Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-06-22
D.fILY GAZETTE.
gro SHEW
THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF The TINE
HIS FORM AND PRESSURE"
SATURDAY MORNING, June 90.


The New-York Public Advertiser contains
about as warm an enconium on His Excel
lency James Madison, Esquire, as any mo-
dest man would wish to read Of summers
d..y. We extract short specimen:
Without princcly or a7istocratical con-
nections: and with no cthcr aids than spot
less integrity and the high cultivation OF his
Intellectual tac.:.tles, he has risen through We
rious wel!-trled steps OF progressive promo
ton, - tile highest honors of this suolunary
gee From this pinnacle Of his elevations,
axe the Sun IN Hs zenith hc ShrttS u lUStre
spAich cnHsshtens The fol1cal, as the rags II
that Amjaury d. tie natural 7yorld.'
What al unparalleled flight Of genius -
Every puny euiogist Of tie Great Napoleon
may now lang IN his fddl@. Heavens F..
| what splendid figure it is, TO compare our
President to the great Orb OF Day, the noblest
work Of the creation /! The Grand Seignior
never reached such a height as this: his most
exalted claim, we believe, is that Of being a
"a
this, it is to be expected that no person will
undertake to say that the President can do
wrong: "SoLEM qaiS deere FALsUM oudeat? ?"
Col. Duane and some Others had better take
care how they abuse Mr.. Madison: it is not
impossible that he may, in huff, withdraw
his genial rays A bitter sarcasm seems to
be intended on "the lllustrious Jefferson" Or
some other " distinguished citizen" by the
assertion that Mr.. Madison is " without
princely or aristocratical connections" For
our own part, however, we can see no very
great cause for wonder that man should rise
to the highest honors Of retn6Hc with no
* ether aids" than honesty and good SENSE
1t is thus we endeavor TO record merit, Ill
whomsoever found:
True IS the dial 20 the Stn,
.fl,AougA i: be not shhl'd uhon."
1t is with great pleasure we copy the
following article from a respectable Bal
timore paper
"If any thing were necessary to con-
firm the account of Commodore Rodgers,
of tie late affair between the President
and Little Belt, which certainly is not
the ease, We can state On the authority OF
a letter from Capt. Ludlow to his friend
i'm this city, that every officer OF the ship
is ready to pledge his honor that the re-
port of the President having fired the first
gun is false. "-FederaL GaSeits.
We can have little doubt Of the truth
OF this statement, notwithstanding the
sneers OF the Halifax printer. At the
same time, we must repeat our wish, that
the President had instituted a formal In
curry into the whole transaction, accord
ing to Commodore ROdgers's request
The most sceptical would be satisfied with
The official narrative of disintcrested per-
sons.
On the subject OF the Halifax account oil
the late unfortunate rencOunter between
the frisate President and the sloop Little
Belt, the New-York Gazette makes the
sa1joined remarks
This account places Commodore Rod
gers in the wrong, with severe reflections
on his conduct. We are disposed to give
full credit to the COmmodOre's statement
ana are sorry to observe the account in the
Halifax paper, as it is calculated to eX-
cite strong feelings in the pubic MIND
We believe that if the two governments
are mutually sincere in their desire for y:
peace, the affair may be amieably settled"
The British sloop of war Atalante,
Capt. Hickey, arrived at New-York on
the 18th instant, from Bermuda via Nor
folk, with dispatches to the British con-
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