Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-08-27
From the .Mrsu- York Commercial Advertiser.

The PROSPECT before us.-The British Or
ders in Council have been represented, by the
Admins tratien and its friends, as the great
cause Of that system of Embargoes and Non
Importation Laws, with which our country
for several years, has been SO severely afilict
ed.-Thcy are also placed, in the manifesto of
Congress and the proclamation of the Presl-
sident, as principal ground of the war, ID
which we are now uphapily involved.
The obnoxious Orders, were revoked In
June; and authentic intelligence of their re-
vocation reached the seat OF government on
or about the 18th instant
On the 10th Of this month an Armistice for
90 days was agreed upon between the com
mander in Chief of our armies and an Agent
of the Governor OF Canada, or the ground of
The revocation of the Orders in Council, and
under the expectation Of both parties that
peace would be the immediate result and
Messenger was dispatched to obtain the sane
ton of the administration.
Admiral Sawyer, who commands the Bril-
fish squadron on our coast, has written to the
Secretary at war, proposing an immediate suS
pension Of me unequal contest upon the O.
cean.
Under these circumstances, the people have
battered themselves that the war was near It's
close, and have fondy antc pated speedy re-
turn of peace and commerce with their atten-
dant blessings. They have anXiously turned
their eyes to the executive. They have sought
the Government paper with unusual eager
ness to find Proclamation from the Presi-
dent confirming their anticipations and their
hopes.
But they have looked, expected, and hoped
in vain. They have found in the National In
teiligencer, HotAi4e that indicates pacific
spirit. They have found on the contrary, Co
umns, of the most raEcoroUs abusc of every
citizen who dares to express wish for peace.
In the paper received this morning, is is said
that the war will probably last sac gears, and
will leave the country in new debt Of 1873
Millions.
From that paper, we quote the paragraphs
which follow-let the people read them, and
then Judge of the trosfect6e before as =
Let Us look at this topic somewhat in de-
tail. In making an estimate Of the future,
wisdom refers us for instruction to the past
The war of the revolution secured Us peace
OF thirty years. 1t is not unfair to calculate
that the present, war conducted with equal Vi
cor, will purchase Ike exemption from its
horrors. That war lasted SIX years; let US
compute the duration of the present at the
same term. Say--the amount greatly trans
cends every calculation made--that the annual
expence of the wal will be twenty Eve millions
of dollars. This sum will maintain an army
OF Fifty Thousand men, and a navy, should it
prove necessary, ct twenty ships OF the line
and twenty frigates in actual service.
6 With such force, no one viii dispute,
but that cur commerce would be SO protected,
or the enemy so annoyed, as to yield eight
millions, about half the ordinary amount, 10
the treasury. Surprising the present debt to
remain as 1t is, AID its interest and the civil
listto be paid, there will remain FIVE millions,
annually applicable to the support of the war
and to paying interest on the new debt created.
Add to this two millions derived from inter-
nal taxes, a tax so small, as, iudiciously laid,
will be scarcely felt. This will increase the
FIVE to seven millions. Surprising this amount
of taxes to Increase with our ordinary increase
of numbers, which increase is much below
that verified by our experience, and we shall
have, applicable to supporting the war and
paying the interest on the new debt
"Ihe firstyea 100000 dollars
Cd 100000
Sd 7,5o5,25o
4th 7,76S,906
5th 8,o38,l2s
9th 8l9l4OSl
I" If then the war expenditure of the first
year is twenty -hye millions allow interest on
half that amount, and there will be created at
the end ofthe year debt amount
ing to ls,75o,oo0
AT the end of the second
year, the debt added to that of
the first will be $685. 900
/" At the end of the third year,
the debt added to that of the two
preceding years, will be s7s6o,a5o