Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-06-17
From the Trenton Fcderalist, Of June 5
FRENCH INFLUENCE.

This influence daily becomes more &c.
| cidcd in its character and more NANTES,
in the conduct Of the prevailing party
The National Intellisencer, printed at
Washington, under the eye of the Prcsi-
dent, and which from the patronage rx
tended to it by the administration, MAJ be
considered the Official Gazette Of Govern
ment, continues to talk, in relation TO our
foreign affairs, in manner highly alarm
ing to the best interests Of the corIntrY.
1t appears Of late employed in preparing
the public mind for refusal on the Par;
of administration to make any apticabIs
scttlemen: with the recently appointed
British Envoy, in case he should come ont
to this country with fresh propositions Of
peace. One point, for the accomplish
ment Of this purpose, which the Court Ga.
zette seems to aim to establish, is, that tlc
new Envoy is not person Of rank, or {.
character of such celebrity as the dignity
of our government requires. This objec-
ton. to be sure, is rather Outre fer plain
republicans to urge. Mr. Foster, altho'
he has noble blood inh his veins, being sen
of the Duchess Of Devonshire by Ter first
husband, it is true, is not a peer Of the
realm, and therefore, it seems, is not a
person Of sufficient Importance, to sui
their High Mightinesses at Washington
This, with ether objections, which are an
ticipated by the Court Gazette, evidently
appear to be designed to prepare the pub
lie for another aboitive mission from G..
Britain.
Following discourses of this complexion,
we have course of medicine served out by
means ofthe same vehicle, highly seasoned
with French opiates, designed to drown
our senses and Supply our feelings upon
the subject Of the wrongs and violation OF
our rights by the emperor and king.
The Court Gazette has the audacity Of
late even to reprehend the few democratic
papers who, from the late intelligence
from France, have been compelled to
give in, and acknowledge that the Berlin
and Milan DEGREES were not even repeal
cd on the I'd day Of February, the last day
of grace allowed by the accommodating
democrats to the super-eminent Napoleon,
for the fu!filment Of an engagement,
which he, on his part, engaged, to COM
plete by the ist Of Nov. 1910.
The excuse now set up for the French
emperor is, that Administration have no
official accounts as yet that he did not
cease to apply his DEGREES to our ships af-
ter the cd Of February. The democratic
papers, in obedience to this signal from
headquarters, are taking the same ground
to uphold the character Of their emperor
and king. A writer in the Newark Cen
tinel, and others Of the party in support Of
the cause, have even the meanness to sus-
gest that as Napoleon had not received
positive evidence that our government
had fully complied with the terms ofths
arrangement on our part, we ought to sus-
pend our opinion as 70 his good faith, in az
much, as when lie is fully assured that
we, or rather the democratic men at tie
lead Of affairs, are not pcrfdious, Ike nay
yet do what he promised to do six months
ago Really when the adherents OF .
party can see 80 little Of virtue or Eogor
in their own leaders, as to seek to just,
fya foreign government in breaking d So
Tenn engagement for the reason that it
cannot trust them Oh their word, they
must have much the same opinion Of these
leaders, which Bonaparts, OF former o.
casion, expressed, when he told them
plump and plain to their faces, that Trey
were " without just political views, and
destitute Of honor"
But all this is mere evasion and mi.re-
presentation. both in fhr Caurt Coyrtfe
and the outstanding conscripts Of tie eon-
federation Of the Rhine. The pre;en.c
that admini:s o. alton have not had Official
informatiai Of Bonaparte's fa;t!ifaIne.s.a
fulfilling his engagement to sIjrogate hi;
Berlin and Milan DEGREES is a barcfseed
imposition upon the American people
This important fact was fully and Officially
, made known to them through their aSssHt