Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1810-11-30
The GAZETTE.
Martmsburgh, Nov. SO.

we have lately had from the executive. res.
pecting III relations with the French go.
vernInent, andthe revocation of Bonaparte's
unjust DEGREES, the question naturally ari.
ses what was the state Of affairs when
Mr.. Armstrong left Pariss We do no,
hesitate to say that it was by no means
pleasing. The long faces of the friends of
Napoleon IN this country; and the pro-
found silence of every one who has lately
arrived from France are sufficient evidence
OF the enmity of the emperor to this coun-
try. There is not the least expectation
that Bonaparte's edicts have ceased to eff.
feet neutral commerce.. And our Presi.
dent in his speech. at the opening Of the
approaching session of Congress, will be
obliged to tell tale that will harrow up the
soul of democracy. He does no want TO
see Mr.. Armstrong to convince him that
he has performed a foolish act in declaring
that the edicts of France had ceased to eff.
feet neutral commerce. Had our merchants
any confidence in executive acts, the pro.
clanation would have been Injurious to
them as well as degrading to the govern.
ment. But the fact is our administration
is really too weak TO be wicked. 1t appears
however that it is not so low in disgrace,
but what it can and must go lower!
~. 4. En-. Post.
Rather sqnaNy in the West.-Whilst the
public mind is almost wholly occupied at
the present moment with the ~convulsed
state of the old world, the affairs of the new
Is scarcely thought of. 1t appears from the
latest accounts from New. Orleans, that
the people of that country are not as secure
as they would wish. The troubles in old
Spain seem to have excited a spirit in Spa.
nish America, which has given our citi-
gems, who inhsbit the Mississippi, some
apprehensions for their safety. BY an Of
fetal order of the commander in Chief of
the Mississippi Territory, we find that a
large portion Of the militia, and two CON-
panies o cavalry, are ordered to hold them.
selves in immediate readiness, to march at
amoments warning. This order is to be full
filled either by volunteers or by draft
Folk, the Governor of Pensacola, had
been joined by two nations of Indians, the
Choctaws and ~Talapouches, and it was
feared that our Indian neighbours, az well
as the Floridans, would yet become .rou-
ble.ome neighbours to our citizens of the
west. The independence of Florida, and
the taking of Baton Rouge, will be sub.
iccts for the heads of the nation. Thus it
does appear, that Mr.. Jefferson's. string of
territory, which cost the nation fifteen mill
lions of dollars, will vet prove al unpro6.
table bargain.-Hid.
Affairs in Portugal.-We haze conversed
Nth an intelligent, gentleman zUho arrived
here last Saturday in the Ohio, from Ca
di2, Il Hikia-R eak. He states that at Aya.
monte Uheve :he vessel touched, he sac a
Spanish officer, who was going 10 Cadz
uvifh dispatches. The officer informed him
that heAef the head quarters Of Lard Vel
Engton on the 11M gOctobe,, and at that
time there had been no fighting since The
2sh Of September. He said The confined
forces uere in high SPIRITS, and that Lord
WeAIngt0n mas prebaredf to meet the enemy.
The gentleman Nth zohom uOe conversed
has been in Spain and Portugal far six or
sepen years past, speaks the Spanish Ian
guage Ruenfly, and appears to be perfectly
acquainted Nth the affairs Of those coan.
tries. He gives it as his obinian that the
French can never conquer the Spanish and
Portuguese. until HE people are entire h
.entirpated. tie says there is such an en-
against me French that they can ne
yer be safe in The peninsula rs long as there
Portuguese or Spaniard IN the country.
The SPANISH soldiers in the pay ef France
rake eVery opportunity to assassfnafe the
French. IFS an instance Of their deadly en-
he states that a French Genera! had
ief a garrison in a small fozOn efob2u. 800
men, nearly hayeftebam sesre Frencamen,