Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

ALEXANDRIA.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29.

TO SHOW

The House of Representatives were engaged yesterday exclusively on the bill from the Senate, for indemnifying the Yazoo Claimants.

The Loan Bill has at length passed both houses of Congress.

The debate upon it in the Senate was confined almost entirely to the best ways and means of raising the money.

The merits of the war, which it is intended to prop up yet a little longer, were not canvassed.

There seemed to be an understanding amongst the members of that honorable body, between the friends and foes of administration, that the bill was to pass, and that the more quietly it was done, the better. It was generally expected that Mr. King would have touched upon our foreign relations. His long and intimate acquaintance with the origin and progress of our dispute with England seemed to have required, that he should have corrected the many mistakes and misrepresentations, which have been made, as to the maritime doctrines and practice of the British government towards the U. States. His speech, however, was altogether financial—and perhaps it is as well, that it was so. All that can be said against the justice and expediency of the war, has been said. Its unnecessary origin, disastrous progress and alarming consequences, have been so often pourtrayed, that it has become a thrice told tale, which the infatuated people of America, will neither hear nor heed. The fate of our James, has been almost as strongly predicted as that of his namesake of Scotland, whom Sir David Lindesay tells us,

A messenger from Heaven

In vain to James had counsel given

Against the English war.

All that remains to the good people of the United States, is, to resign themselves to the will of an over-ruling Providence, who governs all things in wisdom, and who is able to bring good out of evil.