Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-07-27
From the NJ Y. Evening Pest.

Sentiments Of the English relasioe 70
our 1car.
We this day give a number OF ex-
tracts from late Eaglish papers. that
our readers may know what the Bril-
fish editors say on the subject of A
merican affairs. We're We to judge
from the threats of ministerial prints
on both sides of the water, we should
conclude that this war would close.
| only with the destruction Of one OF
both nations but we hope there is
still GOOD sense enough left both in
Britain and America to prevent SO
| great a qualification to Bonaparte,
| as thus to have the only two nations
| on earth, where there is a shadow
| Of liberty, destroying each other. to
| make way fer his ambitious plan OF
universal slavery.
From the london Times Of .aprit g.
A Boston paper, of the 9Th ult.
has Just come to our hands, contain
inc a message from the President
to congress. of the most violent and
unfuriaied description. Under pre-
tence Of our enacting the British IL
eense system. it proposes measure
which must put stop to the whole
foreign trade of America; and out
of "a tender regard to morality, it en-
beavers to starve all the Inhabitants
OF the West India islands. The
facts are these the West Indies hav-
inc always depended in great mea-
sure on America for supply OF pro-
visions and wood for common par
! poses. (cailedlumber), these articles
have been usually imported into the
| islands in American ships. The
| trade SO carried on was doubtless be-
| neficiaI, in various respects. to both
Darties: but in commercial point
| of view il was most profitable to the
l. Americans. atfording a demand for
| their domestic produce, to the "a
| mount of sixteen million doilars year.
f; ". When Mr.. Madison's supper
| ters brought on their country the ca
lamity of war, it was a Legitimate
| consequence of that state of things.
that the trade in question should
cease to be carried ON in American
.hi2s.-It was, however, competent
| to England to exempt this, or any
| other branch Of commerce, from the
ordinary effect of hostility. under
such notifications as might best suit
her own couvenience.-She accord
ingly did so by an order in council,
authorising the colonial governors
to admit into their ports American
ships under license, and coming from
the unblockaJed ports of the eastern
states. We shall not here enquire
into The policy of these particular
exemptions. Sufficient is il for our
purpose to shew, that they were mat
ter of right.-We might legally cap
ture any American ships coming
from any American ports. and there
fore we might legally excuse from
capture particular American ships
coming from particular American
ports.
No sooner does information OF the
British order in council reach MIR.
| Madison. than it throws him into a
paroxysm Of rage. In the midst of
all his pacific professions he issues
a State Paper, couchcd in terms OF
| such vulgar and violent abuse, as
have by common consent been long
banished from the official acts Of ci-
T! yilized governments. He den0unces
The British measure, as resting on
perjury and forgery. undermining
the principles OF morality and refi-
gion. an insidious and malignant ar
tisce, &c. and he PROCESSES first to
,rohibit all trade by the inhabitants
of the United States under special
licences, the consequence of which
woula be thatno American ship could
pretend 10 cross the seas. but for
purposes of war; and then I'm did Of
The former sapient measure. he sug-
sests a prohibition Of all erporiaiion
from tie Uuitet! States in foreign
l,ottoms-a piece of.sadness that not
even BoHaparte or Robespierre, in
their maddest fits, ever dreamt OF
committing! What? First blockade
all your ships in your own harbofs'
and then condemn all your produce
to rot in your own warehouses
Surely, if the American Congress
pass such laws as these, they must
be sitter for apartments in Bcdlam.
than for the state and authority OF
iL q legislative office,