Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

From the United States Gazette.

Since the arrival of the St. Michael some very extraordinary publications have appeared in the government papers at Washington relative to the propositions made by our government to that of Great Britain. In the last National Intelligencer it is asserted that this was the language addressed, by the late dispatch, to the British court.

"Rescind your orders, and we will remove the embargo AS FAR AS REGARDS YOU while we will continue it AS FAR AS IT REGARDS FRANCE until she revokes her decrees. If France still persists in her decrees we will have no trade with her; and if she rescinds them, our whole trade will be restored to its wonted freedom, and every ground on your part for your orders will be taken away."

If any reliance can be placed upon this, if it is not merely an electioneering trick, it is a frank acknowledgement on the part of our government, that they have subjected the country to all the evils of the embargo for ten months, to the actual loss of about forty millions of dollars to no purpose whatever. That they have now voluntarily offered to do the very thing which Great Britain demanded, was, that we should resist the execution of the Berlin decree. All that Great Britain asked them to do upon the first publication of the Berlin decree against our commerce; and she waited twelve months before the orders in council were issued, to see whether we would maintain our neutral rights against the mandates of Napoleon. She waited in vain. Our government made no resistance: issued no proclamation; passed no non-intercourse law to bring France to terms. If it is now proper to remove the embargo so far as regards England, provided she rescinds her orders, and to continue it so far as it regards France until she revokes her decrees, was it not equally proper to lay it on in regard to France as soon as she issued those decrees and before Great Britain issued her orders in council? Had this been done, the British orders would never have been issued. We should have enjoyed a lucrative commerce with her numerous dependencies, instead of commerce with Great Britain, her allies. Napoleon, seeing that his decrees had oppressed us, had given her a monopoly of it, would according to this representation therefore, all the prosperity gained by ten months