Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

Fast Asleep.--Every new arrival from Europe, however scanty the stock of other information which it furnishes, is sure to add something to the account of injuries inflicted by one or another of the powers of Europe upon poor unoffending America. Like the bat in the fable, we are acknowledged by neither the birds nor the beasts, but are equally persecuted by both: for like him we have oscillated so long between justice and interest that we have disgusted all without securing the friendship of any. The injuries we sustain have become so multiplied, the wrongs we suffer so accumulated, that the heart sickens at the recollection of them; and still their number is encreasing. Look at the list of confiscations in the single port of Naples; and when you are tired of this picture, turn your eyes to the ports of Spain, of France, of Holland, of Denmark and of Sweden. Behold as you progress in the inspection, nothing but one continued series of spoliations and wrongs.

general sweep, one universal plunder of every thing American. It is the work of one man--Napoleon. All these aggravated injuries are the hand that seized your property makes you also feel its grasp at Tonningen. At one place a French consul, at the other a king of French manufacture directed the seizure; and of the two the king seems to have been the most rigid and servile in the execution of his allotted task of villainy and oppression.

Americans! these facts are not new to you; you are not now for the first time informed of the existence of these wrongs or of the repetition of these injuries. Yet tho' your attentions are urged to awaken your just resentments. You hear them, indeed, but you hear them with the same listless apathy as though they were "a twice told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man" and not a history of your country's wrongs calculated "to harrow up the soul" of every real patriot.

And shall the time never come when you will awake from your slumbers? Shall the day never arrive when you will dare to make yourselves once more respected if not feared on the other side of the Atlantic? Have you already forgotten that a Truxton once made you both respected and feared by France, even when her fleets were sufficient to give uneasiness to Britain; and will you tamely submit to her rapacities now, when she dare not shew a flag upon the ocean?

For shame! shake off this lethargy and act like men. Let your motto be "millions for defence but not a cent for tribute."

Recall your minister from the court of St. Cloud and send your future propositions to the tyrant from the mouths of your cannon, and you will soon find that he who had the cruelty to set his foot upon your necks while you lay at his feet will also have the meanness to offer you his hand the moment you begin to return his blows.--Vir. Pat.