Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-15
aleranDrta Daflp Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Is.

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own Gazette of Monday So congenial are
the sentiments with those which have en-
tertaince AMI now hold-opinions which ulti=-
mately, must preval--that ] desire you
once more to bring them into view.
1t may not be amiss to mention that it is
from the pen of an Englishman, who was
and is yet, believe, Democrat-one whom
Duane has extolled to the skies, but now ex-
ecrates and abuses, because he has had the
temerity to denounce his own party's undue
prediction for France, and with candor and
honesty acknowledges the imbecility and ir-
resolution Of those in power. d.
:" Bonaparte, (says the Editor of the N.
Y. American Citizen,) no longer keeps us
in suspense. His account, for he has We.
ry>serious one with all nations, is partly set
tied with US ere this We are in worse
plight than convicted felon, in the hands
of the law. We cannot hope for reprieve.
The property which he has received uvW
s,ever return to its o1uher. We may hope
against hope, which is often a pleasant sort
Eof delusion; yet it is delusion. IF our
independence, like our property, could be
clusched by the Imperial Republican that
would go too; but zoe are safe zuhile Great
Britain is 50, and she is less assalable than
the rest of the world. I do not say that she
poAntarily protects US yet 1t is certain tha.
vve are protected by her."
The Horntf has sailed from WeSv. York wild,
dispatches for France and England The
names Of our despatch vessels have been con-
Sidered by some as oninous. The stingtalb
I the Hornet it is supposed, will make Bona
tarte and John Bull vince the Munder-6oh
1.-THE Fergeance) having before afftigated
them ;-the saint (the Sc. Nfchael'$) brought
them upon their marrow bones the sarge
lthe osaSel took of their scalps; and the
sage f(the Mentor convinced them Of their
error. And yet it is singular enough, that
though Bony and JJha~B have thus been
made to .yince, and i'll their Gight to fall on
their nrarro7v bones, bend their heads, and con-
fess their errors, yet through our torgiving
disposition, the rogues arc again in want of
a handsome singing = Boston haher.
TIE ksari wants something 10 be Kind to,--.It
consoles US for the loss ofsociety to see even
an animal derive happiness from the endear~
ments we bestow upoait. The simplicity of
this truth, says an elegant moralist, in nc
manner diminishes from its eloquence.
HeRRrp CRUELTY -- Tie following is
copied frsm the quarterly Review, British
publication of high reputation. The extracts
it recites are of written documents, and the
facts are on both grounds entitled to the full
est credit.
To those patriots who cry" peace, where
there is no peace," to those philanthropists
whose bcncvolence' extends to the most dis
tant obiects--while they have little charity
for those at home, we beg leave to relate the
following most strocious, hut not unparalleled
act Of an accomplished Frenchman OF the new
school Of morality, which. inthis instant come
to our Knowledge.
AT the recent capture Of Zante by our
arms, was taken prisoner Lieut.. Colonel of
the name Of Pocris, who is now in England,
we suppose, on his parols. This person had
been Governor, but was removed for mall
versation in his Office. Among his papers
were found, in his'own writing, letters of an
official nature to his Captain General at Cor
Flu, stating transaction so horrible as scarce
" to be credited. on any testimony but that