Gazette Of The United States

From the Courier de la France, &c.

The following extracts from the Daily Journal printed at Paris, will give some ideas of the unlimited liberty of the Press produced in France by the unlimited tyranny which the people seek to destroy.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS.

Consult that tenant, who finds himself in the place of the proprietor; consult that valet, who hath taken the place of his master—they will curse the revolution: Consult that rich stock-jobber whom the revolution found on a dunghill, and who reposes, notwithstanding, under gilded canopies, they will tell you that the revolution is the scourge of the human race: Speak to that man whom the revolution hath drawn from the dust of oblivion, to elevate him to the most important trusts—you will see him laugh when you tell him that the revolution is an evil. What then is this revolution, if it is alike odious even to those whose benefit it hath effected? Ought those then to be so severely judged for complaining who have lost their fortune, their honour, and every thing that they had most dear! Shall I be devoted to the public hatred for saying that, concerning the revolution, which those who made it, say themselves? If you are dissatisfied with your own work, what good would you have me say of it? But, we should be occupied less with re-marking the misfortunes of the revolution, than in searching the means of finishing it—Vainly do they still declaim against the best citizens, by repeating the epithets of royalists and aristocrates; there are but two opinions amongst the French, that of those who wish to put a period to the revolution, and that of those who wish to re-commence it. Those who wish to put a period to the revolution demand not a king, but that tranquillity which they enjoyed under the kings; those who wish to re-commence it, do not call for liberty, but the absolution and the triumph of all the crimes of which liberty has been the pretext.