Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-17

49, I'm cba;nss~ AS Mr.. Ames observed
&c tbe CONQUERED nations Of Europe, the
French will use the blood, slnews and mar
row Of us high minded, liberty loving A.
n,er;cans. as we were oxen. They viii
o.ar and harness like so many Dutch hors-
or their own conscripts, or $ couple.
tope,hrr with rope attached TO horses
ta',, the freeborn sons of Columbla-whip,
ooad and kick than, democrats and all, on
hoard their transports, and force them to
6eht the battles OF the universal tpant IN
he remotest quarters OF the habnablt globe,
and carry his conquests to Ormus and the
iurthest Ind.
Those among the American paFtizans
VIII, stillsimagine that the yoke or Bona
parte would be easy and his purthea ilShs,
may, perhaps, be undecelved. II NOT wiz
fully bind, by the following extract. They
viii likewise please 70 reflect, thai the RI
corous treatment here described is inflicted
on the natives of France. What then have
conquered nations to appsehend!
Extract from the Edinburgh Reoiew Of the
Cc9e dc la Conscrptia7. t...l a.
We shall now conclude to lay before
orr readers connected viewof the law OF
the CONSUMPTION as it is now enforced, and
TO intervene with those statements such
Illustrations Of the present safe of the
French empire as NAV be- necessary to de-
velope the whole organization OF the con-
guest. No subject, at the present moment,
can claim so terrible an Importance. The
levies of those continental nations, which
still preserves the forms Of independence,
are, it is said, to be moulded upos the same
model and the CONSUMPTION is, undonbted"
", the vis matri. of that great engine TO
which France owes her aggrandizement,
and on which she relies, for the future in
crease of her dominion. Her politicians
exultingy apply to 1t the language of Yer
getius concerning the legion, that it seems
rather an inspiration Of divine wisdom, than
the offspring oihlman invention. The plan
Of universal conquest, imputed originally to
I.ouvois, and with more truth, perhaps, as
cr;bed By Mr.. Burke to the directory, is
now, not merely digested into regular sys-
tenn, but may actually be said to be in a
course of execution and to be proceeding
with a steadiness and success, which must
strike alarm into the most confident and un-
thinking. The world, in the opinioa of all
Frenchmen, is to be again subdued by the
djscipin. and the arts Of Rome. Fo!ards
Polybius, Aliciaavel on Ley, and li5ntssque
on the Grandeur ct Eecilnation, are more
than ever the manuels' from which they
draw their lessons Of perse> GRANGE and cum
ning. The reading classes of France have
always been fond Of historical research
Their republic made them passionate adj
nlirers and enlightened imitators of au,iqui-
ty and their government availing itself of
this prediction for the victorious common
wealths of Greece and Rome, soon taught
them to overlook altogether individual in
terests, tastes, and enioyments, both ia their
foreign politics, and III the details OF their
internal economy. They admit no "ba-
lanced advantages, or diverging claims"
All the capacities, energies, and habitudcs
of private life, are uarelentinsiy wrested to
the production of force, for the subiugation
of the globe, or, as CO, ordinate with this OBJ.
ject, for the aggrandizement of the reigning
family. The changes Of Iorm in their go.
vernment have ocCasioned no renisso ION in
this pursuit. 1t has always been spoken of
among them with considerable confidence
and zeal. Events have recently brought it
more into notice; and nothing now remains
but to achieve the ultimate object, le Grand
pensee," as it is emphatically styled in the
coteries of Paris.
That our readers may the better under
stand our abstract of the laws on the con-
script'on, IT is proper to premise, that France
is divided into about 80 military govern.
men,s, subject to a general of division and
his staff, to which cemmissaries are attached
as executive officers. The civil division