Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Mr. Fenno,

The London Morning Chronicle, tho' as bitter against the British ministry as our Aurora, Argus and Chronicle are towards the government of the United States, inveighs against the horrid tyranny of the French Directors. The Editors of that paper have too much sense to justify acts which even the dupes of party pronounce atrocious. But the Argus calls "the cause of Frenchmen the cause of deity," and boldly vindicates the Directory. The Boston Chronicle asserts that the acts of attainder against our tories, were similar in principle and degree of injustice. One may ask whether these Jacobin printers really detest our revolution? If they do not, why do they slander that glorious event by comparing it with the late outrageous despotism of the Directory?

Another remark occurs, how is it to be accounted for, that our Jacobin Gazettes discover so much less principle than the English opposition papers. The fact is certainly so, and those papers are still English, tho' seditious and perhaps treasonable They do not appear to be French, like the antifederal Gazettes.

The only way of accounting for this difference is, that the freer and more popular any form of Government may be, the wickeder and more malignant will be the party opposed to it; the worst faction ever known was in heaven. In the next place, it is not probable the Directory actually hires any newspaper in London.