Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-11-02

In Baltimore, IN WHICH TIC iat.Si u~''
prays. as every good man does, 81 tray Goa
IL nav haze a full settlement with france
and afterwards adds, not in the spirit OF pray
er. but in reciting the articles of his belief,
{. verily believe if England rnere reVafif1o"-
lied or subjugsted, 7ve could enjoy more mar
monu on This side Of the wGter. And Mi.
Jefferson himself with all his knowledge OF
mankind, of what was doing, and what the
consequences would be, anticipates the same
thing not only with confidence, but with
pleasure.
To what quarter must we look for induce
ments favoring this prediction? Is the go
yernment of France Republican, or favorable
to republics? Is it not as despotic, as abso-
lutte monarchy as ever existed Is 1t not
literally military despotism? Has it shewn
any favor to republics? Has it not destroyed
all the republics in the world but our own
Where are the republics OF Geneva, OF Ge-
noa, of Venic &C, of Switzerland, the Cis-Ai-
nine. of France, of Holland, and the Hanse
Towns Has it ever been made public that
MIR. Jefferson or MIR. Irwin has had peep
into the DEGREES of heaven shelving that the
present ruler of France intends to confer on
the people of the United States the whole
stock of liberty he has wrencbed and squeez-
ed from the broken bones and mangled bodies
of all the republicans in Europe? What is
the liberty conferred on Switzerland, that Ia
NOUS republic we have heard SO much OF !!
A part added to France over the rest France
is moderator, (tbat is, being construed into
plain English) it is in reserve with all Its brave
inhabitants to be bargalned away, or 10 exc
out some new kingdom Whs, is the liberty
the Hollanders enjoy? If more than two or
three meet together in the streets, French
bayonets are at their breasts, and their sons
are forced by CONSUMPTION into the fleets and
armies Of France their young men & maid
ems may marry when and whom certain
great man pleases; people are entirely re-
lieved from those heats and fevers attending
elections; they are now learning the immense
advantages which arise to any country that
drives away all trade from itsshores & cities.
Is this the harmony Mr.. B. Irvine SO devout-
ly hopes will be conferred on the people of the
United States?
1t appears there are people in the world
thew be French themselves. We have heard
of MANS giving up kingdom, because he
could not bear the sufi'erings of the miserable
HoIlanders virtually declaring to all the
world, tina, the possession of kingdom conf
posed of dissatisfied, unhappy, suffering
people, is as light as air when compared with
a good conscience. Another says all the har-
monies in France shall not induce him to re
main within the grasp of his brothers ire
mendous talons, although he once saved the
life OF that brother: Republican as he is, he
will rather trust himself and all that is dear
to him with the English, than with that bro
ther. There IS a kingdom and people whose
attachment to France for ages past has been
proverbial Their money, their ships, their
men, bad been, and still were at the COM
mand Of France, and many bloody battle
have they fought in the cause S service of
tha, nation; but this was not enough the
kingdom itself must be'seized, not to be con-
verted into a republic but into government
Of the NEST absolute kind, and given to an OBJ
scure individual. The former rulers in Spain
must, under the mask of friendship, be In
,ited to France, and there imprisoned, and
some one, two or three hundred thousand
French soldiers sent to Spain, there to take
possession of the country, and butcher with.
out pity all who dared 10 resist. This is a,
| once the most horrid of all the bloody trans.