Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract from the Vermont Gazette.

To those who are dazzled with the brilliancy of French conquests, and still consider that country as the only asylum of unadulterated liberty; who can clearly discover that the cause of freedom is promoted, by the conversion of Europe into one vast scene of blood, and by the subjugation of Holland Italy and Spain, under the dominion of France? who still have faith to believe, that the overthrow of all social, political and moral establishments, without any substitution, except military force, in their stead, will increase the happiness of society; to those who can consider the de-moralizing and dis-adjudging policy, which has of late characterized the French revolution, as introductory to a millennium in politics; and who can contemplate the unparalleled requisitions of their Buonapartes, as the modest requests of the apostles of liberty; to people who have sentiments like these, the late British victory over the Dutch, or indeed any thing which may tend to check France in her mad career of devastation, must be matter of deep regret.

But to persons who have been attentive and impartial observers of the important train of events, disclosed upon the political theatre for three years past; and have been able to discern, through the envious factions and changes in the revolution, one predominant character, that of an ungovernable ambition; who have beheld with astonishment and concern the total disadjustment of the political balance in Europe, and the consequent danger of a complete subversion of social order throughout the universe; to those who have a just and feeling sense of our own critical situation with respect to France, and who believe that a reverse of fortune in the war, would operate much more powerfully in producing a compromise of existing difficulties than the most indubitable justice, or manifest right; to those whose reflections have been thus, the late victory of the English, and every other event which will likely diminish the exorbitant power of the "terrible republic" must be matter of unfeigned joy.