Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-06-11

needful, wsuld have been reinforced BIZ
promises, by hopes. by expectations, ad.
dressed to public and individual cupid.
ty. Some would have been alarmed by
fears for their own safety. Others would
have been debauched by the prospect Of
preferment. power, or even less henora-
blerewards, and decent pretext would
have been afforded, by the offer of some
part Of the spoil, as an indemnity for our
! assistance. The importance Of this pro.
missed boon would have been sedousIy
magni6sd. The whole tribe of profess
SIGNAL, venal patriots, unfortunately too
numerous every where, would have call
ed clamorously for the measure. And
at length a popular current would have
been created, by which the nation would
have been swept headlong into the pit
prepared for its destruction.
" Then would our ships Of war have
joined the maritime eenfederacy Of Eu-
rope against Great Britain. Our mer-
chant ships would have been converted
into transports, to convey the invading
armies. Our sailors must have manned
the fleets of France. We should soon
have heard of maritime consumption
ON our sea-coast,t to increase the number;
and probably Of military CONSUMPTION
all over the country, to raise troops-for
invading the British West-lndies.
To such an attack, repeat again,
Britain aust at length have yielded
Shut out from all intercourse with Eu.
cope and the United States surrounded
on every side with enemies ; seeing al.
most The whole world in arms against
hep, there is great reason to apprehend
that the constaney and courage of her
people would fail; that Encouragement
and then dependency would take place
in the public mind. Her government,
being popular in its essence, though mo-
narchial in its form, must participate in
the public feeling and finally yield to
the general impulse. Should the nation
and government preserve their courage,
still it would be almost impossible to
prevent all invasion, from some of the
numerous hostile points around her
Ireland would be threatened in the south,
from the ports of Spain and Portugal,
and in the north, from those of Denmark
and the Elbe. The whole coast OF Eng
land and Scotland would be threatened,
from the ports in the bay OF Blscay, the
Channel and the North Sea- By a om-
binaticn and Infamous employment of all
the maritime means of Itely, Spain, Por-
tugal, France, Holland, Denmark, Swe-
den, Russia, and the North of Germany,
added to those Of the United States, and
perhaps of the whole Turkish empire,
numerous & powerful fleets would soon
be equipped and it would be impossi.
bic for England, notwithstanding her
great maritime superiority, sufficiently !.
TO guard SO many points. Ere long
would numerous army be landed on.
Asr territory. A !odgnent once made,
il would be reinforced with less s less
diffic ulty, ill at length she weuld find an
overwhelming force in her bosom. The
conflict would, no doubt, be long, despe.
rate and bloody ;cbut its issue, with such
vast inequality of force, could not be
ultimately doubtful. In its progress it
would produce the most horrible mss-
sures, and its termination would seal the
fate of the civilized world
England once subdued, or forced to
submit, would be marked out for pscu-
liar vengeance. She must be broken
down, crippled, and rendered incapable
of future effort. Her people must drain
the cup of bitterness to the dregs. Her
government must be destroyed, Der ma
tional spirit broken and subdued, and all
the splendid monuments of genius and
industry, of arts and sciences, OF refine
mcnt and taste, and of general happiness,
which size has reared, must be Ievelled
in the dust. These evils and sufcririgs
the vengeance no less than the policy OF
the conquersr would require. lie would
consider them as necessary atonement
for the long obstacles raised BY her IN
the way Of his power and necessary
pi ecauion against similar efforts in tu-
tore Delanda est Carthage, was max
i'm of French policy.
B,rain subdued, France becomes ON.
nipolent. With the icy arms OF death,
she embraces both hemispheres' The
deadly shade Of her dominion spreads
over the land and the sea. Nothing re-
mains for the rest of the world, but tame
and slsvish subfoission Further resist
aDce would be Intellectual, or effectuai
ONLY for the destruction OF its authors
All would SOON shrink from so hopeless
SO desperate an attempt, and the DARK
and cold night of universal desPotlsn,
would once more settle over the human
race. ,,
Such, Mr.. President, as it appears to
me, must have been the consequences,
the direct and almost Inevitable conse-
quences, ef the eubjdgation or sebmis-
sion Of Russia. They would have How
ed con Nv, though not speedily, from