The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-12-17

oeIoFe congress by the Freildent,
his lnltru6tions TO the ENJOYS were alto
made public in the fame manner, iuf.
mild, equitable, and dignifed as they
were, and that all good men were fats
fed. You recolled that immediately
afterwards addreiIeS exprefing this fat
lSta6tion, and noble determination to
iuPport the government, poured in from
all bodies, clailes, and even different
ages and occupations of men. Would
you be furprifed to underfand very foon
that at this crilis a certain very diltin-
guilhed Patronage, with other democrat
tcaI y patriotic leaders, Attended at one
DR.. Logan's houfe, a little out Of Phila-
delPhia, and in tefimony of their con-
tempt Of government took the day Of
the federal fat for their frft meeting.
to confult on meafures to defroy the
effect which the dispatches & infruc-
tons had produced in thepublic mind ;
and that being 70 anembled they fent
this fame DR.. Logan as their ambadador
to France, when yours had been twice
contemPtuouhy rejected? Would you
be lurpriled TO know that this DR.. Lo-
gan was cordially received by Talley-
rand and dined with Merlin then Pre-
fident of the French Directory, that
Talleyrand who demands tribute Of
you, and that Merlin, who when min
liter ofjufice, made the ridiculous roll
OF equiPage necehary, which has cot
you fifty millions and that he told
them THEY WERE GOING TOO.
FAST, for the American people had
begun to open their eyes ?-Would you
be furPriled to know that in COME
quence Of this DR.. Logsn's advice, or
rather that of the infamous iunto which
ient him, this miferable Directory low
cred their tone, pretended to put fop
to their i5ocking treatment of your
commerce, and afcribed this milder
ulage to the agreeabIenefs Of fuch an
American Envoy as DR.. Logan FIJI
nallywOuldlt afonilh you that this man
thus ient and thus received, fhould re-
turn with French dispatches to your
government, and have the impudence
TO go between the French Directory
and our Prefdent ?-If fuch things
will give you clue to the fcandalous
trick that has been played upon you
think on fuch things
Blefed be God ! the fleet which
failed from Toulon and the expedition
Of Buonaparte in Egypt, are delroyed.
The banditti headed by the only French
General Of note who has efcaped the
guillotine or banifhment, and arrogant
ly filled the Lst1 qOing gftbe army If En-
|gland, with apofacy in front and foul
defeat in the rear, have perilhed in the
Egyptian iands. Invading a peaceful
inofeniive country goitkoat declaration
Of 7gar, they have probably been treated
with barbarity Of which, they had Get
10 many examples.-4'he Britifh navy
has the honour to have faved the world.
What viii become Of the miCerabIe
government and people of France, re
duced from fplendor and magnihcence
to poverty and wrctchednefs, from
poverty and wretchednefs to piracy and
theft, and from ttefc to the brink of
diitra6tion and perdition, God only
knows. That there is no mercy lef1
tor them on earth is too probable, for
they have fhewn no mercy. But let it
be dreadful ienon to every nation on.
earth 70 fee with their own ewes what
hiltoy has told them in vain, that there
Is no iecurity but. in government, no
tatety but in moderation, no certain
fifge of revolution. And when the
American youth are taugF hereafter
the principles whereby tley are to
council their fellow-citizeae and con.