The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-10-18

FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.
N. Y. Courier q. Enquirer Of latest date,
says Of the Poussin affair
| The apprehension 10 which we alude
grows out Of what is believed 10 be The un-
friendly disposition of The Government of
France toward this country. Nenrly
fortnight since we alluded to an important
fact in regard 10 this point which We may
now mention without improperly. We
understand thu, as long ngo as in May last,
Mr.. Rush, our minister in Paris, wrote 10
Mr.. CLAYTON, our Secretary Of State, that
the President Of the French Republic bad
declared, that if France was 10 engage in
war with any power, il would be Nth the
United States. The despatch in which
this fact was stated bore date the 3D. Of
May and, on the 18th Of May, NJ. Ponssin
made the pere,nptory demand on Mr.. Clay
ton, avowodly under instruction from The
French minister for foreign affairs, for sat
isfaciion for the insul, offered 10 the French
flag by Commander Carpenter. NJ. Pous-
sin distinctly claims TO have done and said
nothing more, in all this correspondence,
than explicit and imperative instructions
from his own Government obliged him TO
do and to say. These several facts view
ed in connection are thought to warrant
the inference that tho French Government
regards the detention Of the Eugenie as an
insult offered TO the French iiag--,hat sat
isfacton for that insult was demanded, and
refused by The Government Of the United
Staies-and that, setting the dismissal Of
his minister entirely out Of the question as
an unimportant incident, Lonis Napoleon
may deem it due 10 the honor Of the French
nation 10 prosecute the demand even to the
point OF open war And Mr. Rusb's des-
patch is referred to as evidence that he in
tended 10 dn SO from the very beginning.
CRUEL Eoax--A cruel hoax has been
played upon the Washington Union. con-
sis,ing in the publication in the Richmond
Wing of letter copied from the Richmond
Enquirer when Mr.. Richie was the editor
Of thai paper, the date being changed 10
correspond with the present time. and tho
letter made 10 apply to the present admin
isration. This letter recommended an in
sesiiga,inn into the politics of the incum-
tents at Washington, with view to .'pro-
mote The refining and purifying process
without fear Of the attempt to appal by
the bug5ear If proscriplonr"
The severity with which Mr. Richie
ponnced upon this was wonderful. Tho
following some Of the epithets which
re bestowed upon it. and which, it must be
confessed. were better deserved than his
abuse generally:
~ secret aud infamous system Of espi-
ouage, the mos, ahominabie of all the devi-
ces Of syranis"--"a base and shameful in.
vocation to the friends of the Adminstra-
ton 10 Inc country TO become spies and IN
formers against their Democratic neigh
hors ia ferocipns spirit 81 prescription
which can iind lis parallel only among the
brutal and sanguinarg hnnan butchers Of
The French Revolution Of i79S"!. "Wo
Invoke the American people 10 contemplate
the nature aud tendency Of this mons,rops
aud daias'ab,e system, &c. &c"
The Wing crneliy allowed him to ex-
haust all his Indignation before Informing
him that the letter was copied from his own
columns in the davs Of General Jackso,'s
administration. Providence Journal.