Alexandria Daily Advertiser

Burr's Project, and the proceedings thereon. compared with the Spanish Conspiracy, to subvert the Sovereignty of the United States.

While every person, to whom either vigilance or vengeance, could attach the slightest cause of suspicion, of being implicated in Burr's projects, has been pursued with a rancour, that has superseded the laws, and would have overthrown the liberties of our country, had the writ of Habeas Corpus been suspended, the agents in the more dangerous & flagitious schemes of the Spanish government, to subvert the sovereignty of the United States have been altogether unnoticed by the Administration Neither the conviction of Judge Sebastiano, nor the confession of Judge Innes, has drawn a single communication from the President of the United States, to either House of Congress--not a single step has been taken to investigate the most alarming conspiracy that ever was framed, by the government of one nation and entertained by the traitorous. citizens of another--A project, which, under. its worst aspect, (unless the army had been seduced) could only be considered as a marauding expedition, has been made the ground of an alarm, that has appalled the nation, and was eagerly seized as a cause, or wresting from our citizens, every vestige of civil & personal liberty ; while an organised system of civil war, and national subjugation has been overlooked, and stifled by those, whose duty it was to have instituted an immediate investigation, which would have vindicated the honor of the United States. and punished the delinquent citizens.
Whence, we ask, has it happened that a suspected attack by some Americans, against the possessions of Spain, should have excited so much alarm, as to prostrate. all the barriers of our civil rights while a ba- grant and avowed attempt, by that very Power, to dismember our Union, and o spread the flame of civil war throughout our country, has been entirely overlooked by the administration, and, as it would seem, buried in oblivion?

Is the protection of the Spanish mines an object. of greater consideration. with our Rulers, than the quiet possession of our own farms? or (admitting as fact what re- mains.yet to be ascertained) is the project- ed invasion.of her territories, by a band of freebooters ok less consequence than.the systematized subversion .of our own go- government, liberty and laws, by the commis- sioned agents of the Spanish crown?
We repeat these questions, and shall re- iterate them, until the. proceedings of the administration shall satisfy the public mind whether the pensions of Spain have been limited to those, who are already accused, and convicted, of having received them.