hoped, that the wifdom and prudence of your reprefentatives, together with the juftice and equity of the French Government, will draw clofer the knot which tied us; and that nothing hereafter may be able to difunite us. This is the with of my heart.

[O'Carey's Daily Advertifer.]

S. J. Cabell's Letter prefented by a Grand Jury.At the Court of the United States for the middle circuit, in the district of Virginia, at the capital, in the city of Richmond, on Monday the 22d day of May, 1797;

Prefent-James Iredel, Efq. one of the Juftices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Cyrus Griffin, Efq. of the district of Virginia :

A number of gentlemen were fworn as the grand inqueft for the body of the diftrict, who having received their charge, retired from the bar, and returned with the following prefentment.

We of the grand jury of the United States for the district of Virginia, prefent as a real evil, the circular letters of feveral members of the late Congress, and particularly letters with the fignature of Samuel J. Cabell, endeavouring, at a time of real public danger, to diffeminate unfounded calumnies against the happy government of the United States, and thereby to feparate the people therefrom, and to increase, or produce, a foreign influence ruinous to the peace, happinefs, and independence of the United States.

(A copy.)

JOHN BLAIR, Foreman.
Tefte,

WM. MARSHALL, Clerk. And yet Meffrs. Giles and Nicholas vow and proteft, that there is no such thing as a French faction! These gentlemen come from Virginia, but it seems they have never heard any thing of the matter.

FRIDAY, 2d June.

The Jefferfoniad.—At a time when it is fo neceffary for the fafety and independence of the United States, that the French Government should be taught that all the branches of our Government are in union, and that the people are refolved to support their Government; we find, on the contrary, intriguing characters, hoftile to our liberties, reforting to every expedient to keep alive the hopes and expectations of the French tyrants. The efforts of fome of the minority in the House of Reprefentatives of Congrefs, cannot fail to ftimulate the Directory to profecute the plan of fubjugation and plunder.

Barras (in his infolent, bombaffic speech to the meek and fuppliant Munroe, who truly represented, not the good people of America, but a fet of debafed and crouching fatellites) fays, that "France will not degrade herself to calculate the confequences of the condefcenfion of the American Government to the fuggeftions of its ancient tyrants."-On this text the official Redacteur, by order of the Directory, in a paragraph written no doubt by De la Croix, fays, France will never forget that, in fpite of the most wicked infinuations, there paffed, only by a majority of two votes, that fatal treaty which has put the Americans under the guardianship of the English." Attempts are now making by French partifans, to perfuade France that there is only a majority of two votes against a propofition which has for its avowed objects the meaneft acquiefcence in the unprovoked outrages of haughty France, and a humble tender of advantages to which the can have no juft pretenfions, until the has offered an apology for her infults and compenfation for her piracies.

If France can be thus perfuaded that there is within a few votes of a majority of the representatives

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of the people devoted to her interefts, with the Viceprefident at their head, can it be any longer doubted, that she will perfift in attempting the fubverfion of our conftitution, and the deftruction of our liberties?

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Virginia to his Friend in this City." The present appears to me to be a crifis in the fortunes of the human race. France evidently feeks to govern the world, by placing power in the hands of men who will be subfervient to her for the prefervation of that power. Thus Holland in the form of a republic is, and muft be, as obedient to France as a French province. That Government can only be preferved by the protection of France, and thofe who govern can only keep their places by the fame protection. So in Italy you perceive a republic or two is now forming. It is by no means impoffible, that the Auftrian dominions in Italy may be loft during the prefent war, and converted into one or more republics. If the pecuniary aid of Britain is withdrawn, they must be loft. These republics can only preferve their exiftence by the aid of France, and they will, confequently, be entirely under her control.

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his dominions in Italy even be restored to the Emperor, a French party will be found there, which will not eafily be extirpated, and which will be ready in another war to take up arms for France. It appears to me, that an effort is making to govern the whole world, either by conqueft, or by placing power in the hands of men who will ufe it fo as to promote the views of France. The only effort which has ever been made in this country by a foreign nation, to influence our elections, and to place power in the hands of the partifans of fuch foreign nations, has been made by France, and fhe has made it fecretly, and openly. She has made it by the immediate inftrumentality of her public agents,

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and by that of American citizens devoted to her. The fame plan which is inceffantly pursued in Europe, is purfued in America alio. It is to place power in the hands of thofe who are indebted to France for it, or who will ufe it for her aggrandizement. In Europe, it is enough to establish a republican form of government; in America, it is neceffary to do more. Poffeffing, already, a government purely republican, it is neceffary to calumniate it, to excite jealoufies of the republican difpofitions of thofe who conduct it, and thereby to bring them into difrepute with the people, and, by doing fo, to fill all our departments with men who, being elected by a paffion for France, muft keep up that paffion to keep their places. The effort to univerfal dominion is plain, and its progrefs is rapid. It seems to be impoffible that the French party in our country can be blind to this danger. They must see it, yet they court it. They keep the people blind, by talking of a British influence, which they know does not and cannot exift. Of this, the letter afcribed to Mr. Jefferfon, if really written by him, is a strong inftance. I hope and have heretofore believed, that he did not write it. I wait with eagernefs for his denial of it. If it shall not be denied, I own that my opinion of the moral character of that gentleman, as well as of his politics, will be much diminished."

To Thomas Jefferfon, Efq.-It is now no longer a doubt that you are the author of the abominable letter to Mazzei, which has made fo much noise, and excited fo much indignation, throughout the United States.

Your filence, after being publicly, and repeatedly, called on by numbers of your fellow-citizens to difavow it, is complete evidence of your guilt. Had you been innocent of the charge, all who know your keen fenfibility at every thing which appears in print, to implicate your conduct, and who have heard your profeffions

profeffions of refpect for public opinion, are fatisfied that you are filent, becaufe you dare not contradict it: confidering you, then, as the avowed author of that indecent libel against the government and character of your country, I fhall animadvert on it with that freedom which the magnitude of the fubject requires.

The effects intended to be produced by you in Europe are apparent, from the writings of a French journalist.

The following comments are made on your precious letter in the Paris Moniteur :-" The interefting letter from one of the moft virtuous and enlightened citizens of the United States, explains the conduct of Americans in regard to France. It is certain, that, of all the neutral and friendly powers, there is none from which France had a right to expect more intereft and fuccours, than from the United States. She is their true mother-country, fince the has affured to them their liberty and independence. Ungrateful children! instead of abandoning her, they ought to have armed in her defence. But if imperious circumftances had prevented them from openly declaring for the Republic of France, they ought, at leaft, to have made demonftrations, and excited apprehenfions in England, that at fome moment or other they would declare themselves. This fear alone would have been fufficient to force the cabinet of London to make peace. It is clear, that a war with the United States would ftrike a terrible blow at the commerce of the English, would give them uneafinefs for the prefervation of their poffeffions on the American continent, and deprive them of the means of conquering the French and Dutch colonies.

"Equally, ungrateful and impolitic, the Congress haftens to encourage the English, that they might pursue, in tranquillity, their war of extermination

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