Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

NEW-YORK, October 16.
The article relative to the Despatches sent off for America, is copied from the London EVENING STAR. We hope the propositions may meet the wishes of our Government, and that a speedy stop may be put to the "unprofitable contest."

London, August 29.
Despatches of great importance were this day sent off from Lord Castlereagh's Office for America. They will be conveyed from Falmouth in the Swiftsure packet, which is fitted up as flag of truce, her guns & ammunition having been landed.

We have reason to believe that the Swiftsure will carry out a calm, dispassionate, and yet dignified remonstrance to the American government, on the subject of the line of policy which has guided their Councils for these several years, in defiance of all the principles by which upright Governments ought to be regulated in the present awful circumstances of the world. America must dissolve her connection with France, and make common cause with the high spirited nations who are daily pouring forth their blood and treasure for the common interest of the world!--These are not times for tolerating neutrality-Delenda Carthago! France must be laid prostrate; or there will be no peace for the world; nor ought no Statesmen who hold the destinies of mankind at their back to be scrupulous in their choice of the weapons with which her downfall is to be accomplished. We are for carrying the war into the very bowels of the land. we should rejoice to see the whole Coast of France lined with flying expeditions from England, which should strike a perpetual terror into the breast of the caitiffs who submit to the monstrous system which Bonaparte has established. We know that there are men, aye and good men too, who will tell us that the peaceable and unoffending inhabitants of France would thus suffer for the iniquities of their ruler. But we are bold enough to deny that there can be such persons as "peaceable and unoffending inhabitants," while they submit to the sway of such an atrocious despot: for it is by their sufferance that the miscreant is enabled to lead his devastating legions into the vitals of other countries. Look at Holland. Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Prussia. Sweden, Russia! But why should we enumerate the dismal catalogue? look at the whole world, ye men of feeling, who thus withhold the up-lifted arm of divine vengeance.--Who are the chief instruments employed by the tyrant in this work of misery and desolation?-FRENCHMEN! Can we then regard them as peaceable and unoffending men?-No; they of mankind, for all the evils produced, either by their apathy, or by lending their direct assistance to the furtherance of Napoleon's views of universal dominion. We disclaim the drivelling morality which makes individual virtue consist in merely abstaining from the perpetration of crimes instead of the positive exercise of imperious duties. Can he who sees an assassin, with his knife in his hand without attempting to strike it from his grasp, be guiltless of the blood of his victim? No more can we hold the men of France (or the citizens of America who abet their crimes) as innocent and unoffending members of the community of nations or, to use the French jargon, "the great family of Europe," of which Napoleon is the unfeeling step-father.

The system we are recommending is not chimerical. The immortal Nelson (the soundness of whose judgment was never questioned) formed a high estimate of the consequences which might be expected to flow from its adoption. Sir Home Popham, another very gallant and distinguished officer, now actively employed in Spain, on something like the service now pointed out, we know to be a warm advocate for a perseverance in the same vigorous system. It was a favorite idea with the great men, and repeatedly suggested to Ministers, that not a single inhabitant of the French coast, of any age or sex, should be permitted to enjoy an hour's repose, by night or by day, if a gun could be brought to bear upon their towns or villages. This, to little minds, may appear to be a barbarous mode of carrying on war, but a different view will be taken of it by enlightened men. How are the crimes of nations to be punished--but by the infliction of vengeance by other nations?--Those who have the means to inflict such punishment, become accessaries to their enormities if they neglect to employ the weapons with which they have been armed by the Great Ruler of the universe for their own defence for the protection of the innocent and unoffending, and for the maintenance and enforcement of natural & immutable justice among the nations of the earth!