Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1814-07-21

PEACE on terms honorable to the Anne
rican heotle I"
We repeat our best wishes tor the
confirmation of this report :-But We
are in duty bound to state facts to she"
our opinion, that at the date OF the above
dispatches, no haeJfe frosteet couio
have existed in Europe, unless 1t wa
known, that the American ENJOYS were
authorised, or intended to abandon the
ground Of .'Marxinie Rights" for which
he war was declared! This lis conjec.
tured by many, bot il they know the
fact, let the administration honestly a.
vow or deny it.
We are not informed OF the date OF
Mr.. C's dispatches; and knowledge
of it is necessary TO the formation OF an
opinion of their validity We feel con-
fident they were written in April.
Taking the above for the fact, the
public will recollect, that on the Soth
April, the British Admiralty published a
Marifesto declaring their determination
to maintain all their Martins rights
and assigning the opposition to those
rights by the United States as the cause
why the navy and army could not be re-
duced to peace establishment - This
then nust have been made after the date
Of MIR. C's dispatches, and as the pub
lie know that a constant intercourse is
kept up between Lord Castlereagh and
the British Cabinet his lordship IN any
conversation with Mir. Crawford, must
have communicated this determination
of the British government. II alter this
the prospect continued pacific. from
what source could its quality have ema
mated"
1t is known also that the great British
reinlcrcements which have arrived IN
Canada left Bordeaux as late as the mia
die Of Mas-that Bordeaux IS but four
or five days past from Paris, where Lord
was; and where he was sc-
qaain,cd with their embarkation. II any
really hacifc trestect existed even then,
would the British Minister have taken
upon himself the responsibility OF incur
ring the heavy expense oftransportation
of from 10 to 10000 useless troops a
eros. the Atlantic, merely to have the
trouble of transporting them back again!
We think he would not. These facts,
which have occurred since the date OF
Mr.. C's dispatches, We think are anti.
pacific.
1t may be said that the declarations OF
the British Admiralty, and the reinforce
ments sent out were merely to command
better terms in the negotiation, and 10
hold the staff of war in one hand, while
they presented the oiipe-wreah in the
other land that the last known act oil
the British Cabinet was the pacific one
Of the appointment of ENJOYS 10 NEE:
ours. We grant all this-but the pre-
paration, if intended for mase-weight
appears to us to cost more than can be
by it, and Great Britain would
have been guilty ola fragrant breach OF
pubic faith, if after the proposition BY
the Brsmble she should in any event
have refused to appoint ENJOYS.
We shall only add, that the National
Intelligencer, the organ OF the Execn.
tive which must know OF these Pescea-
bic prospects if they exist, never breath
ed interminable War more vehementlY
than in its last number; in which, among
other things, its imported editor is gull
ty of charging on the British govern
ment the senseless menace OF London
onilIdrive, and declares that SHE
(Englsnd) NOW OPENLY THREAT.
EMS TO RECOLONIZE THESE
STATES" Bss. Cea!iael