Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The account given by the Greek historian, of the Democratic sedition in the island of Corcyra, as it seems to have been studied in what relates to the past, by the actors of those scenes which have for now even years disturbed the repose of this country, as well as of that which has so recently astonished the People of Pennsylvania, furnishes all, a clue, by which "we may guess with a near aim, at the main chance of things to come."

The English Historian of Greece—Gillies (now Historiographer to the King) who though not a popular writer, is not unfrequently terse, correct and elegant, has touched en passant upon this interesting occurrence, and gives a translation (which, I know not whether to ascribe to him) of a passage in Thucydides, describing the consequences of this bloody democratic sedition, in language at once luminous and impressive. But the causes and the conduct of this formula of all succeeding seditions, must be sought for in the interesting detail of the Ancient.

Private enmities, crimes, popular odiums, debts and other embarrassments, exist to be cancelled, an insufferable burden to each insurgent. Revolutions are the most general events, afford street occasions for wreaking private revenge, and to crime and its odium; are the never-failing streams of oblivion.

The morbid desire of an alliance with France, that scarlet whore, reminds us of the absurd wish of an Irish lover.

"There lived a man in Ballinacrazy
Who wanted a wife—to make him crazy."