Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

UNITED STATES.

NEW-YORK, April 11.

Communication.

It is remarked by Jasper Wilson, in his excellent letter to Mr. Pitt, that the great instrument of success of the Jacobins in France has been the suspicion they constantly excited, that every friend of peace and subordination was connected with the foreign enemies that are invading France."

In the same manner " the friends of peace in Great Britain, were denounced as leagued with foreign invaders." This was the real secret of Messrs. Reeves, Burke, & Co. for levelling the levellers, " Mr. Fox and the opposition, who attempted to keep England from engaging in a war against France, " The nation was panic-struck, apprehension and credulity go hand in hand, " and it was thus the English nation was united against France.

In America the same instrument has been employed with similar success. The most effectual means employed by the late French Minister to raise an alarm here, and make this country engage in a war with France, was, a suspicion he very industriously excited that the friends of peace and the federal government were under British influence.

He openly declared our executive officers to be bribed with British gold. In this he was indiscreet---the charge was too gross his best friends would not believe it, and cried shame upon him.' Such a specific charge required proof for support— this therefore was not insisted on but the general suspicion that federal men were attached to Great Britain, were tories, aristocrats and friends to monarchy, required no proof; it was only to spread it among common people who deal much in names and little in proofs ; and render all moderate men odious by names which have no meaning or are not understood. The bait was swallowed by a party; and certain names resound from state to state, to create prejudice and hatred against the supporters of our government. To all such charges the best answer is, that there is not one syllable of truth in these charges against federal men, and that the British have as little influence in the politics of this country, as the Chinese.