Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-08-17


Iona. time you had determined TO deprive
him. 4 his it's, ,.ithout doubts tfar sno '9t-
hes your ambition, was the cause OF your
malsYosence, was the foodof your hatred,
and Of that policy which does not think It
has obtained complete auccess as long as the
\. prince who was the object Of It preserves
himself from degradation. Here your
pride, at once stupid and ferocious, has been
depriyedsof an enjoyment, and for a man OF
your character, such a modification ought,
for some DAYS at least, TO snatch you IRON.
your Illusions and to make youless confident
in your fortune.
in announcing that Russia may become
mistress OF Stoe kholrn, you have proe:aImessa
the fate Of SMeden,iol alcngtin t.xee by TIE
treaty Of I'iisit. Such is the bait which
YOU have offered to the emperor Alexander,
Z or rather to such Of his ministers as are sold
to YOU : such is the prey which he can . no
longer refuse; which it is necessary for
him to dart upon without ply, wlthons ne
station, if he does rot wish to displeases
YOU. Heenters into the views of your po--.
iicy, not only. when sovereigns degrade
themselves SO far as to receive or to aeaul-
esce in your usnrpations, but after showing
themselves as, fiery and cruel as you; they
might justly your excuses by their own Z.
You will only suffer those to remain tor
some little time longer, who shall have thus
diseraced themselves, who shall thus hsNe
COMPOUNDED rheir very being with yours, and
blasted the rights whichehey hold from their
ancestors, IN confounding or exchanging ter
ritories against usurped territories, or 70 re-
coiye anincrease Of power. But this weak
ness, this ccunivaIce, will not save them
YOU have resolved that new families, taken
from all that is most base ard obscure, snail
.re1olace on the thrones of Europe, the most
ancient, TIE most reverend dynastles but
such a decomposition cannot be Effected,
but ty the gradual degradation Of legitimate
sovereisns to the end that taey might be-
come less indignant ettthe:r faliandless asto-
nished at the elevation Ct the persons des-
tined to fill their places You have prori1ls-
cd crowns to yo,lr generals, 70 render them
faithful to youl fortune they wait with III
patience those dazzling recomEerces; TINS
hope draws them in the sphere ofyour aeti- 9
Why, it FIXES them there FOR how can we G. I
t!lelwiss explain, rhan by these exalted pre- /
ten eions, their ardor to fly to new combats,
and that inG,lietuele which makes them r.
pear to detest reposc. Ies--Russia Will
become mistress OF Stockholm, but IN your,
turn YOU VIII be. master oi Russia. iou
will ask compsnsaiious at FIRST for this king
dom Which ycu VIII have permitted him TO
conqucr and these compensations you Will
find il Russian, Poland !; and placed thus on
the extreme frontier of the powerful EN-
pire Of the north, you will threaten with an
invasion until even this sovereign dragged
by your accomplices into offensive measures,
falls in one day, and By one single defeat as
was the very recent fate of tie descendant OF !
Frederic the Great. twill then be for you
that Russia shall have conquered Sweden, |
and no one will pity Alexander becausezhe
has consented to STRIFE fratricidal blow at I
the wolthy grandson Of Gustavus Adolphu5,
on the noble ana nlagnanmous prince, who
shines in the north ike the polar star, and
which announces perhaps to Europe, the
Aurora other deiiverance.
9 When an event is fixed by providence, I
you say, no human power can oppose IT,
Yes, Providence has determined that you
should be one of these terrible means by
when she regenerates to distant periods the
moral order IS she does the physical that
at the end Of tie most dreadful catastrophes,
you would make your appearance to unite,
as in one single bundle all the enemies and
robbers Who have produced them, 10 the
end, that by their impulse thus concentrated
in your bloody hands, people and kings might
be punished, and ages to come astounded
End peuifed at the sight of those disasters
which the CORRUPTION OF men had engen-
lered. But this same Providence, as well