Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

FRENCH GRATITUDE.
REPUBLIC OF VENICE.

Speech of the President of the National Convention of France to the Venetian Ambassador in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.

"Governed by a wise constitution, directed solely by the principles of Justice and Reason, and the purest maxims of morality, France is on the point of enjoying the objects of her wishes, Liberty, Equality and Union. France always great, will reply to generous proceedings by proceedings equally generous. When on all sides our rising republic was assailed in its cradle, and the event appeared to be uncertain, the Venetian Senate not content with keeping within the bounds of neutrality, received with distinction the Envoy of the French Republic We love to talk of and publish our Gratitude. The measure was so much the more noble, as it exposed our faithful ally to much embarrassment. France under a despotic yoke might be ungrateful and treacherous, but France restored to Freedom, becomes a Republic, which cannot be otherwise than grateful. Tell your nation that she may number among the most pure and zealous of her allies the French Republic. Holland, comprised in our treaty with Spain, proves that we do not forget our allies."
This was the language of France in 1795.

Every body knows the rest: Within two years this faithful ally, this ancient Republic, was bartered and swapped away to the Emperor of Germany.

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