Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States.

MR. FENNO,

Mr. Bache, and his correspondents appear to be in great distress, lest the respect shewn to the President of the United States, by the people of every city and town thro' which he passed, on his journey to his own home, and on his return to the seat of government, should be construed into satisfaction with the government, and an approbation of its administration.

As Mr. Bache is but a youth of yesterday, when compared with the old patriots, who first stood forth in defence of the invaded rights of their injured country, against the usurpation of Great-Britain, I who am grown grey with years, and was witness to what I relate can tell him, that the testimonials of respect which have recently been offered to the President of the United States are no novelties to him.

Previous to the meeting of the first Congress in the year 1774, the members from Massachusetts (our venerable President was one) were met, escorted and feasted (if you please) in all the principal towns and cities through which they passed; the same public marks of respect were again manifested with increased splendour, at the meeting of Congress in the year 1775, and in the year 1789, when the President was first elected Vice-President, a troop of horse waited upon him at his seat in Braintree, and escorted him from thence, to the Governor's in Boston, accompanied by numbers of citizens; from thence he was attended to Cambridge, by a large and respectable concourse of people, where he was again met by another troop of horse.

Throughout the state of Connecticut he received the same marked attention: the citizens of New-York were not less zealous on that occasion, than they have been to do honor to him as President; troops of horse and respectable citizens went as far as to Kingsbridge and escorted him into the city of New-York.

Every person who is acquainted with the republican manners and habits of the President, can witness for him that every kind of show and parade are contrary to his taste and inclination, and that they can be agreeable on no other ground, than as the will of the people, manifesting their determined resolution to support the government and the administrators of it, so long as the administration is conformable to the constitution.—

As to Mr. Bache's polite allusion to Darby and Joan, I consider that as highly honourable to the domestic and conjugal character of the President, who has never given his children or grandchildren cause to blush for any illegitimate offspring.

The following article is copied from an English paper, entitled The Cambridge Intelligencer, of August 19, one of the most decided opposition papers in England.

From the completion of the remarks, may be augured what the sensations of the Editors, and the people of all parties must be, at reading the account of the late horrible political tornado.

"One might have hoped in the present situation of politics, in France, policy, if not principle, would have prevented the French from again celebrating the anniversary of that accursed day the TENTH OF AUGUST. It is holding out to the Royalists and the Priests, an example which no doubt they are anxious to follow. They have as great a right to overturn the free government of 1797, by perjury, insurrection, and massacre, as the republicans had to overturn the equally free government of 1792, by the same most infernal means. Indeed if any apology could serve for such nefarious conduct, the present faction have a better right to it, than the former. We cannot now enter into an investigation of the reasons for the late conduct of the Directory, or determine what measures may be necessary to keep the volatile and sagacious Parisians in order, but most certain it is, that the violations of the principles of the constitution, by the Directory, in tampering with the armies, forming them into deliberative assemblies, ordering their march towards the capital, their hushing explanation justifying the conduct of their commander under the plea of ignorance, awing, if not threatening the grand councils of the republic these violations are so flagrant, that no one who knows any thing of the matter, will dare to charge Louis XVI. with conduct in any degree similar. In both cases we affirm, the constitution ought to have been preserved. The concerns of a nation surely are safer in the hands of a freely chosen representative body, than of any other party or description of men."