Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The war the United States have to maintain against France, is a war, to preserve her habits, religion, morals, property, and present form of Government. If France should cajole us into peace, and get us to lay aside our military and naval preparations, all these would, and must be at her mercy, and what mercy she would shew them and us, we may judge, from the example of every country she has made peace with, or received into her friendship.

It is not possible for the imagination to depict any thing more stupendously wicked and criminal, than the politics of the French Directory. They encourage a large portion of the Irish nation to rebellion; they set them about murdering their neighbors, burning their houses, and destroying all the cattle in the kingdom ; persuading these poor creatures, that all this must be done, to embarrass the English, and prevent their obtaining provisions for their fleets, in order that an army of Frenchmen may. the more easily be thrown into the kingdom of Ireland, although the means of supporting this army must thus have vanished. But what are these enormities in reality encouraged for ? Truely to embarrass the British Cabinet; by destroying provisions that might be applied to the use of their fleets, and by encouraging rebellion in Ireland, to divert a part of the British forces, for the purpose of quelling it. Have they ever intended to invade Ireland with a competent army, to subdue it ; or as the Jacobins would term it, to restore the Irish to their liberties? No ; they had encouraged the destruction of the means of supporting such an army in that island, and it is now evident to demonstration, that their real object lay elsewhere.

And yet this dreadful deception, which has occasioned the sacrifice of so many lives in Ireland, is boasted of in the Aurora, as a master stroke of policy. Says the mild lucubrist, on this subject, " Upon the actual detination, of this naval armament the friends of republican government can proudly say, there is no certainty, but in the bosoms of its projectors." What fiend-like bosoms are those of the projectors, in which this gentle writer rejoices, will be be seen by the long black list of human miseries, they have projected for Ireland, in order to conceal its destination. It is thus they will always treat their Irish friends, whenever their destruction will serve the purposes of their ambition.

The fairy land promised to our democrats is the millennium ; those who promise it, the French philosophers, and the Godwins, men, whose writings, lives, and conduct exhibit the utmost contempt, for religion, morality. humanity and justice. It is however proper to notice, that before the millennium arrives, the directory have also promised to our democrats, all the pleasures " of the tempestuous sea of liberty."

The editor of the Aurora, (see that paper of the 6th July) while he acknowledges Mr. Jefferson to be the author of the letter to Mazzei, paraphrases the highly obnoxious and rebellious sentiment it contains, in the following toast. " The author of the declaration of independence, who prefers the activity of republicanism, to the calm of despotism." Two insurrections subdued, have not yet taught this man, that the lovers of their country, know how to sail with safety, on Mr. Jefferson's " tempestuous sea of liberty."

To be secure against French machinations, our military and naval preparations, must be such, as to demonstrate to the Directory,
that it is in vain for them, to attempt, to disturb, the " calm of despotism" that reigns in the United States.

If the French succeed, in their expedition up the Mediterranean, and against the British fleet ; it will bring them sooner to declare their intentions towards the United States. We shall then be presented, as the Switzers were, with the French code of liberty, a French constitution or death. And yet the Aurora (no longer since than the 11th ultimo) prays devoutly, that the French may annihilate the British fleet. Such are your lovers of " the tempestuous sea of liberty," and haters of our. present state of order and good government, which they denominate, " the calm of despotism."