Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-04-27
FROM L'AMBIGUA.

FROM L'AMBIGUA.
lNan advertisement which precedes this
work the author informs the public, that
residence OF eigh. years in the capital of
Napolson's empire, an intimate acquains-
ance with some of the most remarkable per.
sonages of that country, and the different
situations in which he was, furnished him
wi,haoccasions which few have enjoyed, OF
collecting the materials upon the state of
society at Paris and upon the policy pursu.
ed by the French government and it's agents
He adds, that he took the resolution Of
communicating to the public all his observa.
tons as soon as he found time to prepare
them for the press. And to commence he
chose the conduct of France towards the
United States Of America, a subject upon
which, according to what he had heard and
read since his return from France, it ap.
pears that very false ideas are entertained
in this country.
Certainly there are few writer's who can
offer observations equally interesting upon
what is new passing in France, as this
, Goldsmith, who was long editor of the
Argus Journal, translator of the work of
NJ. Hautrrive, which made So much noise
upon the state Of Frame at the end Of the
1ssh century, having lived in intimacy with
| this diplomatiss, and having been employed
successfully in the Offices Of Fouche and
T alleyrand, of the Marine, &c.---H Mr..
Goldsmith is really DESTROYS of repairing
the wrongs done to his country, if he is not
a NEW N<hes ds ls Touche. he now has a
fine opportunity Of rendering himself use.
full. LIT Us therefore listen to his frst dis
closures, without !prejudgiug his person or
his understanding.
No one is ignorant that there exists in
England at this time powerful party who
systematically believe in tho infallibility Of
the American government. In the eyes Of
| this party, Messrs. Jefferson and Madison,
are SORT of political demigods before
whom the Solons, the Lycurguses and the
seven wise men Of Greece ought to bow
their Inundated heads. These admirable
ne, sonages can commit no fault they hold
the scale -xact between France & England !;
G'eas Britain Is the only power which
o1stlpale!y continues to wrong them.
Encouraged and animated by these faith
fut charg= drs affairs of America in Lon
don, see haw MIR. Jefferson treats his great
Partisan friend. He is IN alteration before
him. He receives his vessels in the same
bars from which he excludes the British
He suffers all sorts of outragcs from him
without examm alton or retaliation land
whilst he suffers the best sailors to b. taken
with impuuity from the English ships, whilst
he refuses bread and water to our crews, he
finds means Of sending skeletons OF the A.
metican mammoth to his good friend, the
great living mammoth Of the Thuilleries.
The exstayagant paHiaIity for American
democracy, supported BY its common mo-
Their French tyranny, was particularly ma.
infested at the period of our orders in coun.
Gil of January, 1907. The authors of Ger.
tain pamphlets, which made good deal Of
noise in their day, and the authors Of seve-
raj paragraphs in journal, more worthy
OF being printed at Washington than at So
mersst House, s,Ou.ly and firmly maintain,
that those orders were knowingly and
wickedly issued upon false principle that
the retaliation of the DEGREES of Berlin and
Milan upon which they were founded was
unjust, because j, was known those DEGREES
we're only menacss and solely, destined to
sound the dispositions Of England; that a
single case could no, be cited wherein they
we're put in execution against an American
vessel, which had touched at an English
port, or which had been visited by Bri-
is h vessel of war; and even that a letter
If M. Decres, minister of Marine inFrance.
had officially declared on the 24.h of Dec.
1906, to general Armstrong the American
niris.er At Paris, that the Bsrlia, decree Of
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