Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-01-19
descan:ed on BY the editor, we are satisfied
the essay will be read with applause,

The letters on France and England are
written in style, easy, chaste, and elegant,
aud arg both entertaining and instructive:
Besides these there are several criuca! no
tees of new works, with coplous extracts,
which added to the rest of the matter, dis.
play an extent of knowledge, richness &
beauty of style, not surpassed by any young
man of the age. We are therefore led to
hope and to believe, that the work will
prove monument of America. No one
can read the different productions of the
editor without feeling snrprize at the vast
range OF knowledge, and that immense
treasure of thought which they discover,
and when We learn that they come from
the pen of youth, scarcely arrived at the
age appointed in the old world tor scholars
to taxi their degrees, We do not wonder
that the enlightened men Of Europe re
garded him asa prodigy. Few indeed can
boas, of equal a,,ainmen,s, possess the
same opportunities, or enjoy the same
sources of information.
Nm cuivis h0miai cont'ng;t adire Carin.
thum.
We are persuaded that after little at
,enton to the politics of the country, the
discussions in the American Review will
be listened to with admiration and profit,
by the mos. eminent statesmen---the litcra.
nv department. will be always read by the
most erudire and accomplished scholars
with rapture and delight.
We shall take pleasure in giving from
time to time, liberal extracts for the a.
musrment and instruction of our readers,
and TO this end their attention is particular
ly invited to the ensuing paragraphs.
Extracts f'om the Americau RevieW.
We have not the space, nor eau we find
the language 70 comment as we could wish
upon the RambcniNet deeree-,hc climax
OF the wrongs, and the profoundest depth
of the humi!iation of this couatry. Ia
stizing and conRscating the whole of the
American property within his reach, the
emperor OF France gave proof of his
hostility, about whlch it was impossible
even for his most ardent partisans to equi-
yocate. By an act taatamount in every
respect to declaration OF war, and accom-.
panied by the most destructive violence Of
which that state, if it had formally existed
between US, could have been susceptible, he
lef, our administration no subtertuge -
ne probed them and cut with the incsion
knife to the innermost part: he gave them
40 alternative but utter disgrace or unhe-
stating resistance. They felt the wound
they saw the havoc made of the property
of our merchants, and of the national no.
nor but the lethargy which their fears
had prompted them to feign, was not dis
earded. They made no manly, warm, In
dignant appeal to this nation, which would
then have mounted to any elevation to
which a magnanmous executive might
have led the way. The popular feeling
would have borne chem out in any manlul
decision, if they had themselves displayed a
suitable force and dignity OF character.
This nation stands acquitted, in some de.
gree because in every country, and emil
nchtly in this. government must furnish
both the impulse OF srntiment and the cal
Cula,ion of interest or, at least, must tx
ert direct influence to give Efficacy and
aim to these principles OF action. With
heartlrs., narrow minded rulers, no people,
however well constituted or disposed, if
the nature of their institutions and the pc.
cuilar circumstances Of their condition lead
them to look both for Information and feel
ing to those rulers-can be expected to act
greatly, or to :ravel steadily in ,ae paths OF
high honor and true wisdom. A MARION
Will naturally'tread in the footsteps Of those
whom she has constituted her guides aad
directors, and is prompted by various mo-
tives to make their opinions the measure OF
her own. Such must eminen,ly be the