Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1814-07-26


and Dutch Colonies TO those Powers
respectively except Guadsloupe, when
il secured to Sweden. The emperor
Of Russia retains the Grand Dechy o.
Warsaw, as The Emperor OF Austria
does Venice add its dependencies, to-
ge,her with Mantua and Peschlern.
The kingdom of Saxony is to be DIVIDED
hetws en- Austria and Prussia. King
Joachim is to retain Naples, and King
Ferdinand Sicily, with an indemnify ID
Itaiy for his Neapolitan possessions
The Scheids is to be open, and the
ships at Antwerp to be divided between
the French and the Dutch.
Letters from Paris say, tha, in the SIT
ting Of the Senate and Legislative AS
senbly of the 3ist inst. II is the in1eh
ton of His Majesty Louis XVIII 10
propose that the Senators shall keep
| their titles and incomes, and seats, LOT
! life, but they shall not be hereditary
| And that frona the Noblesse Of France
there shall be in all tire to come an
elective Senate, upon the principle OF
that sdop,ed on the Union of ireland with
Grea. Britain that is TO say, that upon
the death q any Senator an election shah
take place of one to the Senate, who
shall hold it for life. The Senate TO De
| 200 in all
A Deputation has arrived at Paris
from the city and territory OF Geneva,
the object of which is to submit pro.
position to the Emperor Alexander and
the other Allied Sovereigns, under
which the Pays de Gex, belonging 10
| France, il is recommended, should be
added 70 The Genevese district, aud the
whole thas Incorporated, be constituted
| a nineteenth canton of the Helvetic
Considerations tract of country
is on the Gerevese side of Mount Jurn.
| and its annexation to France has occa-
! stoned serious Inconvenience and has
greatly obstructsd the intercourse be-
/ tween Geneva and the north Of Switzer.
| land.
| Dispatches were resolved yesterday
from Lord Cas,lereash, brought by Mr..
Krauntz, the messenger who lett Paris
on Friday. We are now told that one
| great difficulty in the arrangement OF
the details of peace with France, arises
from repugnance in the government
| of that country to accefe to the cove.
nant for the abolition of the Slave Trade
which it is Fixed principle with our
| Government 70 introduce into all
| treaties. The reason assigned ter
the repugnance, is the impractability
of carrying on colonial cultivation, with.
out re-establishing the laboring CO.
lonial population, which has been nearly
destroyed in the principat island, St. Do
mlneo, by the evolutionary conflicts
that have never ceased to ravage it. II
is certain that taking back St. Domin-
go, under its present circumstances,
or with the further destruction ola new
war of re.con.usst, France will be IN.
der considerable disadvantage in point
of colonial resources. But this is one
of the arrears of mischief entailed by
the revolution, and ought to be borne
With resignation by the authors OF that
vast Calamity, or by their heirs, instead
of being considered the ground OF an In.
| Identification for them, at the exPeDce
| Of human nature When the Island oil
Trinidad was coded 10 Britaio, with the
richest soil Of all the West India Islands,
with it's vast fertility, yet wholly On
touched did we greedily seize upon
tbs opportunity of filling it with unhap-
py victims, sna,ched from Africa, to
| feed our ayarice! DID we not, on the
contrary, restrain ourselves from the
advantages of the acquisition, rather
than commit this outrage upon nature
and feeling St Domingo alone, in its
present state, would consume more ne
/ groes than all the West India Islands
collectively, In the ordinary course ofthe
4 regular waste & trade in the yta rs pre-
vious to the abolition. Why then shall
France demand permission to undo all
that other nations have done, after the
example and by the influence OF Britain ?
Why shall she attempt to renew and to
establish that detcs,able trade in human
| flesh and blood !-It St. Domingo can
not be etfectually cultivated, there are,
other colonies sufficient to supply all
The wants of the mother country. Let
the French even have Guadaloupe again
let them bayeany thing. rather than renew
the slave trade. We understand there
are Other points also Of considerable diff
fculty in adjusting the basis and regu.
latioDs for the commercial intercourse.
The French negociators are anxious to
| protect their manufactures against Bri-
tlsh competition. This they have per.
fec, right to do; but We have recipro-
cal right, and our ministers will, we
trust, take care to show favor to the pro.
ducts of Britain. We are not sorry,
however, that difficulties Of this kind