tor, that "the Convention had received a fimilar "prefent from this country?"-Who is this country? What is it? I am well informed that neither the Government nor the Legislature knew any thing at all about the matter, till an account of it appeared in the newspapers; and you are not to learn, I prefume, that whatever an ambaffador does of his own head, is in no wife binding on his country. But fuppofe even that the American flag delivered to the Convention, had been a prefent from this country, their manner of receiving it could have but little weight here, with men who were not devoted to their interefts rather than to those of America.

How long, I pray, have their measures become precedents here?" They proceeded to a vote inftantly." And when did they do otherwife? When did they hefitate? When they decreed that each department fhould build a ship of the line, there was no hesitation, any more than when they decreed that there fhould be no more beggars in France, and no more kings in Europe. Befides, if you are to imitate the Convention, I'll affure you, you must make a very confiderable change in the House of Reprefentatives. You must have half a dozen negroes and mulattoes amongst you; and it would have been neceffary, the day before the reception of this pretty prefent, for your Speaker to receive and embrace an old negro woman at the head of her many-coloured progeny. Even the ceremony itself muft have undergone a change; for the American flag was carried to the Convention by an American; confequently the French flag fhould have been brought in by a Frenchman; and, if the imitation was to be perfect in all its parts, your Speaker fhould have defcended from his feat, and given this bearer the fraternal hug. How vain, then, was it to talk about imitations! Before you aspire to this fublime perfection in patriotism, you and your party muft raife us to the

height of the French people; a change more eafy to attempt than accomplish, whatever you may please to think of it.

As I have already taken up fo much of the reader's time with this flag, I fhall not, at prefent, enter into an inquiry whether it was proper, or not, to make the Prefident of the United States a fort of gobetween to the Congrefs and the Convention; nor fhall I ask how the American Ambaffador at Paris came to think of involving his Government in fuch an affair; I fhall only observe, that, as I believe it is the firft inftance of legislative affemblies fending prefents to each other, fo, I hope, it will be the laft.

THE END OF CENSOR, NO. Is

THE

BLOODY BUOY,

THROWN OUT AS A

Warning to the political Pilots of all Nations:

OR, A

FAITHFUL RELATION

OF A MULTITUDE OF

ACTS OF HORRID BARBARITY,

SUCH AS THE EYE NEVER WITNESSED, THE TONGUE EXPRESSED, OR THE IMAGINATION CONCEIVED, UNTIL THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN INSTRUCTIVE ESSAY,
Tracing thefe dreadful Effects to their real Causes.

"You will plunge your country into an abyss of eternal deteftation and "infamy; and the annals of your boafted revolution will ferve as a BLOODY "Buoy, warning the nations of the earth to keep aloof from the mighty ruin." Abbé Maury's Speech to the National Affembly.

THE object of the following work is to give the people of America a ftriking and experimental proof of the horrible effects of anarchy and infidelity.

The neceffity of fuch an undertaking, at this time, would have been, in a great meafüre, pre-, cluded, had our public prints been conducted with that impartiality and undaunted adherence to truth, which the interefts of the community and of fuffering humanity demanded from them. But, fo far from this, the greater part of those vehicles of information have moft induftrioufly concealed, or gloffed over, the actions, as well as the motives of the ruling powers in France; they have extenuated all their unheard-of acts of tyranny, on the falfe, but fpecious pretence, that they were conducive to the establishment of a free government; and one of their editors has not blushed to declare, that "it "would be an eafy matter to apologize for all the mas"facres that have taken place in that country."

We have feen, indeed, fome exceptions; fome few prints that have not dishonoured themselves by going this length: but even these have observed a timid filence, and have avoided fpeaking of the fhocking barbarities of the French, with as much caution as if we were to partake in the difgrade, and as if it was in our power to hide them from the world, and from pofterity. If they have now and then given way to a just indignation, this has been done in fuch a manner, and has been fo timid, as to do them but little honour. They have acted the part of the tyrannized people of Paris: they have

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