Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

From the NEW-YORK GAZETTE, &c.

The Directory appear of late to have roused the just indignation of the council of five hundred, many of the most virtuous members of which have openly charged it with the greatest dilapidations of the public monies; with conniving at the glaring injustice and rapacity of four of the ministers appointed by them; with a shameful and criminal neglect in not making provision for the maintenance and support of the poor, the sick, and other objects of charity entrusted to their care and superintendence, who are daily dying for want of means of subsistence; with misapplying the appropriations of public money made for the most necessary, just and useful objects, to improper and useless purposes. The Directory like all usurpers in ancient times, and like all the factions who have got uppermost in France during their revolution, know the necessity of keeping the army on their side, which is easily done while they hold the purse, but who will forsake them as soon as a stronger party rises up and forcibly wrests it from them; which it invariably has done towards all the factions who have at different times got the purse into their hands by the destruction of those who had it in possession. It is an established fact, that before any of the numerous factions who have for eight years dominated in France, ventured to denounce the faction it wished to destroy, that they previously had the prudence and wisdom to send agents to the armies, to secure by gifts and promises their support, which when attained, they dared to come boldly forward, denounce, and condemn to death, those who were in power. So in Rome, under the emperors, great care was always taken to secure the affections of the soldiery. One day Domna the mother of Caracalla, blamed the emperor her son for being so lavish towards the soldiers, as to exhaust all the money amassed and left in the public coffers by his father. "Make yourself easy, mother, (rejoined Caracalla) with their swords I will never want." These are the dying words of Septimus Severus to his son: "Take care of the army, never mind the other members of the state."

Do not these few words include all the revolutionary morality of princes and false republicans who imitate them? The system which bore so long a time, and still bears on the French republic, owes its honor to the servile imitators among them, of the ancient system of emperors and kings who were above the laws. Caracalla profited by the last counsels of his dying father: under his very long reign no part of his subjects were regarded but his soldiers; he reserved all his severity for those citizens whose enlightened minds he feared, or whose riches he coveted.

Had the men in France, who usurped and secured to themselves by force and blood the exercise of the powers of government under the present constitution, instead of taking two thirds of the old butchering convention to make the new representation, let the citizens at large the freedom of an entire new election, Europe would two years ago have been at peace France would have had less internal wounds to heal, and would not have been obliged to pay a forced loan of at least a third of what each man possessed, forcibly demanded with the bayonet at his breast, their young men torn from their friends to be butchered in extending a territory too large already; nor would the United States have suffered the incalculable losses which a simple unauthorized decree of the piratical, lawless directory has produced.

By the amazing extension of the territories of France at the expense of internal happiness and prosperity, her diabolical usurping rulers have sown the seeds of civil discord, of arbitrary, despotic power perhaps (which is not improbable) of a dismemberment of the southern and northern parts of the empire into two distinct independent sovereignties: and, as we know the ambition of the "Five Headed Monster," it is very probable that each of them may have conceived the design in increasing the impossibility of governing France by a republican system, from an overgrown territory and population, of consolidating the other four heads into ONE—HIS OWN.