Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

EXTRACT.

"The Allied Powers say, the French have put to death their King and Queen, and many honest men.—Then let them alone—let them cut one another's throats till they are sick of it—by opposing them, you irritate them, excite treason in the midst of them, rouse jealousy and revenge and make them ten times more cruel.

"But their principles are dangerous, subversive of all order, religion and morals. Then let them alone. Principles were never yet suppressed by force; on the other hand, opposition always spreads them. You provoke enquiry, investigation, curiosity. You call the attention of all Europe to principles that attack your governments. You stimulate the faculties of men—you provoke an examination into the origin of all the corruptions of the most corrupt systems of dominion. Pamphlets, Gazettes, private letters, emissaries, and even your Sans Culottes prisoners are, by this war, this crusade against opinions, carried into all parts of Europe, into Hungary, Prussia and Russia. Tom Paine, with all the Press in Europe at his command, could not have spread Republican principles so extensively in twenty years, as this war has done in two.

"A word then to the allied princes.—Let France alone. Withdraw your armies. The Jacobins will then quarrel with each other, and the Guillotine will be the fate of one half of them in less than a year. But while your armies surround France, you unite that club of desperate men; and millions who hate the Jacobins, will notwithstanding rally round their standard, not to defend their leaders, but their country.—Remove your armies, and the people of France will soon remove the Jacobins—Besides you are hastening your own ruin. An immense debt upon the French nation, brought about their revolution. You are all enhancing your own public debts by this foolish crusade against principles; and these debts, when you can no longer manage them, will tumble you all from your thrones.

Quem Deus vult perdere, prius dementat."