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

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IA CRACKER PLANTER. I
FROM THE AZ. X. EyENINGs POST. 1
Observations by PEITIER, French
gentleman residing in London, on the bitter
sarcasms and malignant invectives which
daily appear in the Paris Monlteur.
GoneAlfSd Jf'em 5Satsrday's Gazette
In the last notes which he has caused to
{ be published, he reproaches us for having
robbed Madeira from our ally, andnot to
haze coafded To- him The guardianship Ct THIS
island Il is not from Portugal thatWe have
taken Madeira; but from you, who, BY
your iintyi.ss1tss Or by some expedition that
ciiaaee might crown with success, might one
day have seized or claimed this prey as one
of the dependencies Of the kingclomoi Por-
tugal. II is you who force Us 10, such CON
quests; we make, by just reprlsai and from
a due regard to our own safety, that which
YOU Go to satisfy the instinct of destruction
by which you are agitated and while you
exclude us from all the ports OF the CONT
nsnt, we secure to our fleets harbors IN those
seas where yours dare not sheW themselves
but IN flight.
Ministry, you say, laugh at that parllia-
nlent which has no longer any guarantee nor
independence. Whats The parliament has
lost its independence because it approves CT
the ministers! 1t has weakened its Suaran-
tee, because il concurs with them III all the
measures which have for their object the de-
feat Of your atrocious policy and Unsuitable
ambition. You see In this support which it
affords to government, the sentiment OF all
the people; YOU see that this nation OF trad
ers carries its views beyond the interests OF
that commerce which is but a branch OF its
prosperity--but an accessory OF her exist
ences; that she is sensible Of the dangers
which surround her, that she prepares to re-
sist them without stopping at local consider
ations or temporary PrWations, the baieih
influence OF which has, among ali other ma
tons, delivered both soverclgns and PeoPie
to vour internal ascendancy.
Z on, the child Of iacobinism, you, who
hide undsrtlle royal diaden1 the bloody em- .
bleEl Of your former connexion with The ex-
ecutioners of France; you will one day see 4
the Hercnlean efforts which true liberty viii
produce YOU will see that the nation who
enjoys it, knows how to sacrifice something
to preserve its eternal principles; and theSe
where you pretend that there is nolonger a
ny independence or guarantee, IS PREPARING
resistance which will dssconcert your am
bitten, which will perhaps punish Il, and
which viii reduce YOU either TO perish, dc
voured by the totments OF AZ imPotent rage,
or shew TO the universe that you are only
powerful from the weakness OF other ma
items, and that their own terror has hidden
from them your nothingness and your fol-
y.
You. ask from whence viii come the In
crease OF glory and spleildcr which his Bri-
tannic majesty promises to prince who has /
abandoned, say you, three millions Of his I
subjects, &c. This increase, youyourselt
well kaow, viii flow from the probable uni
on OF Mexico and the Rraz.ls under the
same government; from the independence
OF this new empire, from her immediatcsre-
laticns with England, in short, from an adj
ministration which, becoming patelnal and
enlightened, will renouncs that nlonkish des-
potisn, SO contrary in all ages to tie pro-
gress of arts and industry; finally, having
more immediate intercourse with the abort I
gines OF the country, viii inspire them with I
more respect and confidence, and alnalga
mate them with men in whom, till this day,
they have seen only masters. Snchis fee
BE sketch of the advantages of the arrival
of "a European prince in these countries
New destinies are opening for them. This
futurity, SO terrifying to Europe, she this
day laughs at,and perhaps they are destined I
one day to revenge on your descendants all /
theevils with which you aflict the ancient