Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-08-12

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tons of merchandise of every description
continually accommodating upon the banks Of
the Thames!
The assistance of people by nature adj
venturous, active, ambitious, possessing an
immense number of merchant ships, able to
navigate at small expence, exploring every
sea, dreading no danger to crafty a similar
thirst for gold that assistance she has just
obtained by raising Of the American en-
barge.
We learn by the last letters from Ameri-
ca, that that measure has been destroyed, if
/ may say SO, by open force, by thu Federal
party /; that is to say,by the English party.
lit is well known that at least two thirds
Of the American commerce is carried On
with English capital, and on account Of
Englishmen.
From whence it follows that the renewed
immense extension of the pretended Ame-
rican commerce, must in the end turn to the
advantage of this same English commerce,
which moment ago was on the verge Of
ruin.
Who then can be the dupe of that pre-
tended impartiality which congress affects to
be DESTROYS of preserving in its act for rails
ing the embargo? The meenest shopboy in
London would not be Imposed upon by that
clumsy artihce.
The congress addresses the same de-
mands to France and to England.
IlreQumes OF both powers to respect its
Rag, it threatens to shut its ports against that
one which shall violate its neutrality, and
even to declare war against it. But this
time, especially, when France is or IL about
to be deprived Of her last possessions in the
West. Indies, the American people well
knew that they have no longer amy thing to
fear from her in any respect, and that By
keeping at a distance from our shores in
Europe we cannot modest their vessels !;
whilst England, mistress of the seas, a
neighbor of the u. S. can wound them SEN
siblv in every quarter. Il was then neces-
sary, in order to seem neutral, to tind a
way to satisfy England, without appearing
to submit to her tyrannlcal pretsnsions and
behold what has been devised, and already
put in practice, according to authentic &C
counts.
At the departure of the dispatch vessel
Mentor from New York, more than one
hundred vessels were already laden or de-
parted for Holland, where they well knew
they would not be received and where they
had not the intention to go. Several have
already arrived in England, northumberland
ing the prohibition OF Congress- and the
bonds which have been required. On APP
preaching. the English coast, they cause
themselves to be captured by the first Eng
iish vessel they meet they then prove that
their cargo is English psoperty--they are
released with domuments to prove their cap
ture, which eyempts them from the penalties
incurred, they pay in England the dutis Ak
ed hy the orders in council, and May then go
whittier they think fit.
But as these secret subterfuges would not
be sufficient for all the operations of COM
merce in general they have found another
method to favor them in the greatest posi-
bic extent.
American vessels go land many are AREA
dy or their way to the Island of Madeira,
which will shortly become vast entrepot
there they deposit their goods, the English
will bring thither theirs, and an immense ex-
change of the merchandise of the tive
worlds will take place. The same thing
will be done a, St. Bartholomew, and at all
the other pretended neutral places. The
English manufactures will be accompanied
by ce,tiacatee OF Swedish or German origin
and may without obstacle enter the Ameri-
can continent.
From these different entrepots the Ame-
ricans will inundate the Americas with Eng
lish productions, they will fill with them all
the ports of Europe into which they may be
permitted to enter. And thus behold the