Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-10-24
From THE FEDERAL GAZETTE.
RITE or PRINCE aJ ENGLAND.

| Having dHf!Osl PEI suauSo zig t'o@ vi o'i'So
portion of our fellow-citizens that We must
! fight England, the editors Of the democratic
| presses are now endeavoring to persuade
them that there will be nobody to fight at
sII.
In order to this, you have seen itrepeat-
ed over and over again, that the British
| had failed, entirely failed, in their late at
tempt III Flanders; and a long list of the
French aeet, or ships Of war, has been serv-
ed 40 with pompous ostentation.
Every thing Ike deception must be nirt
IN the bud, where things ara so much 60
yerred BY popuiar opinion and it happens
that the list Of French ships Of war lately
rcpublished here, WAS made TOR period OF
time long before the dispersion Of Jerome's
squadron, the capture OF Flushing, the at.
ia, K on basque roads, or the seizure IN Ca
dix bay, where they lost 10 TO IS ships OF
the line, besides trigates; as every person
may be satisfied by observing. that the &;oF,
~, which is stated to be IN Brest, is and
has been wreck in our harbor these two
wears past; and that the minister lately
como out from Spain has brongh! trigate
Ldraeta, probably the . Corae1Rr," one o;.
the ships taken at Cae!iZ, but included in
he above mentioned list. France and all
her allies possess scarcely halt the number
cf ships OF war stated in the list, and they
are dispersed asd blcckadcd every where.
The object of the expedition to Flanders
could hardly be to take Paris but seaport,
from whence the coasting trade OF England
was ANNOYED, and to intercept the supplies
which France receives along 'hr Dutch coast,
brsides operating diversion In favor OF
Spain and Austria.
The possession of Walchercr completes
that cham of DrPoTs which England now
holds round ,nc commercial part Of the Eu-
ropean continent, and " hence she vii. e.
t.ctuaIly limit its commerce at her own dis
r.. ron, v hist she viii pour her produce and
manufactures into the midst OF her enemies
territorit S, or ooiige them TO keep armies OF
custom house .ohlGels, who Will eat more
than they can ea1n.
Conscious Of their own safety, these
arc the direct obiec,s of Ill English cxpedi.
lions.
All this will have been completely ef-
fectcd by the expedition, it is at this mo.
ment r, turns d to Portsmouth, and had at
,emptcd nothily since thereducsion OF Flush
ing
Inalctter which Goblet has lately adj
dressed 10 the king Of England, and which
some Of the present admirers Of that writer
have copied into their papers, the coas'lng
trade Ct France is represented IN more
Aourishing state than ev r. On his own au'
rho,ity, he asserts that France now employs
tzro hundred thousan9 m,n in this way, and
prepares them Tor navy; and that Bona.
PARTS fn.nces prosper exec dinghy, j'om
his GUSTAV hoasrs. Bat all this Goblet can
prevent, ii his majesty wls take Els advlcs,
and SUI h quackery. 100000 IS something
more than three times the number OF sea
men employed by our extensive trade, and
nearly donhle the number employed on
board the British navy. 1t would have
been as easy to have put down 10000 and
this number would have been nearer the
truth but there would have been no en-
Diricisn in that.
Our democrats did not think year ago
that the toas ing trade was OF SO much lm-
rortance TO country when they SO uncere-
moniousiy suspended it, with all the trade
we had.
BH what must the prosperity Of England
be, it, in addition to all the coasting trade
she ever had, the Spanish and Portuguese
trade is enjoyed By her without restraint.
The tactis, that the seaports OF France
are bankrupt,and Bonaparte draws his chief
supplies from con6sca.ed American proper
.v, and from the contributions of conquered
countries, called his allies, who will ere long
be as much Strengthened a. himself, whilst
money was never of so little value in Eng
land as it is at this very moment, as the high