Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1808-10-11
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Exsrcet Of d letter .frow RESPECTABLE a'ersaaz'

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6 We have near ONE RuNnRED American
vessels in posti Three weeks ago there we're
b,,r. for, or fi,o What isthe meaning OF all
this For myself, am coniounded Wl,n a..
toaishment 10 arguments which nave heatu
car. in the least clio away the unlavoraoie I'M
pressions the sight occasions. II proporll-
onate number nave gone to other parts, what
AN lmaensity of property you mast have now
afl,,at and now contradictory this to the os--
feasible objects Of your embargo. II the pro.
merry for which these vessels are now osfen-
siby dispatched had been really here, why
have .hey been SO long delayed Surely the
present times, those which have occasloned
the embargo. do not Justify this delinquency
Tie real trath is--the property is not mere
not for one twentieth OF the number OF vessels
which have been sent, as tie result Will shew,
and a host OF people have therefore been sue
denly let loose VINO could not possibly have
had any other object or expectation than the
procuiatoo of tveights and passengers from
tie merchants of this country, or from the
French VINO are supposed to be gong OH Win
their property
Il, 50 absurd light does the appearance
of tie pfesent American fleets strike the peo-
pie al this country, that they seriously say,
il must be occasioned by one or two circum-
stances.
:. one is---that the permissions are found
Cd OH al electioneering manoeuvre, to secure
by sueti concessions, the good will OF the citi-
gems az INST the approaching election or,
taat the government are now desirous, since
the Spanish revelation, to get as much pro-
pert, from here as they can, aad then take
part win France, against England and this
country!
s. Ii rhey are told that the permissions were
to be closed finally on the 18th OF August, 1t
awaits nothing whilst they reply, that 1t was
known the, permissions were not to be per-
naa,lent. and therefore why have the vessels
been, TO SC great degree, kept back
sss When speaking of the intentions OF the
embargo to preserve our property and that
our vessels arc.not peraFted to bring any arti
Gle ont, they say--W hal are your vessels
of no value lis the property which It IS ex-
pectcd they take home, of no amount Your
largestand best vessels are now out lthls IS
falkland in this island elonc, there cannot be
less than one hundred and nifty worth, at
least, million OF dollars and the property
which could be conveyed in them, 1t 1t were
here, worth many more. Have the french
and British ceased to capture I! The lnlnry
done TO the American character IS considera 4
BILE. The vast number of evasions and snug
eIefs, which the embargo has created, is sur
pris,ng. Surprising: perhaps not; tor 1t In
ordinary times when trade is free and untst-
- - A<ast Il,
more .when the measures are really SO unpo-
pular and oppressive to great proportion OF
the community. For some days after the last
i,.flux 81 American vessels, the quays and GUS
tom houses were every morning covered with
all kinds OF provisions which had been landed
the preceding night
% AS to vessels . in distress the trick be-
came SO common that the government hui
ro1ncIv considered that an entire detention Of
them would be acceptable.
{. Have you had great drought in Ameri-
ga for never were vessels known TO come
o.at.wish such scaniy supplies of water. One
would suppose your wells and rivers had been
dried up.
g The risk Of the returning vessels and
sargoes viii be INCREASED. Ii the property
cannot be clearly proved to have been here,
itjs as liable as ever to capture. The Mench
viii invariably take them, as coming, now,
from an enemys port. Bonaparte's argu-
rncnt that during an embargo, we have no hu-
siness out, will, at this stage OF It, be more
stfscrly IN point.
he door, however, you will say, IS to
be hereafter~-is now closed entirely. True,
and others viii speedily be opened to others,
wherein you viii hereafter find it difficult to
snser. Several vessels have already arrived
frop, Jamaica and Providence with dry goods,
vines. &c. 1wn vessels yesterday arrived
from ralifax with prisoners, who report that
fss, or twelve merchantmen were loading there