Kentucky Gazette

A late London paper contains the following just remarks in relation to the American republic.—"We should wish for the improvement of the world, that America should remain a republic; because, if the least expensive government possess in it equal elements of duration, and afford equal protection of person and of property as a more expensive, the advantages are with the republican form of government, and should therefore be preferred! America possesses many advantages denied to other countries; and if she act a prudent part towards her brethren of the south, her commerce must improve, and her navy acquire a permanence, which may alter, in the process of time, the situations of many European states. No man can contemplate the situation of America without feelings of superior exultation. In this country, unhappily, we look upon the Americans as the lees of society; and vainly think that the abuse of Jonathan will secure a pre-eminence to John Bull. The public should be disabused of this erroneous notion. We should watch the progress of other states minutely; where we see their virtues, to copy them; and where we meet their vices to correct those of a similar nature in ourselves."