Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-08-15
IRON THE " Y. EVENING POST.

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daily appear in the Paris Moniteur. Trans
lated from the French for this paper, BY a
gentleman Of this city.
6 History will che day say /" When Con-
'tinental Europe was enslaved when from
Ispahan to St. Petersburgh, and from. Con.
stantinople to Seville, .sovereigns sedueed
or subjugated Frustrated themselves before
the astonishing good fortune Of crime J;
WHEN AMERICA, Che should have said the
rulers) WHO BOASTS OF HER LIBERTY,
makss shameful and SEGRE7'barga with
a man 1vho has biotted out all the Oestlges q
independence ahveuer his influence has Pc
netyated single nation, By her courage,
her PERSEVERANCE,, and her at7ion, has styuss'-
eled zvith success against so much power,
and. their 6rmness has saved9the World." ~
An imperious presentiment indicates to Bo-
naparte that such will one day be the result
of his struggle with England, and that the
country which with all tie clements OF revo-
lutionary phrenzy, has repulsed the ravages
thereof very far from her bosom !; which,
with free constitution, has known how to
suppress the RIGHTEOUSNESS which had been
raised in all quarters by intrigue, the ex-
ample of France, and the outrageous con-
duct of some societies that such country,
after having suffered without danger and
without tottering, the perilous trial to which
the French revolution exposed her, has al
so the gigantic means to repel the desporism
which aims at p.unging her into the gene
raj slavery. The genus OF evil, this en-
bassadcr of he'll, who believes he can SUD-
ject4vely thing by the terror which his pre-
scnee inspires, who never sinews himself but
to overthrow thrones and to subjugare ma
tons, has not yet been able, Tor the ten
years that he has coaspired against England,
to obtain an advantage over her, from
whence he could draw the least food to fiat
ter his pride orto gravity his hopes. In the
rage which he feels in not being able to get
at us, and in being so inferior to us in all
the points of contact which we can offer to
his restless activity, he irnagines that he can
beat us in the persons OF our allies that he
only Furnishes them for their connection with
US; and this illusion OF vengeance is neces-
sary to his liberated heart and he solaces
himself IL all these disorders in the foolish
idea of the anxiety and terror he eXcites IN
lis This expedient, which he docs not dis
gu;se, proves how much he feels his impo-
tencc IN the contest with us. Not being a.
BE to pet at us, he tries TO highten U.s.
When he sees us firm and confident, he en-
deavors to disconcert us, By showing US the
excess of his violence and the extent OF his
rower. What else does he. do III his bind
ness than to add slaves 70 slaves, or to heap
ruins on ruins.
Since he despails Of intinidating us,since
he sees the use which our ministers make Of
or courage and energy, he no longer OBJ
serves any bounds with ms majesty, with
the ministry, nor with the nation. lie
pours out equally on all, his anathe,nas and
his abuse, because ne knows what generous
efforts and what astonishing success will be
the. result of their union. We might calm
" tell him, acesse viper, for thou bitest a
file" He vainIy believed that the fear OF
being shut ont from the. continent, would
force us TO acknowledge his superiority, and
to offer him peace; nut since he secs that
spontaneously, we. close to ow selvesthe a.
venues to that Europe without which he
supposed we could not e.xist; when he sees
that FAR from dreading the effects Of his
BLOCKADE SBY. SEA AND LAND, which he
only held,up. to us as scare-crow, we
completely insulate him from the other
three parts of the world when he sees that
we submit to momentary~ inconyenienecs
to impose or him and his slaves real and d,,-
rable suferiags,it is then that he feels all the
transports Of rage, and not being able to
cool them by vengeance, they eyaporate in
bitter revilings which lay open to view the
incoherence OF his ideas and the wildness cf
his mind. Here he pours out upon US all