Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATIONS.

MR. FENNO,

I HAVE perused with the utmost interest and avidity the letter of F. D'Ivernois as published in your Gazette. It abounds with facts and reflections of the first importance to every American—It cannot be too generally or too frequently read—I could wish to see its circulation extended to every corner of the United States, and am surprised, with you, that any American Paper should omit its publication—We there trace, with convincing perspicuity, the shameless, abandoned and bloody treachery of France from step to step, from deception to deception, from official falsehood to falsehood, from desolation to desolation and from murder to murder—We find the deluded abettors of her nefarious views, laughed to scorn when they have required the justice and favor which had been promised, and which seduced them to desert and betray their country, and treated with distinguished harshness and cruelty—It cannot be doubted that France had deeply entered into the mad project of universal dominion; had resolved to destroy with her arms every opposing power, and swallow up in perfidy and intrigue such as were neutral. Her views then against every neutral nation being the same, being founded in the same dark and damnable policy, it is not perhaps surprising that the means she employed to accomplish her object have been so precisely similar in America, Switzerland and Geneva—We find the same affected cant about liberty and equality; the same pretension of preserving the rights of the people; of protecting the lower and oppressed orders from the tyranny of their rulers; the same solemn pledges and assurances of respecting the rights of neutrality, and the independence of their dear Sister Republic, and the same destroying treachery and ruin, have been practiced or attempted in all these places—she has found in these countries as in all others, parties differing in questions of internal government or struggling for rank and pre-eminence, and she has immediately united herself with the most ignorant or most desperate side, has become their open or secret ally, has appropriated their force to her own interests and duped them into the belief that she was espousing their cause and establishing their points, while in fact, she was but making them subservient to her projects, and instrumental in their own ruin. Mr. D'Ivernois seems to impute their success in Switzerland to the infinite address and great popularity of Barthélemy; and to believe that if a more rash minister had been there, the eyes of the government and people would have been opened early enough to have defeated their invaders—How near may we have been to the precipice they have fallen from—The open assumption of power and disregard of our neutral and independent rights—the rash insolence, and insufferable arrogance that were manifested by those wretched politicians, Genet, Fauchet, and Adet may have been our salvation—A Barthélemy, lulling our fears at daily encroachments through real or pretended friendship, or, by the plain dictates of policy, avoiding to excite the alarm which it was his interest to suppress, might perhaps have left us little at this time to boast of, or at least have involved us in serious and lasting scenes of blood. Shed and trouble But the alarm, thank God is excited, and has electrified every American heart—France stands before us, naked, deformed, corrupted and detestable as he is, and the United States beholds with unspeakable contempt every effort which he or her partisans are making or can make to lull us into a false security, to restore her credit among us, or expose us either to her treachery or her arms.

AN AMERICAN.