Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

From the Timepiece.

" Several French privateers are said to be now on the American coast, and off the Hook, cruising for British property. In some instances, it is said, their conduct has verged on the piratical. In this country, from a philosophical review of things, there is a predilection in favor of France and Frenchmen. It is hoped the republic. will, if war is to continue, check the career of naval insolence, as far as she is concerned. No government can answer for the acts of individuals ; but by punishing such as are known to infringe the rights of neutral nations, they will set an example for future adventurers, and preserve the respect and good will of the United States."

The above is another curiosity furnished by Sinbat, the nautical poetaster. But as he has here attempted to impose on the public a belief of what he knew to be unfounded, it is not like many others of his fabrications a harmless absurdity. The plundering Frenchmen who infest our coast, are as well known by him to be cruising for American property, as they are by me to be an infernal host of highway robbers; whose conduct, instead of the mild, whining expression " verging on the piratical," which becomes only the mouth of a French hireling, merits the appellation and the punishment of downright piracy.

Many reflections occur on the above specimen of Jacobin insolence ; but further to comment would be to waste time on risible imbecility.