Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-09-05
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.s.sral sWe'P'
= ss.ry thing American
' =, these aggravated injuries are the
Il one man-Napoleon. The same
wa - ,ba. seized your property makes you
n :. tel its grasp at Tonnlogen. AT one
al'' French consul, at the other a king
= French manufacture d'ree'edth SEIZURE;
o % Of the two the king seems to have been
=. most rigid and ssrsi!e in the execution
80. allotted task of sillalny and oppres-
,ioe.
ner;cans these facts are not new to
,on are not now for the FIST :lme In.
en,d Of the existence of these wrongs or
e... repstition of these injuries. Yet tho
'a.r repeated, they have failed to excite
~ attentions or to awaken your just re-
..,so,s, You hear, them, indeed, but
o0 hear them with the same listless aPa'
NV as though they were I" a twice told tale
ewing the dull ear of a drowsy man" and
rot history of your country's wrongs cal
,ol,,sd to harrow up the soul" of every
real patriot.
And shall the time never come when you
will awake from your slumbers ! Shall the
dsv never arrive when you will dare to make
Yourselves once more respected ifnot fear
ID m ,he other side OF the Atlantic ? Have
Won already forgotten that Truxton once
made you both respected and feared by
France. even when her fleets were sufficient
to give uneasiness to Britain; and will you
tamely submit to her rapacities now, when
she dare not shew flag upon the ocean?
For shame shake of this lethargv and
act like men. Let your motto be mil.
lions for defence but not cent tor tribute
Recall your minister fron the court of St.
Cloud and send your future propositions to
the tyrant from the mouths of your cannon,
and you will soon End that he who had tbs
cruelty to set ms foot upon your necks While
you lay at bis teet will also have the mean
ness TO offer you his hand the moment ycu
begin to return his lows.-Vlr. Pot.
: The Spanish Cause.-It is not unusual,
says late traveller in Spain, for the Span
ish enthusiasts to make use of the following
argument respecting the destiny of their
country: That the HARDNESS of their
proceedings against the French affords no
ground for dependence, since their ances.
tors took 800 years to overcome the Moors,
and yet got eiFcctually rid of them at last,
When such doctrine is at this day general.
ay behaved in Spain, we cannot be astonish-
ed, that the Spaniards have been vanquish-
ed so easily; but are rather surprised that
they have not long before been completely
sabdued. 1.-THE Spanish peasan,ry are brave
and robust--hate the French most mortal
Wand possess country difficult to over
run, tuli OF strong passes and dehles, it is
most surprising, that out Of twelve millions
OF inhabitants, they have never had more
Than one hu9dred and twenty thousand men
arms, and that too at the very beginning
OF hosrlitles; that, as late publication
happily expresses it, with all the induce.
mea's that ever melted nation to great ex-
sfuon' and with more opportunities than
tVer were Afforded, along with such induce.
mfn's' they have done nothing to take the
advantage Of their union, their numbers,
saa tnelr supposed zeal in the cause; that
AZ a.'sr ,aree years war they are still without
aN''pi.5@ without officers, and without the
~, ,SsarFafis ocular supplies and finally, that
.s Wv pressure of invasion, & the excitement
- al actual revolution, has not yet created,
.s,' s'Nsd forward, one man of commanding
!, ,su's, either in arms or politics nor has
orr. Oa'dsd the people at large into such an
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