Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-03-16

S NY 70 attack the s,i,.,
IN the West-lndisss or to diislods. l''h iseaa,
from their remaining continens'l ne Ead,S
in America I: his ~decision is ;n ep%0sss4oa
attack upon the islynds. He laVor Of Os
and concludes in the following m mann p0C.ts
France does not declale war She shs @R
ploy the best means Which poI;,S s'00id EN-,
gest to prevent the Engish from may sas,
more than twenty-five hop.sna ever lawn,
We had not more than thSty thona .'.aa Aee,
whole OF this campaign, t0Iwit. the l'a N the
MIR. Washington never exceeded : army Of
sand, that of gen. Putnam NJ "eeh tAou.
sand, that of MIR. Gates ten thasoa 'S thou,
1t be necessary to increase tbewNIaa oaoQA
Go not know that it could be Anoo ne 1Alrd
81 have, perhaps, sir, enteredS,o
dlous a detail; but you will pardon Nto 700 te.
OF my dissertations, caused solely bS,h length
iety | have felt to satisfy your desire Alsa any,
render my stay here as useful as in mAAsna@
to make it." 'YYo|er
Had an illustration of the manner, in y,
an agent co%nformably TO the memoir Of aNNcA
Turgot, ought to conduct himself besn a%'
ed, a specimen more opposite could scar"N
have been devised. This letter be.rs ICY
rious instances, manifest relation to i. IVA
gestions of that memoir. 'S'
Was it, for instance, the policy ot P,,,
"to endeavor to know every thing that nsa'
ed" among us, "avoiding, however, a rss.
thing that might lead to a suspicion, thar ivy
had here any direct or characterized aoen, ),
We find in this letter, information m;nn..
in its details, interesting in lis selection -
objects, transmitted in a manner and fran
character, to escape all suspicion-ae ct nons
vous settlement, Monseigneur."
The object suggested by Mons. Tur,ot ..
the first wish of France, was the sub;upation
of the colonies by England after a con,est
which was to effect the ruin of all their w.
sources; in order that England might losea1
the advantages before derived from tIlem-n
peace by the increase of her commerce-n
war by the addition of their strength.
The information contained In this letter.
assures the government Of France, that in the
estimation of the writer "thirty Thousand
British troops would be competent to our
speedy s~ubjugation it is therefore recon-.
mended, "that the best means which policy
can suggest, should be employed to prevent
the English from ever having more than Is
thousand men here" But to that amount,
from its specification, there seems to have
been no objection"
If thirty thousand men were sufficient for
u comploat subjugation, what Means more
efectual for the ruin Of all our resources"
could have been devised, than for us to have
been continually harrassed by a force, defci.
ent only by one sixth part of what was deem.
ed competent for that %subjugaion? Such a.
mongst other things were the services "that
France had done, and meant to do for US, and
yet we were to be censufed for our jealousy of
a power, which it is admitted ave had the
must rcasUu To fear."-" gu lis ontle plus
raison de craindre,"
The effects Of the independence Of the U.
States in producing ga complete revolution
in all the political and commercial relations
between Europe and America" which also
Turgot had suggested as cause Of %apprehen'
sion, seem not to have made an equal impress
sion on the mind of the writer; because in his
opinion, "the jealousies between the PROVING
es (the seeds of which are already sownl WI
have divided them into as many different IN
t~erests, as states SO that no one OF them VII
be to be fearcd.' The event, therefore
which Tursot thought "lnfnitsly probable
was matter of little anxiety to the writer: hi
conse quently presses the indirect supplies o
which Turgot had spoken; but still IN slcf
measure as might only ~"lessen the hardship
of war;" and prevent US from ~succum0mg :;
"True it is lsaid he) it vii! cost US some NIL
lions, but it will secure the point, which va
boye all things" was to be guarded against
and it would be laid out in eftecting an o6lec'
which above all others had long been the la
vorite OBJ ect of France, that is Sin anniollai
ing the power Of England. which despolsoo
her colonies, without a. navy, and "itlou,
commerce., would lose her importance, a"1
leave France without a rival TO pursue 'S'
plans for subjugating the whole world