Gazette Of The United States

Says a Correspondent,

We have heard of a Decree of the National Convention of France, of the 9th May, evidently violating an essential article of the treaty between France and the United States. That such a Decree was passed, there can be no doubt, as the consequences have been experienced by the commercial interests of this country. But it is now said (from what authority does not appear, as neither the Executive of the Union, or the Minister of France, have announced the fact) that a Decree of the 23d May has annulled the Decree of the 9th, so far as it contravenes the treaty with the United States. However, on the bare supposition that this may be the case, a paragraphist in Mr. Dunlap's paper of Monday, puffs off the transaction as an instance of the "generosity" of France, and as sacrificing the interest of that republic for their American brethren—These are mere flourishes—for if to be just in the fulfilment of treaties, is to be generous, what becomes of the faith of nations, and that boasted superiority of republican honor, over that of monarchical ?—The truth is, that those who have made the greatest clamour about the sacredness of the obligations America is under to fulfil its treaties with France, are the first to annihilate those obligations, by extolling an act of justice, if it has really taken place, as an act of generosity. By this we may see what ideas some persons entertain of the faith of nations.