Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-01
From the Boll,mo,s Patriot
THE NEWS

What, no meas, (exciaims some impa-
tient knight OF The rHeful COuntenance
three days later advices from Liverpool
three days la'e aud no news how is this
phenomenon to be accounted for Moth
ing is easier in this world, if we will only
separate the two ideas OF battle, and
breakfast. Frenchmen do not take com>
furtable jaunt over the Pyrenean noun
tans, and partake of sayoury meal to
which they have been Hospitality invited
by the Spanlards. They are going, many
OF them, to leave their legs and arms be
hind them, and while engaged in such Sc
rious business, they make slow, reluctant
and cautious advances to the fields OF car
mage and Of death. Ii is no ttifing thing.
no summer-day frolic, to march to the
mouth of roaring cannon, or oD the point
of glittering bayonets. What more intel
ligence could be anticipated in the short
space OF three days, than the answer OF the
breathing defiance and dtsdsIn to COME
derated Europe, and the preparations ma.
king 10 remove the king and all the royal
family, from Madrid, 10 Seville, town
situated on the Ocean-trOn,ier OF the pc
ninsuIa and rendered ilIuslr'ous By the
first stand that was made by Spanish pa
triotism to the power of imperial BGna>
parte What more could be expected,
han, Connected with such determined re-
sislance on the part of SPAN, the rumour,
(foI in the very nature OF things. it could
be nothing more than rrmoarl that
French army OF nine'y thousand men were
destined TO pass the Pyrenean mountains,
on the very day Of he royal ianlly's re-
moval What more could be expected,
than, deserions from the French armies,
rendered more frequent as that body sp..
proaches the frontiers OF the peninsula !
What more than proposition submitted
by member OF the Spanish Cortes, tor
that body to exercise their constitutional
power OF declaring Ferdinand inc"m?e-
tent, and the vacancy OF the throne =
What more could be expected, than that
fifteen thousand OF the French troops had
passed the Pyrenean mountains already
II we turn from ibis scene OF uproar TO
the regions Of the invading enemy, do we
see any thing more pacific Do we see
symptoms OF internal tranquility, when
the doors OF the French hall OF legislation
are bsrriCaded with an armed force TO
preserve public discussion from outrage
and from riot Mus, not the opposition
to the government, be formidable IN The
extreme, when the mere expulsion OF
single solitary member OF the house OF de,
puties, creates sensation So turbulent mat
military force is resOrled TO, that bayoDetss
glitter before the doors OF legislation, and
the representatives OF a great and power.
iul people, are seen confined ike w'Id
and ieIocious animals in cage! what
do our fellow citizens mean, when they
talk about mere rumours? Reports fly IN
advance OF all armies, the same a, birds
attached TO carnage, are said 10 follow
they are infallible indexes OF an agitated
state OF mind-of the advances OF dan
ger-of the various and dreadful V'bra.
tons between confidence and fear, and
the contradictory character OF these re-
ports, only prove hourly alarm and su6sl'
dence, state OF mind more ,orIntn'lng
than actual certainly OF horror. When
we undertake TO record what is uttered
by report, that villa and incoherent mes