Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-05-19

cry, OF Count JULIAN, than that gwen In
your paper of Friday last, entitled the SPA
NlsH REvoLuTIoN, and taken from the Free
mans Journal.
Yours respectfully
Ministeria1" 05tngas .'-Eyer since
the elevation of president Madison 10
the chair, (says a Boston paper the
symptoms Of DISCREPANCY have been apPa-
rent between the two government ga
zettes in Washington-the Ea~teAigeacer and
the M9nitor.-These symptoms were first
percepsible IN various left handed contradic-
tons by owe Of the positions and assertions
of the other. But the ~oppugnataon has late
" assumed aless questionable shape" Ii
is the custom Of Mr.. Smith, the Intelligent
Ger editor, when he meets with a paragraph.
in a federal paper whichh he canno answer,
nor r~efute, but which from its sPirir and.
point he is compelled to notice. to insert it
under the title. of" Insanity" with this mot
to affixed TO it :ss 92uem Deus 0uAt beyaere
prius dementat. '*--On the subject of this
motto, Mr.. Colvin, in the Monitor of the
Ah, thus intrrrogates his brother editor, in
an
IMPROMPTU:
.0nrsaainss tie absurd adage Of "Quem Deus
vu!t perdere prius demeEtat," as Rsed IN
some Of our nezvstahPrs.
Con, when he would ('tis thus our papers
say
Make a man mad, first takes his mind away /:
Ye who presume to Judge tn Almighty's
plan,
His laws and conduct with regard to. man
Pray tell me this, zphat is his usuaL rule
H7at does he. first, syhcn he ayouid make q
Fo0L?
Whoa God intends TO destroy, II first
makes mad"
OF the great number of vessels which
have sailed since the embargo was raised
(of which many have returnedo we have
not heard Of one interruption from any Of
the belligerents, notwithstanding the pre-
dictions of those, who to justify their IN
barge system, insisted that there was no
| secar:tv on the ocean, while French DEGREES
! and british orders existed. We regret,
however, to learn that in but too many IN
stances, enterppize and industry have not
received their merited reward. The I'M
mense quantities of every sort of produce
! thrown into St. Bartholomew AID the ports
| of Cuba, have produced a great depression
in prices. But the most serious injury has
| been produced by the new and heavy du-
| ties imposed on orr produce ia the ports Of
Cuba. These dusies were laid, there is no
| doubt, il consequence Of the interdiction to
! Spanish vessels loading IN cur ports, a mea-
sure not, less. impoltic as respected this
/ country, than it was unjust towards a nation
! against whom we alledged no complaint. 1t
| was a part Of that system, of which we hope
and believe we nave seen the last, Judging
from appearance, there IS reason to hope tor
a different course of policy. [Nor Ledger.
The state elections of Massachusetts, and
] New York, have been ascertained the for
! mer have terminated by an increase OF the
| federal majority of the last year, aud in the
| latter for the first time in nearly ten years,
| the fedcralists have gained a majority in
the legislature of that populous and opulent
state.
If elections are to be taken as c%riteria,
whereby public opinion is to be tested, it IS
probable that no man ever declined more IN
public estimation than Mr.. Jefferson did,
| during the last eighseen months OF his adj
ministration. Before that period the exc
~cutives and legislatures Of New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were de-
mocratic, they are now federal. The le-