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?rcfs conveys alike to the public eye the
abors of virtae, and the efforts of particular ‘
interefls, no fubjeft which agitates and in- |
terells the public mind can unite the public
voice, or entirely elcape public censure.
In pursuit of the fame obje@s a difference
of opinion will arise- in the purelt minds,
from the different manner in which those
objefls are viewed ; and there are lituations
in which a rariety of paflions combine to
silence the voice of reason, and to betray
the soundest judgments. Ip such situations,
1f the merit of an instrument is to be decid
ed, not by itfelf, but by the apprébation or
disapprobation 1t may experience, 1t would
farely be a {afer rule to take as a guide the
decision of a majority, however {mall that
majorsity may be, than to fellow the minori
ty. A treaty too may be oppoled as inju
rious to the United States, though it should
not contan a single clause which could pre
judice the interefls of France. It ought
not-'to be supposed that a treaty would for
that reason be offenfive to this republic.
Had you been pleased to slate any objec-,
tions to this inflrument drawn from the
compatt itlelf, the undersigned would have
given to those objeflions' the most {erious
and refpeftfui consideration. Butit is sup
posed that you adopt, without adding to the
complaints made by your predeceflor and
by Mr. Adet, when you obfcrve, that you
will not repeat what they have said. These
complaints have been amply discussed in the
memorial the undersigned had the honor to
tran{mit you, bearing date I%th of January.
Itis believed t 0 hage been demonfirated
that the fhipulations complained of do not
in the most remote degree wound the inter
efls of France, affeft the pre-exifling en
gagements of the United Siates, or change
- their fituat:on 1n relation to the belligerent
powers. Such, inconteitably, was and 1s
the opinion of the American Government,
and in this opimion only would the treaty
have been agreed to. -As no one of the ar
guments which have at various times been
urged on this {ubjeft on the part of the U.
States, has ever yet been noticed, the un
dersigned deem unnecessary any attempt to
re-urge or to strengthen them. You fay
that you will content yourfelf ¢ with ob
serving, summarily, that in this treaty every
thing having been provided to turn the neu
trality of the U. States to the disadvantage
of the French Republic, and to the advan
tage of England ; that the Federal Go
vernment having in this aft made to Great-
Britain, conceflions the most unheard of,
the most incompatible with the inferefts of
the U. States, and the most derogatory from
the alliance which ‘exilted between the said
States and the French Republic, the latter
was perfeftly free to avail itlelf of the pre
fervatory means with which it was furnith
ed by the Jaws of nature & of nations, & by
litsanterior treaty for the purpose of parrying
the inconveniences of the treaty of London.
Such are the reasons which have determined
the arretes of the Direftory, of * which the
United States complain, as well as the con
daft of ‘its agents in the Antilles.” But
you have not shewn a single provision
¢‘which turns the neatrality of the United
States to the disadvantage of the French
Republic and to the advantage of England.”
You have not shewn a single concession
¢‘ijncompatible with the interefls of the
“United States,”” or ¢* derogatory from their
alliance with France.” - wit
It is considered as having been demon.
firated that this treaty leaves the neutrality
of the U. States, with relpe& both to France
and Eugland, precisely in its former situa
tion, and that'it contains.no ‘conceffions ei
ther unusual or derogatory from their al
liance with this Republic. But if in form
ing this judgment,. the American govern
ment has deceived tfeif, {till 1t ought to be
remembered that it has ever manifefted a
readine(s to place France on the footing of
England, with refpett to the articles com
plained of. ‘
. You suppose that the od article of the
treaty between France and the U. States
jultifies the arretes, of which the latter pow
er complains: But that article only entitles
either of the contralling parties to a parti
cipation of any particular favour in refpett
of commerce or navigation which mght
thereafter be granted by the other to other
nations, on allowing the fame compensa
tion, if the conceflion was conditional. It
has never been pretended to extend to- pre
existing rights held and exescifed under the
law of nations, and barely recognized by
any subsequent treaty. If this could be in
sisted on gill, it was thewn-inconteflibly by
the undersigned, that the drrete particularly
complained of, so far a 3 it profefles to found
itfelf on the treaty with England, greatly
transcends that treaty, and 10 Its most nox
fous article, that requiring a role d’equip
age, has no relation to it. “This sall essen
tial circumflance you have not been pleased
to notice ; and it is with tofinite regret the
undersigned obflerve, that the difcuifions at
which you hint are to be limited to the a
bules of the principle eftablithed by the
arrete, and not extended to the compatibil.
ity of the principle itfelf with justice, the
laws of natons, or exifling Irearies.
It 1s well known that such a discussion,
if indecd the undersigned could be permitted
to enter upen it, would avail bat little,
since the vast mals of American property
captured by the ciltzens and condemned by
the courts of ‘France, has been found in
veflels net farnithed with a role d’equipage.
' The undersigned have been minute in
their atiention to every syllable you bave
uttered on this interefling fubjefl, becaafe it
bas been often considered as having given
cause of jult irritation 10 France ; and they
are sincerely desirous of proving tothe bot
tom every fubjett which may have affomed"
that complexion. Their with is onaffe&t
ed, to give 1o every complaintits real valie,
in order thus to prepare the way for ac.
commodation, by the relinquithment of such
a 8 are - not well founded, and the admiflion
of those which have a real exilience. '
The third head of your complaints, rela.
tive to the condu@ of. the government, of
the United Brates since their treaty with
!‘"%‘::d&rcnc that so foom 2s the weary 2i‘n
Ty d been put 1D execution, the
qn ei::z;::; of the erteq Srates feemcd; to
m&"r“‘xd|fw g ¥ _rs‘)« S
B R RT N nfe_d'vﬁom the ebk“‘.ﬁcg
:&‘ ’ M’m wtds thu‘rrpu hc,nd
O widace in fuppors of this general ob-
E"m“* ats,the fal of prises made
edly. The inveftives and calumnies a
gainst the French government, its principles
and its officers, contained in certain jour
nals'and pamphlets published in the United
States, &c. A
adly. The speech of the President to
Congress in May last. = y
First, The government of the United
States does not permit the sale in their
ports of prizes made upon' England by the.
cruizers of France. :
The fa&t is admitted. To ereft it into
an offence, it becomes neceflary to prove
that this measure violates either the en
gagements or the neutrality of the United
“States. Neither is attempted. To show
that it violates neither, bad this been ren
dered neceflary, would by no means have
been deémed an arduous task. It will now
only briefly be observed, that the 17th arni
cle of the treaty of commerce of the 6thof
February, ’7B, which alone relates to this
fubje&t, so far from flipulating for the sale
of prizes in their ports of either nation,
limits Itfelf to a declaration that the captors
shall have liberty to bring them into port
free from duties, arrests and searches, and
to depart with them to the places exprefled
in their commissions ; thereby evidently
contemplating the then existing regulations
of this nation, France has manifefted her
own opinion on this fubje&, in her treaty
with Great Britain of the 26th of Septem
ber, 1786. The 16th article of the treaty
declares, ¢‘that it thall not be lawful for fo
reign cruizers who shall not be the fubjeéls
of one or the other Crown, and who f{hall
have a commiflion from any Prince, or
State, enemies of one or the other, to arm
their veflels in the ports of one or the other
of the said two kingdoms, to fell there what
they fhail have taken, or to change the fame
in any manner whatever.” Ina war with
England then, France being neatral, the
cruizers of the United States are forbidden
to fell their prizes in the ports of this Re
public. The 17th article of the treaty of
Feb. 1778 being reciprocal, France has
pronounced her decision, that it does not
give her cruizers a right to fell their prizes
in the ports of America. If this right had
been given by the treaty of February 1778,
that between the United States and En
gland could not be construed to impair it.
Nor 1s the prohibition a departure from the
neutrality of the United States.. A nation
to violate its neutrality must manifeft a par
uality for one of the belligerent powers,
must accord favours not stipulated by pre
existing treaties to one which it refufes to
the other. This is not even alledged in the
present instance. . Far from permitting
Britith cruizers to fell in the United States
prizes they have made on the French, they
are not even allowed to bring them into
port. - A candid consideration, of this {ub
je&t will prove that the withdrawal of a fa
vour; the grant of which manifefied so
firongly the attachment of the United States,
far from jufiifying the resentments which
have been exprefled in conlequence of it,
can only be: attributed to the solicitude of
the American. government .to render per
fetly unexceptionable its observance of that
neutrality which it profefles to maintain.
1t bas been shown unequivocally to have
been the opinion of the contra@ling parties,
that the treaty of commerce of the 6th of
February 1778, did: not give to either, be
ing at war, a right to fell its prizes in the
ports of the other being at peace. It isnot
pretended that this is one of the rights ac
cruing witbout special flipulation under the
laws and usages of nations. :
It is not then a right at all.. If granted
it is a voluntary favor. But a volantary
favor essential in the prosecution of the war
if granted by a neutral to one belligerent
power, and of neceflity refufed to the other,
affords to that other at. least a more plaufi
bile pretext for complaint than has been
given by any other a&t of the government
of the United States. What in {uch a sit
uation would bave been the language of
France ? Would this Republic permita
neutral pation, not bound thereto by -any
obligation whatever, to allow lin its ports as
a voluntary favor the sale of prizes made
on French citizens, while the fame favor
was of.neceflity denied to the cruizers of
France. ;
- Itis believed that such an use of neutra
lity would not be permitted, and the un
deifigned facilitate themlelves and their
couantry, that the government they represent
has never intentionally- siven to this Repub
lic any cause of diffatisfaltion as serious as
this would have,been.—You will not fail to
observe, Citizen Minifler, that this heavy
accusation, when annalifed, is nothing ‘more
than the refufal of a mere favor on the part
of the American government, the grant of
which might have been dangerous to itfelfy
might have drawn it from that neutral fia
tion which 1t is its duty to observe, and
which favor France had previously, in the
most explicit terms, declared its determina-.
tion not to grant under similar circumstances
16 the Umited Sagtpe, - -20 T
i [To be concluded in our next.] =
BALTIMORE, June2g. - "
We have news to day of the firft:
importance from Guadaloupe. By
captain Houston, 14 days from thence, .
via Philadelphia, we learn that a cor
vette of 20 guns which arrived there
and left France about the 28th of
April, brought out orders for the pro
miscuous capture and condemnation
of every mettral veflel ; that the con:
demnations began immediately there
after 3.and 1 Dane, 1 Swede, 4 Ham
burgers (just arrived) and 28 fail of
Americans 'were condemned in- one
day, among the latter of “which was
lis veflel, the brig Peggy, of this
port ; and that this tra%e’dy was to
be @ted every day till the whole iflg
and was cleared of neutrals. He re
presents the “situation- of American
{feamen as the most wretched, the
greater part entirely deftitue of the
common neceflaries of life, and many
of them compelled to enter French
privateers to keep themselves from
famifliing. ~He' thinks the govern
mient if possible, should do something
to ameliorate their condition. It 1s
impoflible for them, without afliftance,
to retura to their own country,and it -
is with much difficulty, even the
masters and mates can get away. 13
Captains, who had loft their veflels,
came paflengers on board the Little
Sam, to Philadelphia. There was
no veflel at Guadaloupe of greater
force, than the corvette just arrived,
but the island swarms with privateers.
Hughes had just learnt that one of his
free-booters had been shattered to
pieces by an American merchantman,
and {wore, if it was {O, he would make
the Americans feel his vengeance forit.
[This is a corroboration of the ac
count of the execution of the two A
merican Captains.. And yet our Con
. grefs are balancing! And yet vil
lains are fuffered openly to < juflify
““the conduc? of Frauce towards Ameri
ca!!” A government cannot long
exit under _fuch circumstances.—
- Either these attrocious miscreant ene
mies of America must be put down,
or this country must fall into the hands
of France, and witness all the horrors
of inyafion.and revolution.]
NEW.-YORK, June 25.
It was currently:reported in Mar
stinique, when Captain M’Call failed,
that Victor Hughes had executed tawo
Aﬂlzqrg‘qg‘_zid" pz‘e:i"'};o" " vessels in‘pcqnfe‘-.
queice of tﬁfarﬁfﬁ{;fn gje;p’;oﬁ’d - French
privateers 3 one belonging to Phila
delphia, and the other to Boston. He
also informs that a British 74 had cap
tured a Frénch go or 80" gun fthip,
and fént her'into Batbadoes, after a
{hort a&ion, between Barbadoes and
St. Lucia, Capt. M’Call saw in Mar
tinique a 16 gun brig taken by the
fame 74, which confirmed the above
capture. _ : _ b
| Juse 300. e
; The Invasion.
A whole cargo of Negroes and A
ristocratic Frenchmen Have arrived
in the Delaware, from the BRITISH
port of Cape Nichola Mole, and threat
- en to invade our country I—We are
happy to learn, however, from the
patriotic vigilance' of governgnent and
the bravery of the commander of Fort
Mifllin, that the nefarious attempt
will be totally fruftrated—for the said
commander has ordered the veflel to
take a fitpation in which he will be
able to /it the whole of them by one
broadside of the fort, fthould they at
tempt to land. -
For particulars fee the following
letter from the Commercial Adverti
ser of last evening : :
Extract ofs a lgtter from Philadelphia,
; - dated Fune 28.
¢ T have just time to inform you,
that Mr. Sitgreaves has just read in
his place a letter from General Touif
fard to the Secretary of War, dated
Fort Mifflin, June 28, ftating,that the
resident officer of the hospital of Penn
sylvania, had given the serious alarm
that there existed a mutiny among
the veflels performing quarantine at
the fort from the Mole, who-have on
board the paflengers & their negroes,
who left P. au Prince. The negroes
have got pofieffion of an armed ship,
one of the convoy, and were seen ho
vering round the fleet. ~Gen. Touf
fard, not being able to bring his guns
to bear on them, being so much above
the Fort, he {ent word to Capt. De
catur, of the armed ship the Dela
ware, who was at anchor just below
the fort, to come up with the tide and
bring his guns to bear on the N. E.
fide of the convoy, which Decatur has
‘done. Touflard also mentions that
he intends to order them below the
fort so that he may be able to bring
his whole battery to bear upon them,
.the better to watch their motions, and
prevent them from landing in Jersey.
The negrees are all trained to arms,
-and have them with them ; and are
~determined to land, as they care not
for:laws, and count-their lives as of
no value:’ ‘The letter has been refer
red to the committee for the protec
tion of conimerce and defence of the
‘country, on that fubje&. + -
.- N. B-There are about 250 ne
‘groes on board thele vefl€ls, and are
-determined:to.land. . The pilots have
left the wveffels==but ‘I think every
thing fafe, as'they are so placed as to
‘be within' réach of the guns of the
‘Delaware and Fort Mifflin.””
Extralt of a letter- from the Supercargo
" of the ship Nonparcily dated at Wil
mingtony, N. Carolina, 7th inst.
¢ Mail just closing have only time
to advise of my fafe arrival here, and
state briefly, that we failed from Tor
tola on the 2oth ult. under convoy,
and on the 24th parted from fleet,
they fteeting too far to the eastward,
on the next day in lat. 26. 10. long.
65. 304 was captured by a French
privateer out of Guadaloupe, and or
dered for Porto-Rico, they tool;out
both mates and ‘all the people,”the
cook, two hands, Capt. Fanning and
myfelf excepted, and put on beard 2
prize masters and 14 men, finding
them very ignorant, except one of the
prize masters (who was an American)
I adopted a method to alter their
course, on the following plan, firft
bribing the American prize master,
who a?one was acquainted with navi
gation. We privately flarted some
To the Hon. Otis Bakery Esquire, one of
the Fuflices to keep the peace in and
Jfor the county of Strafford, in the State
of New-Hampshire.
T HE undersigned, 6wners of more
than one sixteenth part of the
townthip of Maynefborough, other
wise called Maynefbourg, in the coun
ty of Grafton, in said State, request
that you notify and warn the propri
etors and owners of said township, t¢
meet at the dwelling-house of Jacob
. Gale, in Gilmantown, in the county
~of Strafford, on Tuesday the 21{t day
of August next, at two of the clock
in the afternoon, to vote and aé& on
the following particulars, to wit :
Ift. To choose a moderator, pro
prietor’s clerk, a treasurer, afleflors,
and a collector.
2d. To fee what method the pro
prietors will take relative to peram
bulating the lines of said town, and
to divide the fame into lots.
. 3d. To fee what encouragement
the proprietors will give in land or
money towards getting on settlers,
and to adopt some mode to bring
about so necefiary a purpose.
4th. To fee what method the pro
prietors will adopt relative to cutting
and clearing aroad or roads in and
through said town. | !
sth. To fee if the proprietors will
fever and divide the Jand in said town l
‘among the proprietors or owners, Or
dispose of all or part of the land in |
such way and manner .as they shall
think fit. '
6th. To fee what method the pro
prietors will adopt relative to the tax
or taxes laid on said land by the Gen
eral-Court, for, cutting aroad through
said town; and for State and county
taxes. : S .
nth. To fee what sums of money
the proprietors will raise. ' |
THOMAS COGSWELL.,
-W. K. ATKINSON.
Dover, June 19, 1798.
State of New-Hampthire,
| ' ” Strafford .
Parfuant to the aforegoing application
the proprietors of Ma_yng/%lourg, alias
Maynefborough, for the purposes afore-
Jaid, to meet at the time. and [4;'(:: afore
faidy I do hereby notify and warn.
- OTIS BAKER, Fuftice Peace.
© Dovery Fume 19,1798 e
ot olir water, and shade them believe
they would not be able to reach any
of the islands for want of water, and
persuaded them Io bear away for St..
Augustine, telling them I was perfeét
ly acquainted with that coast, and
that the French frequently carried
their prizes there. My intention was
to have went.into Savannah, but fall
ing to the northward I brought my
ship in here, flill making the wife
Frenchmen believe it to be St. Augus
tine, till I had got them snug into the
river. I shall give you further ac-,
counts per next post, and ship new
crew and proceed on to New-York
along shore. ~ Yours, &c.
SILAS S. WEBB.”
The ship Ceres, Hodge, of Philadelphia,
was cast away the loth Feb. last, on the
lfland Egano (East-Indies) inhabited by the
most cruel savages—who biutally murdered
the Capt. and cthers,—Eight of the crew
have arrived in an open boat at Batavia.
- BOSTON,; July 4.
From Philadelphia, June 27.
¥: The falfe and scurrilous libels,
which have for years issued from the
Aurora, have been long treated with
contempt by the government, and
people. But at the present moment
of danger, when the French are ftim
‘ulated in all their hostile measures, by
the publications in the papers devoted
to France ; when it is known for a
fa&, that those Printers correspond
directly with Tallyrand, and his
Clerks ; and that they are paid éut
of the French treasury, for abusing
the government of the United States,
deceiving the public with artful lies,
and libelling the best of men and the
wisest measures ; the people can bear
it no longer, and call loudly for some
thing to be done.” This call the go
vernment has for a long time resisted,
and the Piinter of the vile Aurora,
considering their lenity to be fear, has
augmiented his lies, abuse and insult
to the highest degree. Yesterday,
however, judge Peters issued a war
rant to arrest him ; on the charge of
libelling the President, Congress, all
the officers in the Executive govern
ment, of endeavoring to excite sedi
tion, and opposition to the laws of the
land—and he is now in the Marshal’s
custody, on parole. Every friend to
Lovernment and oxder ;—every sup
porter of the genuine freedom of the
press ; and every advocate for decen
cy, and refpe for the laws, rejoice,
that government has at length inter
fered.” : :
- A Frenchfhan was committed to
the jail of Philadelphia, on Sunday
evening last, for having uttered cer
tain seditious and treasonable expres
sions. ? ;
Grand Bargains.
s 40 40 ol
TO BE SOLD AT
Public Vendue,
On Thursday the 12th day of Fuly nexiy
at the house of Fobn Greenleaf, Lfj.
Innkolder iun Portsmouth, at 10 o’clock,
A. M. the following valuable Lots
and Rights of Land, viz.
OT Né. 21, 11th Range ; 27,
L 12th Range ; 19, 2d Range ;
19, Bth Range ; 4, sth Range ; 10,
Bth Range ; 19, 3d Range ; 8, Bth
Range ; #l,- 10th Range ; 3, 4th
Range ; 4, 7th Range ; 6, 6th Range ;
17, 7th Range ; 10, 3d Range ; 20,
it Range ;5 1, oth Range ; 11, 4th
Range; 3,.7th Range ; 7, sth Range;
22, oth Range ; 7, 4th Range ; 20,
roth Range ; 15, 4th Range; s,
loth Range.——The foregoing Lots
contain 100 acres each, more or less,
situate in Peeling, county of Grafron.
Five whole rights or proprietor’s thares
of land, in the townthip of Lincoln, in
faid county of Grafton, and four
whole rights or proprietor’s thares of
land in the townthip of Coventry, in
said county, and, also, one lot of land
in Wakefield, in the county of Straf
ford.—Conditions of sale to be mude
known at time and place.
EDWARD HART, Auftioneer.
- Portsmouth, June 21, 1798. .
TO BE SOLD . -
At Public Vendue,
By virtue of a licence from the Judge of
Probate, on Monday the gothday of July
inst. at 4 of the clock, P. M. on the pre
mises. R X
THE one half of a Dwelling-House, and
- 2acres and 40 rods of land adjoining,
situate in Exeter, belonging te the effate of
Elizabeth Lam(on,late of said Exerer, widow, -
decealed, and now occupied by Col. fohn
Dgnr‘xett‘.i»g!{ﬁ; sundry articles of Houf
hold furniture belonging to said estate.
~ Coaditions of sale will be fcen at the
time and placeof sale. .
. _‘_rN,ATl_Bm PARKER, Adminifirator to
. Eaptes, Julpg, gyode Ao L
Public notice i 3 hereby given,
HAT proposals will be recerved
T at the office of the Secretary ot
the Treasury for supplying the United
States Wwith 2 number not exceeding
forty thousand stands of arms, on the
following conditions : :
Ift. The arms shall be manufa&ur
ed in the United States, conformable
to the Charleville pattern ; the bar
rels shall be proved, and the muskets
inipected agreeable to the rules now
practifed and required by the United
States :—the Locks shall be duly har
dened ; the Ramrods and Bayonets
shall be tempered and the mouniings,
stocks, and every other particular shall
be finithed in a workman-like manner.
2d. The proposals must fpecify the
number which the party is willing to
furnifh and the time or times of deli
very—One fourth of the proposed
number must be delivered in fix
months, one fourth in twelve months,
and the remainder in eighteen months
from the time of signing the contradts;
the public will not be considered as
bound to receive any arms, which are’
not ready for delivery within the times
proposed. - '
3d. For every stand of arms, with
Bayonet and Ramrod complete as a
forefaid, the United States will allow
thirteen dollars and forty cents. -
- 4th. When pra&icable and consist
ent with existing arrangements, sea
soned. stocks will be delivered from
the public stores in Philadelphia to
contraltors, at the rate of twenty-five
cents each.
sth. The arms will be received in
the refpedtive states at places to be
hercafter designated—The United
States shall not be bound to prove less
than five hundred barrels at one time,
unless the barrels are transported to
some public factory or deposit of arms,
in which case any number not less
than one hundred will be proved.
6th. The parties contracting will
be required to give bonds with fure
tics for fulfilling their engagements ;
No money will be advanced unless in
disputable testimonials of'ikill and a
bility to execute the proposed contraéts
are produced, nor in cases where pro
posals are made for a less number than
one thousand stands of arms; the
right of judging of the expediency of
making the advances of money is ab
solutely reserved. -
7th. Until contrad&ts are made for
supplying forty thousand stands of
arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and
forty cents will be paid at the Trea
sury for every complete stand of arms
manufaétured in the United States
-and which may be delivered in parcels
of not less than twenty into the pub
lic arsenals, already or hereafter to be
eftablithed. Those who propose to
deliver arms must however indicate
their intentions seasonably to the of
fice of the Secretary of the Treasury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary
: : of the Treasury.
Treasury Depariment,
Fune 22d, 1798, }
N. B. The proposals are to be trasnf
mitied under cover to the Secretary of the
treasury at Philadelphia. [l/2Se. 7