The Gazette

Communication.

Quite enough has not yet been said about the British treaty. So many fools, whose judgment you would not take in the choice of a walking stick, are in the habit of calling it "that devilish thing," "that damned thing," &c. that when people consider what poor tools these same jacobins are themselves, they can hardly help thinking that somebody has told them so who really knew. For when you hear a man talking, fretting and swearing about the British treaty, who certainly could not read it even by the help of spelling, and would not know it, if he saw it, from a discourse upon horse-racing, what can even charity itself suppose? Shall we set it down as they do in Turkey, that idiots are divinely inspired? Or shall we tell truth and shame the devil at once, that they are mere parrots, or rather your cuckoos that go by clock work, and pop in and out as they are obliged to do by the machine? — However, it is so new a thing to say at once as I do that the British treaty is an excellent thing for this country, and it is so little a while since the infamous influence of France would have taken my bread out of my mouth for it, that I shall give a few reasons for the instruction of such jacobins as know how to read their mother tongue.

But first, every body remembers what the pitiful jacobins said Mr. Jay ought to have done — "He ought to have demanded satisfaction" — "He should have made a demand," said they.

Now the jacobins are innocent of saving this with any meaning, because it can have no meaning where satisfaction was actually made — but in this, as in all the puppet show conduct of these poor gentlemen, the observer may see the villainous finger of France prompting us to rush headlong upon destruction, to furnish a drop of the bucket or the dust of the balance to their unbounded views. — I ask the poor jacobins why our Envoys at Paris have not made a demand as they call it, and why they did not instantly come away on being slighted? — But no — I suppose we cannot wait too long upon these republican scoundrels the Directory of France, even when we get nothing by it but threats and most infamous intrigues; nor run away too soon from an excellent treaty with England!

No jacobins writer has ever presumed to assign a single particular wherein the British treaty was injurious to this country, and even the prince of jacobins, Samuel Adams, could only say in his vague and cunning manner, that it was "pregnant with evil." One would suppose the poor old man was pregnant himself, and had strange feelings; but the matter, whatever it was, was never born. — The following considerations were never understood nor sought after one atom more than truth itself would have been by the jacobins.

1. That the treaty of peace made in 1783 remained in many of its parts unexecuted, and a principal object of the treaty of 1795 was to provide for the amicable execution of it.

2. That Great-Britain and America are the most natural allies in the world, as we can best guarantee her American possessions, and she can best guarantee our trade and protect our coasts; while both together would be a balance for the whole world.

3. That if we had quarrelled with England, we could not have contended with her one moment at sea, and should have had a land war besides, without the possibility of having a single man or dollar from France.

4. That by the treaty the spoliations of our commerce, which took place in consequence of jacobinical precipitancy and folly in favor of France, are provided for and paid as fast as the decrees of condemnation are reversed.

5. That the western posts are delivered up, and consequently we have them as checks upon the Indians in addition to the good will of the English, who would otherwise incense them against us.

6. The true St. Croix is likely to be settled, by which it is expected that we shall gain several millions of acres of land, which otherwise would always have been contested, and possibly have occasioned a war.

7. That our commerce, in the room of being viewed with a jealous and unfriendly eye, is now protected by the British flag, and placed on more advantageous principles than that of any other nation, perhaps, in the world.

8. That we speak the same language and have the same habits with our mother country, and so, our independence being safe, which it is ridiculous to doubt, are as well qualified to be friends as can be desired.

Such are some of the advantages arising from this treaty against which these bellowing patriots have never offered a single reason, or shadow of a reason. This was the treaty which the Boston town meeting deprecated with hydrophobial agitation. This is the "damned thing" of jacobinic elocution. — I desire to know where we should have been before this time if the British treaty had not saved us? Every farthing of our resources would have been absorbed in French conquests, and exhausted in Europe. We should have been as poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked, as the other nations are who enjoy the distinction of French amity. Our slavery to France would have been exactly rivetted by widening the breach between us and England, instead of healing it. And, instead of being that virtuous and high spirited people, which now we shall be, the very principle of our revolution would have been abolished, our notions of government confounded, and our national character, by which I mean the national stamp on every man, obliterated forever.

(To be continued.)