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THE GAZETTE.
NORWALK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. 1836.
{)?We have this week completed an arrangement which
we have had, for some months, in contemplation; and our read-
ers. we hope, will agree with us in the opinion that it is an im-
provement. By it we shall give a greater amount of reading,
in a more convenient form, and render the GAZETTE an object
of preservation to those who are anxious to retain a brief abstract
and chronicle of the times in a manageable shape, which may
be bound up at little expense and placed upon the shelves of their
libraries, for future reference or occasional reading.
Our advertising friends are, also, participators in the advan-
tage ; we having brought that part of our paper, heretofore form-
ing nearly one half of it, into a much smaller compass, there-
by excluding all those notices which are ordinarily put in to “fill
up," and giving those who pay, the full benefit of the exclusive
use of ourcolumns. We have also so arranged them, as to
bring them every week. before our readers; and from the ease
with which they may be read, we have no doubt, that they will
be far more frequently “conned over” than when placed on the
last page of a large and unwieldly sheet.
In this retnoddling the Gazette. we have had in our eye, the
London Examiner, a literary and political periodical, of great
merit; and, we hope we shall not be accused of entertaining a
vain ambition, when we say, that it shall be our endeavor to
conduct the Gazette in a manner, to give it, in a slight degree,
a corresponding value. It would appear, to be sure, an unpar-
donable vanity were we to aspire to a competition with that able
publication; but. we hope we may be permitted to indulge in
the persuasion that some degree of compensation will be found
in the difference in price :—the Examiner. with about the same
amount of reading, being sold at ten dollars, and ours at two dol-
lars, a year. The only political paper with which we are ac-
quainted, published in this country in this form, is Niles's Reg-
ister. which is much smaller, and the price five dollars a year.
Theinordinate size to which our newspapers have been en-
larged. has tended to render them at once unhandy, and of tran-
sientvalue; as well upon account of the difficulty of preserv-
ing them, as the little care and labor used in their arrangement.
In the case of daily papers, any other form than that of folio,
would be impracticable and vexatious. But in a weekly miscel-
laneous and political journal.'the aim of which is to amuse as
well as to inform; and to merit the attention of the domestic cir-
cle by the entertaining character of its literary selections, as
well as its sutnmary of news-its anecdotes-poetry—gossip—
ohat, &c. we can conceive no form so appropriate as that we
have taken. A thread drawn through the centre, or a pin stuck
- into it, will serve to preserve it from being torn or separated,
and it may be taken up and read at intervals with as much ease
as a pamphlet. We know of no objection which can be made
to it but that it is too cheap to deserve the care and labor bestow-
ed in its making up. But that, we presume, is the business of
the printer. If he choose to do so, with the view to gratify his
readers, we can see but little force in the argument. Our pre-
dilection is entirely in favor of this plan for all weekly pulica-
tions, which are addressed to so great a variety of tastes, inter-
ests and situations in life, as the Gazette; and we do not doubt
that all our readers will concur with us; and that it will in-
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dnce many more to add their names to our list. They will see.
on a comparison, that there is no publication in this country, is-
sued in this form, and containing as much reading, at so small
a price.
The Bridgeport Farmar tnisquotes our opinion when it says this
Gazette hopes the explanations “of President Jackson will not
be received by the French government” as satisfactory. We
never expressed any such opinion.
The Farmer is in error in imputing to the first minister of
France, the admission that it was the false interpretation put up-
on the first message by the opposition press which caused the
French government to view it as offensive. That sentiment
belongs to the Globe, and was first uttered by it.
Mr. Livingston, when in Paris, on the receipt of the Presi-
dent’s message, and before the opizzions of the opposition press
were known in France, becoming alarmed at the oflensive‘ tone
ofthat document. wrote to the President “he should not be sur-
prised if they (the French government) anticipated our repri-
sals by theseizure ofour vessels in port,” écc. and that he would
inform Commodore Patterson that he might be on his guard,'.’
&c. This was Mr. Livingston‘s opinion of the character of that
peaceable document. But when it was subsequently known in
France, though the \Vhig press, that the intelligent portion of
the American public did not approve ofthe tone ofthe Message,
and that Congress had refused its sanction to the menace it con-
tained, the French government became satisfied with merely
making the detnand for “explanations." Hence, it is that we
are manifestly indebted to the sentiments of the opposition press
for the tnaintainance of peace.
As to the opinion of the Richmond Enquirer, that “the Pres-
identoffered to receive that inoflicial letter (the recent pacifica-
tory letter ofthe Duke de Broglie) as ifit were oflicial, and to
answer it as such ;" we would remind the Farmer that the Globe
has already denied that the President had any knowledge of the
existence of such a letter. It seems the Globe now qnalifies its
former assertion by saying the letter was never communicated to
the President. It had previously averred that it was not writ-
ten by the Dulre de Broglie.
Such a letter would never have been written by the “first
minister of France,” to the charge in this country, unlessit were
intended for the eye of the executive; and, being so intended,
Mr Pageot would not have dared to withhold it. ‘And he did
not withhold it. He communicated it to the Secretary of State
to be laid before the President. And it new remains to be seen
whether Mr. Forsyth and the Kitchen Cabinet assumed the re-
sponsibility of withholding it from the President, or whether he
refused to receive it. The latter is no doubt the fact ; for that the
letter was offered as a mediatory means of reconciliation, the
possession of it by the Globe is substantial proof.
The Democratic Star ofTnesday last, with the View to rebut
some arguments, used in the last Gazetteupon the subject of
French affairs and the President’s Message, quotes from the
Whig press some halfa dozen paragraphs in praise of that doc-
ument, as evidence against the soundness ofour position. For
our part, we must confess that we cannot perceive wherein the
force ofsuch acourse of argument lies—ifindeed it be grgument,
which we exceedingly tloubt. \_Ve have heard ofthe inductive,
and lately of the productive, method of conducting an inquirry,
With the latter, we are not acquainted; and this may_ D5 33;
which our worthy cotcmpoary has fallen upon. But wg derrtpf
Norwalk Chronicler