Gazette Of The United States

"I was lamenting to one of the members of the Convention (says an English paragraphist) that a great deliberating assembly should thus be converted into a theatre of noise, threats and confusion. 'Pardieu!' said he, alluding to the late dagger scene, 'but if our senate is a bear-garden, yours is a mountebank stage.' It is curious, added he, that nobody in France should know any thing of these terrible daggers made in England, and that the French nation should be accused of assassinating with a weapon that since the revolution was never worn or used, unless by the Chevaliers du Poignard, the king's friends, who were disarmed in the Thuilleries on the 22d of Feb. 1790, and taken into custody, with the same concealed weapons, at the Pont Tournant, on the 10th of August, 1792.

It is not therefore astonishing, that Mr. B—th should wear the peculiar weapon of the party he supports: but it is strange that he should charge upon his enemies the sin of his friends.

As to his accusation of atheism, it reminds me of the well known story of the German, who, quarreling with his landlady at Blois, wrote down in his album, that all the women of that city were red haired and coquets. I relate this conversation, because I think it is just in all cases that both sides should be heard."