Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Parliament addressed the precepts of the committee to all the magistrates of the kingdom.

This harvest of riches appears to be over with invasion to petrify us, while she sends her armies late of requisition. She holds up the spectre of while France is placing whole kingdoms in a fiend. The power of Britain was always considered as most usefully employed in protecting her allies. It was, indeed, only by the proper exercise of this power, that she kept up her trade and maintained her influence, consequence and rank in the world. This power she can no longer exercise; she in fact no longer possesses it; it was at Amiens bartered away with the honor of her flag. It is said that it is impossible for us to have protected Hanover and Portugal without the aid of other allies on the continent? If so, why have we not those other allies? We were never destitute of them till now. It is of the not having of such allies, that the nation has a right to accuse the ministers, who are, in this respect, pleading the harvest of all their crimes, in justification of its consequences.