The New Hampshire Gazette

Nothing can be more ridiculous than to charge the projects of Miranda upon President Jefferson and the American administration, and then to publish the English accounts, in which the whole project is communicated to Mr. Pitt, the English Minister, and in which all the advantages to be proposed, and the evils to be avoided, in regard altogether to the sole point of English policy, are explained.

We are told he promised Mr. Pitt with ten thousand men to reduce South America. That Mr. Pitt seemed to believe it, but he feared to weaken Spain, lest he should strengthen France.

And when all these things are related as truths, to be admitted, the whole must, by equivocal expressions, be so told as to make the American Government responsible.--And the only plea for this conduct seems to be this. The American Government probably were discerning enough, not to be ignorant of what was doing in the world, as they were appointed the guardians of their nation, to see through the policy of all nations, and the intrigues which regard that part of the Globe of which they were the inhabitants, and they are not to be supposed strangers to their duty, or unfaithful in it.

In any other political views, than such writers choose to take, much of eulogy and praise might be obtained from the part assigned to our government, which is now perverted into a cause of much abusive misrepresentation.

By the prosecution, the Government has amply vindicated itself from any direct concern in the measures of Miranda. If the citizens of the United States were not concerned in the expedition, so much the better on that account. There is less to blame, and the government is freed from blame in every ineffectual attempt to fix blame in any of our citizens. If they who assisted Miranda did not know his designs, and they have shewn no commissions from our government, where is the blame upon the one or the other? (Salem Reg.)