Alexandria Daily Advertiser

FROM A LONDON PAPER.

The reported changes in Spain and Portugal present important considerations to this country at the moment she is negotiating peace with France. If France unites to herself the Spanish provinces immediately adjoining the Pyrenees, as she has done the Italian ones, Piedmont, immediately adjoining the Alps, it will be completely for the purpose of laying Spain open to her and at her mercy, whilst she possesses wholly the grand barrier against Spain, the mountains. Any attack from Spain must be first fought on Spanish ground: that fighting will be a warning to France, and will give her time to put her grand frontier barrier the Pyrenees, in a state of complete defence: thus will she be secured against attack herself, whilst Spain will be open.

This is the plan of France on all sides, as has been amply proved in the instances of Piedmont, Switzerland, Baden, & Wirtemberg, Holland; and it will no doubt be carried into effect on the side of the Rhine confederation, and to effect so on the side of Spain, to make the whole complete. France will have departments south and west of the Pyrenees as she has east of the Alps. The king of Portugal it is said; and probably they will present Royal family of Spain are to have for a name; but it would be idle to suppose that Bonaparte will long permit any member of the Bourbon family to enjoy either rank or power in any corner of Europe within his reach. The royal family of Spain have a right to the crown of France prior to that of the Bonaparte family, and this is sufficient to make the usurper detest them. Can we forget the murder of the duke D'Enghien? Their ruin and extermination is sealed in his breast, and he will effect it in the most cruel way step by step, not with the spirit of a generous vengeance which at once revenges and forgets, but with a slow cunning cruelty, most gratifying to a ferocious tyrant, most prudent for an artful villain and the most agonizing to his victims.

England may be unable at this time to interfere effectually in behalf of any of the states of Germany or Italy; however deeply we must deplore their fate. It seems as if we can do nothing more than deplore it:

To this alone are the relations of England with them confined; but it is very different with regard to Spain. We may deplore the fate of old Spain as we deplore that of the rest of the continent of Europe, but what are we to do with regard to New Spain; Spanish America is nearly as much within our power as old Spain is within the power of France, and it would be of fifty times more value to us. Peace is negotiating between France and England-- Let our ministers contemplate the probability of such a series of events as these ;-- after peace is made the Spanish monarchy cedes to France its provinces adjoining the Pyrenees; the monarch soon after exchanges his remaining part to one of the Bonapartes for Portugal, of which he becomes king; Spain takes a number of the French troops into pay, and by degrees sends them out to Spanish America; so that in a short time Mexico and Peru, will be occupied by the soldiers of Marengo and Austerlitz in such great numbers, so well established it will be in vain for England to attempt dislodging them. France will then be in possession of the most extensive, rich, and the best situated colonies in the world. To them our West India possessions will fall an easy prey, and they will be so far on their road to the East Indies, that, considering the similarity of climates too, ours in the East will be in great danger of formidable attacks from points, the movements in which we can know nothing of till after the blow has been struck.

In time of peace France will not stoop to receive the produce of the mines of Spanish America in Spanish and Portuguese bottoms. Her own ships will visit Lima and Mexico; the avarice and ambition of her own soldiers and sailors will be fired by the sight of the gold and silver of America, so dazzling and inflaming to the vulgar, and by possessing the great sources of the precious metals, France will be enabled to distress English commerce as much as to attack the English colonies. And all this will be going on whilst the pacific ministry of England will be teaching us to believe that our only chance of salvation is in submission to Bonaparte, in offering incense to his vanity and surrendering up objects of his ambition. We shall be told of the "dilapidated means and resources" to which the Foxites succeeded, and of the impossibility of discovering a new object