Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

HARRISBURGH, March 14.

COMMUNICATION.

Whatever delusions, the imposing aspect of the French revolution, inspires early stages, may have produced, the conduct of the directory will now admit of but one interpretation ; and all the fine spun, flattering theories of liberty, equality and the rights of man, have terminated in one of the most flagitious, lawless dominations, that ever the human race was doomed to groan under. But the usurpers are steadily advancing to their ruin, in the same steps of all their predecessors in violence and outrage. Peace, which is ever the bane of tyrants, they dread of all things, and therefore war must be carried on, as long as any pretext can be found for its continuance, or any plunder remains to feed the rapacious appetites of the soldiery.

Their object now, it seems, is to carry the blessings of liberty and equality into England, in which the tyrants very artfully avail themselves of the national sentiment of rivalry and hatred to that country. A sentiment, so ardently glowing in the hearts of Frenchmen, that not even the horrors of the revolution have been able to extinguish it ; and which the aristocrat, who flies from the guillotine, feels in common with the jacobin, who directs its operations.

This is probably the best scheme they could have fallen upon, to blind the people to their outrages, and to gild the nefarious measures of their government. Their armies too, must be employed at all events, as leisure might be dangerous, and suggest to them the sacrilegious idea of turning their arms upon their amiable masters.

Audendo magnus tegitur Timor.
Campum miles descendat in aequum
Dum meus et : variam imper dant otia
mentem.

Whether they are serious in their projected invasion of England, or whether it is merely a gasconade, a short time must now discover. One thing, however, we may be sure of, and that is, that we Anglo-Americans, are no less honored with their hatred than the English themselves, and that if their abilities are but equal to their inclinations, we shall have the satisfaction of being last devoured. We are told, however, that we deserve it, and perhaps we do ? for we have certainly been rebellious enough to pursue our own interest without consulting them, and have contumaciously dared to form a commercial treaty with a power, which it is their sovereign pleasure to destroy, and upon whom, they have already pronounced the dreadful sentence of " Delenda est Carthago !" Whether the poor devoted Carthage will be able to withstand the fury of the modern Romans must chiefly depend on her wooden walls ; and that she may not only resist, but crush her invaders, will be the prayer of every American, that has not been Frenchified out of every perception of the true interests and happiness of this country.

March 9.