Gazette Of The United States

MAY 7.
POLITICAL DISQUISITIONS.

Europe is at this day divided into several parties, whose interests are so complicated, it is scarcely possible to establish an equilibrium betwixt them. The American revolution has originated two factions. On the one side, France and Spain—on the other side England. England has also drawn Holland and Prussia into her party. As strangers to this contest, Germany and the other northern states preserve a neutrality. But they likewise form two confederacies:—The one consisting of Prussia and the other states of Germany, who league for the purpose of checking the Emperor's encroachments:—And the other between the latter and the Empress, whose stipulations bind them to such defensive operations as the last confederacy may occasion, and both to offensive measures against Turkey. England and Spain are almost wholly unconcerned in these two leagues—France alone can consider herself interested in them; but in case she should engage herself in these consequences, what aid would she derive from Turkey? Supposing, notwithstanding the consanguinity of the Houses of Austria and Bourbon, and the complaints of France against Russia, France should accede to the Germanic League, Turkey must remain useless to the latter power, because Russia would always keep a check over her, and could also harass Sweden and Prussia. But is it to be supposed, that England would not seize an opportunity of avenging the injuries that were rendered her in America?