Alexandria Daily Advertiser

[The following is extracted from an editorial article in the American Citizen of yesterday morning.]

France gasping beneath the weight of her ponderous power, sustained only by the rare genius and tyranny of one man has encompassed more. The seven Mediterranean islands, hugged by the land leviathan, now form in fact an integral part of the French empire.

England then has leagued against her in as close a system of commercial exclusion as is feasible, the Ottoman empire, all the Italian states from the Adriatic to Genoa, France, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Prussia, the Hanse towns, Denmark, and Russia; in one word, except Sweden, all continental Europe and all on the British side of the east.

Now, if under circumstances so seemingly inauspicious to England, we look curiously at the dauntless step which her cabinet has lately taken in relation to the U. States, what should we think and say of those "Empirics," these arrant quacks in politics, with which we are pestered, who have dinned it in our ears that a paltry non importation act, a feeble and partial thing, would frighten the lion into his den, and confine him within its limits? I ask this question without mincing the matter to suit particular palates for we have undoubtedly been wholly under the influence of sheer political ignorance as to non importation acts; & because if we are to be at peace we should not be half way but wholly and sincerely, and since if war, cannot, with honor be averted, we should meet it like a nation of spirit and vigor -Children may imitate the actions of men, but legislators should abstain from the antics of children.