Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-07-30
From, the Connecticut Mirror.


,ouths. or a year at most. And as said
ss,e. so said all--holding the unity Of OPT
ION in the bond of ignorance. TWAS stat
I'd through all the democratic ranks, that
ae downfall of England, or Great Bri-
.fain, was near at hand. And what then
Why Bonaparte, the super eminent
statesman" getting possession OF the Bri-
fish fleet, the sea would become as safe
as fishing pond. Such blest state OF
things the sage. unqaestionably meant,
when he gave at Richmond as a toast
{" The liberty of the seas"
Hence it was that every impeachment to
the accomplishment of this darling object,
the destruction of Holland, was viewed
with grief and adherence by the disciples
of the great man. Austria attempted to
throw off the Fl ench yoke, they instantly
announced her down. Austria fell in the
struggle, their exultation at her downfall
and niseries were unbOunded. Spain and
Portugal resisted the French emperor.
They cursed them in the name of their
gods, and devoted them to perdition. Not
that the sage, or his purblind followers,
hated the Austrians and Spaniards and
Portuguese, absolutely and directly they
hated them, only as distractions to the
conquest of England.
=" Great men are not always wise. =
About four years have passed away since
the ilIustrious tenant of Monticello an
neunced the ruin and overthrow of Eng
land, as what would certainly happen in
six months or year at most. After all
the thing that was said has not come to
pass. SO far from it, England was never
so mighty as now. Her armies, cOmpa-
ratiyely small have driven the French out
of Portugal. and covered them with
shame and disgrace. Her naval power is
every where Irresistible; and such are
her immense resources, that her revenue
for the year 1910, exceed that OF the year
1903. by a sum not less than 4,is7 200
pounds sterling. 1t must be tough piece
of work to overthrow such nation.
And here we cannot help expressing
some fellow feeling for the venerable
sage. How mu5t it wiring his pious heart
with anguish, whenever he Eliminates on
these untoward events; which no doubt
he does, morning, noon and night. His
eyes will never see the gOodly day, when
England shall lie PROSTATE i'm the dust,
when Bonaparte shall proclaim Liberty to
the seas as we'll as to the land, and when
the golden age OF; the world shall COM
mence. Aid him, all we powers of phiio-
sophy! A pity it would be, a great pity
that he should go out Of the world in a
passion. Would that the great man, re-
turning to his once fayorite pursuits, may
soothe his chagrin, with surveying
" A muck worms entrails, or SPIDERS
fangs."
We have been told, in some old English
history, that at the time when Philip IL.
of Spain, set out for the conquest of
England, what was proudly called the
Invincible Armada, Queen Elizabeth ar
irving at Shrewsbury. the mayor Of that
corporation said to her-'' Madam, the
kingof Spain, in attacking your majesty,
has taken the wrong sow by the ear
The same kind of mistake which Philip
made, we do think has been made by the
great Napoleon and his satellites. For
ourselves, we see no reason why England
may not hold out enc generation longer at
least.
I'm t77S, France had more than 81 1000
sailors. In 1888, she had 1000 sailors,
and about 40 ships of the line. Spain
and Holland had each also formidable
navy. From the last mentioned period
(l7SS) Great Britain coatended, for nearly
:bur years, with France, Spain and Hol-
land, all three. together with the United
States, and at the same time with vast ar.
mics in the East Indies defeated her
enemies in almost every naval engage
/. neat, overthrow their grand forces before
Gibraltar, and finally came off victorious,
with only the exception of losing her
American colonies. When Bonaparte was
nducted to the office Of first aeonsul, If
years ago, France had a powerful navy,