The Delaware Gazette

From the Carolina Gazette.

A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS.

To the Editors of Federal Newspapers generally, to which it is expected an answer will not be refused.

1st. During the last election in Massachusetts when the President's proclamation and the correspondence between Smith and Erskine arrived, did you not tell us that Great-Britain had been always disposed to settle our differences honourably--that she had before made the same propositions to Mr. Jefferson, which his hostility to her and French influence had prevented his accepting?

2d. Do you not now tell us, that she never did make such propositions--and do you not censure Mr. Erskine for acting without instructions?

3d. Were you guilty of falsehood and misrepresentation then, or are you guilty now? and if you shamefully and basely deceived your readers at the election, do you really think you are entitled to their confidence on any occasion?

Would any of you employ a servant who had wilfully deceived you when his passions or his interest prompted him?

4th. Do you not in your consciences believe that you deserve the appellation of TORIES, when, to maintain the cause of Britain, to extol her goodness and to emblazon her justice, in defiance of truth and regardless of conscience, you sacrificed the reputation of Jefferson and betrayed the confidence of your readers?

5th. Finally; do you feel that you have done justice to Mr. Jefferson in charging him with French influence for not acceding to propositions, which you acknowledge were never made?

Though you may seek security in silence, and may hope for forgetfulness in this dreadful crisis of our fate, when the destinies of our country are suspended by a single hair: yet be not deceived, for the sentence of your guilt will soon be pronounced by the voice of an indignant people, who equally despise and abhor British wire-ling, whether foreign or domestick.