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1t is well worthy of the considera
tion of men who are concerned in the
prosperity of nations, to examine the
probable confeguences to the world at
large, ot that peoeral revolution of all.
the Eurnpean coutinent, which closes
with the fate of Cadiz It isa fub
je& on which, though the eff@s may
reach us in one thape or ancther, we
can contemplate only as fpe&ators.
There was a time when we might
have had a vete in the convention
of civiiized nations. That time is
now past ; we can manage our own
affairs in our own way, but the pe
rio! is palt when we might have had a
poweriul ani an ufciul vote to give.:
That time paflz! away with the most
fatal measure of blindness and imbecil.
ity, the abandonment of the embargo
law by the tenth congr:ofs ; to that un
bappy and deplorable point, will poft
erivy look back with a sense of humi
liation and an imprecation of indignant
reproach.
We live unhappily in an age when
the principles of many ages Rruggle
againlt each other. The miliary {pirit
~of the ages preceding the 16th century,
had been for a time made subservient
to religious fanaticifm, but were fin Ay
un ‘ermined by the {pirit of commerce
Tke civilizat on of modern times has
besn the «ff. & not of the agreement
but of the coilifion an:' sometimes of
the compromise of alithofe p - flivns,the
miicary heroic, the fanatic reiigions,
th- {lhw but frm pece of an lytical
Pphiotaphy. the prowth, of what is
terme” taffe & which consists in a tove
of :" - fine arts ant a folicitu e t
poAILLs thcir inek monuments and t.
rivil «nd to cxcel them ; rthis tafle.
fuitained by the expinion of the na
vigating art, ant the (hil more hum
bie *ur miore mighty powér of print
ing ; il thet have as it were oom
bioed, with at comp:&. to liberalize
an' ‘o xfen! over « Lag.r partion of
the {pecies, the bieflings, and the in
flazoce of inteiledt in civil society.
Whisie the progress of th: liberal pas.
fions was naly an operation of evnla
tion “r competition +f mental facuiry,
the ff:@&s were .ufpicicus to .man.
kic:’ Bui there rem-ine! illin a
great portion of the most civilized
qn cter i the globe, a dark spirit of
foriiue{n, which had withtaod the
lighit of (cience. and degraded the {pe-
Cics wherever its murky inflaence pre
~dominated. A large portion of Ger
many exhibited perhaps the greateßt
quantity of bold and analyting mind ;.
an! also the greatest poriing of intel.
let frezen and benumbed by firper
fticion an lignorance, always aflncia
tes. The sparks which” Bacon struck
from tre intelle@ in a dark age, which
were re-iilumined ind rendered more
‘illafisions by Locke, at a period more
recent, had el~@rifed Eu-ope. The
‘conition of the human mipd had in
dee, iike certain bodies, been prepar
ed, or the new properties which they
had acquired rendered them well ad
‘apted 1o he its conduétors Thought
dare” to {-iptillate in the atmosphere
of thrones and cathedrals. The fcep
tre, the diatem an i the triple crown,
~alrea‘v shook Emperors, and pcpes,
- and kings, were forced by 4n- inevita
ble neceflity. éven in the midst of em.
battled armies and the conclaves of the
Vatican, to bow and pay bomage to
“the powers of the buman mint Ca.
Aherine 11. . Jafeph and = Frederick,
_ €amé from their thrones vpon the
_common flor of the kuman species ;
JAn} Ganganeili saw from the efcurial
~¢hyir that there was no alternative
| ' Frem the ‘vrora.
'EVENTS IN EUROPE. .
We have in cur last gone into a
very minute description of Cadiz, the
principal seaport of Spain. "The
importance of ‘an adequate acquaint.
lance with its situation, in every view,
has become very great, becanfe it ap.
pears to be, like New York at the close
of our revelation, the last citadel of
the Britith on'the continent ; and the
cons quences which mast necessarily
arise out of its refitance or fabmiG n,
have an interest on the affairs of all
commercial navions, and a very
momentous effe@ on the political and
commercial relations of Europe par-.
ticularly ; for Portugal can never
resist even an equal force in poffeflion
of%e upper courses of the rivers
which meander throughit. /
Tb politician who looks to efents
fingWg¥ will seldom ju ige correétly.
To appreciate effe®s we must combine
ciufes and estimate various events as
they lead to a common refuit. The
furje@ion of Austria inthe campaign
of ialt year, averted the destiny of
Spain fora feafon,but the very necef
fity which abated the mealures for
corgnelt i Spain,will now ren.ier the
mealures tak © forits accomplithment
nore prompt. more vigorous, and
fromn the very occurrence of the Ger
m.:n war, will give a tone of energy
an - determminatinn to the accomntith
ment of the great design of the Eu.
ropean corqueror, that of fixing his
dyvpaity on a basis as immovabnle as
buman sagacity, with so much of
hnman powerat his command, can
assure.
Then it was that the flumbeting
spirit of chivalry which had been in
voked in the cause of the wmoft in
famous debauchees,was fourd to arise,
clad in terrible panoply ; when ih
spirit of refitance aroused a nation me
naced with premeditated partition,and
openly proclaimed as deltined to a
tate m-re terrible than that of Jerufa
lem, Perfepolis, or Nincveh.
- Weall know the history, every man
; of 30 years, has heird and been co
temporaty with events the molk fu
~ pendous in their form, progress, and
~ conf-quences, to be f-und in human
- annais. What a humiliating satire is
} the present (tate of Europe, son the
conspiracy formed at Pawia in
Italy, on the conferences at Pilnitz
iy Prussia, on the successive coalitions
of the powers of Europ ! Lock at
the map of Europe, in 179, the
whole continent vs Europe, from Cal.
abria to Riga, combined against a
fingie nation ; and it is so notorious,
thai we have now, afrer not quite 20
years lapse, only ro ask «honow rules
over the whole Euaropean continent—
and lisping infants can tell, that it is
the very nation which ali Eurcpe had
combinéd in fucceflivs coalitions, with
myriads of men and countless millions
" of money. to subdue ! .
[he close of this catiftrophe is to
take place in Spain We find the sub
1 & traught with matter for thought,
which fupercezes -those . cold con
- j &ares which we fat dowsn with the
mmtention to utter. We shall however
parfue them in another paper. At
present we f(hatl close thiseffay with a
few remarks of a more serious charac
ter, perfeétly pertinent to the train of
thought into - which we haive falicn,
from one of the molt inteiligent A
mericsns at this time 10 Earope 3
“ There is an ide: propagated in
¢ Europe by those who have no re.
[ % { arce bui in their “efpair, which it
¢ would be very unfortunate £ r our
“ country if it were to finu its way to
¢ America; and be adopred by any
“ man of chara@er for un<erftanding ;
¢ because if a man hasbut a charac
L % ter for understanding, his errors as
“ well as his f~und opinion, too ofren
_% go together into the minds of others,
% who have no opinions® but such as
{ ¢ they t:ke up from others ; this idea
- ¢ jg,that the prefgfxt‘(’:ominentai fyltem
¢ of Eurnpe, is a short lived and per
*¢fonal thing, and that having come
- “in with Bonaparte, it will go out
% with him, and that rather than do
~“any thing, it wiil be better to wait
¢ the flow, but fafe and silent remedy
“ ofume This idea is unsound from
~“the bowtom The present Rate of
~* things in Europe, is now ‘no more.
“ the exclusive work of Bonaparte,
¢ than itis of Charles, of Frederick,
Bor Francis,vo%glexander,,,&c. The
“ truth is that the old rotten dypaf
¢ ties of Edrope required corre@ion
J*s an? ament'ment, they are now go
& dergoing the operation, and if the
-« work ‘was' finithed to mortow their
“ fucceflors wouid have nothing to
‘ ie;arl _ Have the people of Naples
“¢any deflire to recail their old king ?
«Woriild Spain “bebetter if Charles
“or Ferdinand were given hack to
¢ thew ? Would Holland take back
¢ the Stadtholder ! What difpofision
for the triple ®rown, but its accori.
modation to the:liberal {pirit of the
"az ite extindlion. . . A
The successors of those potentates;
less wife, or perhaps not 1o well . edu.
cated in the knowlege of their species
or the chara@er of thé age, attempted
toreturn back the tide of intelle®t
upon the human fpécies, and to assert
power againfi rea&n and right, The
fame causes operading extensively ina
nation diftinguithed for its acuteness
and its impetyofity, had unfolded
abuses, found them inveterate, & aim
ed at a radical cure. Had the thrones
of Europe been filled by wife politi
cians, or their councils been formed of
men qualifi=d for the age, the regen.
eration of Frunce wculd have been as
certain and as innogent as the reforma.
tion of Florence by Leopold or the
organization of Pruflia by Frederick..
Fanaticism and unmerited power
were alarmed. The American revo
lution had eftablithed principles in
praciife which had been only theorctial
ly preached and upheld in England
for two centuries. The monarchs
with genius, who had occupied the
thrones of Europe, had disappeared
within a few years of each other. Im.
becile men demonltrating in them
felvesthe absurdity of hereditary ca
pacity;ha.’ succeeded them ; it requir.
.ed but an incendiary and affuffin tike
Peter the hermit, to rouse them, and
they found him in Burke a triple pur
chased traitor to the principies of vir
tue. and an incendiary qualified by
his talents to earn the wages of his
crimes and set the world in arms.
This memorable epoch was mark.
ed by the revival of the fararical {pirit
of the crusades marching arm in arm
with the spirit of worl .ly avarice The
Bible and the Ledger, were forcelinto
a treaty offenfive and defenfive, to
sustain fuperitition and trample
morals, philosophy and the rights of
man. ;
FroM TuHE AURORA,
AMERIC ANS IN FR 3Nt b,
There appeared lalt year in the N York
Evening Post, and in‘the papers which gen
erally palliate Britith catrages and support
her influence and pnlicy; in Opp«:ﬁtlou to
the American interelt and policy, fe cral at
trocious libels on the Amcrican ambassador
at Paris. These libels in the fequc! proved
to be forggries, in many ioftinc s, and such
as were not forgeries weve fabricatioos of
persons who had forfeited by their perjuries:
aud frauas in Eurcope. all claum (o confiicnce
or credit ; and who appeared <o be actuated
by the fame {pirit of incorrigivle viliany
which had been their p-actice and cast a
cloud of difgracc on the- Amcrican name
abroad. ‘
Something of the fame kind has fately
appeared in a paper called the Norfoik
Ledger. in which it is further insinuated that
thé Americans who have been carried into
Francc as priloners, under whatever cavfe
or pretence, have been fold out of prison to
go on Hoard privateers. The Ledger has
not, it 1s true, said these alledged sales were
made by the minister at Paris, nor for his
profit nor with his concurrence ; but thein
finuation 15 so local and general, that it ap
pears to havé becn left open to such an in
ference.
The forgeries and calumnies of the New-
York Evenisg Post, were rebutted and refut
ed by authentic documents, and the ealum
niator fought. as in his recent vindication
of the mfo'ent €openhagen missionary, to’
find fheker in an endiefs series of petty.
fopging quibbles and shabby sophistry in
~whici those who had patience to read them,
couid discover no hing but encreafed mo
~ tives for deflpifing and pitying the degraded
-~ state of mina which could grovel at such foul
and rruitiefs work
- We have it howevet in oar power, 4nd
we have been poffefled of the information
~ for several mitnths, to enable the American
- reader, to afeertain more corredtly, as well
~ihe Zind of Anericans who Irave been prison
ers i France | the real condu of the A
'merican :mbeflador 5 and the real difpofi
von of the,French government towards the
United States ; and further there may be
lue light Mwown on these alledged faies of
Amgricans, from which, if it thould appear,
thatthere are a certain defeription of Americans
‘in France. who are notoriously hoftiie to the
“exsfting administration of the United States,
who areengaged in a fmugeling trade. who
arcengagtd in privateers which they fit out
in France. and carry on a fvltem of (mug
gling with othir nations, and depredation
on th:ir own tountrymen : if it should at
length appearthat among these are noge
else but such » were when 1n America call
ed good federalifs. and that the American am
baflador, at Piris, has been the scourge of
of thele micertants. the” American pubtic
will then undetftana the fubje & better We
give the fellowng without more than a few
words of comnaent pafhing, | :
Mr. Duaie, "
Since my-ictier by the Wasp, T have seen
another of Mr,Coleman s favors of the 17th
of Augult Jaft m which, befises applying to
the minister of the Unitea States at Paris,
the weli bred tirms of ¢ milecablesninion of
Boniparte,” “yile and insolent cainiff * &e.
&< he endeavers to prove, that this minis
ter has thewn pothing but inaifference or
hofhinty toward: the Amiricans who have
been coutived iy France under the dennmi
nation ot B.dlh piifoncis The fpecific
charges to be diawa iron: this vulgar, abu
sive, and tibeltons puisitcaiion are t—
tft. ThacGeneral Armikrong has refufed
to interfere for these prisoners. :
2d That hus plea for so rcfufing was,
that the persons in question were not Amer
écans but Englifimen ; ‘and
3d. \That lie even opposed the exertions
made by lfaac Cox Barnct, in favor of these
unfortunate men. The truth of these charg
es Mr Coleman endeavors to make out by
l twe letters—the one of the Bth, the other
- ofthe 20th of June 808, which he afrribes
-~ to liaac Doolittle late mate of the Neptune.
What degree of credit may be dueto a
' man. who, like Haac Doolittle, has been con-.
“widled in a court of law of having niade folfe
declaratians—3B a Queflt:ion which 1 am saved
the trouble of discussing by Doolittle him
felf, who as wili appear by the following de
. claration of captain Stephen Merrihew. de
nies that he is either fabricator or circula
tor of these ia fchoods. vis
Caﬁ[' Mg ,-r;beow’.t Deeldvrat:'on. :
G exeellency gen. Armstrong, minister
~from the Unirted States, at Paris, addressed
to me on the oth inst the foilov?ipg
note covering an extract of an Amecrican
new{paper. : 2
"% Gen. Armstrong will be much obliged
by capt Merrihew's calling on Ifadc Doplit
tle. (fate mate of the American thip - Nep
tunc, and now livwg with J.C Batoet, rue
de Fiurus) and enguiring of him— Ift.
whether iie is, or is not, the author of two
letters of the Bth and 20th of June last,
mentioned in the printed paper enclosed
herewith, and gublifhed in Coleman's Even
ing Post, of the 17th of August last: ad,
~what /on the fuppofiticn that he s the an
thor of these letters) were the exertions made
by Mr Barnet in behalf sﬂ»gre, American
prisoners which gen Armstrong: opposed, as
~afferted in the printed letters aforefuid 5 3d.
~on what. evidence, or on. whose authority,
ke (Doolittle) declared, that gen Armstrong
“has at any time ref " fed to interfere for Amer
~ican prisoners jn France; and that wlhen,
so "'r;juﬁﬁﬁ'i “ he had urged the plea that{tire
- prifoncrs in queftiion were not Americans bt
Englifhme uad’a(:%l /in the letters afore:.
said ? Capt. Merrihew will have the good
¢ is thare now in T'rance to restore the
“ Bourbons ?. How ‘many cords are
“now binding all those and many
“ other powers together ? But how
“ ridicalous to fit down and wait for
“ the ' decease of 2 man of forty, whose
“ constitution and habits are more
“ likely to carry him to 100 than
¢ short of it ; and 2l this én the con
¢ tingency ithat his {yftem may not
t survive himfelf. Do not you be
“deceived. In thie long profpe&ive
“of his mind, every thing likely to
« ditarb this (yem will be forefeen
¢ and provided for, and die when he
* may, it will not be an Alexander
“ dying 6f 4 debauch, and leaving his
¢ kingdoms and conquests to be
“ fought for by his generals”
nefs to do what may be groper to obtain ex
pl‘icit_]"sq[j)lers, and if poflible anlwers in
writing, to these questions.” In compliance
with the above requett, I calied on Mr Doo
little and proposed to him the qucftions as
above. To the firft he replied, that it could
dot be fuppoled that he was the author ~of
the letters in question, as they were notoriously:
falfz in some points: that neither his father
nor himfelf ‘ever resided in New-York, as
there stated, but'in New Haven,Coanc&@icut.
To the second he said, he did not know that
gen Armflrong had ever gppofed -any exer
tions made by Mr Barnet in Sfavor of American
prisoners Thtdty.‘ that he ncver had assert
ed that the ge Cralrgfdfedto in'te}:?'eréﬁr the A
{ merican prisoners O that be bad in any manner
| denounced them as Engiifbrien. as mentioned id
{ those printed letters ; observing that bhe
| could not give more cxplicit answers to thole
. questions, | P
“« STEPHEN MERRIHEW”
I, the undersigned. consul of the United
{ State:,and their agent of prize causes, at
i Paris, do heieby certify, that on this sis
. teenth day of November, 6ne thousand
- eight bundred 4nd aine perfonaiiy appeared:
before me, Stephen. Merrthew late captain
~of the American ship, the Palipunes, who
bein: cu v sworn declared: that the answers,
i contained in the abeve writing, in reply to
. certain questions thereip (tated were com
municaied to him by IHaac Doolittle. late
~ mte of the Ameriean ship Neptune -
| Given under my band, and seal of the
consulate, the day and year above writen.
DAVID BAILIE WARDE®R™ *
Were 1 to adt in obedieneec to firlt im
preflions, I should feave this difcufion ex
actly where Doolittle’s denial ha- piaced it
—bhut remembering that something may be
due to the propagators of truth, as well as
to the dete@ors of falfeliood, I offer td
you the reading of some of flicial letters,
which cannot fail to fettle the opisfion of the
public on this fubjcét. and leave Mr Cole
man, with regard toany future display of
impudence and malignity, without even the
apology of ignorance. To these letters I
add a fcw notes of my own,
(No. 1) - ;
: Paris, 10th Fuly 1804.
Sir—lregret that it is not in my own
power to pracure your release, as your case
unfortunately falls dire&ly within the prin
ciples of a decision lately made by the
French government—to wit. that 1f an Amer
ican be taken on board an Englifp fbip awhen in
the service of the fbip be will be regarded in all
iefpecis as 4 Enng.ifoman
En-lofed [{end you your certificate of
citizenthip
Your most obeient servant.
(Signedy ROB B LIVINGSTON
Mr Cook £5%.
By this letter is {hewn the rule which had
been said down by the French government,
with regard o pcrfons, bot Englith subj &s
found o : board of Engiith thips, betose gen.
Armstrong’s arriv:l in France, 2nc which
docs not appear to have been departed from
in afingie instance, during the mimftry of
his predecetior. :
TRANSLATION
Gy i (N e
M. Dejean to Gen Armflrong, .
‘ Curts. i Qth Neptemb: 806
I haltea fiv. to answer the letter that your
exccliency addreflca to me on the 19th of
August and which [referred to the minister
of marine, in order to know if the prison.
€rs you clar as Americaus were byt paffei
gers on board of the ships upon which tiey
were found. e : ,
The enquiries made on this head at the
ministry of the navy, wete not attended with
catire success because iome of the ships, on
board which the individuals claimeq, have
been seized, nor the port to whick they
were taken, have been designated ; this o
miflion added to our erroncous spelling of
the names, may be the cause that out of the
26 prisoners, enly 16 have been found, and
the enquiries that were made about the
100thers have been unfuccefsful.
lought not te dissemble that the evidence
acquired respecting the 16 who were found
as upon the registers, is not of such a nature
to be favorable towards their obtaining their
liberty ; some are notori»ufly. Englithmen ;
others performed the funcions of captainsand
second captains of Engiifh thips or served
as sailors : one onlyis inferibed as a paflen
ger, and he was born in Dublin. As it is
poflibie, however. that {cme defeé in the
evidence has csufed an error as to persons,
1 return to you the statement ycu had ad
drefled to me, with an invitation tha: there
be added to ‘it the 'pames of the thips on
board which they were fcized, and that of
the port to which they were brought.
Accept, &c.
(Signed) DEJEAN.
This letter and lift. &e. from the admin
isftrator general of thc war department
proves, that general! Armstrong did interfere
for persons under the denomipation of B»it
ifb prisoners; who claimed to be Awme:ican citi
zens, and sundry of whom commanded Eng
lifb fbips, ety
s TRANSLATION.
Yk o e SRASS 4R
. Parts, 3d November, 18c7.
~ Sir~Your excellency did me the honor:
to write to me on the 31st of the last month,
inviting me to state to his majeflty the emper
or, that the government of tiie United States
would be obliged if, by en exception to the gen
_eral rule his majcfty wounld be pieated to lib
erate 60 or 80 Amevican sailors seized on
board the thipsof the enemy and who are
detained as prisoners of war in the several
depcts of the empire—the emperor, to
whom I had the bonor of presenting your
letter, bias ordered me to answer yowr ex
cellency that heis not willing te derogate
from the principle that “an individual takem
in the ranks ; or on board the fbips of the enemy.
ovght to be detained as a piifcner of woar . of
awbatever nation be may be ;° and that of course
if the demand in queltion were presented as
matter of rightit would not be poflible to
grantit ' : b e) et
But the demand being offered 2s an ex
“ception to the' rule, the emperor -bas or
dered me to let you know that he seizes with
pleasure thisoccafion to do. a thing agreea
ble 1o the United States. .~ Pl
. 1 will inform the minifier of war of this dif
‘pofition as it is ke who Will give orders to
_the commandants of the depots - for. its ex
ecution and 1 beg you to transmit to me
‘the lift of the prisoners in quettion, the in
dication of the ships where they were taken.
‘and of the portsto which they were con
ducted ,’:’l will fend it to thahm:mﬂa; and
Ibeg you moreover to indjcate the port
where tlhie Americdn ship 407 d (o carry
‘them to the U.States may b, found, . °
Accept; &, s :
| nfSigned) il ih s YDECRES: S
o m,.“?amy gen 'd"”ﬂ'ug- : i,
* - This letter proves, v hope, 10 the con
“viétion of even Mr Coleman, that gencraf
' jrfamgal\as MOt refufed to interfere for.
“American citizens, confined in Frexch pfri/'om, and
alfo_that he has been able 1o interfere fuc
vofifully sot theni, |
. TRANSLATION-
R ~ (No. 4) :
S ~ Paris. slh Auguf), 1808.
‘Sirv—ll had the honor of infdrming yous
exceicncy, that ia confcquence of 4 NEw res
clamation addrefled to me by general Arm.
ﬁ‘r')ﬂg in favor of Nathanic| ‘Lincola, John
Clark. and Joha Coats, detained as prisoner
of war ia France. .1 heggcd the ministers of
mariae to have it afcertarned if (hefe men
were really - mericans, and migh: be sfet
at. liberty. . The opivion of 5. . is
that it candot be doubted byt thele thred
pﬁ(‘fOﬂS are E:ag‘“i) ' W W ki ._.-”
scribed upon the cectfier of the depo: attep
theirfown declaration.as having been corn in
England ; the third oae, (the place of whose
Birthis not known) was captain of .he Ep.
lith thip the Catbertine, He remindsme in the
meaa time, that Englithmen cafily get pa
pers with which they give themselves out
as Americans and he thinks that the actual
detention of two of these individusis a
depot of corre Xion,is 1 additional prefum: 4
ption ag anft them.
I beg your excellency to impart to the
mimfter pledipoteatiary of the United States
the conteats of this letter in drder to put
him on his guard again'? the demands made
on bim by a great number of Bririth pris
oners of war, who assume the quality of citi~
2zens of the United States.
-(Signed) COUNT DE HUNEBOURG,
His Excellency the Minifle, of Foreiga relations.
. This letter Proves, that general Arme
ftrong continued his interposition for threé
prisoners whom his formcrv efforts had not
been able to reach. It proves also, why
these cfforts fazled
- {No )
_ _Pari; 290 h Fuly 180 g.
Slr—The enclosed ¢ertificates were rée
cently re.urned to me, by his excellency the
minister of foreign affairs tor examination and
authentication the hist acéorﬁpunyéng thens
(of 103 names) indicates those who have
made good their pretensions. Should their
liberation take place, I have to requelt that
your excellency wou!ld fend them to Ant
werp, to be forwarded to Holland, where
I shall give orders for their further accome
modation:
Accept, e.
(Signed) JOuiN ARMSTRONG.
His Excellency Count d’ Hunebourg
&e &e¢ &
This letter proves that geperal Arm
ftreng’s attencion to these unfortunate meny
so far from being withhe d, has: been é¢on
ftantiy exerted for their relief, and that so
late as the 27th of July lafk, he bad made.
apphication for no tewer than onebundred and
three of them. Yo this remark T will add. that
he had obtaineda promise of their liberae
tion whiich won'd vo doubt have been long
since fulfited bui for two reasons iz ’
it. The descent of the Britifli-army #4
the month ot the Eicaut which sortie - m
meni. suspended alt indu gence tow ards
Bruifh prisoners and particuiarly tosards
thole confirmed within the ancientßelgium
and.
24 The readiness with which these good
Awmericans for whom Mr Coleman discovers
so much féllow feciing, are founa to cnter o
board of French privateers - No sooner was
the commerée of the United States re-open=
éd,than the owners of thele privatecrs. fore
faw an approaching harvelt,andamong other
means of turning 1t t 6 account. addre(led
themselves to those good and loyal Ameri
cans, who with very few exceptions, were
unable to resist {o great a' tempration., Not
one Amierican featiien remained at the de
pot of Arras and but #bree at that of Valen-.
cieanes. as will appear by the original fetter
appended hereto, which, by the way gives
usa g impfe of the rature of Haac Cox
Barnct's cxertions in favor of thefée hoaeft
rogues. T £ Tyl
if this ex-consul should turn out to be
crinip [ergeants for the Fremch privateers, vou
must oot be furperized at it He was one of
thc famcus midnight batch, and named con
sul for Bordeaux from which however Mr.,
Jefferfon wifely ejected him.
~ We the undersigned, unfortunate citizens
of the United States, who are confined in the
citadel of Valenciennes, confider it a duty
incumbent upon ue, by the critical destitute
situation we find ourselves involved in, to
thus address your excellency, and humbly
beg leave to acquaint your homor, that we
are authentically informed: here, that there
i 2n exchange of prisoners taking place be
tween France and Fngland, and honored
fir, should we be liberated and returned as
English prisoners of war, before we are re~
leafed by your exccilency’s .influence, our
case and fitnation will then become more
deplorable than we confider it at prefcnt,
as fir, we have every reason to fear we will
get imprefled on board of an English ship
of war, which 1s no better than from one
prison to anothicr; orat the-best be landed
iv a (frange country destitute of cithgr‘-‘fricndﬁ
‘or money. as such we must earnestly implore
your excellency will ule your influence in our
bebalf. 226 ' v
Your excellency’s applicants have also to
inform yeu there were 1§ citizens of the U.
States mede afplicationto Mr. Barnett in Paris
f; om this depot, o uje bis i» fluence for tbeirlibgra-.
tion, and out of that numiber elewen “of ‘flégm,etiQ
tered into the military and sea service of this
country, and one removed o Arrag—And
the only citizens of theU. States remaining. here
at prelcut are'your applicants, wha also wv-uld
wolunteer for the service only wve ave marsied men
and bave large families, wbitb'*tifc_ fear ave but.
indifferently situated by our dong absence fioms
them STR R R S
With due respect, your excellency’s obes
dient and humtle servants G el N
(Signed) JAMES GREATHEAD,
: - JAMES NEAL. =. -
. ... HENRY LANNAN.
~_Valenciernes. Nav 9ih,"lßcg B
of Vienna (Mic ) have m:de during the pat
season about one ton of Map! e Sugar©
A Merino Ram was fold a few oays since
bg,'ﬁn-«ﬂé;rﬂﬁwﬂ‘iﬁﬂﬁ%ﬂ%@i or 10: 0 dls,
8 Fortme— N 7, B Cavendish has itely
died (soy 3 Londou puper) worth 1 2co con
pounas 1 B was the largcft holde of Beak
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