Gazette Of The United States

PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 1.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Halifax, formerly a citizen of this state, to his friend in this town.

I have read, with singular pleasure, the debates of the New Congress, and in particular those on the question, "whether the Secretary of Foreign Affairs shall be removed by the President;" and must candidly confess that the speeches and debates thereon, are not to be equalled in any public assembly on earth, every expression breathes sentiments of liberty from the soul?—How happy must your situation be, under a government formed by tried patriots, culled from among millions? A government administered by men, who, if we may judge from action and speech, express themselves as if it were upon their eternal happiness; ruled by a President, whose conduct calls for a comparison from a higher power than earth: To the citizens of the United States the name of WASHINGTON sounds in their ears like the name of a friend.-How happy should I be to live under such a government—and how pleasing would it be to my friend, if he could say that I, instead of flying my country in the hour of difficulty, now lie numbered with those heroes, who fell to establish liberty for their posterity! Heroes who sleep on earth to live in glory. But the wish of your friend is, that the proceedings of the Congress of America, may be a pattern and precedent to the world, and that she may soar unrivalled in the hemisphere of glory.