Gazette Of The United States

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Clifton, near Bristol, (England) to his friend in Baltimore, dated October 20, 1792.

"With respect to politics, the English newspapers will shew you to what outrageous lengths the Jacobins and Republicans of France have carried on matters. We are in daily expectation of hearing of their having sacrificed the poor King and Queen.—The Austrians and Prussians seem to have been grossly misled by the Emigrants, in representing a larger body of malcontents in the kingdom of France, than there appears to be. They advanced rapidly under the idea of support, but finding the body of the people against them, they have retreated, and, I suppose, it will end in the radicals' establishing their own wild incoherent system of government. If they would only content themselves with bringing on their own destruction, no person would care whether they had any government or not, or be interested in it; but when they threaten every country in Europe with sending emissaries abroad, to poison the minds of the common people, to subvert every thing that is decent and respectable in each country, it then becomes a matter of moment to each to endeavor to counteract their schemes. At present, I am very sure, the good sense of the great body of the people in this country is against any such innovation ; and, I believe, Mr. Thomas Paine, at length, begins to think so. — He embarked at Dover for France the other day, amidst the hisses and execrations of the populace."