The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-04-10 00:00:00, page 3

nied by fervent Thickfgiviog to
the beftowter of every good gift,
not only for having hitherto pro
tested and preserved the people
of these United States in the in
dependent enjoyment of their re
ligious and civil freedom, but al
so for having prospered them io
a wonderful progress of population,
and for conferring on them ma
ny and great favors conducive to
the happineh and prosperity of a
nation.
Groen under my Hand and Seal of the U.
States of America, at Pbiladdpba, this
twenty-third da, of March, in the year
L. s. of our Lord one tboUfaud seven hundred
and ninety-eight, and of the Independence
of the Jai a States the twenty-jecond.
JOHN ADAMS.
the PreJident,
TIMOTHY PICKERING,
Secretary of State.
American J2eW.
PENNSYLVANIA.
rarcocQ
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 26.
CIRCULAR.
To the Collectors of the Customs.
Treafur, Department, March zi.
SIR,
IT has been determined by
the President of the United States,
that under the prelent circum
stances, it has become necessary to
,modify the inftruaions issued from
this department on the Bch day of
April, 1797, in such manner as
no longer to restrain vessels of the
United States from failing in an
armed condition, when destined to
be employed in a regular and law
ful commerce.\
But though you are to coofider
the general prohibition as no long
er remaing in force, it is the ex
press command of the President,
; that you feizt and detain all vessels
re feeding which there, may exist
reafonabie ground of suspicion,
that they are intended to be em
ployed contrary to law, and par
ticularly M the aft of Congrefa
passed on the sth day of June,
.1794, entitled, " Ao ad in addi
tion to the ad for the punishment
of certain crimes against the Unit
ed States," or the id passed the
14th day of June, 1797, entitled,
" an aft to prevent citizens of the
United States from privateering
against nations in amity with, or
against citizens of the U, States."
You will also confider it to be
your duty to prevent evafioos of
the ad passed on the,l4th day of
June, 1797, entitled, " An aft
.prohibiting for a limited time the
exportation of arms and ammuni
tion, and for encouraging the im
portation thereof ;" by confining
the quantities of the laid articles
- which may be returned as confti
tuciog the equipment of any ves
sels, within reafonabie limits.
/ A confident reliance is eotertain
& ed, that all your proceedings under
these inftruaiom, will be marked
with decision and impartiality.
I am, with consideration, Sir,
Jo Tour obedient servant,
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of the Treajury.
MARCH 27. ft;
Extraa of a later from Malaga, dated Feb.
^ We just learn from Cturt,
that this government ha# figoed
the admission of a French army
of sty ibofod men, to march
through this kingdom against Por
tugd.”
Contort!,
TUESDAY, April 1% 1798.
Important and Authentic. }
From Philadelphia, March z 3
" The inclofed refolutioni offered
yesterday to the House, are the
result of the united wisdom a.id
deliberation of the opposition par
ty. instead of calling 00 the Ex
ecutive for further information,
•which they pretended at firft to
want, it note funs their purpose
better, to confider the last m/ffage
of the President as a declaration,
on his parr, that war was become
inevitable ; and to oppose this
opinion by their counter-declara
tion, that it muff be avoided.—
This is confident with their unva
riable endeavors to (hew an exist.
irg divifioo of sentiment between
the Executive and the people. It
is to this mistaken conception,
which originated in their own vio
lence and folly, and which they
have taken great pains to inculcate
for truth, that our whole contro
versy with the French must be im
puted. Far from wishing to un
deceive that nation, the objed is
to confirm the impreflion, and the
effe& to encourage a perfeveraoce
in hostilities. They are now afraid
to call for information; They ap
prehend.and probably with reafoo,
that the late dispatches would un
fold such scenes of corruption, and
such projects to divide and endure
this country, as would rouse Ibe pee
ple to one common determination to
resist the French. They forefee the
ruin and disgrace of their party in
this event, and they make a final
effort to elude these confluences,
by ptefeotiog to the minds of the
people, the abftraa question of
peace or war. —This artifice will
not do. The amendment of Mr.
Dayton will probably prevail; and
the resolution as amended will be
agreed to in the Committee of the
whole ; but io the House it is pro
bable the previous queflion will be
taken, and the resolution by that
mean be put quietly to deep.
" When the American people
are made acquainted with the con
tents of the qifpatches from our
Extra-Envoys, at Pari,, their blood
will boil within them. The Ptefi
deat, 1 know, Effies to communi
cate them to Congress ; and were
he certain that our Envoys were
out of France, he would do it.—
But he will riot betray them ; he
has sent them to a hazardous port ;
they have braved every danger to
discharge their duty with faithful
nefs ; —and it would be the height
of ingratitude were he to take any
measures which might put their
fafety to hazard. The French
Directory are not squeamish ; they
have confined a Portuguese Am
baffador, coot-ary to the law of
Nations ; and if they could coffie
to the knowledge that our Envoys
had ferreted out their secrets, and
difeovered the authors of a most
diabolical plot, they would not
hefirate in fending them to the
Temple. lam assured, that a
lift of traitors is making out ; and
that warrants will be issued for
apprehending the whole of them.
" What would you, as an A.
merican, think, if the French Di
rectory should claim, as prelimi
nary to all negotiation, that the
Envoys should obtain full pow.
er, to content, firft, That the Con
fticution of the United Stat#
should be modified, to as to ex
clude the Senatorial branch :— —
That Dotwithftanding, the Prefix
dent has been chosen for four
years, that he should immediately
be changed : —That the United
States should pay One million of
hard dollars M a peace offering, &
fay nothing about the ten millions
filiations on our commerce ; &
, finally, that they should cede the
exclusive jwifdiaions of one of
two ports in the United States
(Portjmotab, N. H. or Newport in
Rhode-Inland) as a French naval
arfeoal, and port of refuge for
their fleets !! I repeat, what
would be the fenfatioas of Amer
icans, if fab preliminary demands
have been made ? If they are not
prepared to hear it from authority,
let them prepare immediately for
the tale ; and to give flretch to
their just rtfentment and holy in
dignation."
CONGRESS.
House of Riprsjentatrocs, March 27.
STATE OF THE UNION.
In Committee of the wholes—
Mr. Sprigg rose, and observed,
that every fubjeft which came be-'
fore the Committee of the whole
on the state of the Union, must
necessarily be important ; but he
believed there never was any more
so, than that which was preferred
to them by the message of the
President, which had been read.
Separated as we are from Europe,
by an immense ocean, it were to
be wished that we were equally
feparared from its polical concerns,
and that we should have to do
with them no farther than what
relates to commerce. This, un
happily, bad not been the case, &
<he>e now existed painful differ
ences betwixt this country and the
French Republic. The message
which had just been read, was an
evidence ot this. In this fixa
tion of things, it appeared oecef
fary that the House should de
clare, whether this country was
to have peace or war. This was a
fubjeft in which the bed ioterefta
of the Union were deeply con
cerned, and he hoped the busi 0
pels would be met fully and fairly.
The Prtfident had informed the
House, that the present state of
things is changed from what it
was at the time he prohibited the
arming of merchant vessels, and
that therefore he had withdrawn
that prohibition. Whether the
/;rder formerly issued by the Pres
ident for this purpose was in con
formity to the spirit or letter of
the law, was not of importance
now to enquire—the effect had
been beneficial, and in the fame
proportion as the prohibition had
been beneficial, would be the evils
of withdrawing it. In order to
^(certain the feofe of the commit
tee upon what measures may be
proper to be taego in the present
criris, he should offer the follow
ing resolution to their considera
tion:
" Resolved, That it is the o
pinion of this committee, that,
under exiftiog circumstances, itis
not expedient for the U. States 10
resort to war agtinh the French
Republic. ^ct^^QJ
^ 6 Resolved, &c. that provi<
(ion ought to be made by law for
reftriaing the arming of mer
chants' vessels, except in cases in
which the practice was heretofore
permitted.
" Resolved, &c. that adequate
provifion Ihall be made by 14,
for the proteaion of our fti-cosft,
and for the internal defence of
the country."
The firft refo'ution came finder
debate, co which a n amendment
was propoled by the Speaker, to
strike out the words 6 agfinft the
French Republic.' The debate
then turned upon ois amend
ment, and occupied the whole of
rhe fitting, without any queflion
being taken.
A refoluiion for laying an em
bargo, for a lifted time, on all
(hips and veffcli, owned wholly or
in part by citizens of the United
States, except fifhermen hod coaf
tert, has been negatived in the
Senate of the United States—on
ly four members being in favor
of it.
A REPORT
Is in circulation, which wtfear our n-xt ac
counts will prroe to he too t^,, that Mr.
Ot is, a member of Cargo's from Maffachn-
Jetts, has fallen in a duel wi^b Mr. Gills,
a member from Virginia, occasioned by feme
irritating czprtfons mad: uje of in debate.
APPOINTMENTS-By Authority.
Payne Wingate, of Stratbam, and
Ebenezer Smith, of Durham, Judges
of the Superior Court ot Ntwbam/forc.,
vce Edward St, Loe Livermore, and D.
Newcomb, resigned.
MARRIED]—At Gilmantown, b,
the Rev. Ijaac Smith, Mr. Nathaniel Up
bam, merchant, to the amiable Mifi %-
ditb Cogswell, only daughter of Thomas
Cogfwell, Esq.
In this town, on Sunday evening last,
by the Rev. Asa M'Farland, Mr.
Jacob Abbot, jun. Merchant, to Miss
Betsy Abbott, eldest daughter of
Capt. fojhua Abbott, of this town.
May Hymen Jmile propitious on tbejefairs,
And banish from their breads corroding caret ;
Ma, the, in mutual love lead out their lives,
The duteous Husbands —the obedient Wives.
DIED]— At Haverhill, Mass. sudden
ly, Miss Nancy Bradlee, daughter of wid
ow Mehetabel Bradley —she was to have
been married the next evening.
At Dunbartor, on the ^b infl. Widow
Judith Clifford, aged 95.
In this town, Mrs. Dimond, wife of Mr.
,rbn Dimond.
Cloatbing Bujinejs.
7 'HE Subferiber hereby in
■ forms the public, that he carries
on the Cloathing Business, at the works
lately improved by Mr. Joseph Towne,
in Hopkinton,—where every command
will be executed with neatntfs and dis.
patch ; and all favors gratefully acknow
ledged, by the Public's humble servant,
DAVID WALLINGSFORD.
Hopkinton, .April 5, 1798. 4
Wm. Caldwell's Eflate.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT Ibankful Caldwell,
' widow of William Caldwell,
late of Dunbarton deceased, is duly ap
pointed Administratrix to his estate :—
And all persons indebted to said estate.
are requeued to make immediate pay
ment; likewise, all having demands on
said estate, are required to exhibit them,
to THANKFUL CALDWELL,
Administratrix.
Dunbarton, April 4, 1798. 4
ASA KIMBALL,
HEREBY informs his friends
and the public in general, that he
continues to carry on the Cabinet Mak
ing bufioefs, in all its various branches,
in Dunbarton—where every command,
in the line of his business, will be duly at
tended to, arid every favor received with
gratitude. He wants Black Birch and<
Cherry-Tree
BOAR D S,
for which a generous price will be given,
by paying in his work, AlfoC
A ftcady adli/e LAD,
from 13 to 17 years of age, is wanted im
mediately, as an Apprentice to^id busi
ness. .Q
Dunbarton, April 7, 179^.,4