Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BOSTON, May 31.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman of good information in Europe, dated Feb. 17, 1798.

"There is no doubt that the French are indefatigably working to raise an insurrection at Hamburgh, against the present government. Among the means they are using for the purpose, I shall particularly notice at present, only the establishment of a Theophilanthropic Society.

It is a theological and political mixture of deism, morality, anti-christianity and revolution, that the doctrine preaches. It is under the special encouragement and protection of the French directory. La-reveiller Lepaux is one of its founders. He is a professed and bitter enemy of Christianity, against which he has read a long and tedious dissertation, to the national institute.

"The Paris prints have lately asserted that Dupont De Nemours is going to America, with the intention of setting up a Theophilanthropic Society. He has been to the society at Paris to request of them a copy of that which contains their doctrines and constitution.

Dupont de Nemours was one of the unfortunate members of the legislative assembly, upon whom the Fructidor revolution fell. He was not like the others condemned to transportation or even expelled; he was permitted to resign his seat, and by yielding to the torrent, escaped its destructive fury. He is the man, who, while a member of the legislature, was so anxious to have France pursue a system of conciliation toward the Americans, so as to induce them to choose for their President, a man devoted to France.

"If Dupont is going to America, with the design mentioned, he has made his peace with the directory and will be a diligent servant to them on your side of the Atlantic."