Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-03-30

Regency against Recovery, and were trying
all their strength and wind to make Regency
get in first Some of the Journals, indeed,
which advocate the cause OF the party, make
no secret of why they wish for hurry. They
are DESTROYS of setting aside the king altoge-
Their, inSinuating that he can never be suffi-
GENTLY recovered to transact business--thcy
would prevent him, after the establishment of
"a regency, from ever resuming his authority.
Motives so base and malignant, nay, almost
reasonable, we do not impute to the party,
however anxious these journals are of being
thought to speak their sentiments.
The bill will probably pass the commons on
Tuesday. On the part of the minister it has
been discussed with a dignity as far removed
from insolence: as his moderation has been free
from weakness Taunts and reproaches, and
hard names, he has borne with the contempt
they descrve--he knows they are the tax i'm
posed always upon great minds. He has hap
PLY combined a faithful discharge of his duty
to his king with due performance of his OBJ
legations to his country. Nor, in thus con-
Meeting these two duties. has he failed in res
pect and attachment to the heir apparent. He
has consulted his true interests, and may con-
fdently appeal to the Prince himself against
those who have accused him.
Speak, in your State,
What have done, that misbecame my place,
My person, and my Liege's Sovereignty
He has steered wise, manly, and con-
stitutional course. He has risen with the diff
fculties of his situation, and his administra-
ton need not shrink from comparison with
any that has gone before it. 1t is now, we sup
pose near its close, for the advisers Of the Re-
gent give out that the new ministry is nearly
arranged. Retire, however, when Mr.. Perez
val may, he will retire with the appreciation
aid regret of the whole country. Much too,
do we fear that that regret will be increased
in the contemplation of the new measures that
will be adopted. Among the first, we appre-
bend, will be the recall of our army from Por-
tusal; the party are already paving the way
for it, by endeavoring to alarm us for the safe
ty OF not only Ireland, but of England
Troops" they say, care wanted in Ireland;
and there is no saying, during war with an
enemy so active as Bonaparte, how soon they
may be wanted in England Here is the first
system Of the cowardly councils of the new
men; they begin already to shew their das-
tardly fear of Bonaparte; they proclaim Oh
the threshold of their administration, that they
have nothing to spare for foreign service, and
they must abandon the Peninsula, because they
dread attempt upon England. They say to
him, that they believe it will be found upon
a serious enquiry into the state OF our army to
consist chiefly of grand military ata6::' And |
this they have the assurance to tell us in the |
face of fact known to all Europe, that part !
onlyiof that army has baffied the chosen troops !
and general of Bonaparte for whole cam
paign, and at this moment sets them at def )
ance. Troops indeed may be wanted in
England, ifcowardice is to be the guide of our
counsels if we are to grovel before the enc
my tell him that we fear him, and run into
that error, which, Of all others, most beset the
public mind, and which, yet of all others, is
most degrading in its nature, the most ire
mendous in its consequences, that inward pros !
tration of the soul before the power and the |
fortune of this transcendant villain Courier.
In the last page of our paper, we have in
serted those American documents Of which |
we gave asketch yesterday. 1t has been we'll |
said, by contemporary journal, that from these |
documents it appears " there exists as vet no |
symptom of speedy approach to accommo-
dation with either France or England" At |
ter the letter from Gen. Armstrong to the
duke of Galore, and the dukes answer, it |
will afford considerable surprise, that the A.
meriean government should have thought b. !
naparte serious in his professions and promi-
ses of sustaining from all attacks upon the |
rights ofneutrals.
America, as we said yesterday, will not be
satisfied with the repeal of our orders in coun-
Gil. She will insist upon our departing from
our present system of blockade, and it now
appears, that it is not the orders in council
which she most complains of, those orders |
which the late ministry said were the only !
ones of which America did or could COMPLAIN.
The order she finds most grevous and often
sive, is an order which these very ministers
issued when they were in power, the order
Of the 18th May, 1906, by which the coast
from the Elbe to Brest was declared to be in
state of blockade Now, considering the
warm manner in which the opposition have add
vocated the cause Of America, this is not :,
very grateful return on her part But to use /
the words OF a contemporary print " we partly |
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