Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-10-24

I pointed out. Even tue - 49,
Of exclusive patriots, and real rs men arr
;onorantly but aseffectually promoting tn
interests Of Great Britain, as if they wer'
pensioners of king George, and had sat II
his maies,y's privy council with Pitt, Fer
| cival and Canning. ),
IN order to make the preceding truth
annarent It will be necessary TO take wide
view Of the policy of the belligerents thar
has been done .bysany writer, on the above
mentioned subjects, whose productions hav'
come within the sphere of our observation
and to advert to certain facts, which altno
thew seem to have escaped the notice o
mo.t of our politicians, afford clue to tn
pIocesdings.of the cabinets both OF S'.Cloue
| and St. James.
In the beginaing f.he French revolution
a bla,, was organized by the leaders OF tn'
;iacobia sect in France, which has been since
syste ma,ically pursued, without any iurthe'
deviation than what has been imposed by
;nperiou. aai unforeseen circumstances
The object of this plan was conquest, aad
plausible but hollow profession. Tor love o.
liberty and equality, and insincere proffsrs
of peace and friendship with nations, wers
ar,onp the mean, which were adopted to
obtain the desired end, the aggrand'zeme1
of the grea, nation. To prove ihls we nave
the testimony of cetemporary and subse.
quent writers, and the Acknowledgements o.
| iacobins themselves, corrcborated ny cif-
cum stant;al evidence Of the most conclusive
and satisfactory nature. We shall addu2e
few Of these proof, and we think make IL
evident 70 any candid mind that our elnbar'
,,o. a,rl other measures which havs threat
eped the humiliation OF our commerce, len
orr nation dcfenceless, and consumed It's
resources, are the consequences OF the pan
before mentioned. There is no doubt, how
eyer that many persons who have been ad'
voeatcs for these ,uincus measures were not
sensible of their nature and tendency, ana
thus with honest am patriotic Intentions
have Seen induced to cooperate with the
French leaders, whose real object as before
stated is dominion.
Tire i,lnstrious Burke, the irierd OF l!oer'
tv and IN advocate for America during our
revolutionary war, was'in France 1t the
,;me that the seeds of the French revolution
beo,n to terminate. He declared that " The
revo|uion in France had the relation @!
France to other nations as one OF IT'S prlnci-
nal objects. The changes made by that re-
volution were not the bet:er 10 accommodate
her - the old and usual relations, but to
,ro,,,,ce rev ones. The revolution was
nm, nat to make Frence free, Int to make he'
frmidable /; not to make her neighbor bu'
. mistress; not to make ter moro oeserv'
ant of flaws. but to put her in condluon to
;mno.e them, 70 make France truly tor.
MI able It was necessary that France should
BE- new modelled. They who have not tol.
lowed the train of the late proceedings, have
been led hv decei,fulreP, esemat'ons, v hAch
deasit made part in the plar) 70 conceive
.h,, th;s total n " model Of a ST. tt /: which
nothing escaped change, was made with
view to its internal relations only
uIn the revolution OF France two sorts
Of men were principally concerned IN giving
= character and determination to It's pur-
suits the philosophers and the politicians
They took different ways, but they met In
the same end"
"On the system Of aggrandizenaent :htre
was but one mind But two violent factions
arose about the means. The first wished
France diverted from the politics OF the con.
t;pent to attend solely to her marine,1o iced
it bv an increase of commerce, and thereby
to overpower England on ner own element
TIL commended if England we're elsa led,
the powers on the continent would 'al INTO
their proper subordina; ion that 1t was Eng.
land which deratgcd the whole continental
syssem of Europe. The Others, who were
| bv far the most numerous, though not the
! mos, cutwardly prevalent at conrt,consider-
ed this plan forFrance as contrary to her ST.
| tuation, her genius and her natural means
| T,h,,.sd &C re-, the uitlmats object; the