Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Says a Correspondent:

The Jacobins are extremely active in accounting for the present hostile aspect of France from the Jay treaty—Say they, this is what your treaty has produced—The French are very angry—they take your vessels and they insult your government—This is true—they do take our vessels—they insulted the people and their government—but it is asked modestly How long has France done this to their dear friends?—Ever since the spring '93—long before the British treaty. It is farcical to measure the grand scheme of French ambition by so minute a rule—They mean to force all neutral nations to be the instruments of their vast ambition—Those whom they cannot seduce to their own destruction, they will brow-beat and insult-Our crime is that we are really an independent nation—not to be seduced, and we are therefore to be crippled as a people useless to their scheme.