Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States.

Mr. FENNO,

Please to insert in your paper the following

Directions to a Painter.

SPREAD your canvas, take your pallet and pencil, and sketch

FRANCE,

As a tigress breaking her toils; hunted by all the imperial and royal brutes of Europe; place on her head the red cap; and represent her dancing in wooden shoes to the tune of Vive la Republique:—devouring her own offspring, and dealing deadly wounds to all her surrounding adversaries at the same instant. The country of an enthusiastic, gallant military, and the theatre of philosophical cut-throats; who are sacrificing an hundred thousand lives annually, to convince the world that they can weave a cloth, strong enough for a mad shirt, from the filmy filaments of a cob-web.

RUSSIA

As an enormous woman, with a monstrous hoop-petticoat; one side of it spreading over half of the kingdom of Poland:—shaking her fist at the Gallic tigress, and looking askant, at the same time, on a map of the country, bordering on the Archipelago and Black Sea. The country of boundless ambition, driving vast hordes of ignorant slaves, to cultivate inhospitable forests.

PRUSSIA,

As a wolf, wounded in his hind quarters, sneaking off from the combat, and hugging ponderous bags of gold, bound up with tri-coloured ribbands. The region of tactics and punic faith.

AUSTRIA.

As a huge bear, lifting both paws against the tigress, who had just torn off the head of one of her cubs. A country bloated with pedigree; and composed of parts as dissimilar, as was Nebuchadnezzar's image; incapable of perfect union in the field or cabinet.

SPAIN,

As a cat, stroking her whiskers, and with a paw uplifted, qualling and spitting at the tigress. The region of pride, squinting with jealousy at all her neighbours. The common channel, through which the riches of Mexico and Peru pass to the industrious part of Europe.

GREAT-BRITAIN,

As a bull-dog, fastening on the limbs of the tigress; held back by a monster with a thousand heads. The hot-bed of licentiousness and corruption—action and re-action—both poisoning the public manners, and equally sapping the fair temple of liberty.

Mix your richest colours, and paint

The Fifteen UNITED STATES,

As an ancient Sachem of America, reclined under the shade of an aged oak, on the western bank of the Delaware; smoking the calumet of peace with all the ambassadors of Europe: and shaking his tomahawk at a company of ragged hunters from the wilderness, who are dancing a war dance round a keg of whiskey. The country of independence, peace and safety—Long may she enjoy them, uninjured by domestic faction, or foreign intrigue!

Depict, in the back ground of the United States, a motley group of figures; represent some of them working with the utmost activity to tear up by the roots an illustrious thriving Native of the American groves, called the National Executive; and others holding in readiness a miscreant, creeping, exotic, ycleped Jacobin Club, which they design to plant in its place. To diversify the group, you may distinguish some by volunteer cockades, and others by senatorial robes. To one you may give the General's baton, and to another the plume of his amanuensis. Turn their faces, grinning a ghastly smile, towards the ragged company in the fore-ground, as if approving their drunken freaks. Cover the whole with your strongest shades, as best adapted to their dark machinations, as well as expressive of their general wish of concealment. Finally, summon the utmost powers of your pencil, and represent the ancient Sachem on the bank of Delaware, although intent on the benevolent works of peace, looking with an air of pity, mingled with contempt, on the whole of these worthless figures.