Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

FROM THE N. Y. EVENING POST.

Cobbett. -The administration papers are busy in giving extracts from Cobbett's Register for the singular purpose of promoting their cause. " If these extracts (says the Monitor) do not make converts to the measures of our administration, I shall be much disappointed" Take the following :

" The reader will perceive that the Americans can now choose to represent the hostile proclamation, not as an act of retaliation, but as an act of precaution. As if they were afraid that we should send in our ships to burn their towns! Believe them who will; for my part the contrary is evident to me ; and so it, at first. was to them for they in all their newspapers, called it an act of retaliation, See the proclamation itself in page 249 of vol. XII. and say whether it can be an act of mere precaution. It was the mildest measure they could adopt, Mr. Madison says; and I say it was the harshest, because they. had, it not in their power. to injure or annoy us in any other way. 'It was the worst they could do. It was not a blow for a blow they were unable to deal us ; but it was spitting in our faces. It was too, a measure still in existence, at the same time when Mr. Rose arrived in America ; and, therefore, to have offered reparation, until it was rescinded, would have been disgraceful to us in the highest degree. It would have been begging pardon with a cane suspended over our shoulders. It would have been going one step further than the late ministers, who entered upon a negociation touching the right of search, while the Americans had a non-importation act passed for the avowed purpose of compelling us to give up that right, and kept suspended over our heads ready to be put in execution, in case we refused to accede to the terms proposed." " America is as much our enemy as she can be. Nothing can possibly make her more so. She would declare war, but she dare not. There is no fear of " throwing her into the arms of France." She is there already as much as she can be. Our ships of war keep the two dear friends asunder. What the revolution in Spain may do, by placing the countries, joining the United States, under the immediate control of France, I know not. If the Americans were not such miserable slaves to their envy and hatred of England. this event would at once produce an alliance offensive and defensive between us & them; but I am of opinion that it will produce no such effect, until severe suffering (which is in store for them) shall have taught them justice and modesty. The Floridas are inhabited by Spaniards ; Louisiana by Spaniards and Frenchmen; the key of the Mississippi is in their hands. Without the aid of England it is impossible for the southern and western states of the American union to maintain themselves against France, if attacked by her ; and to avoid being attacked there is but one way, that is, by doing what Napoleon shall command; in other words. yield to him without resistance +e.-What a fine field would, by this revolution in Spain, be opened for a grand co-operation of England and America, were it not for the leaders in the latter country ! The way for them to proceed is so plain, that it needs not be pointed out. How natural, how glorious would such a co operation be! But it is not for us to endeavor to hasten it.-- the first motions towards it must come from the other side ; and they will not come till the people, the real people of America shall rouse themselves, trample under foot the slaves of France, and resolve to act for their own interests. This event can be of no great distance. They know what French armies are. They personally hate the French ; and, when once they have them in their neighborhood, they will begin seriously to think of the means of defence. - Drive them from the continent of North America they must; or they must themselves become subjects of France. There is no other alternative. They cannot drive them away without the aid of England-- and the giving of that aid will naturally and necessarily lead to a connection, which may have a wonderful effect in the world. But, it cannot too often be repeated, that the first movements towards such a connexion, must not be made by us."

As our hand is in, we will give one more extract from the same work, for the same purpose ; that is, reader, in making converts to the administration.

" The way that the American states will get out of their embarrassments, with respect to us, will, I should think, be this: Mr. Thomas Jefferson and his party will be ousted, and the new president will disclaim all their hostile acts. Should this be the case, we shall go on harmoniously for the future : and I think that the Americans (especially if Napoleon succeed in Spain) will not be long before they join us against France. That this may be the case, I heartily wish ; but I am sure it never will be, if we make the first movements towards it."

FROM THE SAME.

COBBETT. . The wiseacres who conduct the administration papers, have lately amused their readers with some extracts from Cobbett's Register, which happened to please them. This led us to look a little into their favorite, and from it we greet them with the following extract. Speaking of the affairs of Spain, in June last, soon after the revolution broke out, he says-

If Napoleon were baffled in Spain there is no telling to what it might lead. The ultimate consequence might be the deliverance of Europe. I mean the real deliverance," and not a mere exchange of despotisms. The effect in America will be wonderful ; though I should be greatly surprised, if, in the United States, the coveax.MENT, the present reigning faction, were not decidedly hostile to the Spaniards ; that faction being FRENCH in heart, and NOTHING BUT French."

There, all ye host of sycophantic editors swallow that and digest it as you can.