Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

By letters from America we learn, that six sail of French ships of the line and five frigates, apparently the squadron that Earl Howe chased, are safely arrived in the Chesapeake. They had one million four hundred thousand pounds sterling. in specie, on board, which they have safely lodged in the Bank of Philadelphia, for the purpose of buying provisions and stores.

This wealth, thus sent to America, not only invigorates their agriculture and manufactures, but it tends to make them maritime. They will themselves be the carriers of these cargoes to France; and thus does the present war, through the madness of Great Britain, advance the United States of America half a century in arts, commerce and wealth.

It does one's heart good to find foreign nations scolding about the prosperity of America—and it is no mean argument in favor of peace and the measures of our government.