Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-07-11
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4.

onsly nettlcd d. q Jaw - $500 q
J, this paper enquiring, wnat had become -
lives. our fortunes and our sacred no
.solutions !''-and attempts to answer
!, bv throwing the blame upon Fickefing.
sr,,;ncey, Randolph, &c. and the opposers O
- .mbargo laws generally. Now, admitting
g., moment that administration were right
:, he federalis,s wrong, can Mr.. Peasants
~. ,nv credit to his party for their conduct
g they. were conscious the measures tney
- odonted we're for their country S welfare,
.,sre thew not betraying that country to aban-
In these measures upon the appearance O.
onnos;tion Have not the Democrats them
.,rss denounced the 10th and 18th Congress
:. weak, wayering and imbecile Does not
...;r conduct shew it, and does not every man
..s and acknowledge it! Then if democracy
10. bet,ayed itself and the country, why
should the democrats complain or vince when
,hev are told Of it, or do they think they have
on exclusive right to ce2sure or applaud. AL
Uniting all the pdium attached to the attack
on the Chesapeake to be correct Will that
stand as a justification of the Infamous rob-
bsrv and insults committed by Bonaparte, or
are the Democratic Editors so hard run that
sbule of England IS the only mode. by which
they can Justify the conduct ofFrance we
pretend not TO Justify England for numerous
,cts. bur while we live wo viii never cease to.
sneak and write in defence OF what we con-
ceive to be the just rights and homer OF our
country, and whatever may be said to the
contrary by MIR: peasants and hisscribbler,or
their brother la5ourers, VIC insistthat no ma
ton, possessing proper sense of Its own
dignity, ever tamely bore suchinJuries and
insults as we have received from France.
Mr. Pleasants begins his article by calling
this paper little Tory Gazette" othls
we would only observe that we think It pro-.
bable, Insignificant as he may suppose this
Gazette, acomparisoA of subscription lists
would not redoundmuch to the advantage OF
the Argus, audit is published three times as
often as that paper. with respect to its size
we could give as "a reason, 1--WE have not tasted
loti) the publishing Of laws, printing Jour
mails, Sc lthose comfortable iobs) have not
passed through our hands, and we must creep
before we walk, and as for the term tory we
despise and detest the name, whether ema-
mating from an American jacobin ora French
hireling.
Sir Francis Burdett. From the files OF
Bopdon papers to the ed of May, we have
occasionally published several articles relative
10 the question which agisates the capital of
the British empire. sWe say cdtital-for we
are assured, verbally and by their newspa-
.pers, that the metropolitan district only APP
pears to side with Burdett-and that partially
A gentleman, himself a~stickIers for reform,
informs us that be was IN London when Sir
Francis was arrested; that he afterwards
crossedthe Kingdom; that the people out OF
Aiiddlcsex were uniformly agsinstyiolence.
We published last week the protest sighed by
80 Liverymen, against the Common Hall
1 and Burdett.] The " Morning Chronicle"
of May IS, now before US, contains tinclsd-
ing the above) upwards Of 1900 signatures to-
that Protest, all Liyerymensof London. SIP
uIanies Shaw asserted in the Housesof Com,
ulypns on the sthof May, that 1900 signed in
one day. Alderman Conbe replied that the
iLiverymen consisted of at least 1000. The
paper is open for Acknowledgements, sc that
at leas, powerful minority of the capital are