Alexandria Daily Advertiser

REMARKS ON HIS MAJESTY'S MESSAGE OF THE 18TH JUNE.

(From the Moniteur of the 7th July.)

"Thus his Britannic majesty confesses that, after six months, he has no relations with the powers of the continent, which could have prevented, as stated by his ministers in their letter to the minister for foreign affairs, an answer to the overtures of peace, made by the Emperor of the French. These relations, which appeared then to be so close, that he could not dispense with consulting those powers with whom he had contracted them, are nothing more than 'communications which have not yet acquired that degree of maturity, which will permit them to enter into ulterior explanations with the French government.' The answer made by the minister six months ago, was nothing but evasion, and if there were not relations then, there are no more now. His Britannic Majesty adds 'That it may be of essential importance that he should be enabled to profit by every favorable conjecture to effect, with other powers, such a concert as may give him the means of resisting the unqualified ambition of France.' What pacific dispositions! For the two last years, his Britannic Majesty has done nothing but dream of coalitions, but hope for coalitions. Will he succeed, or will he not succeed, is a question not difficult to resolve. How does the case stand? His majesty would have been much more frank, and would not have entangled a simple proposition, if he had said, that he did not wish to treat before he had made five or six campaigns in concert with the coalesced powers. Then it would remain to be ascertained, what advantage had been gained after these five or six campaigns, and if this advantage should be in proportion to the sacrifice of two or three thousand men, sacrificed for the pleasure of the

His Britannic Majesty indeed lets us perceive a proof of prudence which deserves our admiration, that if he cannot succeed in effecting a coalition, and procuring himself the pleasure of seeing from the centre of his isle, and the heights of his terrace at Windsor, the misfortunes of the Continent, his majesty might then resolve to make peace. Peace, the object of just ambition to all wise Governments, appears to be only a last shift to his Britannic majesty. He recommends to his faithful Commons to enable him to take measures to avail himself of the services of some chieftain, some leader of mercenaries, or of those hordes, celebrated in former times, who should, for the sake of sordid gain, make common cause with him.

Who does not wish that England may find Europe deaf to every project of coalition; who wishes for nothing but peace, who does not pray for the success of the arms of a nation which bears the character of disorder and madness. It

Every word, every act of this Government, ministers put into the mouth of the King, is a strange political declaration, which the ministers made him say, distinctly enough, that he will not make peace until he can no longer

war. It will necessarily result, that when he wishes for peace; it will be imagined that he is constrained to make it, and that more may therefore be exacted from him

himself of a part of the letter of the Emperor of the French, to prove to the Continent that the Emperor fears England, and that because he desires peace, he dreads war: thus hoping to induce some power to enter into a new coalition.

The Cabinet of London has not neglected to support weak reasoning by offers of subsidies; but it will be perceived, that it does not place a value sufficiently high on such services, and that it must pay still dearer.

The Parliament have granted five millions sterling; till more will be asked of them:

We shall see if the generality of the shopkeepers will make the market cheaper."