Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-29
From the Londan Traveller Of June 80.
AMERICAN POLITICS.

The recent advlceS from New ork anu
other quarters have cast damp upon our
hopes of speedy and cordial adjustment OF
the differences which have SO long existed
between us and the government OF the "
States. We are very far from apprehend.
ing war with America but it Is painful
consideration, that the harmony Of two ma
tions, which are linked together by SO ma
nv powerful afinities, and WHICH have SO
deep an interest in the mutual prosperity OF
each other, should be for moment inter-
rupted. All the pas sions which led to that
unhappy war which ended in the dismem.
berment of the colonies of North. America
from the dominion of England, are defunct
in this country, yet in America they seem
as the passions of yesterday. Every thing
in the miAdof the American executive speaks
jealousy, and an apprehension Of the pow.
er of this country, which we are sure there
are no feelings here to justify. Nations,
like individuals, are often governed by their
passions; and the quarrel, or rather es.
transement, which America has with US, is
more deducible from private pique, from An
undesirable resentment & an unavowed iea-
lousy, than any substantial and legitimate
subjects of complaint. To the circumstances
and complaints Of America, the government
of this country, under successive admins
trations, have turned an attentive and re-
spectful ear. Placed, from the nature Of
the warfare in which we are engaged under
very extraordinary circumstances, it may
safely be affirmed that Great Britain has
shown mldnes3 and forbearance, and a
lenity towards America, acting susbici0usly
as she has done, of which no example could
be produced. We have uniformly held GU.
to her the right hand Of fellowship !; and in
~syesu OF Prruua,;oaS,y aadG!h:--:!;ig 10 our own
views of any question Of political discussion,
which ha, arisen between Us, we have re-
ferred to those of the American govern.
msnt. In private disputes it may be laid
down as fundamental maxim, that the
man who is most angry, is most in the
wrong; and trying the dispute between our
government and that of America by thi,
test twill! be seen that England has been
patient of injuries and !usults almost beyond
example while America has been prodigal
ofanger beyond all Precedent. The war
we wage is for our existence, and therefore,
If any irregularities occur in it, they are to
be excused by the necessities of our crcum-
stances but the jealousy and alarm of the
American government Is called forth by no
such circumstances. We are their natural
ally. No dreams of conquest or subjuga-
ton enter our minds ; but We feel satisfied
| that whatever contributes 20 their prosreri-
, t. must be conducive to ours. According
to the co,nmenes OF the American state pa
,per, ofenoe is taken that Mr.. Jackson Is
pr. tnarked with his majesty djspleasure
for the part which he took in the negoca-
tion at Washington Lut n, case is made
out that Mr.. Jackson did not adhere TO the
units ~nt his mo ,r"ctions. or that in his COM
munications with the American government
he exceeds the bounds to which diplomat
ist should confne himself. We should have
looked upon MIR. Jackson as a most injured
individual, had not his fnajesty's govern
inert held over him the shield of their pro-
tection, for when we remember the temper
with which he was received in America, the
disposition which appeared in the public
mind ofthe y. S. to villify and traduce him,
it would have been sort of aiding and
abe,ting on the part of the British ministry,
had they not espoused his cause, and at the
same time that they recalled him, exone-
rated him from the stigma of a recall. The
character OF England is gone when she per-
mlts injustice to be done to the meanest of
her sons, much less to one of her public
tunctionsries. How the dispute between
us and the United States will end, it is i'm
possible for US to foresee but it seem. to
us sort of unnatural quarrel, or rather an
tipathy, in which the real interests of Ame-
RIGA have nothing to do, but her passions,
the i'll blood of a former war, no trace or