MESSRS. Otis and Gallatin-Mr. Otis, it feems, has found out, that Mr. Gallatin has talents, if he has not "a fecond fhirt to his back." Perhaps Mr. Gallatin may have made the difcovery which others have made, that Mr. Otis has more than a fecond fhirt to his back, and ruffled ones too; and that he has a comfortable fhare of legal affurance, which fometimes paffes for abilities. As the eastern delegate has had his heart foftened, and has condefcended to compliment Mr. Gallatin upon his fpeech, what a pity the Pennfylvania delegate could not for a moment forget his dignity and candour, and not only compliment Mr. Otis upon his Boston townmeeting fpeech, but upon his faculty of ftringing words as Yankees ftring onions!!! Remarks on the above. It is not strange that the minds of a certain party fhould be ruffled by the pointed and conclufive anfwer of Mr. Otis, to the remarks of their leader, whatever may be the state of their fhirts. If it was a compliment to him to fay that he had made the only American Speech that was delivered on their fide; it was no great compliment - to them. When occafion requires, the Yankees will fhow themselves as ready at ftringing up infurgents as they are at ftringing onions. French Impudence and Irish Ignorance exemplified.-The following letter was received by the printers on Saturday, and they have the strongest reason to fuppofe, that it gave rife to the report that Captain Garrifcan had fent his infiructions to this city. TRANSLATION. Citizens JAMES CAREY and JOHN MARKLAND, On board the French Brig Le Pandour, at Sea, CITIZENS, By your paper of the 13th May (No. 82), I have feen with the greateft furprife, the falfe reports of Captain Swain, of the fchooner Expedition. I will retort the whole, in affuring you that the English have not only not taken the leaft fortification in the ifland of Porto Rico, but they have not even tried the effects of the Spanish cannon on that island, the Governor whereof is a brave foldier. I have likewife feen in feveral newspapers from New-York, libels of the printers of that city against the French privateers. If any of them have committed any reproachable acts, please to affure the citizens of the United States, that the generality of the privateers take a pleasure in, and make it their facred duty, to exercife in the execution of the orders which they have from Government, that humanity and generofity which is infeparable from French republicans. Compare, for an infiant, the conduct of the English with ours, and you will be eafily convinced of the difference which is between the two. It is to be hoped, |