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"which was railed to prated ourcountry aganft the
real and menaced hortilities of the French Directo
ry. You can never forget the Letter, which, on
receiving that appointment, he wrote to the then
PrefiJent Adams,fully approbating all his measures
an d those of Congrefs,refpeding the French Direc
tory ; ever, one of which had been ftrenuouflo op.
posed by eve, democraii c "republican.
For the truth of this Statement, in addition to
your own recollection : I refer you to every mem
ber of the then Congress (many of them are in the
State, of whom you can enquire) and to the Newt
papers of the day. President Washington cetainly
favored the popular elective lyflem; and Jo did the
Fedeialids, 1 leave it to your decificn, whether
the federalists or democratic republicans kited Pre
sident Washington, or winch of the two parties re
joiced at his retirement from office.
As to the funding system, it has so often been lis
ted,and defended with so much clearnefs,that I Shall
only makea Short remark or two upon the creation
of the fifty millions. The Committee fay, a part of
this Sum was made by the assumption of State debts
which upon fallow andjrivolous pretences, the fecic
ralifts&ffumeJ.- Connecticut owed a large debt at
the close of the war, which file had incurred in the
public defence : One million fix hundred thousand
Dollars of it was affirmed by the United States; ex
prefsl, confined to evidences of the debt we owed
for " Services or supplies towards the " prosecution
of the (revolutionary) war, and the defence of the
United States,or some part thereof during the fame."
When the United States, under the federal consti
tution, took from us all or nearly all means of reve
nue,but a direa tax on polls and rateable estate,was
it not reafonrble that they Should pay that part of
our debt, at least, which we had incurred in the
common cause, beyond our proportion ; and the
more especially 10, as a great portion of the expen
ditures was made by positive direction of Congress
attended by a promise of future renumeration r The
Committee fay, the republicans ftrenuouHy opposed
the assumption : Why r can it be possible that the
democratic republicans in Connecticut wifli that
assumed debt back again, to be a fubfcd of uuceaf.
ing contention ? I leave it to the Committee for
explanation.
A majority of the Supreme Court adjudged, that
by the Constitution they could hold pies of a luit
against a Rate. Judge Iredell diffented,although he
was a federalist. fhejederalifs in Congress ouan
imoufly proposed to the states an alternation of the
Constitution in that particular, arid they agreed to it
—This is the bolded deceive afault upon republican
ifn,which the Committee state. Their imaginations
mult be lively, not to fay differed, to believe this a
proof ol their main proportion. It is an observation
probably founded in the nature of man, that in pro
portion as he reSpeCts or defpitts the tribunal before
whom his trial is bad, so will his conduct be rev
erential or conremptious. What opinion roust
this Committee entertain of the good sense of the free
men of this State, when they offer Such Statements
as this to them
ing any knowledge of this nomination, till it was
made, imprefred it on every person's mind. The
dates of the other proceedings will confirm the
datement which is here made.
ifter in this country ; and no man in the Senate
or House of Repref ntatives, nor any other, not
even a bead of department, knew this nomination
was contemplated until it was read in the Senate.
After this peaceful overture, and the appoint
mentjuft mentioned, which was I think in the
lad of the winter or beginning of the spring 1799
and, after waiting a few months, to discover the
real intentions or the French ; as the objed for
which we raised the twelve regiments was accom
plished, we disbanded them. I believe this was
done on the 14th of May 1800. You will rec
oiled, that the Committee fay, the state of bur
affairs was then, precisely the fame, as when the
army was raised. But lcft our trade on the ocean
might further be disturbed, we preferred our Na
vy till the year following, and then, the depreda
tions having ceased, we diminished that# There
is more than negative proof here, for the Angular
circumdance of no one befid r s the President hav-
The quarrel with the French, was fomented by
the federalists, lay the Committee, to jollify th
creation of an army, which army was to be the ir
ftrument to crush liberty. So much has been lain
upon the fubj^a of this army, that I would mak,
no remarks upon it, were it not for a very extras
dinary part of the statement in page 9th and joh
which is, that Mr. Adams convened a council ol
leading federalists, among whom were Hamilton
and Pickering, to determine whether ambULdoi
fliould be nominated to France, as they w< te pre!
Singly invited by the French ; and that the decifio#
of this council being for peace, ambaffudors were
nominated ; in conlequence of which, and of th % -
election in New-York, the federaiitlsdiSbanded their
army, to Deprive the republicans of the credit of do
ing it, while our affairs with France, were precisely
in the Situation they were, when the army was railed.
TheCommitiee declare, that all they have previously
faidabout the war being considered necessary for
the accomplishment of federal projects on our own
government, and that the army was railed, not
to repel French invasion, but to crush republican
ism, was taken for granted ; that they have no
proof but the above statement, which they trium
phantly call demonstration. There was no such
meeting, neither was the army disbanded under
circumstances which they state. The French
Directory refufed to receive one ambassador of
peace, who was sent by President Washington,&
three, who were sent by President Adams ; made
depredations on our trade, and threatened to in
vade the southern States and arm the negroes.
We railed twelve additional regiments of Infan
try & increased our navy : finding us in a posture
of defence, the French made overtures to treat
through Mr. Vans Murray our then resident at
the Hague, promising to receive and treat with
civility any embaffy,which Should be sent. Pre
sident Adams nominated Mr, Vans Murray Min
ister Plenipotentiary to France ; in a day or two,
and before the Senate had decided upon it, he
recalled this nomination and made a second con-
taining two more in addition to Murray, and all
three were agreed to by the Senate, With this
Nomination were sent the letter, of Mr. Vans
Murray communicating the fubje& of his con
ference with Mr. Pichon, now the French Min-
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I return you my particular thanks for the lib
erality and readiness with which you have grant
ed the Supplies for the Public Service.—lt is
painful to me to refled, that the means of neces
sary exertion cannot be provided without a heavy
pressure upon my faithful People ; but I cannot
Sufficiently applaud that wisdom and fortitude
which have led you to overlook considerations of
temporary convenience, for the ptirpofe of pre
venting a large accumulation of Debt during the
continuance of the Wan You may be assured
that there Shall be as stria attention to econo
my on my part as may be convenient with those
preparations and exertions which,will be bed cal
culated to fruftrate the designs, and to weaken
the power of the enemy, by whose arrogant pre
tensions, and restless ambition alone, these facri
fices have been rendered unavoidable.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I am fully persuaded that during the ceSfatioti
of your Parliametary duties, you will continue to
be actuated by the fame Spirit which has been uni
formly displayed in your councils. It will be yout
duty to assist in carrying into effed those impor
tant measures which your wisdom has devised for
the defence &fectirity of the realm ; & particularly
to give the most beneficial direction to that ardor
and enthufiam in the cause of their country,which
animate all classes of my people.—Justly sensible
of the State of pre-eminence in which it has pleas
ed the Almighty to Support us for so many ages
amongst the nations of Europe ; I rely with con
fidence that, under the continuance of his Divine
protection, the exertions of my brave and loyal
subjects will prove to the enemy and to the world
that an attempt to subvert the independence or
impair the power of these United Kingdoms,will
terminate in the disgrace andru n of those by whom
it may be made ; and that my people will find an
ample reward for all their Sacrifices, in an undis
turbed enjoyment of that freedom and Security;
which, by their patriotism and valour, they will
have preserved and ensured to themselves and
their posterity.
One of the French prizes sent to Deptford, is
laden with cutlaffcs and knives of a fingutAr con-
Hrudion, somewhat similar to a bill-hook used in
LONDON, AUGUST I,
Yesterday His Majesty having taken his feat
on the Throne, the speaker of the Commons at
tended, and read an address, couched in the usu
al form. It Rated, that Parliament had at length
completed the Supplies for the Service of the
year ; a period memorable for the events which
it has produced, and awful f- those which may
be yet to come; and that, in granting those
Supplies, they had given to the world a solemn
pledge of their determination to redder public
credit unavailable, It then took a view of the
principal points which attracted the attention of
Parli^Bient during the Seflions; alluded to the
cause in which we were engaged, and concluded
with the following energetic declaration and
apostrophe :—
The Speaker then presented Several Bills,
which received the Royal assent ; after which his
Majeßy, in a firm and audible tone, delivered
the following Speech :
"my 'lords and gentlemen,
"I am at length enabled, by the date of pub
lic business, to release you from your long and
laborious attendance in Parliament. —In closing
the Session, I have the utmost fatisfa&ion in ex
preding the strong sense which I entertain of that
zealous and Unwearied regard for the welfare
and honour of yout Country which has diftiri
guifhed all your proceedings.—During the con
tinuance of Peace, your conduct manifested the
just view which you had taken of our actual sit
uation, and of the dangers against which you
were peculiarly called upon to provide ; and
since the recurrence of hostilities you have dif
playcd an energy and promptitude which have
never been surpassed, in the means which you
have Supplied for the defence of the Country, and
for the vigorous prbfecutioh of the War.—Your
proceedings in consequence of the late treasona
ble and attrocious occurrence id Ireland will, I
trull, have rhe efTed of preventing any further
interruption of its internal tranquility, and of
c >nvincing my Loyal Subjects in that part of the
United Kingdom, that they may confidently re
ly on that protection to which they are so justly
entitled. In the midst of the deliberations which
were cccafioned by the immediate -exigency of
the times, you have not been unmindful of other
objects, to which I had directed your attention ;
and I have great fatisfa&ion in observing, that
yen have completed a fyftetn for consolidating
the duties, arid regulating the collection and man
agement of the several branches of the revenue ;
and that you have adopted measures which are
calculated to afford material accommodation to
the Mercantile Part of the community, and to
encourage arid extend the Navigation and Com
merce of my dominions.
"This War we fee and know to be a War of no
ordinary character. We feel that our Religion,
Laws, and Liberties, and exigence as a Nation,
are put to the issue, and we have prepared for the
contest accordingly. Betides the Supplies of Mo
ney, we have augmented beyond all former ex
ample, every species of Military Force known in
this Country—we have met Rebellion with
prompt and necessary Laws—and for the defence
of a'Sovereign endeared to us by long experience
ofhis Royal Virtues, & commanding not our Al
legiance alone, but our Hearts arid Affe&ions,the
whole Nation has risen up in arms. May then
the God of our Father's go forth with us to battle,
and bless our cause, and establish with Victory
that throne which We revere as the bulwark of
our liberties ; and so Shall other Nations at length
learn, that a free, valiant, and united People i 3
unconquerable, and able to set lading bounds to
an empire of violence, perfidy, and unrelenting
ambition. To the Bills which I have now hum
bly to present to your Majesty, your Commons,
with all humility, entreat your Mayfly's Royal
A Rent."
Foreign Articles.
DARTMOUTH, (ENG.) JUNE 2j.
StR,
A bold and fuccefsful experiment was teftcr
day tried off this port, with a vcffel on an entirely
hew conftrudion; and if you conceive the dis
covery to be of that importance to Government,
and merchants of this kingdom, that 1 do, you
will I am sure, give an account of if to the public
with as much pleasure as I communicate it to you.
This vessel (the invention of Mr. New man of
this place) appears to be wholly different in form
conltruftion, and principle, from any thing e&c''
A part of the Cavan militia, in attempting to se
cure Some rebels on Monday last, in the town of
Dunboyne, were resisted by an affcmblage cf the
town's people ; and it became necessary for the
troops to fire. Three were killed, and 16 of the
rebels were taken and brought to Dublin.
The Court of Berlin has drawn a close cordon
oh her frontiers, in the neighborhood of Hanover,
and has completely cut off all intercourse with that
country. The French General complained that
che measure militated agninft bis troops, as nume
rous articles, of which they were in want, could
only be drawn from thence ; but the Prussian com
mander replied, that his orders were peremptory.
Capt. Elpbinftone, an officer in the Ruffian Dr
vice is to have a command in the Ruffian fleet. He
is not, however, brother to Lord Keith, as has been
stated, but he is our countryman,nd has been long
in his present employ. Letters from this officer
slate, that he had for some time been apprehensive
that he would be obliged to quit the Service as he
never would fight agaiuft his country ; but that he
was now happily freed from an embarrassment on
this point, and he had received orders to proceed
with the fleet for an English harbour. —Star.
General Dumourier was, it is said, sent forabont
three weeks Since, with the perrhiffion of Govern
ment,by the French Princes now in this country.
The intention, we understand is to call into Service
all the French Emigrants in Great-Britain, capable
of carrying arms, and to fend out of the country
such of them as may refute to repair to the Royal
Standard. The Prince of Conde is to have the chief
direction of this force, but Dumourier will have an
important command under his Royal HighneSs.
AUGUST It).
The Lawyers have formed themselves into an Ar
med Association ; and elected the Hon. Thomas
Ermine their Lieutenant Colonel,& Mr. Reid Ma
jor. o
AUGUST2I.
The boats of the Cerberus frigate have cut a ves
sel out of Concalle-Bay,and 7 veffcls out of St Cas
Bay, on the coast of France ; and the Hydra's boat
have taken a lugger out of the lower harbour of
Havre.
The Hon. Ch. Yorke is appointed one of his
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Mr. Munroe, the new American Minifler, pre
sented his credentials on the 1 7th inst.
On the 16th inst. John Hatnel, who bad assumed
the name of the hon. Alexander Hope, and under
that name married Mary Robinfon,commonly cal
led Mary of Buttermerc, was convicted of forgery
and Sentenced to deathat Carlifle.
— —O—=-
AUGU3T 22.
Leith will be the port.u hich will Supply the Ruffi
an fleet, expected from the Baltic.
Thomas Claffon,(of the firm of Claffon and Jam
iefon,of Burr Street,merchants,) charged with holding
a criminal correspondence with the Irifli rebels,was
arrested on Saturday last.
We understand that the dispatches received yester
day from the court of Madrid, do not contain the
ultimatum required by our government With refped
to the line ot conduft Spairi has resolved to adopt
in the present cohteft- His Catholic Majesty makes
strong profeflions of a Sincere disposition to preserve
the established relations of peace and amity, but
flodioufly avoids a final explanation. In other
words, he wants more time, and wishes, as long as
he is allowed by Bonaparte, to preserve his convoys
arid vessels from being captured bv our cruisers,
and to keep his port free feom the blockade of our
Squadrons.
The intelligence by this mail is of considerable
importance, and strengthens the {peculations we
have so often ventured, that 2 continental war was
near at hand, and that the disposition of Russia was
favorable to England. The French, far from hav
ing succeeded in persuading the Northern Courts
that we were the violaters of their neutrality, have
plainly proved themselves the aggressors ; and what
is more, Russia, by fending a fleet into the Baltic,
and Prussia, by her late remonstrance, appears to
consider them so. In this great point, therefore,
the intrigues of the First Conlul have been defeated.
The disposition of the Northern Powers, with
whom he wished to embroil us, is manifeftly in our
Savor, and an alliance in the common cause may be
expected to be the consequence. It is then asked,
what can Russia do ? Is not France so powerful on
the Continent as to defy all attack ?—This is not
the case. The moment Russia declares for En
gland, Austria will join in the alliance ; and then
we may reverse the queftiOn—W hat did France do
in the laftwar, when this alliance existed r She was
defeated and overwhelmed in every quarter, arid,
but for the unhappy rupture of that alliance, would
have been driven within her antierit limits. At
this present moment her power is not more consid
erable or available. Holland confutes an army to
keep it in Subjection : it is in faft, a hostile coun
try to the French ; possessed by enemies to their
name and power, reluctantly Submitting to a yoke
which die is impatient to Shake off. Italy has no
resources, arid Switzerland and the Netherlands
would turn on the firft opportunity, against their
oppreffort. Betides, there is a probability that Prus
sia may join in the alliance : if so, Holland mult
instantly fall, and the war, without a moment's de
lay, be transferred to the interior of France.
At Paris there is some apprehension entertained
of the Northern Powers, and even of Spain, whose
frontiers are now threatened, and who mull be for
ced either into an alliance ora war.
Edging; c: ^° a gardners pruning knife: They
(hut up in manner of pocket knives. The blades
and handles are formed uncommonly strong, and
very little exertion is requisite in using them.
I his extraordinary cargo was doubtless intended
for Ireland.
From the National Intelligencer.
fWe perceive by the following notice published in the
Paris Journal of Commerce, our comnaiffioners are com
mencihg operation.]
“ NOTICE.
" Those whom it may concern, are informed, that the
office of the American commissioners appointed under the
late convention between France and the United States, is
opened at Paris, No. 1559 Rue de L Universe, Faubourg
Saint Germain.
" All communications to the Board are to be addrrfed
in writing, franked, to the undersigned, secretary t blhe
commissioners.
NAT. CUTTING.
Paris, Sth July, 1803.
The magnanimous Buonaparte appears like a child, td
whom, if a frefh play thing, or a new garment, be given;
cannot either cat or sleep, till he has used or worn it;
No sooner had he arrived at Calais, but away he fired
the cannon, and, jumping into a boat, pushed off for En
glond, alone and unattended, like the other madfaan,
Charles of Sweden. He proceeded, however, nb further
than the protection of his own batteries: the fit went off:
he threw away his rattle, and returned, elated with hi,
progrtfs. His prototype, Caligula, made an expedition
somewhat similar. Suetonius tells us, that, arriving at that
part of the low countries, which is opposite to Britain, and
leceiving into his protcaion a fugitive traitor of the island,
the tyrant lent glorious letters to the Senate, giving an ac
count of the happy corqneft of the whole kingdom ; and
soon after, making his soldiers fill their helmets with cockle
shells and pebbles, which he celled the spoils of the ocean,
he returned to the City to demand a triumph. Hi, folly,
his perfidy, and his tyranny, firing every arm against him.
and his death became neceffery t^give repofa to the ^orH
—o—
— fetter, received in town yeferda) from an Officer
on board one of bis Majefy's Jhips laying off Cadiz,
announces the capture of aver, rich Spanifo Wefl-lh
diaman, on her pafoge from South America. She
bad 1 1,000 ounces of gold on board and was carried
into Gibraltar. A French 74 which was in cote
pan, with the prize narrow!, Reaped.
o
Another escape of Bohapartc.— The First Cfo
fal bad a narrow escape on Lis coafling voyage round
the ife of Cadfant to Flushing. An Englijhfmu%
gler la, at finite diflance, and the crew, perceiving
what was going forward, immediatl, leaded tbe:r
pfols and arranged their cutfafa, determined, if
be put ever so little out to sea, to pounce upon their &
je&. Had the, fuccetded, provided as the, were with
sweeps in did to their fails,nothing could have preven
ted them from landing Bonaparte in England, much
sooner then even bis sanguine imagination could have
promijed. His prudance however, or, as bis minium:
will call it, bis “ good fortune.” led him to keep so clof
ander the batteries, that the feelings of those brave men
were mortified, and their intention di^ 'appointed.^
• 0
CALCUTTA, JAN. id.
Extract of a letter from Trincomale dated Decent
ber 16.
We have just experienced one of the greater
storms of wind and rain, and of the longed contin
uance, which has been wimeffed here for many
•years past. It began about 12 o'clock at night oft
the 3 I and did not cease 'till about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon of ytfterday, during which, there was
bot 5 minutes intermission of heavy rain ; you may
therefore judge how much must have fallen.
The wind came at firft from the N. E. but it af
terwards came from, and fettled in the S. W. from
whence it blew for the last eigthfeeen hours almost
perfea hurricane, during which, early yesterday
morning, the Malay Hospital was completely blown
down, and levelled with the ground—as the people
I supposed had force warning of its fall, happily no
lives were loft, fewbeing only slightly bruited. The
(hock from this storm has been such, that almost
every house in the place has Suffered greatly by its
fury, and none have altogether been proofs against
tffeas.--Of 5 square rigged vcffels lying in Often
burgh harbour, four have gone on Shore, two final!
weft Is beloning to Bafhaw, a brig commanded b,
a Mr. Newbegging, and another brig commanded
by a Frenchman ; none rode it out but Mr. Mar
shall's (loop.
The arrival as the Jamaica fleet is an event ^Lich
rive announce «wi:h the greateJi fathfaßion. Ti^
florin which it encountered was so violent, that ^
one of the fxty velfels, of which it coiffed, efefr^
without injury.' But notwithfanding iheir crippled
fate, the, have all arrived, except three, the Cahpji,
which if said to have foundred ; the Juno, Roje §
and the Lad, Mackwork Errick. Since the year
1782, no Jamaica fleet hasfuftunedfo mtsch damage
as that which is new arrived.
yet entrusted to the waves, being built entire],
with (freight timber, and resembling more(when
on the ground) a hog's trough than any other
thing, the bottom arid Sides being perfectly flat,
and square at both ends; is about 90 feet long,
and 18 wide ; dra^s but three feet water, and
fleered, not by a rudder hung to the stern post
(which in full built veffcls has never a proper ef=
fed) but by two small fins, which expand frem
the sides, and Which have an effect that explode tte
present mode of fleering altogether?—This veffelfe
constructed, was launched about a month Since,
and tho' She has now been ready for sea at least
three weeks, it was not until yesterday that any iea-.
men could be prevailed on to make trial of her, and
the experiment would probably have been wholly
relinquished, but for the noble and patriotic exer
tions of Capt. Hoyles and Mr. Jeffery, the Inspec
tor of King's Ships building at this port, who vob
unteered their Services with Mr. N. and were fooh
joined by several experienced Blip matters and pi
lots belonging to the port. She started from her
moorings about 8 o'clock, in the forenoon, arid
went down the river, which was lined with thou
sands of Spectators ; preserving an awful Silence,
the wind having every appearance of cofoing to
blow hard, and the general belief that She would
never again return to the port. But, to the aftori : >
rfhment of all, before die reached the Narrows, foe
ordered all the boats that attended her to return, and
immediately under a crowd of fail, daffied buidl,
out into the channel. She had not proceeded fa?
before nautical men were so Struck with her ma
noeuvres, that they seemed to doubt their exigence;
and, after a croife of ten boms, and a most com
plete trial with more than twenty different cruisers,
in every way and movement, flie beat up this nar
row river against a strong wind, and in a mann6f
superior to any thing ever Seen by the oldest Seamed
in this port, amidst repeated discharges of canner
^nd acclamations of the irihabitzhes.