Gazette Of The United States

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Newport, in Rhode-Island, to his friend in this city, dated April 21st, 1796.

"WE have just heard here, that the House of Representatives have resolved that they will not make the requisite appropriations for carrying into effect the Treaty with Great Britain.—This seemed an event so improbable that many will not yet believe it. If it comes confirmed, we shall be in the greatest confusion and alarm here. I look upon such an event as pregnant with more portentous evils, than any that has ever occurred to our country. In fact I see no end to the series, or extent of the calamities to which it may not lead us. A war with Great Britain; a renewal of Indian hostilities and the destruction of our own government, with perhaps domestic or foreign usurpation will probably be the first fruits of this rash procedure.—God forbid, that the House should persist in the refusal—I cannot persuade myself to believe that they will dare do it.—If not a regard to their country a sense of personal danger I should expect would prevent it.

You may rest assured that the great body of the people of this State are sensible of the interest they have, in the preservation of the constitution and peace of the country, and make the proper discrimination between the friends and the foes of that interest. It is true that there is a party here who secretly rejoice in this temporary triumph of the anti-junto, but thank God! they are contemptible in their number, and in every other point of view."