Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-02-26

ance y ith liberal feelings.
Their necessities demand Immense Pc
.un;arv resources TO render themselves
ind oendeat OF foreign caPitsiists, or even
IN induce such 10 advance the necessary
sums; to enable them to draw supplies
,rom their own territories sutlelent 10
keen no the price of their stocks, and mus
to sustain their commercial creoit-ah aP'
peal must be necessarily made to PUBIC
opinion; and the national prosperity must
be assiduously encouraged. lndlv'ouai Sc
CURLY must be guaranteed-pubi'c tain
Observation-Disclosures xertion and COM
mercial enterprise encouraged: the rea-
SON. and even the prejudices, OF the ma.
ton. must he studied and soolhed, and
,uch mea sures adopted to sustain the pow
or q, the throne, as must eventually result
in the establishment Of liberal principles
Of government and The extinction oil des-
potjsm, Literature, science, commerce,
and the arts, are cultivated as The neces'
sary landmarks Of government, however
arbitrary in its institutions, or despouc IN
it's principles; but the aid they yield IS
dearly purchased by their protection ana
encouragement. They will prove DANCE
rous. nav certainly destructive auxllaries.
The assistance they afford is temporary
and apparent, rather than solid aud SUBJ
stantial.
The enlightened and phiIosophic states
man, who marks with attention the signs
of the times, may discover, AMID the
storms and tempests which seem to men
ace the extinction Of liberty, the rainbow,
the harbinger OF brighter days and serener
skies. He may perceive the gradual un-
dermning OF those turrets, which, 10 The
careless observer, seen capable OF DEFY
iog the ravages of time. He may disco.
yer the finger of death doing its silent, but
certain work, where the outward form ana
appesra seem to indicate youth and
health aud length of years.
Through what scenes OF calani ty and
bloodshed. Through what varieties Of un.
tried being" the world must pass before
this period arrives, or what may he the
fury OF that tempest, which is eventually
TO concentrate, to exhaust and to disperse
the clouds which now impend over it,, the
narrow ken OF man is incompetent to tore
see. In the ordinary course OF nature, ac>
cording 10 the known operation OF ascer'
tanned causes, the event seems nearly Ger
tain. The stream OF time IS necessarily
wearing away The s.rongholds OF ignorance
and arbitrary power, and sooner or later
thew must inevitably crumble into atoms.
While, however, we derive consolation
from such reflections, it would be unwise
aud impolitic to patiently watch upon the
bank till the stream exhausts itself. The
designs Of Providence will surely be &C.
complished, but the active exertIeps OF
man frequently constitute the agency by
whose Intervention they are consummated.
independently of the silent and unseen o.
peration of these moral causes, a conflict
of bIoodier kind, and more Immediately
calculated to awaken our sympsthies, IS
now waging. An open and avOwed aili-
ance has been formed among the monarchs
of Europe, for the purpose OF REFRESHING,
ave, Of ex,erminating freedom. Drawing
their proAiea,s, and degrading, and afro
cjous doctrines, from the rubbish oil the dark
ages; re-embodying the almost obsolete
principles OF the divine right OF monarchs,
and the nonentily OF subjects-tbey are
epdeayoring, like the followers OF Maho>
met, to enforce their unbailowed dogmas
at the poin, of the sword. Colossal CO.
pyists of detormity," they resort to the
most nefarious means to attain The most
bominable ends Italy, broken INFO trag
menis; disunited and debased; is subject
ed, in violations of 0aths a0d treaties; 10
defiance of those sanctions 10 which they
appeal to witness their motives and to ra-
THY their designs, to a helpless, hopeless,
servitude. The monuments OF her glory
stand as the testimonials OF her shame
The recollections OF the past, and the an.
tcipatiOns of the future, are equally de-
void of topics OF consolation 10 alleviate
the sense Of present debasement.
Sill more deserving OF reproba,ion, it
distinctions can be drawn in such cases,
was the unhallo wed attack upon Spain
To the gallant exertlons oil that nation are
the European monarchs mainly indebted
for the possession of the thrones which
they now occupy. When most of these
potentates cowed like towards beneath
the sway of BoDaparte. tremblec at his
nod, and played the humble sycOpbants at
his footstool; Spain dared TO encounter all
his strength. Under the guidance OF those
identical principles, now SO much abhorred
clad in the panoply OF that very consti.
tuition, a devotion to which is now their
only crime-tbe Spanish people. abandon.
ed by their monarch, betrayed by their
nobIes, erected the standard of opposition
They inflicted the first wound upon his
gigantic strength and the flower Of his
veteras troops enriched their plains To
the Spanish people and the Spanish con-
stitu,ion are the Bourbons emphatically
indebted for their crown; and yet this peo-
ple, in adhering 10 this constitution, have
committed an incapable crime. 1t would
be needless to pourlray the principles,
which have been avoved and acted upon
in this atrocious assault upon an unotfend.
ing nation. Il would be unnecessary to
deineats the per6dy aud treachery by
which the Ubiquitous design was consum.
mailed The principles of legitimacy