Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-29
ALEXANDRIA DAILY G.AZETTE.
FRIDAY, MARCH %.


We look with considerable anxiety on the
proceedings of the South Americans. As
friends to rational liberty, we should sincere
ly hail the establishment of a free government
in that quarter--a government which would
administer "equal and exact Justice to all men,
and which, by removing the barbarous restric-
tons on commerce, would perhaps soon rem
der that people great trading nation. At the
same time we candidly confess our fears as to
the result. The agents of the Great Destroy
er are numerous and crafty and unless the
Spaniards are very watchful indeed, much
mischiefis to be apprehended.
The following communication has been sent
US by a correspondent. He certainly CAM
not be serious, we think and as it may be a
pretty good joke, We publish it fer his graft
fcation. If we mistake not. a similar art-
Gle was published in the National Intelh-
gencer:
II the Printer Of the Aecand'ia Gazette.
SfR--At time when our commerce is III
terrupted in every quarter, it becomes i'm
portant that we should properly estimate
good understanding with that nation which "a
lone appears disposed to respect our rights
and to act towards us with any thing like re-
ciprocity. 1t is with Juhan, alone that we now
enjoy commerce of this description it is
her Emperor alone, among all the sovercigi.s
ct the earth, who, unmovcd by a spirit of ava
rice, and uninhuenced by the example which
he is urged by considerations of interest to fol-
low, treats our flag with the respect due to a
neutral. We have therefore frequently felt
surprize when we have heard suggestions Of
the :Lutility of our embassy to Jahan with
whom it is said we have so little trade. true
it is, that whilst every avenue OF commerce
Was open to Us !; before general spirit of
robbery and plumber had swept the seas of
honorable commerce; our trade to Ja1tuu was
very limited. But it has progressively In
creased and prospcred, particularly since our
mission to Jefan. The agency Of Mr.. Shrig-
gins, our minister, has been productive of the
most beneficial effects, in distinguishing be-
tween real American traders and those who
skulked under our flag, thus rescuing the A.
mericsn trade from the destruction with which
It was lnenaced on account of the counterfeits
who identified themselves with bona fde A.
mer;cans.
The importation of English fabrics into ya-
fau, having been prohibited, the only mode
Of passing them off was by means of forged
American papers. The frequency of these
forgeries led to all indiscriminate suspicion of
American traders; and the mission to Jehau
BY. ensuring the detection of such frauds, has
re-estabished the American character, and
given security to the commerce, at least after
ats arrival in port. The embassy to Japan
therefore has been productive of the greatest
benefit to our commerce, and is at this time
perhaps the most important of all those which
the United States maintain in the worid.--
Should China cease her spoliations- land we
are sanguine in our expectat ion that our mis-
sion to that court will recall its monarch to
sense of that justice by which he at one time
appeared to be Influenced should our trade be
unclnbarrassed by seizures or exactlons IN the
Indian Seas, the trade to Jatun in the present
state of the world will be invaluable. Indeed
if it only encrease in the same rat as 1t has
dose for three or four years past; that is, since
the existence of the British aud French orders
and DEGREES; it will soon be far the greatest
vent for the exports Of thu United States.
A TRAVELLER.
NETWORK, March %.
1.. G.o1, itbon and London.