fseiluies for Withdrawing it as 30
paFarte has he'd for retaining il, CAP, we
'hsEs, aanit OF no doubt; add, if The
prince of Portugal is 10 ialI, ii were ss
sseil that his destroyer should no,possess
all the 'plurder.
The effects Of the blockade. !" we are told,
6 must press heavily on England, and at last
reduce her to a desperate situation" And do
the effects OF that blockade press ;ighslynpon
the continent Let any one look at the nelan-
choly account we detailed in our paper yes
terdasy, from tlatnburgh Holstein and t4ol-
land, CT the sudefings sustained by the peo-
pie OF those countries: "Eut what does chat
signify to the violent man who governs the
continent! What has lie in common with the
people oyer whom he tyrannizes But expo
rlence has proved land we hope it viii not be
iaisliled III this instance) /" that the duration
OF these soourges is transitory'
Ihe next matter of particular importance
in this Article is, the inforinationthat Austria
has SHUT her ports tfor, We believe, We may
tast speak In the plural number) against Eng
lard lis, it 1t be true, is much more
melancholy affair for Austria than for Us: In
asrauoh as Ii proves her entire subiugation to
the VIII OF the continental despot. For what
have We cone to provoke the hostility of tie
emperor Francis Didhe ever guarantee tie
neutrality Of Denmark But perhaps he is
merely shocked at the injustice Of our aggres-
SIGN upon that power, and therefore breaks
eat Win wrath against the aggressors-: his
feelings. We should have thought, might have
become olunted by this time, from the much
more atrooiouS aggression of a nearer neigh !
Dor, q WHICH lie himself has been the OBJ |
ject.
we are here said, too, to have refused the (
mediation OF the emperor Alexander, and at /
TINS Ne Go rot wonder; Tor certainly, If we I
expect to procure any thing like parity Of I
terms, we are at least as capable of procuring
1t Tor ourselves, as Russia is for us--Is,lssia, I
who has receded from two fner provinces than +
any She possesses in her whole empire, 1T the
mere command OF that enemy, between whom
aud US She, was 10 have been an impartial uin-
pre- Weave no friends to perpetuaf warfare
neither do we believe that-such a man exists;
but the peace we wish for is not a peace CT
scrsitaGe on the oae side, and tyranny on the
other not such peace as was negotiated at
l list And if the emperor Of Russia oaer-
ed Us his mediation, We would act like the
Welt IN the fable: g No. sir" would we say
o such mediator 'twe prefer liberty and