Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

COMMUNICATION.

While I have a due respect for the feelings of the unfortunate Gen. Hull, I cannot but often think of the vanity and imbecility so apparent in his gasconading, Bonapartian proclamation to the inhabitants of Canada. It is couched in the style of a dictator (a very saucy one too) who dreams of nothing but complete success, fully determined that all opposition shall be treated in so exemplary a manner, that the terror of his name shall hang over the land like a curtain.

He tells them he comes prepared for every contingency, and has a force which will (not like other forces beat down, but what is far more convenient) look down all opposition : and furthermore that they will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression, and restored to the dignified station of freemen: This, by the bye, I take to be the unkindest cut of all, and must sound rather awkward, by being addressed to a people who enjoyed all the blessings of freemen. The General goes on to tell them, that no white man found fighting by the side of an Indian, will be taken prisoner; instant destruction will be his lot, &c.—This imprudent threat, I have no doubt, accelerated the mortifying result—he not being anxious, after that, to carry matters to extremities, as two might play at the game of "extermination."

This proclamation abounds with the seducing traits so conspicuous in the European ones from which it was copied, but the people to whom it was addressed, knowing when they are well off, and not wishing, just then, to change a certainty for an uncertainty, it did not produce the same effect. The General, however, should not be unhappy; he is not the only commander whom dame Fortune has been tantalising. One of the kings of Syria was much such a gentleman :-a campaign of his terminated as briefly, and as much to his mortification. He intimated to king Ahab that he had a force which would look down all opposition : his style. like our General's, was very swaggering. The story is short and tells thus: "And Ben-hadad sent unto him (the king of Israel) and said the gods do so unto me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me." The answer of Ahab should be remembered by all invaders : "Tell him. let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." This was not to be endured by one who came "prepared for every contingency." The host was immediately put in array, and—

"Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen."