Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

I CONSIDER it as a certain presage that longevity will not be among the attributes of the great republic, that its rulers have for some time past, had more recourse to an enthusiasm for military glory, than to the urusufructing cant of philanthropy, "that enginery, more mischievous than fleets and armies, and the cannon's murder," with which the revolution was commenced, and by which its principles are still propagated in other countries.

An ardor for military glory, cannot consist for any length of time, with the present state of things in France. Was there ever a soldier who had not a contempt for the droneish, inelegant and unwarlike professors of democratic austerity? Partes in Bella togati, Marcellusque loquax, et nomina vana Catonis, is the sneer of Caesar at the Senatorial army. If in the abortive invasion of England, and the no less vain-glorious expedition to Egypt, projected in the zenith of national prowess, and fostered by the most extravagant hyperbole of gallic gasconade, the directory had no other passion of which to avail themselves, their policy may be excused; but if they have voluntarily exchanged "the patois of fraud, the cant and gibberish of hypocrisy," for a generous military ardor, they are most egregious bunglers, instead of able impostors. But I rather think that this policy has been forced upon them by the temper of the nation; and that they know as well as any of their predecessors the importance of preventing a return of former manners, of sinking politeness in Philanthropy, and making Citizen keep the ascendency of Monsieur. It would be much safer for them, to go on Cutting throats for the Love of mankind, than through the unphilosophic, anti-republican sentiment of national Glory. Lay it down as a maxim, that a Love of military fame more naturally assimilates with monarchy than Republicanism; and especially in France, from the influence of former habits. But Ca ira and Marseillois Hymn, having like other Ditties gone out of fashion, their Directorships must do as well as they can; and unless they can invent new ones to a Republican Tune; these Luminaries may be extinguished in a Trice, and their astonished admirers be obliged to seek a new object, on which to place their democratic Affections. Among such a versatile people as the French, what may not be the result of a single unfortunate campaign?