Rhode Island Republican

The conduct of the British minister Drake if not disavowed in the most solemn and convincing manner by the government of Great-Britain (a thing we hold impossible) will consign him and his employers to everlasting disgrace. All the civilized world appear by their diplomatic agents, to execrate the deed; yet, some mealy mouthed politicians here censure our minister, Mr. Livingston, for concurring in the testimony against diplomatic instrumentality in assassination / Others even justify the horrible innovation of assassination, through the accredited representative of "sacred majesty." Such disgraceful sentiments are confined to the extreme federalists.

Phila. Post.

The N. York Post (Hamilton's,) has found out that the diplomatic characters at Paris generally, conformed to the usage established for two centuries, in congratulating the governments near which they reside, upon public events of great interest, whether of public prosperity, conclusion of treaties, escape from earthquakes, or assassination.—The ground before taken is now abandoned, and Mr. Livingston is not culpable for being polite and consistent equally, but because he did not, where murder and massacre were concerned, employ caution in expressing his sentiments on the subject; because he did not resort to a temporizing discretion, in expressing his abhorrence of crimes meditated against the laws of society, and all the charities which the christian religion inculcates; because he did not with mean and profligate baseness connive against the evidence of his senses at a crime which, whatever may be the practice of the crowned heads, must ever be the abhorrence of moral and free governments.

'The Post holds out this kind of threat—“If we are not extremely mistaken, Mr. Livingston will rue the day when he wrote that letter to Talleyrand."

What does this menace mean? Does it indicate that Mr. Livingston may be comprehended in the next plan of assassination? Or does it intend to declare some future vengeance against him on his return? We can discern no other import in this menace, and must leave it to future events, and the memory of this menace to unravel the meaning.

Aurora.