Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-10-15

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scious tina, it is not in her power to IMPEDE
our rapid strides to a pitch OF power, OF
wealth and grandeur eclipsing hers; not
humiiiating to her however: she will be
proud of what she is, but will consider It
no cause of self abasement that God made
not the island Of Great Britain as extensive
as the u. States.
IF England, as CornucopIa declares, is
DESTROYS of reducing America to cypher !;
if she now considers us, and hopes we shall
continue, an Insignificant nation, those ex.
pecta,ons must arise principally from the
prevalence & increase of democracy among
us which secludes from authority the great
and the good; thrusts ambitious vice and
imbecill,y into seats Of sovereignty; gives
distraction for unanimity and impotence for
dignity and authority in the national legls-
lature and which will, after series of dis.
sentions and connections, produce divl-
sion Of the union, and the establishment of
perty sovereignties, of which other nations
will reap the advantage.
The Lords Commissioners of Appeals in
Prize Causes in August last gave a decision
in one case of appeal which decided the fate
ofseveraI others, and which must give great
satisfaction to the friends of humanity eve
where. AN American ship with slaves
from Africa was condemned at Tortola in
December 1907. The claimant plead that
by the laws of South Carolina he had
right to import slaves till January, 1903.
when such importation was forbidden BY a
general law Of Congress; that, having been
detained on the coast, and Ending he could
not reach Carolina till the first OF. January,
he bore away to Cuba to wait orders from
the owner. The Lords Commissioners
however considered this mere pretence,
believing the original intention was to sell
the slaves in Cuba and they affirmed the
Judgment of the prize court in the West
Indies. BY this decision the slaves of this
vessel and many others were liberated, and
an end is now put to the slave trade every
where, as far as the laws, the decision of
courts, and the vigilance of armed vessels
and prvaseers can destroy i, /: Yet such is
the aur; sacra flames OF man, that this trade
is, and perhaps will long continue to b= car
ried on. The Directors of the African In
stitution in late report declare that the
coast Of Africa is covered with american
vessels under Swedish and Spanish coors,
and the slaves are still carried by our coun-
trymen to the Spanish Main and Spanish
West India Islands.
IF, as it is often asserted, and as many
circumstances indicate, Bonaparte is in no
small degree under petticoat government;
and if, as it has been publickly announced,
the Empress is in a growing condition ; it
would be we'll for some one to pat it into
his head that she is longing for peace, This
being an attainable object, and Bonaparte
being ever ready to obey her wishes, such
happy event may thus be produced. De-
srous as he is for an heir, nothing, in his
power to accomplish, would be neglected.
The Eew-York Commercial Advertiser
mentions the arrival from England of
splendid volume commemorative OF the
abolition Of The slave trade. consistine OF