Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-09-07


With this servility, with this condo
'.,nsion. with this tame forbearance
i,der all humiliating insults, con.
tumelies, wrongs. injuries and par
tial restrictions, he is elo1uent; be-
cause he is fortified by the dignity of
ustice and truth" That he was
fortified by the dignity Of justice and
truth no one can deny. The receipt
and translation of this letter in the
public Office is proof enough Of the
base servility of the administration
and heaven knows the French go
vernment have heaned upon them
I" humiliating insults, contumelies.
wrongs, injuries. &C." enough Of
them. But for General Turreau to
throw it into their teeth, and Cor Ge-
neral Duane to approve of his con-
duet in so doing is rather too much.
1t puts ,.is in mind of an anecdste,
which thctIsh not altogether proper
in talking OF such serious matters,
We eaunot help relating. An Indian,
one cold December morDins, came
into a tavern in the country, almost
naked and silivering sith she cold.
30 f'rrtity himsclf, not with the Sc dig.
nifty Of justice and truia." but with
"A glass Of the pure beverage of the
West. alias whiskey. The tavern
keeper. however, not having been
paid for what the Indian drank the
night before. refused TO let him have
his morning dram, On this conduct
the man of the forest undertook to
expostulate i: but the gFog seller was
inexorabIe g; and finally told his Gus
toner to get out ofhis house dirty.
lazy. Indian dog !-The Indian tGrn
ing up his wishful eyes towards the
bottles containing The precious ii
quor, near which stood the Owner.
said. "That too hard, master. il is
quite enough to be dirty, ta9y.
Indian dog without being 'Yi,ied Of
it"
General Duane seems to think that
if our government are not already
Influenced by the government of
France. it ought to be he in fact
identifies our cause with that Of BO-
naparte. He says Furreau "sound
and solid on the great points which
are involved in the questions which
in fact are the foundations of the
war of the last 90 years. again.
+" that the general interests of ma
tons are Involved in the question of
the existing war; Fiat is being in
we Rave chained ourselves
to the car Of the Corsican despot,
the politics Of the old rotten govern
ments of Europe have become ours,
and we are iu fact fighting, not, gen
tie reader, for free trade and sailors
rights, but to establish the IS CONT
nental system; ;" or in other words
10 enable Bonaparte to give laws to
the world.
We should proceed to make some
further structures on the Aurora ar
ticle. were the editor considered in
any light but as Frenchman or
had he any influence over real -ime-
ricans. Bnt it is notorious that he
is entirely devoted TO the interest OF
Bonaparte. lie iUstiiies almost G.
very act ofthe Freuri. government;
he approved of the letter from Mons.
Champagny. which compared our ad
ministratiOn to the slaves OF Jamaica;
and he never fails 10 aim blow al
our governments. wlieAescr they do
any thing tina, 'aoks'ii.ic resentment
TO the insults Of France. or When.-
YER they have shown tie least dis
position to settle our differences With
England, With such a man it is
useless to talk Of any thing like A
mericau,sm, or Of the rights OF the
ople; these are things he does not
understand: he knows as little Of
decent freedom and rational liberty,
as even his friend iurreau.
Plasters for Greaf Sores.
Soma pollrica p siclan, believe the