Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

LONDON, June 6.

AMERICA.

The general tone of American government seems warlike. They have called upon the different states to arm their quotas of militia, but the President has no power to take the militia past the frontiers. They have raised between two and 3000 recruits, and 4,000,000 of dollars subscribed to their Loan. An increase of forces has been made on the frontiers of Canada. Some measures have been taken to increase the powers of the war department, and of the Quarter-Master General's. The language of the government papers is violent; and we hear that the government state, they are too far pledged in their doctrines and resolutions respecting the Orders in Council to recede with honor.

That the commercial body were against war and for a settlement with England; and that the report of the Duc de Bassano upon the republication of the Berlin and Milan decrees was but just arrived before the accounts came away. We cannot but indulge a belief that this report will have a great effect, and as this report places the justification of the Berlin decree upon Mr. Fox's blockade of the 16th May, 1806, we are persuaded that America will not plunge herself into a helpless war, with the view of forcing Great Britain to renounce the principle of a blockade upon which her salvation stands. Let every Englishman consider the principles and necessity of that blockade. The enemy had been collecting vessels of all kinds in all her ports immediately opposite to Great Britain in the Channel, all within a few hours sail of England: from the Scheldt to the Seine. This part of the coast, so made a depot for invasion. Mr. Fox put under strict blockade, having arranged a sufficient naval force for the purpose. This measure of strict legal maritime defence France made the pretext of the Berlin Decree for interdicting all trade with England, and for declaring Great Britain and Ireland in a state of blockade. France proclaims she will never repeal the Berlin Decree till we repeal the principle of this blockade; America joins France in the demand—Can we comply with it. Will Great Britain submit to renounce the right of self protection? Will she submit to allow, that when the French ports opposite to her coasts, within a few hours sail of her harbors, were filled with the armaments for invasion, she has no right to counteract the designs of the enemy, no right to impede those armaments, no right to obstruct their progress and completion by preventing their receiving from neutrals every supply of intelligence, of provisions, of stores, and necessaries?

France has placed the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees upon this issue. This issue was adopted by France on the suggestion of the American government. Should we repeal the Orders in Council without renouncing the principle of Mr. Fox's blockade. we do nothing. And we trust therefore America will recollect, that she is demanding what no country can demand justly from another : she is demanding for the sake of her commercial interest, that Great-Britain should sacrifice and renounce those established principles of maritime defence, which are essential to the protection, not of British commerce but of British security and existence against the armaments and invasion of the enemy.

We know the Orders in Council were made the pretext for American complaints. But the real ground of these complaints is Mr. Fox's blockade of May, 1806. The Berlin decree is stated by France as retaliatory on that blockade, and on its principle, France and America have both taken this ground for justifying—the one their outrage—the other their complaints: and on this ground must our cause be tried.

[Courier.]