Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

AUGUSTA, May 11.

A foreigner made his appearance in Augusta in the course of last week, to whom some gave the title of a Spanish general others, that of a French general, and some again called him the governor of Louisiana; be his rank what it may, it is certainly understood, that his errand was to induce Americans to aid and assist the republic of France in their new dominions, the Floridas, in case of any attempt by the British in that quarter: A very delicate requisition this, on the part of either France or Spain, whilst the one insults us with the dismission of our ambassador and seizes our property wherever it can be found; and the other refuses to surrender the posts which by solemn treaty they had yielded to the United States! It is doubtless a very natural predilection for the people of the Southern country, to prefer their Spanish neighbors to any change which the present prospect of affairs promises; but despotic as the system of the British government is, it would be found to suit us quite as well in the way of neighbourhood as the LIBERTY and EQUALITY which emanates from the terrible republic. The Saturnalia feast in ancient Rome were well enough for a little fun occasionally, but the perpetual saturnalia, would go damnably against the grain of a Georgian or Carolinian.