Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-04-01
WEDNESDAY, APRIL |.
Translated for tie -Aerandria Gazette.

Translated for tie Alexandria Gazette.
Letter from the Minister Of Police 70 The Es'-
heror.
IS SIRE.
Notwithstanding the pains | have taken
n contradict the rumors which the enc
mics of government have circulted res
pecting the Boulogne affair, have been
unable to put stop to the idle conyectures
and malicious sarcasms of the Partisan
fops, who, as your majesty justly observes
are most ungovernable race. In vain
r endeayored to turn public attention from
the subject, by making the Theatres more
attractive: in vain stroye to excite riots
in nublic places in order 10 silence the
restless tattlers who have INDUCED them
selves since your majesty's absence: be-
cause. as YOUR maiesty's visit to the coast
was a fact publicly known, ] could 90 no
thiag more than reprimand most OF the
;nsolent ealumniators, as the prisons are
already filed with those whe seemed most
inclined to believe these false reports. or
most eager to circulate them. In Tact
Tearried nv severity 70 such length, that
the committee of the Senate appointed for
the preseryation Of personal liberty. tho't
il their duly to send one of their members
To inquire whether Lacted on my own res
nnnsibility, or under the Emperors orders.
:. lie you? conduct is merely the result OF
your own impressions, (said the jnPerfl-
nent messenger) we must inform you that
there is nc necessity for exercisingso much
rigor: if YOU act under the commands OF
the EmOeror. we know it is our duty to
suhw;t in respectful silence" confess
That on beine thus questioned by sot. who
thinks he possesses authority because he
has a title, Ireplied perhaps with haugh-
,;ness.-.. lam accountable to the Empe-
ror alone for nv conduct; should he find
fault. am wrong !; but if he approves of
what do. I amacquitted. Defamation,
scandal and plots are carried on in has alb
sence and it is my duty to put stop to
Them"
Ifany thingcouli increase the contempt
which feel for the Parisians. it would be
tho si,vy righteousness Of their converse
ton during your majesty's absence. As
soon as The 3oulegne affair was known
here Inv private letters. the hatred OF these
yseaboaas for yonr majesty's government
manifested itseifby the most bitter ran
lerv and t,,e most treasOnahie expressions.
II was every where said that the whole OF
yonr maeatime force had been frightened
nv single English tr;gate; ana that the
man who boasts ct having regular army
of eight hundred Thousand men, and all
the E,,popean continent ander his e0nfFon;.
was bul,ietl and logged by a ha"dred and
twenty English sailors. They aatied. that
it was not yaur Judgment which prevent
al the destruction Of the wAoie ftetliia Ak
WAYS excepting your own Imperial !atcsi
anj that ii your petaient order bad been
o,,eyed. the prams. Fat bottomed boats,
and bomb vessels, would all have been sunk
nv a fsigate which had not as many men
as Won had vessels; and that there would
have heea rs complete defeat as those OF
Aboukir or Trariigar. Further. they
said that your majesty forced others to
run risks which you yourself was not viii
ling to encounter; as'i that You would
have rejoiced as mnch at the destruction
of your aotiiIa, as Mere dia at the burning
of Rome. They compared your projects
to suhslne England to those against Spain ::
thew pyatenaed that the feoiaardioess with
which YOU pursue those two nations will
eventually overturn your throne; that
from the one you have met with nothing
hut shameful defeats, and from the other
nothinc. but disastrous victories. Others
carried their insolence so far as to declare
that the good genius of France. in inspir-
inc You with fondness ior maritime ex-
cnrsions, would bring about your death
L., L;.l,aato escauel ON land.