Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Gratitude as per Favour.

In a paragraph in the Aurora of Wednesday, which contains as many falsehoods as could well be comprehended within its limits, it is said, that "the first French artists are employed in the transportation of the statues and pictures from Italy:" and this is almost the only palliative offered to extenuate the criminality of the plunder. How abundant soever artists may have been in France, the revolution has operated as an ostracism to them, which few have escaped. But if they have the first artists, that is to say, packers, waggon-drivers, &c. to employ for this purpose, their conduct, with regard to the whole transaction, will remain the same: and (in the opinion of the best men in France) wherever the trophies are exhibited, they will be regarded as monuments of disgrace and infamy--They will prove a beacon to warn the nations of the earth from any connection or intercourse with the French; till at length, tired and sinking under the intolerable load of infamy, they will, as the only means left to retrieve the honor of the French name, transport back again, their ill gotten plunder; and instead of horses mules, they will cause the pictures and statues to be re-transported by the base instruments of their deportation. And God send, that citizen Buonaparte may live to be one of the train.