National Gazette

The withdrawing of our ambassador from Paris in the present moment was a matter of mere etiquette; but to order him to deliver such a note on his departure, is viewed by every liberal politician in this country, not merely as an insidious act, unworthy of a manly people, but as an unwise measure, calculated to involve us dangerously with France—dangerously we mean as to our permanent interests.

And in fact, we were on the very brink of being involved by this declaration in another armament; for it was doubtful what would be the answer of the executive power of France; and our ministers, alarmed for the consequences of their own jesuitism, in the present irritable temper of the Parisians, were on the eve of threatening to send a squadron to Brest, when they received accounts that Earl Gower might depart whenever he pleased, and that a decree was made to give safe passage to every ambassador from foreign courts, who might desire to quit the French territory.