Alexandria Daily Advertiser

THE STAR a London paper.

It may not be amiss to observe, that this paper has been uniformly opposed to America; and ever since the affair of the Chesapeake, has breathed hostility on all our demands for satisfaction: while other English prints have advocated the cause of the American government.

It was from the STAR we copied the late alarming news relative to the prospect of a failure of our negociations with that country—and it is from this paper of the 28th of September, we copy the following remarks on the late interdict of the Dutch government.

(N. Y. Gaz.)

"Bonaparte's system, for some time, has been to employ every means in his power to exclude us entirely from the continent of Europe, and he has now got all the different States so completely under his controul that no choice seems to be left this country but to fight him with his own weapons, and destroy at once every vestige of a system of neutrality.

Such we understand to be the determination which our government is now resolved on. For some time past the protection afforded to neutral flags has been of service only to France—in point of fact no neutrality has been permitted by her, but what was for her own benefit—nay, so inveterate has been the spirit with which Napoleon's decree of blockade has been enforced, that even neutral vessels which have been captured and brought into British ports, and afterwards released and permitted to prosecute their voyages, have been seized and condemned on entering a French port—for having been in an English harbor on their voyage.

On this point we have a fact to state which will strike many of our readers with surprise. Several American vessels (some of which we could name were it necessary) have been seized in French ports under the above mentioned circumstances; but the American government have employed no bullying—no threats—nor any intemperate language similar to that with which their journals have been filled against this country. This conduct requires no comment on our part—it requires action, vigour and inflexible adherence to the spirit of those maritime laws by which the commerce of nations used to be governed in times of war—but extended in its principle to meet & counteract the machinations of an enemy, whose conduct is not circumscribed by any of those principles which were formerly allowed to operate for the diminution of the mass of evils which are inseparable from times of hostility."