Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-06-27

Iynasty to its throne, placed omit the just,
The desired by his people. the conclila'ihg
land pacific Louis the 18th. and delixerea
Itbe world from conqueror, who know
ling no other glory than that Of war, rum
| ed France in order to carry desolatlon 70
The nations that he wished to subdue.
The war which the aggression OF 30
aaBarte has provoked, is net oniyJustlIl-
led by the obligation thatevery sovereign
lis under to supporth his guarantees q con-
declarations, but also by the sacred duties
/ that the institution OF soyereignties I'M
|noses upon them.
Warts pernicious evil ; no govern
'ment ought to undertake it but to redeem
/ the people from calamities greater than
Those of war itself. This is the case,
Spaniards, in which we. are. Bonaparte,
latter his aggression against France and
her legitimate sovereign. and having Ylo-
Hated the treaty that he acceded to-,
maintains that he has injured no person,
THAT lie has recovered his legitimate rights,
that the sovereigns cannot call them IN
Iouestion. and that he wishes TO 1--we at
Ineace with all. 1t is not peace that the
Invader wishes. he only wishes to see
himself freedfrom foreign inquietudea, IN
|order to employ the armed part OF the
French nation AGAINST the greater and
more sound but disarmed portion OF It.
10 ward OF all kinds OF attack, he wish
les the powers II believe, that be IS cong
Ito labor for the peace and prosperity oil
Eurape; as if she could have forgotten,
That since he took the reins ofgoveFnment,
terrible wars have been constantly re-
'heWed, and the springs of pubic prosne-
|ritv have been exhausted in all the c0an-
tries submitted to his Influence; Or, as il
Europe coild fall into the absariity Of
imagining that BonaParte IS caeabie OF
Idivesting himself of his invariably obsev-
led maxims.
{SDa;n does not want to learn lessons
Of any one, she has them sufficiently IN
stluctive in her fatal errors. She has
been afflicted by Bonaparte with two
kinds Of war: he waged it until the year
1903 against her dignity, her treasures,
her fleets and her armies, rendering them
subseryient to his designs; tbs was call
led by this extirmnating ally, amity. And
IN order that no person should rely on
his pledges OF gratitude, he practiSed the
same year at nayonne the Vaccinations
well known to the public :.aiterwards to
the END Of supporting the most attrocioBs
deed Of perfdy and violence, he spread
'desolation and havoc over the provinces
of this nation and treated her as free
hold, which an owner may dispose in Ia
vor of whom he pleases, subject to tie
conditions Of his viii. Bonaparte has
not heIied himself lie signalizes his new
EZRA BY sacrificing 10 his vanity the lawful
and idolized sovereign OF France, AID
the liberty Of that nation, putting himself
lat the head OF a faction interested IN cen
tinuing the miseIie8 OF humanity. 30
naparte, from the capital Of france,
tells all tF;e nations, DO not believe ne,
you have treated In former pac,sications
for v0urmost precious interests, and Yonr
most sacred Obligations to procure the
tranquility Of your people; hut YOU have
been disappointed. Bonaparte, from the
seat of TIE French throne, tells the soye-
reigns, YOU acknowledged forinep ymy
usurped rights against your own convic-
tons, and permitted me to sit among you,
and the result was 40 other than to ieed
my vanity and ambition. Bonaparte, in
fine, SAYS to the world. all those courte-
sizes have been denised by a taithIess and
lawless man; who finds no medium be-
tweenhis determination and the wretch
edness OF the human race.
in such circumstances no one can he
state in fSrmins his resolution: All Ep-
rope has taken the most safe, advantage
GUS and honorable course. Distrust "a
mong the powers have disappeared, their
interests are already associated by the
common danger. Prussia will not be the
passive spectatress of the reverses OF AUS
tria. Austria will not view with indlife-
renee the fate of Prussia. Russia will
not permit that the.southern part OF Eu
rome should be distributed in heredita-
ments to nourish crowned slaves. En-
gland will persist that the rash Bonaparte
shall not again appear on the stage OF
soyereigns, who dared to give laws to the
seas, when all the ships Of France we're
chained in her ports; and, finally, the
soyereigns, well persuaded, that genera
sity is not a corrective for minds OF ceT-
tain temper, will not lend an ear bat to
The dictates of iustice and the public safe