Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-10-25

Cainst the arts and lntrigueS OF MS employ
err The tears and plaintive Cries Of the
Crocodile may beguile the raw and inexpe-
rienced pilgrim, but John Bull is not TO be
entrapprd by the tricks ofa palavering
Frsnchman, Such a tender OF service and
professions Of regard, from a man who has
miracuAouSiy escaped the vengeance of a
master, who was never yet known to let a
dangerous enemy slip through MS fingers,
throws about his character K mystery and
suspicion which oghut toplace every loyal
Britain on his guard. The ministers OF
England have not that superstitlous fool a
mong them who would throw open her
gates to receive a Trojan horse.
When it is remembered that the arts
more than the arms of France have effected
the overthrow of so many states and en-
2ircs that every country which the ,yrant
aims 10 destroy is first overrun with ennis.
s~aries, such characters as General Surrazin,
must be objects of suspicion, in countries
whose power and independence, are known
to be hateful to every Frrnchman, both
from habit and education. Alter Tailey-
rand had acquired a perfect knowledge OF
England, and Obtained such further know
edge Of the country as he wanted, the poor
unfortunate emigrant packed up his budget
and returned 10 Paris, to report pro-
gress."
But here in the United States, and more
especially in the civilized imperial city OF
Baltimore, we are laughed at as num-SkuL!s,
and crazy politicians, if we say that this,
that, or lac other Frenchnaal. is a sPy.-
You are instantly so bethumped with
words" and :" aunyuns!ed'b by aat contra
dictions that you have nothing left but to.
bite your lips and fly the field OF argument.
WHY Pm intimately acquainted with him,
and have conversed with him frequently,
he hates Bonaparte as he does the Devil,
and would decol!ate the tyrant tomorrow
if he could Thus the simple, shallow,
stale artiGce of abusing the employer, takes
away all suspicion from the spy, who Is
barely versed in the first rudIments OF his
profession. And yet these same saPicnt
: pentlrnen who nave the houor OF assoclat-
ing with characters of this description, will
grant you that Napoleon hates the United
States, that, he plans their destruction, ana
that he has innumerabie spies amongst Us,
vet this, or that man is not one, In short n
man1you can name IS one,
We will take occasion here to quote a
passage from a work, which at sens .u,ure
dav. will be boosted Of as the production
of an American citizen, and ought now to
BIZ in the hands OF every man VINO mingtes
with the love OF liberty 20 admiration OF
genius and true mer.t, It will be the pride
of The author Ut I" A Letter on the GENIUS
and Dispositions OF the French Govern
men," to find his opinions quoted with eri-
umph and acciamapion, alter the causes
which gave birth 10 them shall have passed
away. and the ,yrant that scourges human,
ty shall be mingled with the dust.
EXTRACT
From the ommenceme of the revo
luton particularly, emissaries have been
scattered over Europe in order to study and
deAneate its Geographical face. The har,
vest of their labors, now depositedm Paris,
has furnished the imperial government with
a knowledge of the territory of other pow.
ers, much more minute and accurate than
than that which the latter themselves pos
sess. The Depot de la Guerre occupies, an
remittihgly several hundred CLERKS in trac-
ing maps and collecting typographical de.
tails, to minister to the military purposes
of the government. All the great estates
in Spain were marked and parcelled out
long before the last invasion of that couu-
try-and it is not too much to affirm that
those of England are equally zueN knoun
and bartitioned"
Why should we doubt that the same
pains have been taken to obtain accurate
Typographical details of the United States