The New Hampshire Gazette

Extract of a Letter from an American Gentleman of great celebrity, now in France, to his friend in America, dated
"Paris, March 6, 1795.

"I know not how matters are going on your side of the water, but I think every thing is not as it ought to be. The appointment of Gouverneur Morris to be Minister here, was the most unfortunate and the most injudicious appointment that could be made. I wrote this opinion to a respectable citizen of the United States at the time, and I said the same thing to Morris himself—had he not been removed at the time he was, I think the two countries would have been involved in a quarrel; for it is a fact that he would have been ordered away, or put in arrestation, for he gave every reason to suspect, that he was secretly a British emissary.

"What Mr. Jay is about in England, I know not: but is it possible, that any man who has contributed to the Independence of America, and to free her from the tyranny of the British Government, can read without shame and indignation, the note of Jay to Grenville—That the United States has no other resource than in the justice and magnanimity of his Majesty—is a satire upon the declaration of Independence, and exhibits a spirit of meanness on the part of America, that (were it true) I should be ashamed of her. Such a declaration may suit the Spanish character of Aristocracy, but it cannot agree with the character of a Republican."

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