Gazette Of The United States

NEW-YORK, Aug. 11.

Extract of a letter by the last arrival from a gentleman in Havre, to his Correspondent in this town.

"News may be expected from the regions of war and bloodshed. The land of liberty and equality may afford in your opinion, an ample field for dissertation; indeed it does, but believe me sir, in nothing are you more deceived, than in the ideas of French Liberty and French Equality, from their own ideas of it. Equal they are in truth. Frenchmen are all alike in my notion of things. But I consider equality as no blessing; unless, in the most refined and philosophical sense, the free enjoyment may be called o. For my part I have no ambition to be the villain's or the beggar's equal, only as we all agree in essence; being alike curiously wrought from the dust by the finger of Omnipotence. No impartial and dispassionate person will hesitate to say many of their innovations in government are much for the worse.

Many things, however, may be said to their praise, their mode of addressing by Citizen, is undoubtedly sublime, and contains a dignity not to be surpassed in the universe. The spirit also with which they prosecute the war, deserves the highest commendation from every true Republican.

I have been several leagues into the country, and find it exceeds, for prospect and cultivation, every thing I ever saw, or read of. They are building a kind of gun boat here to carry 200 men each, and launch one almost every day. All the merchant-men and prizes in this port are fitting up for transports, amounting to near a thousand, five ships of war and three large frigates (two on the stocks raised 7 days ago to be equipped by the 10th June) 30,000 volunteers and 170,000 regulars to embark, perhaps-for England. This is Yankee Doodle fighting my friend.

Provisions here are exceeding scarce, bread kind especially, and that very brown. Flour is 20 crowns a barrel, and Rice 15 do. a hundred. Soap is lower than in America, and every thing is very dull of sale: even bread when it is old publicly: for all masters and supercargoes must go to Paris before any market can be made. Nearly 100 waggons go to Paris every morning from this, as the cry has been very great there. There are about 62 American Ships here. The English have 100 sail of men of war in readiness for sea at Spithead, which likewise argues formidable events this summer."