Alexandria Daily Advertiser

The above infamous article escaped our notice yesterday: but we find it has occasioned some alarm here, as coming from one of Mr. Jefferson's confidential printers. It ought therefore to be noticed.

The fearless impudence with which the French party push their cause, is really surprising. One would suppose that these fiends would be restrained from such public exhibitions, in order to conceal as long as possible the cloven foot from that honest portion of the American people, who yet confide in their professions and protestations. But their "itching palms" have been so often, and so fully, so fatally gratified; they touch the wages of corruption so bounteously, that they cannot restrain the overflowings of their gratitude and in their zeal to do every thing for their employers, they are held back neither by calculations of policy, nor fear of detection op.

The above article asserts that the English have made the same demands on us as they did at Copenhagen.

The demand at Copenhagen was, to deliver over to the English the Danish Fleet, to prevent its falling into the hands of Bonaparte, and being turned against them; promising to restore it at the termination of the war.

Now, where is the American fleet for the English to demand? or where is any single circumstance of any kind, which in the least resembles the state of things at Copenhagen?

We mean not, however, to conceal our fears, "that Duane has grounds for his exultation that the negotiation has broken off. We fear it is. We fear that the administration have fallen submissive at the foot of France, and are now licking the dust from Bonaparte's shoes.

But do they rely on support from the people? They will not find it; at least till they shall have first satisfied them that they are justified in what they have done, and are doing--that they have acted uprightly, fairly, honorably. In order to this, the first thing for them to do, is lay before us Armstrong's dispatches.

From various ports of Europe we have occasionally received some little information of Bonaparte's designs upon our country. We hear of it from London, from Amsterdam, from Nantz, from Paris, and several other nations abroad. But from our own government we hear nothing. Mr. Jefferson is tolerably silent as the grave not a word escapes him--Possessed of the whole from the most correct sources, he conceals it all--With official documents in his hands, disclosing all, he makes known nothing. But does he expect this country will bear him out in such conduct? Then will he find himself most woefully mistaken.

And is there no man in either house of Congress, who has the spirit to repeat the demand on the executive for a sight of those dispatches; and not only the spirit to repeat it once or twice, or three times, but the courage and perseverance to reiterate it every day; to make it the first motion every morning, and to bring it constantly into debate from this time to the end of the session, till the object is obtained?

Let the "servile crew" vote it down, let them if they dare, persist in supporting & cloaking an administration which is daily becoming odious and contemptible in every part of the U. States, let them persist, but the eyes of the nation cannot but be opened by these very efforts to keep them shut.

Where are our patriots and our eloquent statesmen of either house? Where are our Bayards and Pickerings of the Senate?--Where are our Dana's our Quincy, our Rowans, our Keys, our Gardi niers, our Randolphs of the house-- Let us hear from them--Let us hear from them in thunder.

(N.T. Ev. Post.)