Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

THE modest Mr. Bache, in his paper of this morning, has, with his usual regard to Decency and Truth, endeavored to impress a belief that the detected Jacobin, BLOUNT, of the "virtuous" minority in the Senate, is one of the "British faction"; as this Retailer of Sedition denominates the friends of their country in the administration of the Government.

Blount was, indeed, "one of the late President's officers"; and like ALL who were selected from the party to which he ever belonged, he has given evidence that those who oppose the free government of their country, and its administration, are unchecked by Moral considerations. To oppose, thwart, misrepresent, and defame a government, resting on Confidence alone, thereby to destroy this confidence, has been a game as often repeated as free governments have been destroyed. The late President, seduced by his own consciousness of integrity, and misled by the hypocritical pretensions of the Antifederalists, to superior attachment to liberty, the constant cant of disorganizers, appointed too many of them to offices of importance.

And what have been the returns? While he continued in office, they constantly endeavored to excite opposition, by misrepresentation and falsehood; their malignity has followed that father of his country to his hallowed retirement. And this friend of General Washington, as the honest Bache wishes he should be believed, endeavors, by casting "all the blame on the late President", to give himself consequence, by exciting the avages against our country. O shame! when wilt thou restrain the votaries of sedition?

This infamous transaction is, at present, veiled, in some degree, with mystery. When the whole of the President's communications shall be published, it will be obvious, that the objects of the traitorous combination were not confined to the application to the British Minister, but that that application itself was designed to produce effects which should defeat the execution of our treaty with Spain, and it has so far, at least for the present, succeeded. The probability is, that the principal agent, Blount, was an instrument in the hands of wily Frenchmen.

That it was hoped the bait would succeed as it respected Great-Britain, and thereby involve us in hostility with that country; and for this it is probable they relied upon our prejudices against that nation. At any rate, it was believed, that it could not fail to excite fear and jealousy in the Spanish government, and probably might facilitate the cession of territory to France, of which we have heard so much, and which we know is so ardently desired.

Respecting Mr. Blount, it is a fact well known, that he has invariably attached himself to the opposers of the administration—that on no national question has he ever voted with its friends—that his personal associations have ever been consonant with his votes—that during the last winter his house was the rendezvous of those who were canvassing for the election of the Correspondent of Mazzei to the Presidency—that there has been a constant and open intimacy between him and the French and Spanish agents here; and it is believed that he is not even personally known to the British Minister, but that all his applications to him were made by other men and in other names.

Justice demands that it should be added, that Mr. Liston gave no encouragement to the proposals, but repressed the first advances; and that in his official communications, the reasons which influenced him in declining, produced a rejection of the project by the British administration.

July 6.
COMMUNICATIONS.

That pure and incorruptible patriot, the Editor of the Aurora, in order to raise a dust to cover the ignominious flight of one of his faction, and divert the public attention from the object to which it ought, and nevertheless will be directed, viz. the unsoundness of the pretended patriots—has with his accustomed candor, attempted to pass on the public a base misrepresentation respecting the British minister. No other refutation is necessary, than the publication of Mr. Liston's letter. One thing in Bache's statement is remarkable. "What are we to think (says he) of those Americans, who have been on so familiar a footing with him," (the British minister.) Hah! it is something suspicious then, to be on a familiar footing with an ambassador! Those who know that Bache never made love to all the French ministers that have come to America since their revolution; that his house was not open to and frequented by them, and theirs by him at all hours, and particularly at midnight—will at once perceive the peculiar propriety with which a remark of this kind comes from him.

Men of glass! throw no stones.
It is believed that this Mouth Piece of the Jacobin Faction is father confessor and privy counsellor to most of the lesser gudgeons among the Representatives of France in an American Council of One Hundred.