Gazette Of The United States

From a Correspondent.

The Little Democrat fired at the sloop Winthrop, from Boston, within our limits of the shore, while he was lying to with her colors hoisted, and nearly hulled the pilot boat that was attending her. She fired five shot, and then ordered the captain to hoist out his boat and come on board him. This it is said is the fourth instance of her having insulted the American flag, and that too, under land or within the bay. From British and French privateers and from war in every shape, Good Lord deliver us!
A correspondent has authority to assure the citizens of the United States that the minister of France has heard with pain a report, that a vessel belonging to the Republic should have offered violence to an American vessel. The minister has given orders that the offence should be immediately enquired into, and the captain if found guilty, should be displaced and punished. He has likewise given peremptory directions to all commanders of vessels in the service of the Republic, on the American station, to pay that attention and respect to the American flag which is due from one ally to another, and conformable to the obligation of treaty and friendship.