Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Mr. Jefferson's sending a squadron of our armed vessels into the Mediterranean to "attack, burn, sink or otherwise destroy" the cruisers of Tripoli, but being "unauthorized by the constitution without the sanction of Congress"--his directing our commander "not to go beyond the line of defence," reminds us of the following anecdote:--

A worthy quaker merchant, athletic in his person as he was resolute in temper, being grossly insulted on Change by a Jew, (who thought himself secure from personal injury from a peaceable and patient friend) raised his fist and gave the Jew such a stroke on the face as felled him on the pavement, at the same time in a very mild tone of voice observing--"There friend, if it were not for my principles, I should strike thee so."