Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

From the Wilmington Jacobin.

"At a time when all the plans of the contending powers in Europe are obviously turned to a military direction—and when they are endeavoring to mould, or rather hammer, whatever is malleable in surrounding countries, not into instruments of peace, but weapons of war, every praise is due to those who leave no honorable effort untried to preserve to this country the blessings of a respectable neutrality: and in this view we rejoice at the departure of the Envoys, for settling our differences with the French Republic, and hope the Embassy may prove propitious.—Let all the people say Amen—so be it."

This "goodman Delver," has a quaint conceit enough, with his moulds, and his mallets, and his hammers. He has a pretty wit; but, as Shakespeare says, it wants whipping.