The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

FRENCH TYRANNY.—By the accounts published in the Federal papers, (and we have no objection to have it known in ours) there are detained in French prisons for being concerned in unlawful trade or other causes, fifty seven American citizens; say even the whole of them incarcerated on mere suspicion, or to gratify the whim of a military despot. A list of their names is given, and no doubt of their confinement suggested. This is all bad enough, at the best. But why is so much said by the editors about fifty-seven sufferers, and not one syllable about four thousand American prisoners, seized on their lawful voyages by British press-gangs, and not only confined but compelled to labor and fight and lose their lives in a foreign service as hateful as unjust? Is this owing to French influence? Or does it shew the cloven foot of Anglo-federalism? Bee.