" and monks, made the last and a very gallant re"sistance, at several places, and much blood has "been shed; but the Swiss were at least over

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powered, and have accepted the new con"stitution. The Swiss were led by Colonel Sleding and Paravicini-the latter was slightly "wounded. The capitulation was honourable for the vanquished-who pay no contributions to "the French, and the Catholic religion remains " undisturbed. The country, however, will be "exhausted by the rapacity of the French, espe"cially as the English government, by its cruel resolution, not to allow any debts to be paid to "the Helvetians, has forced the French to order "all English commodities to be delivered to them, "which deprives the Swiss of a lucrative com"merce."

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This paragraph, whether really sent from Europe by some scoundrel Illuminatus, or fabricated here by the YOUNG 'SQUIRE himself, is intended as neither more nor less than a justification of the most unprovoked and abominable act of aggression, that ever entered into the hearts of a gang of unprincipled and blood-thirsty tyrants to execute. The few words of censure, on the conduct of France, which are thrown in here and there, are intended merely to render the deception of the public more complete, just as the adultress shams a dislike to her gallant, in order to blind her cornuto, whose honourable part is now acted by Webster's poor readers.

"The revolution of Switzerland is an event, "which was to be wished for long ago."-What could BACHE say more? "The interior govern"ment was full of abuses and oppression.-A man "could not educate his son as he liked.-Murder "was protected, and expiated by the clergy for money."- -Base wretch! And this what you tell your readers, they may rely on as truth! The French

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are most atrocious villains; but the most vile of them all is not a millionth part so vile as the prostituted writer and publisher of this paragraph.

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Every republican writer of modern date; every philosophical miscreant, who has been labouring in the vineyard of revolutions; all the decrees of monarchy from ROUSSEAU, down to the long Livingston of New-York, have represented Switzerland as the standard of political perfection, as the land where pure unadulterated liberty was to be found. But, now, behold, when it is overrun, pillaged, and revolutionized by the French; now, these same eulogists have discovered, that the internal government was full of abuses;" yea, that it even protected murder and assassination!" Wonderful change!-Hark ye, Noah! don't you think now, that the same rascal, who discovered these abuses in the internal government of the Swiss Cantons, would have ingenuity enough to find out abuses in the internal government of these United States, if the French should happen to revolutionize them?I dare say, you could do it, upon a pinch; if you could not, you are not the man I take you for. But, if you were to do it, I am sure you would find no royalist on the other side of the water, base and wicked enough to publish your pretended discovery to the world as a truth: no, it must be a republican to belie a fallen republic.

Having represented the old government as full of abuses, he next tells his readers, that he hopes the new form (that is, the French form) of government will "promote their happiness."-This is the very language, that MERLIN or BARRAS would make use of. They rob, they desolate, they ravish, and they murder; but they never fail to say, that it is to promote the happiness" of their victims, This is the way, in which they are, and have long been, promoting the happiness of America; and, did America contain none but Noah Webster, I should

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pray God, that they might render that happiness complete. Nothing would give me so much pleasure, as to see a platoon of sans-culottes, take up their quarters in his printing-office. The title of 'Squire, I can assure him, would not save his yellow carcass from their fraternal claws.

My readers have often enough seen, that GreatBritain is the eternal butt of Webster's malice; accordingly, he could not let this fabricated correspondence pass off, without dragging her in. The infamous conduct of the French, in seizing all the English merchandize from the poor Swiss, he justifies as an act of necessity; he says, they were forced to do it; but, what think you? By "the cruel reso"lution of the British Government, not to allow

any debts to be paid to the Helvetians!" So that, according to this base wretch, the French were justified in robbing the people of their goods, because the English government would not let them rob them of their money.

The fact is (and with this remark I shall conclude), that no one act of the infernal despots of Paris, has shocked the people of America more, or has been a more awful warning to them, than the revolutionizing of the Federative Republic of Switzerland; and, therefore, to decry the former government of that country, to represent it as being full of abuses, aristocratic, and priest-ridden, is what the partisans of France are now very earnestly engaged in, as being the surest way to allay the indignation which its destruction has excited. This I look upon to be the object of the publisher, and I am sure it was that of the writer, if, indeed, they are not one and the same person.

Republican Candour." Our recent advices from "Europe, afford us a good basis to hope that a

"new combination of the potency of the regular go"vernment is formed or forming. Time was, and "that not long since, when we thought a coalition against France, was an impious coalition of liberti"cides; but, our opinion is perfectly changed. A "coalition against France, is a league in our favour."

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This is taken from the Portland Gazette; and it is, as far as I can recollect, the first instance of political candour, that I ever met with in a thoroughpaced republican newsmonger. Men of this stamp are generally upon the shift. They will, with the utmost unconcern, range through all the mazes of inconsistency, and have ever a stock of excuses at command, on whatever spot you detect them. The Editor of the BOSTON CENTINEL, for instance, like several others of the same cast, who formerly invoked the vengeance of Heaven on "the tyrant George," for his hostility against the republic of France, now tell you, that they heartily wish him success against that very republic France; not because they have changed their principles, or are actuated by any selfish motive; but, because the Sister Republic has changed her principles and motives, she being formerly fighting for liberty, and the tyrant George" against it; whereas, she is now fighting against this precious commodity of the republican shop, and the tyrant George" for it.

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To such miserable quibbles as these, my Portland man seems to have recourse. He tells you, flat and plain, that he hopes a new combination of the potency of the regular governments of Europe, is formed against France; he tells you (which is a shameful truth), that not long since he called a similar combination, an impious coalition of liberticides; and, by his conclusion, he gives you to understand,

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that he would still call it so, were it not in favour of America, and leaves you to conclude, that he actually will do it, as soon as the danger of America is over!

This is what I call an honest fellow, and I read his noble sentiments as an honour to his tribe.

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From the Farmer's Weekly Museum." Some of "the papers, denominated federal, have of late given themselves a good deal of trouble to discuss the sort of connection, we ought to form "with Great Britain. Would the public interest "suffer if these Solomons in counsel should leave "the matter for the present, where the constitution "has left it: to the President, with the advice of the "Senate?"

I never saw a newspaper for the Editor of which I had a higher respect than for the Editor of the Farmer's Museum; nor can I take any portion of this gentle reproof, to myself, because I never attempted to discuss the "sort of connection, we "ought to form with Great-Britain;" but, I cannot allow that the reproof is either just in its general principles, or pertinent as applied to the present

occasion.

The newsmongers, however absurd the opinions of some may be, and however perverse the prejudices of others, have certainly a right to lay their own, or their correspondents' sentiments before the public, on this, as well as every other public measure; and, to insinuate, that they ought not to do it, though the right is acknowledged, is to reduce the liberty of the press to a nominal, a sort of French assignat value.

When the Editor advises them to "leave the "matter where the constitution has left it," I comprehend the stroke of satire on the self-important politicians

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