Alexandria Daily Advertiser

From the Baltimore Federal Gazette
Communication.

While the English nation are demonstrating to all the world, the high sense they entertain of the talents and services of the deceased Mr. Pitt, the editor of the Aurora, a paper published in Philadelphia continues his endeavours day after day, with the most unaccountable solicitude to blacken the memory of this statesman.

These diatribes exhibit a deprivation of principle the most scandalous, unveiled with an effrontery which sets at defiance all national dignity and decorum. Belonging neither to the partisans of the deceased Mr. Pitt, nor the living Mr. Fox, strangers alike to both, we cannot but consider such tirades from the American press, as unmanly and injurious to the American character. Will historians charge it as a crime to this statesman, to have preserved his country from a revolution? To have extended its possessions in the East and West Indies? and to have prevented, if but for a season, the calamities of invasion by producing a continental confederacy calculated to lessen the tremendous power of its inveterate enemy? Will impartial history after detailing the gigantic means employed by one of the most formidable conquerors the earth ever beheld to subjugate a little island, allow no merit to the man who saved it?

According to the account given by this licentious editor, in the Aurora of the 29th ultimo, the murders committed by the order of Robespierre, appear as nothing when compared with the sanguinary acts of Mr. Pitt. Europe he tells us rid of this monster, will enjoy a respite from the intrigues of the British cabinet; and with respect to the United States, "his death is of so much importance as almost to deserve a celebration from one end of the union to the other."

We offer as a contrast to this bilious insinuation of the evils intended by Mr. Pitt to the United States, the following extract of a letter, written by a member of congress: Under date of the 20th of March taken from the Commercial Register published in Philadelphia:

"It is no longer doubted that the difference between the United States and G. Britain will be happily accommodated, especially as previous to the death of Mr. Pitt, instructions had been issued by the British government, to ascertain the number of American captures, and to estimate the damage sustained by our merchants."

Considering this information to be founded on advices received from our minister—we sincerely hope that the members composing the present administration of G. Britain, will faithfully fulfill towards the United States the intentions of their predecessors.