Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-08
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.,-roassDaY AUGUST 3.

- Iune ls--Ship y. States,
s, Of this port.
Lin decree. though not the com
lSs was the first measure winch
'ssa ato allnations the full extent Of that
ts0p's sr ,,pon commerce BY which the
'l'u e France hopes 10 overthrow the
nps'O o.;,.;n and to subiugate the ord.
se - 80 and his arms have since forced
{ (, the whole continent of Eu-
J. Ibs reluctance with which those states
= -. any objects forcommer0e have sub.
! will be readily conceived, when
NV .,,.cted with what extreme impotence
bore her own embargo. Nothing
~ han tie power of Napoleon and the
,el certainty that it would be cxefted
,snn6selng severity. could induce acqni-
..,e under a measure which equally i'm
..;shes the mutton and the individuals who
.nose n The struggles Of the Dutch TO
"a. his system we're repressedby the re-
,,fbi, brother, whom Napoleon had given
,.o for king, and by the threat complete
/, absorb their country in the boundaries OF
rance. Nor could theirprayers prevail to
.rjligste this rigorous sentence, farther than
reserve part Of thcir terfitery burdened
ia large bodies of French troops qusrtercd
mon hem, and French custom house officers
distributed though their sea ports to guard
gamst future infrsctions OF that oppressive
system, which It's author dcnenlinatcs s. the
continental confederacy."
| This system has been retaiated by Eng
lind according 10 circumstances. For con-
,dereblc time the fishing vessels of her enc
sny remainea unmolested' From this branch
Of industry many families throughout the
Ebolc northsya ceast of coRsiaenta! tEurop,
derived employment and iemolument. The
5 Dutch s their sill more nosthern neighbours
ere particularly interested in it. This wholeex-
tent Of country is either at open war with Eng.
land, or entirely underline contr0i of Fl ance.
i Their ports are closed, rot only against Eng
lish vessels, but againstEnglish goods. They
hate succeeded, inits fullest extent, to the
eoufederacy against England, and,commeree,;
and France, IN every country 70 which this
decree extended, Las recently ehcreased the
fiSer with which this hostile system is exc
cuted.
4 France having added to the rigor of her
assressicns, England has INCREASED the en-.
4 essyofher retaliation She.has fctorted still
\ iurther on her enemies the mischief aimed
at herselE by cutting up their fishing trade,
under her late order of council. $
Lei the InteldScncer, if he can, point cut
Inc nation to whom this order can apply,
~hichis not subject to France, and either the
Voluntary or unwilling enemy of England
Lei him point out the nation to whom it can
apply, who has not acceeded1o WHAT'S termed
'ae continental confederacy' who has not
surrendered the right of self government to
france, and who is not mere machine, a
sas-paH in the hand of Napoleon.
What is there then in thiserder, which is
20 excspnonablee WHAT'S there in it which
AFFECTS America, or which can justify our
'uisfs IN attempting to divert our indignation
rum our own injuries, by exciting it in the
quarrei OF others, the mere sassals of him
Win whom originates all the violence and op-
r.ess'on we experience or witness?
france publishes decree con6scating all
']e property belonging to American citizens