Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

The condemnation of our property is going on at Paris.
The very limited extent of the new French decree and the unjustifiable conditions on which alone the few American vessels within its scope can avail themselves of the permission to depart, is a proof of the unbending adherence of the tyrant of France to the system by which he means to strangle all maritime commerce as far as he has the power. Meanwhile as the arrangements for a restoration of friendly intercourse with Great Britain, were primitively discussed and settled in London, the happy result will not be long in reaching his ears. Some men affect to doubt whether it will produce choler or concession. The latter we do not expect, and whether we shall experience the effects of the former will depend upon his calculations of surmounting the new confederacy raised up against him on the continent of Europe.—Withdrawing from the estimate the latter consideration, as we are now placed precisely in the unequivocal situation he required us in January, 1808, to elect, we must suppose he would declare war in form. For the strenuous and continued desire of Great Britain to harmonise with the U. S. has lately so changed the relations of the two countries between themselves, and as respects France, that the latter will be no longer at a loss about the light in which she may consider us. Nevertheless she may still have us for friends or for enemies, according to the rule by which she directs her own future conduct towards our much insulted and injured country. As an inducement to take the wiser and more equitable choice, she has only to examine the late transactions of the American people, in their elections, to be convinced, that her influence has been smote with a palsy which will prevent it from again raising its audacious head.