Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

From the Connecticut Herald.

The continent of Europe has for a length of time presented one vast field of bloodshed and havoc. Her plains have been deluged with the blood, and whitened with the bones of her inhabitants. Her morals have been corrupted by the influence of continental wars, and her youth have perished in the field of slaughter.

Far removed by nature, from these scenes of devastation, we indeed lamented the destructive ravages of armies, and commiserated the sufferings of our fellow men; but we viewed them without those feelings of dismay, which would have been excited in our breasts, were we personal actors in this grand drama. We stood aloof from the vortex, which swallowed states and empires with an irresistible fatality. These commotions were to us, the distant thunder, far removed from our happy shores.

Such was our envied station, when the modern Nero issued his imperial mandate, that there should be "no neutrals!" But even then, we indulged the hope, that America would not render an implicit obedience to the tyrant's nod. The hope was vain. America has rendered this obedience—the tyrant's mandate is obeyed!

Thus we are made the instrument of Napoleon's ambition—an ambition, unbounded and insatiable, which acknowledges no restraint and which regards no sentiments of justice which may contravene his projects. An alliance with him is to be deprecated as the worst of evils. Let the subject states of Europe bear a melancholy and unwilling testimony, that this assertion is literally true. They all have been the allies of France, and have all experienced that her "embrace is death."

We are compelled to say of them, as of ancient Troy. "Fuit Ilium, et ingens gloria Teucrorum."

Bonaparte has ever regarded the quiet, and happiness of these rising states, with the envious eye of a Demon, and the jealousy of a fiend. Separated as we are, by the vast Atlantic, he has hitherto been unable to injure us by open force, but where force cannot be employed, intrigue can prevail.

Let it be remembered, that France never dared to attack the Swiss, until by bribery, and corruption, she had formed a party in her favor. Had they been united, the mountains of Switzerland might have rivalled the straits of Thermopylae in fame. An alliance with France would endanger our principles, and morals, and introduce a fatal corruption. It would naturally produce a familiar intercourse and Napoleon would have full opportunity to mature his plans for our destruction. By prosecuting the war against England, we assist his ambitious projects, in the most direct manner possible, but still this will be a comparatively trifling evil unless it leads to an alliance with France. This is what we dread, and from this, may Heaven avert our country.

AN AMERICAN.