Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-04-17
From the Fcdcrui Gazette.
Mr.. EppES's EXPOSE.

Mr.. EPPES's EXPOSE.
Ills doubtful, whether country who has
Rrc,iauuished to one beiligerent very con-
bilersbic amount Of property, as this has done,
4,ar ai!y longer be thought neutral, or have
xsa.v calm to those advantages which OF right
4b,;qm.r 70 the state There are TOW several
S&ou.tr;es, and Sweden among the last OF them,
which h.,ve been driven BY force into the con-
&tnctli system, that is, the non-intercourse
8r.;th England, the other bcl!igerent, but will
Ico:n,ait no other offensive acts towards this
lAton, t.ian whit they cannot help; these
EscuntriSs cannot find prctcxt to claim the
s1 i.hts OF neutrality and, certainly there is u
tititrcnCc entirely In their favour, if 1t be con-
Msiaered, ttYat our submission IS spontaneous
Hcld you& t.ry, that we never loaded pistol or
#rais.d an arm to recover our property, ca
q :pt against the enemy OF our principal des-
S4boilcr.
n lei do we find that when our Corhs Lcgis-
*lZtiF assembled, counsellor OF state, who,
Hike tie Duke jc nc &ca:s Gnoi, goes down to
HIVE DEGREES registered, now for tho first
I; -, SERIOUSLY complaining of the blockade of
] tnz coast from Brcst to the Elbe, (Which was
some time past redHcesO asserting that there
s,gc hot forces ssationcd maintain 1t, ADD con-
ciadins that it is a mere paper blockade,
&swr.ich ought and must be relinQuished, be-
%cause, iorsooth, our Corhs Ececut3 Is deter
mined to suffer no obstacle TO be raised IL
g-inst the transportation Of ali those psovi-
sio,,s, naval stofcs, colonial produce and spe-
Co: they want to give his Imperial majesty
Che vioicut subvcrtcr of French liberty, and
un..wfui possessor Of the crown OF France)
gratis, Gs has BEEN done for some time past,
AID Whenever we had it in our power. Ur-
fortunately for the Duke there is not the
slightest foundation for his Expose, and h
mast be very ignorant oithe state otthe c >ast
and seas OF Europe, or determined to deceive
his colleagues AID his countrymen, to assert
That this blockade is without forces, as he did
In words or III substance, In the late debate
Oh the non-intH recourse bill.
The forces there are not, it my be true,
like Mlsscna's army before Lisbon, standing
stock still, nor even at anchor, like the Bril-
fish nSes in that h..rbor, which they fully and
quietly possess Maritime forces are natu-
rally Of most effect III offending or defending,
when kept moving, and the Duke may have
assured hiiasclt, that the British know better
how to EMPLOY their ships OF War, than to use
them, as we 10 ours, against their own COM
merce, To guard this coast, which, DIS the
Duke has stated, may extend a thousand miles,
bat partly IN sight of England, and from which
the English only fear invasio@, there are pro-
badly near a thousand ships OF war, OF every
description, intending gln-boats, which our
embargo heroes thought quite sufficient to at
tack unarmed merchant ships. If it were O.
thcrwise, why should we hear from time to
Of fIa ,,fo TT, fri.
gate, snei the picking up by the French and
Dutch Of English se,snsn sh!pwrecked OH this
very coast : We believe 10 American ships
have been able to PISS into the North Sea
since this blockade, without being met by
British cruizcrs; we know that many of our
ships have been conveyed through the Eng
Esh'Channel by these cruisers, and protected
from the French and Dutch privatesrs nay,
saved from French aud Dutcn custom house
o'hcers, by being warned Off this coast ? and,
we suspect, that few American seamen of ex,
perience, would venture 10 one Of the ports of
1t, whilst there is SO great certainty as now
exists, OF being stopped by the English; or
that, If they did .l.tempt it, they would be in
s'h'cd here for less than half of the value they
took with them. This is the real and only
CAUSE why this blockade, which, as the Duke
s:ys, has existed Jour or FIVE years, never ex-
cited any mnrmurs on the part of the .Ameri-
CGa government, until made part ofthe Duke
LAHORE oten entendu of the 5th August last,
ana never has yet, to our knowledge, excited
any 70 tins day on the part of the merchants
ana people osAmenca Amsterdam and Ham
burg, as weisa Bordeaux, and Nantz, remain
cd nnhioekadsd, and generally free and open
70 our shiPs ana trade, as long as it was safe or
prudent TO venture into thena; and, it is only
because the French are not in them, Amer
cans now enjoy the trade to Cadiz and Lisbon. !
Ihs tact is, and our Counsellor of State
ought to have known, and should have told it,
that the greater part ofthis Coast from Brest
: 'ostls Esse, has been so efsectually blockadsd