Gazette Of The United States

Americans once gloried in the name of Englishman—and there always has been a number of characters in that nation, who are an honor to human nature : In all periods of the American war, this country found intrepid friends there, who advocated our cause, as the cause of freedom and humanity—Their virtues will ever be precious, and their memories treasured in the bosom of philanthropy : The late celebration in London of the Anniversary of the French revolution does honor to the distinguished characters concerned, and adds a wreath to the chaplet which adorns those who have long signalized themselves as friends to Universal Freedom, and the equal Rights of Man.

If the account of the fleet contained in the letter from London, published in our last, is authentic, and we have every reason to suppose it is, it verifies an observation, made by some enlightened politicians during the late war, "that Great Britain, without a commercial connection with America, would not be able to man her fleets, or support her naval consequence." It is difficult to account for the English fleet's being in port on the 17th Aug. when the Spanish fleet put to sea the 20th July, but on the idea of their not being able to man their ships.