The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-04-01 00:00:00, page 1

WHO BUYS ?
FOR SALE,
8,500 Acres of LAND,
TN Orange, io the State of Newhamp-
I flhire, about 20 miles euftward from
Dartmouth College, near the main road
which leads from laid College to Cos
'cord. ,
Almcft the whole of said Land lies
one entire traS, In the southwesterly
part of Gid Orange, and is of a good
foil, and well fluted for fcttlers.,
Any perfix s. wiling to purchase for
fertlement, will be accommodated with
valuable lots, and such as they cannot be
displeased with, on easy terms. A small
part of the purchase money being paid,
liberal credit, on good Security, will be
given for the remainder.
These Lands, although of better qual
ity than any others ot the fameexteat,
in that town, have not been fettled, be
cause they have not, before this, been
in the hands of persons disposed to fell
them.
: Terms may be known, and every nee
effary information had, on application to
the subscriber, at Hanover, in said State.
WILLIAM WOODWARD,
Agent to the Proprietors.
Hanover, Feb. z 6, 179,.
A BARGAIN.
T) be fold, in Dunbarton,
an excellent landed Farm, con
taining about 130 acres ; about 60 of
which are under improvement, in til
lage, mowing, and pasturage ; a good
new haufe 28 by 3&— a barn 30 by 40.
Farm advantageously wooded and water
ed-excellent well of water. An, per
son inclining to purchase, may under,
feed the terms b, applying to the fob.
scriber ; and on prompt payment, may
possess the preMifea within one month
from the time of his purchase.
DAVID M'GREGORE.
Punbarton, March 8, 1799 3— 6 *
'L-—toßtC=.~~=—^^
FOR SALE,
200 Acres of good LAND,
part of which is under improvement,
LYING in the north-east part of
Hopkinton, joining upon Conto
cook river, with a Sawmill, in good or
der for work, on the fame. For further
particulars, enquire of the subscriber,
living near said Sawmill.
EZRA MORRIL.
Hopkinton, March 15, 1799-
The Subscriber,
INVITES all Persons, having any
demands against him, to call and
receive their pa, ; and all persons in-;
# delated, or who have any accounts open,.
to call and fettle them by the firft day of
May next :--And all whose Not, have
been more than one year (landing, to
pay, at least, the interest, to their hum
ble servant,
TIMOTHY WALKER.
Concord, March 1, 1799. 3
^ One Cent Reward.
O AN away from the fubferiber, on
on Sunday evening of the 24th inst.
an indented Boy, named Isaac Blunt,
18 years old, about 5 feet 11 inches high,
I4fo t complexion—long hair, cued—He
had on when he went away^ light col
oured woolen jacket and overalls, and a
dark woolen frock.?
^ All persons are forbid harbouring or
tufting said boy, on penalty of the law;
And whoever will take up and return said
runaway to his master, Bull receive the
above reward, an d no charges.
# DAVID CARTER.
^^Concord, Feb. Z7, 1799- 1
r For SALE,
At M. Davis's Printing-Office,
Stamp'd Paper,
^l^ l * Notes, Bonds, and Powers of ,^
Attorney.
{VOL. VII.]
COLUMBIAN INDEPENDENCE,
TWENTY THIRD YEAR.
Printed and publfoed every Monday morning, by MOSES DAVIS, in CONC ORD, NE whampsrire.
JOHN M'KfNSTRr,
INFORMS his friends arid the public,
that he has taken the Farm, purchnfed
the valuable dock thereon, and all the
Stock in Trade, belonging to Mr. Ca
leb Stack, in this town;—and, as it is
his intention to keep a general assortment
of all kinds of GOODS, he hopes his
friends will continue theircuftom as usu
al, which will be gratefully ackoowtedg
ed by their very humble servant,
JOHN M'KINSTRY.
Dunbarton, March 6, 17,9.
Fer Sale, •* the above Faria,
A few Tons of good English HAY.
For sale, at this Office,
THB
LAWS
OF THS
State of N. HAMPSHIRE.
CT Subferibers are requeued to call for
their Baeks.
Mr. Gerry's Ditpatcbes.
(Continued from onr lad.,
[No. 25)
fTR ANSLATION)
LieiRTY. Equality.
Peril, 4 Tbermidor, 6<b year of & French
Re,nblic, <me to indivifli,.
(Jul, 22#', 1798)
The Mini,er of Exterior Relation,
To Mr. Gerry, Eu% of the U. States.
ALLOW me, fir, to confine myfelf to
the two left paragraphs of your
antwer ot the zd of this month to my
letter of the 24th Meffidor, (July 12)
Easy as it may be to rectify those which
!p before, it would be to enter uselessly
nto the circle of digressions. It is my
duty to feel what in the state of things
you think due to your government ; and
this cohfideration would be alone Effi
cient to flop me, if, I fa a left value up.
on conciliation.
Yen repeat to me that the government
of the United States has always been dis
posed to terminate amicably the differ,
ences which subsist between the two re
publics. This frefh assurance, at a time
when boftile demoaftratioos have just
been made, could pot but temper their
effeds. But let then a frank, candid,
and truly amicable aa fpeedil, realize
those difpofirions. Far from entering
into the answers of the Brefi^nt to the
addresses which have been presented to
him from different parts of the U States,
whatsoever they may be, I would behold
in his expreflions nothing but a political
expedient. I do not thence jud^ less
favorably of the true intentions, which
you possess in his name, and I would qpt
have engaged you to warrant the success
of the firft proof, which he will render of
them, if the Executive Dieedory, which
was ready to receive you, had made a
fixed determination upon the fubje&.'
therefore be resumed even at Paris,
where I flatter myfelf you have obferred
nothing but testimonies of esteem, and
where every Envoy who (hall unite your
advantages cannot fail to be well received
Moreover, I know not, fir, why you tell
18, that itwould he requisite to lop from
this negociation every preliminary ie
refpeaing a loan and explanations on the
fubjed of the speeches delivered. Be
pleased to read over again the propeti
tions which I transmit to you on the 30th
Prairiel, (June 18 ;; they contain all the
ideas of the French government ; and
you wiU not find io them a word which
juftifies your recurring to those twoquef
tions. An odious intrigue had got pof
session of them ; the dignity of the
French government could not permit
this mixture ; and it did not with that
views as pure as its own fheujd be asso
ciated therein hereafter. As to the pre
liminary measures, which you suggest,
the government has already anticipated
your desire. By information which it
hasjuft received, it indeed learns that v|.
Olence have been committed apda the
CONCO RD, MONDAY, April f, 1799.
The Mirror.
commerce and citizens of & U. States
in the Weft Indies, and on their coasts.
/Do it the justice to believe, that if needs
only to know the fads, to difavew all
ads contrary to the laws of the Republic
and its own decrees. A remedy is pie
paring for it, and orders will toon arrive
in tte Weft-Indies calculated to cause
3every thing to return within its just lim
its, until an amicable arrangement be
tween France and the United States, shall
re-eftabiilh them retpedrvely in the en
joyment of their treaties.
This period, fir, cannot be too near at
hand. Ido not cease to regret that you
fhauld refufe yourfeif the accelerating of
it, by yielding to circumfbnces, per fund
ed as I ever am, that you were fully au
thorized.
Accept my wishes for your happy pas
sage, and the assurance of my perfea con
sideration.
(Signed)
CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
[As the Prefdeut of the U. States has ap
pointed thru new Eruoys to negotiate with
the Fretcb Republic, and tbs nfirat of Mr.
Gerry's Difrtebes bring left inters,tag to
tbs public it general than frat other later
matters, we forbear publishing the remaining
Nos, and therefore clefs, hoping ear readers
are fatifid with tbs documents gut* alread,
on this jubjsa]
Secretary PICKEKING's
REPORT,
On the Tranfaßi&n: relating to the United
States and France, face the left communi•
cations to Congre/3 on that fnbj<a.
[continued.]
AFTER this recital, before the coun
cil of §OO, P^ftoret makes the fol
kaig remarkable reflections :
"On reading this letter, we Should
think that we had been dreaming ; that
we had been transported into a savage
country, where men, still ignorant ot the
empire of mortals and of laws, commit
crimes, without florae and without re
morse, and applaud .hrmfelves for their
robberies, as Paulus Emilies or Cato
would have praised the&klves for an cm
inept service rendered to their country.
Cruisers armed against a friendly nation !
Reprisals, when it is we ourselves who
attack! Reprifab against a nation that
has not taken a single vessel of ours !
Riches acquired by the confifeation of the
Blips of a people to whom we are united
by treaties, and whom no declaration ot
war had separated from us !"—-The
whole difeourfe of the agents may be re
duced to these few words : " Having
nothing wherewith to buy, I seize; I
make myfelf amends for the property
which I want, by the piracy which ep
riches me ; arid then I Binder those
whom I have pillaged."—" This is rob
bery justified by fe'fifhaefs and calumny."
Yet Sauthonax, one of these "robbers,"
and the chief of those Diredorial agents,
continued in office, and going a few
months afterwards from Si. Domingo to
I France, was received as a member into
one of the Leg'll itive Councils.
Paftoret also adverts 'o a letter from
Merlin, then Minifttr of justice, and now
a member of the Executive Directory, to
Mr. Skipwith, Consul General of the
United States, which also appeared in
the Journal of the Dire^ory ; & quotes
the following p&ffage : " Let yeur Gov
ernment break the inconceivable treaty
which it concluded on the 19th of No
vember 1794, with our most implacable
enemies ; #nd immediately the French
Republicwill cease to apply in its own
favor the regolaticns io that treaty,
which favor England to the injury of
France ; and I warrant you that we (ball
not fee ap appeal to those regulations, io
any tribunal, to fopport unjust preten
tious." " Have I (fay, Paftoret) read
this rightly ? Unjust Pretanfions ! Could
it be possible that they fh#»!d thus have
been characterized by the Minister who
ishimfelf their agent and defender ?"
After all, this ^inconceivable British
treaty," was itfelf buta pretext 10 coun
tenance the " unjeft pretentions," „
Merlin himfelf calls them, uftd by the
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
ELEVENTH IEJR.
French Gcvcriwnt in its rt'bnr^h, for
the purpose of condemning Ainc icia
vessels. Tbedetßih I have dre^y giv
en, prove it. , beg leave to adduce 0 Q
er evidepct. Itis Ilie teflimooy or Mr.
Barlow, an American by binn. but tor
several years pelt a citizen of France, a
man of acknowledged difc:rnmtni ami
talent!, devoted to the French Republic,
and intimate with her leading men.
Mr. Barlow has long resided at Paris, and
cannot have mifrkto the views of the
French Government, nor the mo.ivej of
its condud. Mr. Barlow's letter (Wed
at Paris the Ift of March, 1708, to his
brother in hw, Mr. Baldwin, has dom.
ed the writer to infamy : Yet when it de &
Bribes the prin- iples and candud of the
French Republic, it merits attention.
He f ys, " that ad of submission to the
British Government, commonly celled
Jay's Treaty, is usually cctfidead, both
by its friends and enemies, as the foie
cause, or at least the great c^ufe of ife
prefect hofliie difoefition of the French
Rpublic @ towards the United States.
This opinion (fays he) is erroneous."
He then proceeds to an enumeration of
a variety of matters which he sys hive
influenced the condud of France. But
the most provoking, and the mofi unpar
donable of all the effeoces of the United
States against France, was, fortunately,
not an ad of the government; but in a
of the people. The Freemen of the U.
States, “ the true Americans," dared to
exercise their independent rights, and
contrary to the withes of the French Gov
ernment and the endeavors aud practic
es of its Minister A^et, elcaed Mr. A
dams te the office of President. Mr.
Barlow's observations on this event fur
ther develnpe the charader and the prin
ciples of that Government. He fays,
''when the election of Adams was an
ncupced here, it produced the order if
the 2dof Mtfcb, which was meant to
be little sh >rt of a declaration of war :"
" The Government here was determined
to fl-ece you of your property, to a frffi.
cient degree to bring you to your feeling
in the only nerve in which it w?s presum
ed your sensibility lay, which was your
pecuniary iotereft." And what was this
" feeling" to produce ? The aofwer is
obvious—Submission tc etc will of the
French Government. The mystery of
French politics is here unveiled. The
United States did not fubmir: Hence rhe
nonreception of her Envoys, and their
haughty treatment : Hence the iofuit
ing demands of tribute as a preliminary
even to their reception ; and hence the
expulsion of I^o of them from France.
But to return to the Decree of tie
Executive Dircaory of the 31st of July
laft.w
I have already shewn that the meft of
depredations on the commerce of the U.
Spates, under the French fLg, of which
we fojuftly complain, are not thole com
mitted, as the Directory in their pream
ble insinuate, by " foreigners and pi
rates," but by French armed vessels ccm
miffioned by the Government or its a
genrs ; or whether commitsaned or not,
whose a&s in capturing American veffris
received the fandion of French Confab,
of French Tribunals, and of the foecial
Agents of the Direaory. I have shewn
that the laws of France and the Diredo.
rial Decrees, are themselves the sources
of thole violations of treaties and the law
of nations, which heve cufed such Im
mense losses to the citizens of the United
States. And to the proofs already < fre
ed, that the information of such aggref.
fm^ and abuses, particularly in the
Weftindies, and on the coast of Ameri
ca, was not, as the preamble suggests,
but " recently received," I may add,
.that their " f,ecial agents" authorized
those depredations and violations of &
* It ^ill be recoHetied that this is the De
cree of the Excuttvs Dirsaor,, ordering the
capture and cratymutin cf America* vo,'s,
ta broirg ^4 d'equipage—that fruitful
feurte iffefyer to Frratbmen, and of ruin
te Am„i<aa.cin%tas; aad ralkfye/&
flared all AroCTuanfemo, Making & part of
tie crew efentoef saps, t _ u fo pat e,
board them k,force, tebe pirates, and dirtied
ibra to be treated asjueb-
( N °. 3351