Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-10-17
From the National Mtelkgencef


raccas, which we havejust received:
THE SUPREME JUNTA
Conservative Of the rights Of 81. Don Fer
dinand WI. in the provinces Of VeneSu-
ella.
IF the sacrifices which the generous Bri-
fish nation has made in the service Of the
unhappy monarch, whose rights Venezuela
defends and preserves are entitled TO Me
consideration of every good Spaniard; Car
raccas has, over and above those sacred OBJ
legations, others very immediate and lmpe-
rious to prove the sincerity with which 1t
has asked, and has right to hope for, that
protection from Great Britain which may
insure its political existence without direct
~ or indirectly influencing its domestic IN
stitutions. Agriculture and commerce are
the two pillars of our prosperity but the
political system OF the other hemisphere,
where our. productions must be consumed,
has given to Great Britain an influence over
mercantile relations as powerful in general
as the duties which our gratitude 10 her,
our geographical position, our political
youth, and our industry, discouraged by the
oppression we have thrown of, impos- on
Us in particular. SO many obstacles to our
prosperity canno. be overcome without as
sistance, and this cannot be obtaine with
OUT reciprocity of sacrifice. In vain we
shall open our ports to the other nations
when this one alone can carry to or permit
our productions 10 arrive at the markets Of
selves TO defend our fire, sides from French
rapacity, when she alone can shield from
all foreign aggression our lmmense extent OF
coast.
A commercial distinction in favor of
nation who possesses such power and who
may now secure such requisite snd various
seryiecs-and the government, when it "a
qrees TO this sacrifice, does it for no other
purpose but the better to entitle American
Spain to sacrifices on the part of G.. Britain
equal TO those she has made in favor OF Eu-
ropean Spain
Our li5era!ty cannot be mistaken when
il is seen that we devlate, in favor Of this
respectable ally, from the orders by which
the regency, prohibiting our foreign COM
merce, would have ultimately deprived even
Great Britain of the advantages which we
offer her, 70 compensate for the benefit we
promise ourselves from her protection, and
10 recompeuce her for what she has done
tor our valiant countrymen IN Europe. Our
own liberty is TO be the agis of our preser-
walton; as our patriotic indignation will be
he rock on which will be wrecked all the
projects which do not correspond with The
liberality of our designs, if, as we ought
not TO expect, ate mpts should be made to
IKE advantage Of our situation. Under
the incontrovertible principles of civil liber.
~, of moderation, of dlgni,y-and sub
iec,ng to the sanction Of the body conser-
vatve of the rights OF Sr. Don Ferdinand
7th, which is about to be Installed, and to
what our commissioners TO his Rrit2nnic
majesty may have directly stipulated, the
provisional measures which circumstances
may have required-the junta for the pre-
sent has acceded tc the proposition which,
in the name of his Britannia majesty and
in consequence Of dispatches sent to the 60
S>rnment of Curacao from London on the
29th of Tune last, has been made to it by
col. Robertson, secretary of that govern
ment, granting in favor of the British ma
ton reduction of one fourth part of the
duties which are now received from TO-
reigners on their imPortations or exporta>
ticns through our custom houses--assured
that in the respectable personal qualities Of
coll Robertson and in his benefcent and de-
cided sentiments IN favor of our stabilitv,
Venezuela has a guarantee in addition to
those which the high respectable origin of
his mission insure to it.
Having agreed on its measures, the su-
~preme iupta has demanded that IN the Fnu.