Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the New York Citizen

Most Horrible! - The subjoined diabolical paragraphs, I copy from the Phil. Aurora of the 6th instant.

"For the present and on this letter of Champagny we now say that in relation to the U. S. it speaks the language of liberality and friendship."

Again in the same Aurora article "Champagny the French minister, calls upon the United States, to assert its independence to maintain its rights, to vindicate its independence"

I have nothing to do with the uncouth language of this paragraph. The editor of the Aurora has an indefeasible right to blunder. It is the opinion that concerns us.

Could it be imagined that after the tyrant had sequestered our ships and made war for us; that after he had criminally robbed us of our property with one hand, and most audaciously attempted to pillage us of our freedom and sovereignty with the other, a man should be found within the United States fed from its soil and nourished by its citizens openly and in the face of day to term this robbery and pillage "liberality and friendship."

The reader shall again see this "liberality and friendship" as expressed for us by Champagny himself.

War then exists in fact says Mons. Champagny between England and the United States: and his majesty considered it as declared from the day on which England published her decrees. In that persuasion his majesty ready to consider the U. S. as associated with the cause of all the powers who have to defend themselves against England, has not taken any definitive measures towards the American vessels which may have been brought into our ports: He has ordered that they should REMAIN SEQUESTRATED, Until a decision may be had thereon according to the dispositions which shall have been expressed by the government of the U. States."

Can the American reader perceive anything like "friendship and liberality" in this.

We are wronged by England and we are wronged by France, and we must right ourselves like a nation of freemen. But who can bear these foreign predilections? Where is the just, where the feeling man whose blood does not mount at beholding these shameless advocates of foreign attempts to degrade if not to enslave us.