Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

French Scheme on Canada.

The Redacteur, a Paris paper, of the 10th February, contains the following very curious article, addressed to the Emigrants, advising them to the Quixotic scheme of attempting the Conquest of Canada. We give the Redacteur's own words.

After having reminded them, that death will be their lot if they dare to put a foot in the interior of the republic, and that indigence and contempt await them every where abroad, the Redacteur exclaims:

"Emigrants! hear the voices which call you to the banks of the river St. Laurence. Canada claims her deliverance; be ye her redeemers. She was named New France, because the French made the first settlement there. Conducted by Samuel Champlain, the French in 1608 founded Quebec. Go, retake that country, and restore to it the handsome name of New-France.

Every body knows, that at Boston the English united themselves in 1753, to form the project of invading Canada, and from thence proceeded towards the ports of Royal Island, which is the key of Canada. Well then! let America also become your rallying point, and the port of your outlet.

There distributed among chiefs, who are able to guide you, and who have previously concerted the means of attack; go and deprive Great Britain of her prey. Thus take revenge of the homicidal government which so basely sacrificed you at Quiberon. May the blood of young Sombreuil rise against England, and recoil upon her! In placing his foot on France, Sombreuil knew well that the law had pronounced his condemnation. O heavens! to have seen the English themselves become the authors of his destruction, to have seen them shamefully fly on board their vessels, to have seen them turn their own artillery on the shore where he and his companions had embarked; to have seen them indiscriminately spread havoc and death among the ranks of the Emigrants, as well as those of the republicans—this is the infamous perfidy, which from the bottom of his tomb calls on you to expiate. If so just a cause cannot animate you, Interest at least ought to make you sensible.

Instead of wandering from court to court, begging for support, which as often is eluded as it is promised, instead of going at a great distance to a people, to whom your mere presence is subject of umbrage, whose affronts you must brook, and whose discontent you provoke; instead of running headlong in the arms of death, which is suspended over your heads, if ever you transgress the limits, which the fundamental code has forever fixed between France and you,

Precipitate on that soil, where the most fertile lands are open to cultivation—where rich mines furnish iron equally convenient for labour and military valor, where vast forests may become the dock-yards of a respectable navy, where the beaver (castor) will afford to you its rich spoil and lessons of industry, where every object will recall to your memory the glory and labours of your ancestors where the numerous swarms of unfortunate Frenchmen, whom the British yoke has only rendered so much more attached to their mother country, will alleviate your pains, salute you in your own language, and behold in you the revengers of their oppressor.

Go form there an honourable system and establish settlements, which shall restore you to your former respectability: and perhaps those to whom the law represents you in another light than as rebels, perhaps those may be forced by you to esteem your courage, to wish for your good success, to second you in so generous a project. Emigrants think hereof, you can neither return to France, nor remain in foreign countries. Canada is a country as large as Europe; It is New-France, which England stole from us. Punish England and be deserving of having a country."