The Kentucky Gazette

PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.) June 30,

IMPORTANT!

Arrived here the brig Dolphin, capt. Aaron Wingate, in 15 days from Port Dauphin, two French gentlemen came passengers with him, one of whom arrived in the French fleet which left France about two months past, consisting of 3 ships of the line, 6 frigates and four corvettes, having on board 1000 fresh troops, 15,000 stand of arms, and a great supply of ammunition and military stores. At the Cayes all was quiet, no appearance of further insurrections.—The negroes have returned to their work, as the French Directory have decreed, that the blacks should receive one-quarter part of the produce of all their Labour.—The mulatto gen. Villatte, who headed the late rebellion at Cape Francois, was taken, with 40 of his accomplices, and are confined as prisoners on board one of the ships to be sent to France for trial.

The gentleman from France is a person of genteel deportment and discovers a knowledge of men and measures, which may eventually prove too alarming to these states. He came out with the afore-mentioned fleet and took passage in the first vessel bound to these states, and was using every possible expedition to reach Philadelphia.

He reports that the whole republic of France resents the conduct of the American congress in making a shameful and derogatory treaty with Britain, which so interfered with the existing treaty between France and America, that the alliance, which was founded in torrents of blood, and for the preservation of the liberties of the U.S. procured and defended by the aid of the French armies & navies, would (it was feared) soon be at an end. An American in France is treated with enmity and contempt, as inimical to the rights of man, and all familiarity with them had ceased. Our national faith is despised, and the whole people are united in a full belief that the greater part of the American government are under British influence, or they never could have refused the proffered terms of a most honorable commercial connection with France, to a treaty with England, which appears with every humiliating circumstance of abject petitioners and adulating sycophants—They consider this dereliction of their French protectors as owing to a supposition, that they would become a conquered people to the powerful combination then against them.—But the present day has so changed the face of their politics they by the success of French bravery all their opponents seem evaporated in fumo: All internal commotions have subsided, & universal tranquillity prevailed through the whole kingdom of France. He says, the late treaty with Britain is esteemed more prejudicial to them than all the distressing events of the present war, and for political reasons they acquiesce with seeming indifference to its effects; but it is feared our peace and neutrality will soon be interrupted by the present vigilant directory, which may too suddenly adopt some desperate
Decisive measures to punish America for her ingratitude.

The people's confidence was daily increasing, and salutary measures had disappeared. Provisions, and every necessary of life were cheaper than in America, and in great plenty; a stranger among them, would scarce imagine that they were at war.