Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-03-24

throne when NC bought Louisisnaof The
French; there vas nos French soitier 20
Spain when we sent the two millions OF dol
lars, ts settle the limits Of en- purchase q
TIL. money was enployed'ia the annihi.
,.t;on of Prussia; but that's neither here
nor there Prussia deserved her fate.-
Yes. Prussia had received subsidies, and
we had paid ,hemy andthat's the only dif-
ference in our deserts.
Blu, our history presents another more
remar kable instance Of want Of character,
in which not only Spain and Prussia, but
all the world suffered, Is we'll az ourselves;
and tina. too. before Spain was invaded by
the French. ......
France issues decree blockading Eng.
land that was Of no importance with our
rulers, il it did no. affect them but France
proees do to enforce her decree on Us: and
10 be sure, it WAS expected England woAld
retaliate, as We had not; but, in aut.ipa.
ton of the British orders Of retaliation our
rulers lay general embargo, and declare
their intention to maintain it, as long as
France. and England should enforce their
edicss--they being the only cente'aa'ng Par
ties. las neither Asia nor Africa had done
any thing to be disfranchised by~us. so nei.
'rher could either of them do any thing to
recover their liberty. We had, in fact, de.
clared they were, like ourseIues, SO many
appendages Of France or England.
1t happened that if-in the instance just
mentioned, our two millions of dollars were
saved by The excessive avarice and sinister
views of France, their rights were restored
to Asia and Africa, by the correc, opinions
and determined spirit Sf the people Of Anne
RIGA. But our rulers retain sufficient pow
er to make relief at home partial +; and i. is
no. their fault if " the great contending
parties" have not their wonted non-inter-
course, embargo and dominion entire.
hope the reader will distinguish between
the country au6 its rulers. An enlightened
world will de the American people justice,
for if they have not abandoned the men,
thew have uIequivocallv condemned their
measures they stand convictt d by US, and
if not punished, are not acquitted.
The kingship assumed ty Bonaparte o.
yer Spain IS sufficient, in their estimation,
to 10 away all pretenticns oil the Spaniards
70 be nation perhaps is feared that We
should be struck out Of the number Of de-
pendencics on the "great eontending par
ties" If we should ADM. to an honorable
exchange Of civilisies, people who will not
submit 10 be plondered and murdered by
one of them.
five, that is, the ruling party in Anne
RIGA, and so must he underrood, have net
shown our good will towards those nations
which have acted different part in any 0.
Their way than shutting our eyes en- their of
fensi.s duplicates of the French edicts; if
we have not shown our fraternal love for
the imps ot'Kouli~Khan. who tyranized O.
YER Italy and Holland, by attending the
levrss of their ambassadors, the fault is not
with US, their ENJOYS would be received at
Washington with open arms-nobody will
doubt 1.-THE reason Is, the usurper thinks
il would diminish the lussr- Of his own
court, if he permitted his dependents to
correspond in this way, ard tina, he makes
himself more, respected when his minister
is the only vehirle OF diplomacy.
The people Of Spain are now estimated
at ~ elve millions, the inhabitants OF their
COLONIES as many more, and we ourselves
count ak millions so tha, united, the two
nations would, exclusive of allies, which
they have, or alliances which they might
form, make an aggregate ofnumbers equal
to either Of the two great contendinR par.
ties )" and it is hoped that when zve are our
selves included, the coalition of Spaniards
and Americans would net be deemed infe:
rior to France or England in any respect
whatever. Yet dare We not countenance the
cause of Spain, or correspond. direetly with
the Spaniards. The refusal to receive their
ambassador proves il. =. Z.
1t is true, our ministers have not thought
proper to receive a minister from their ty-
rant, not beca use they doubted the legality
of his title it was not even to try it he was
sent but because the people Of America