Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States.

MR. FENNO,

The partizans of France have been busy some days past in reviewing the conduct of Great-Britain towards her, in order to justify the late orders of the French government, for the capture of all British produce or manufactures in neutral vessels, let who would be the owners of the property—I think you will see much more of their fine spun reasoning on the same subject, for it must take volumes to deceive the American people as to the real object of the order—I say the real object of the order, for their ostensible object is to injure the manufactures of Great Britain, but their real object is to cloath and maintain their armies out of neutral powers. France knows that neutral nations will have the manufactures of Great Britain, and that she herself cannot cloath her armies without them. She has lately been obliged to pass a law, admitting a certain quantity of British manufactures to be purchased to cloath her armies. But she is no longer able to pay for them, and therefore will take them wherever she can find them. All the effect the late law can possibly have, will be that neutral nations instead of paying for their own supplies barely, will now have to add to the amount the supplies for France. It cannot materially injure Great Britain: If it could, the friends of France might have some apology, for approbating the measure. It is a system of warfare upon neutral nations; unattended with the slightest palliation of some such systems, that thereby their enemies are materially injured.

AN AMERICAN.