The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-01-09 00:00:00, page 2

ranks Jet them withdraw. Theft est
mies of liberty ought to hare no (hare in
the glory of her children. Soldiers, let
your bravery catch fire from the sacred
love of your country, and let the rife of
your glowing energy strike terror into
your enemies beyond the Rhine, and
inspire with dismay those whom you
leave behind that river. The Emperor,
it is said, is railing levies. Poor wretches,
torn from the plough, and trained by vi
olence, are coming to swell the number
of his fatellities. Vain precaution !—
France, restored to the vigour of Repub
lican institutions is at this moment .one
entire army, of which we are only the
advanced guard. In a word, if our ene
mies remain obflinate ; if, rejeding the
pacific offers of our Government, they
still with for blood, why then let them be
fatisfied. They are only (o extensive in
their demands, because we tyere so gen
erous, and let itone da, be asked, if the
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OCT. tg.,
When Admiral de Winter received an
order from the Batavian Convention to
go to feain quest of the English fleet. &
to give them battle, he returned a strong
remonstrance against his orders, stating
the condition of hi fleet, the fuperiori
ty of the EngHfh,and above all, the want
of discipline in his (hips. He received a
fliert answer, enforcing the firft order :
To this he contented himfelf with giv
ing a reply of mere acknowledgement
that he had received the order. " And
from that moment (laid the brave and
patriotic Admiral) I prepared for failing.
I felt th!c I had no diferetion—l had no
longer to consult any thing but the hon
or of my flag ; and, if the English line
had been thirty ihips instead of sixteen,
Ifheuld have given them a battle, I
had difeharged my duy as a citizen, I
was then to fulfil my duty as a soldier."
Scarce a day transpires but our cruiz
ers feed in French privateers ; and re
captured neutrals.
& NEGOTIATION
Between ENGLAND and FRANCE.
, The nature of the communica
tion! which h^e been mentioned
between Mie British and French
Governments, fioce the return of
Lord M^mtfbtify to England,
may be underttood from the fol
lowing Note. To enable us to
determine fitiih&orily whether
the Eoglifh or French are censur
able for the confluence, pf hoftil.
ities, we Should know the terms
which hive been proposed by the
Republic : if the overture# were
exaffivel, uoreafooab'e, at is fuf
p^ed all their lophiftry will not
avert the blame from the french
Government • r
i/ " Lihe, ip hdmirg,
(0^ L) 6tb,car.
" The plenipotentiary ? of the
French Republic, fharged to ne
goci,re peace fiQ.Efyhi!, have
the honor to inform Lore Ma'mefc
bury, that having ^cdreffedicop
prof Mb note of Sept. 25; 1797,
to their Govern meat, the Execu
tive Direaory has directed them
to declare in it, name, 'that it bat
^ not reafed to ^fue peace ; that
iika°e an unrqiivocal proof of
the Republic to demand a cate
goricfrletpieation, with repaid to
the power, veiled in its Minister
pfypotentiary by the Eighth
Government ; that 1 such a pro
ceeding neither fad, oof could
|&, erii ot^ to
bring the negotiation to a speedy
tohappy issue.
" That rhe order given to the
Mi ifter, Plenipotentiaries of the
Republic to remain at Lisle, after
Lord Malmefburftdeparture, i, a
fifther proof fat the Di eflory
defined, and provided, to, hit re
turn with fob powers as wood
not be itlufdr, ; and the limits
tion of which wpu^d nu longer
affords pretext for reuiniog the
ceuctofiea of Peace.
"That fuati are invariably the
intentions and hopes of the Exe
cutive Directory, which enjoins
the Minifter# Plenipotentiaries of
the Republic not toquit Ififle. till
such time as the prolonged ab
sence of the negociator mail no
longer leave room to doubt the
intention of his Britannic Maj By
to bre^k off all Negotiation
" That in confcquenfy the
25 Vendemtir, inst. (Oa^6, O.
S.) is the period fixed forithe re
al of the Miniftert Plenipoten
tiaries of the French Rtp|bii|:, in
case that the Minister Plenipoten
tiary of hit Britannic tyefty
should not return to Lilfflthe
^aty, ^poch: ^h+lQ^
" The Executive Dteflory
will experience great regret, in
case that an accommodation,! ah
ready twice entered upon, fhouid
not be consummated. but its own
conscience, and all Enrepe, will
render testimony, that it ia ! the
Engiifh Government alone that
will inflict the scourge of war on
the nationsl
<'The Ministers P I^nipotentia
ries of the French Republic beg
the Minister Plenipqentary of
his Britannic M jefty to accept
the iffurance of high fafidera
tion. (Sign©)
" TREILHIRD,
'"BONNIER.
“ DERCHE,
The Secretary of Legation.
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United States LepJtoi\re.
FIFTH CONGRESS-Second S,ffioo.
HOUSE, &e.— — DEC. c,
THE Committee of W^ysand Means
were direded to consider of altera
?tfohb4n the Start#, Aftrwto ttihlfytar
for the commencement of its operation.
3 Brunt's Conf,irac,.'
Other documents were this dav reid, viz.
The Depefiion of James (frarif, com
monly called Mjor Grant ; his evidence
cor lifted principally of conversation
which had passed betwixt him and W.
Blount ; he Bated that he met witi him
in Wsfhipgton County, Virginia, on the
28th April; that they spoke on the
tubjea of running the line between the
United States and the Indians, and he
iceped to with to avoid any refpenfibil
i?f„ h refpea to the Indian "Treaty ;
tla'W. Blount men ione# his pecuniary
cmbarrlffments, but that hefaM he had
a plan on foot which be expeded would
effeanally relieve him: he said Chifh
rime and the Indian Chiefs had been
with, the British Minister at Philadelphia)
and that Chiihoime had a plan in she,
hand writing of the British Minister,
which ifit succeeded W. Bldubrfaid he
thould havc it id his power to save all
his friends ; that he seemed to place
' great reliance upon Rogers and Carey,
andupon their influence with the Indi
ans ; he mentioned that an armament
was to be feat from England, which was
to be co operated with on the land fide,
by him at the head of the, Indians. The
deponent also (peaks of having received
letters front C^. King, about the 1 §th
of June, from W. Blount, for Carey,
which he delivered, and mentions the;
,conversations passed betwixt them.
A paperhanded to the Committee bv
the Spanish Minister, in the French lan
,guage."
It was the communication of a Citizen
% Mitchell, who Bates, that, there had beer
' „enrolled by a Britilh Agent,in the Weftern
I country, 1600 persons, for the purpose of
attacking certain Spanish pofts,and to go
against Louisiana and the two Floridas ;
that Chifholme had a lift of ife tories
who were engaged to take up arms in
favor of England ; that there were forin
-1 don the Lakes 50® regular troops, 700
:Canadian Militia, and 200 ravages, to
attack Fort Louis ; that Chifholme had
provided fix pieces of cannon, the fame
I which was procured for citizen Genet,
that the rendezvous was to be at Knox
, ville the fi ft of July ; and that after
Chifholme had reported the business to
'the British Minister, he would set out for
England, to lay the preyed before the
British Government, and commanded
money and velLlb for carrying it into
tffed. The Chevalier also gave to the
committee a letter which Mitchell had
received from Chifhulme, It wysa re
quest that Mitchell and Craig would beq
in Teneffeee in July ; with assurance that
they might rely upon every thing which
he had said.
The gpext papers were the evidence of
John Phillips Ripley and Thomas Odian,
who were br,ought forward by the Chev
alier de Yrtj>.
\ J P. Ripley Bates, that he is a citize,
of N. H that he was educated with
Capt. Eaton at Yale College ; that
Capt. Eaton had told him, that several
letters were found in the pofleffion of Dr.
Rjmayne, which proved the British
Mioiftar to be concerned in the enter
,prize Contemplated by Gov. Blount ;
that these letters offered rewards to any
who would engage in fcrvjce, and that
Jhey werflifcovete^uqdafcmijub^ifh;
that many of Dr. Romay rie s papers were
destroyed ; that Capt. Eaton bad told
him, that Col. Pickering; had reprimand
ed him f,r having mentioned an, thing
refp<aing these letters, and badfiid that
Great Bri bin was now the only friend
we had ; that he saw a letter which Capt.
Eaton bid written to Col- Pickering on
the fu'j a. On examination by the
committee, Ripley effected that he be
lieved that Great Britain was at the bot
tom of the coafpiracy.
Thomas Odion deposed, that he was
ifo at CII ^e with Captain Eaton, &
that circumstances which J P. Ripley
deposes to have heard from him. He al
so fays, he saw the letter which the Capt.
had written to Cel. Pickering, as in a
pology for having mentioned any thing
refpeaing the letters found in possession
ot Df. Rumayne.
Next follows the evidence of William
Eaton, taken at Springfield before Judge
Lytoan. He Bates that Phillips Ripley
was his cotemporary at college, and that
he had fioce been acquainted with him
st Philadelphia; but that he does net
know much about Odion. Seme time
after his return from New York, he re
colleasfe have told Ripley that four or §
original letters of William Blount were
in Dr. Romayne's poffeffipn, at the dis
cover, of one of which he feemeda good
deal erabarraffed. The deponent also
tpldthe said Ripley,that &fe. Dickering
was difpleafcd with him for mentioning
- any thing abwt these letters, until the
matter was laid before the committee ;
but the deponent denies that he ever told
Ripley, or that Mr. Picketing ever said
to him, “ that Great Britain was now the
only friend we had." & The deponent
believes be might have given it as his o
pinion, that the British Minister would
h>ve encouraged the plan, if it had
been seasonable ; that be had delivered
every article refpeaing the conspiracy of
Mr. Blount which had come into his
hands to the committee of enquiry.—
Captain Eaton also fpnke of a French
engineer haring been into all the sea ports
of the United Stales, in order to mike
plans of, and observations refpeaing
{them.
The next paper was a communication
from the Chevalier de Yrujo, consisting
of an original letter from Gen. Clark of
Georgia to — Murphy, Kq Con
sul of his Catholic M fifty there, is an
swer to an application made to him on
the fubfra of the coafpirecy, in which he
Bates, " that the peculiar nature of the
proposition made to bim b, the British,
^ prevents him from giving that fatisfac
tion which is required ; an application,
he fays, h d bee, mate to him through a
channel which bound him to silence; he
was ilked whether 10 000 sols, would
induce him to join the British, but that
he rejeaed the offer with dirdam."—
600 copies ordered to be printed.
Mr Oris preferred ' a petition from Mr.
Isaac Stevens, late a prisoner at Algiers,
which ftatai the hardships the petitioner
had experienced ; that during his long
absence from family and home, his prop
erry had been made way with, his wife
had bean obliged to go out to service,
his children had been dispersed, his own
health was impaired, and that he was
now obliged to futfift upon charity ! He
prays for some aid which may soothe the
decline offris life. Referred to the dm
mite of commerce and manufadures.
Me. W. C. Claitborne pretented the
petition of James Grant, of Knoxville,
Bating, that in pursuance of a process
issued by a committee of that house, he
and hit papers were seized oh the 28th
of July lift ; t^t he was in custody 6;
days, at the expiration he was difeharged
at the difttnee of 700 miles from his own
home from whence he had been dragged
by the military force, to the great ne.
gded of bw Eufinefs. He prays to be
placed at leaf!, in is good a situation as
he was found.—He recons 20 days for his
return home, which added 10 65, m*ke
B„and hopes he (hall be allowed five
dollars a day ; for, as he trusts tie has
been guilty of no offence, be hopes he
shall go unpunished.— Referred to the
committee of claims.
The Commissioners on the finking
fund, made a report, which was read,&
ordered to be printed.
Deferred Debt.
A motion on the fubjedt of the debt'
which will become due it ißet, was read,
and ordered to lie on the table.
Several petitions of individuals, and
reports thereon occupied the residue of
the day.'
dic. B.
Mr Lyon's resolution for a retrench,
went of governmental expenses, was rai
led up by Mr. Thatcher. After , Ih>rf
difeuffion, the^qaeftion fer agreeing to
it, was negatived 33 to 30.
On motion of Mr. Coit, the Commit
tee of Ways and Means, was inftruaed
" to enquire, whether any, and if any,
what alterarionsa are proper to be
made in the Ad for hyinga tax upon
Licences for retailing Wine." &c.
The Mint.
A letter from the Direaor of the
Mint, suggesting the expediency of some
alterations in its establishment, to render
it less expensive, &c. was referred to a
Committee of the whole, for Wednesday.
Bankrupt Law.
The Committee on a Bankrupt Law,
conceiving ;be fubjed to bedfluch gene
ral concern, embracing so great a variety
of interests, and a qu-ftion, in which the
mercantile affairs ct the community were
so deeply involved, wished an augmenta
tion of the committee. Eleven members
were in confequenee added.
Adjourned 'till Monday, to give time
for the committees to mature reports,
DEC. 11.
The Secretary of the Treasury com
;raunicated the financial estimate for '9B,
and returns of 1797 — ^Ordered to be
printed.
Stamp an.
A bill to suspend the operation of the
Stamp A&, until July, 1793, was read a
fixft time.
.Expiring Laws, ? 4
A Committee on this fubjed reported :
The report ordered to be printed.
Foreign Coins.
The committee on this fubje& reports
ed, that that part of the law which dired
ed, that certain foreign coins (Crowns,
&c.) Should not be legal tender, be fuf.
pended two years. Referred, and order,
ed to be printed.
dec. 13. The bill for suspending the
aa laying duty upon stamped vellum,
parchment and paper, until the 30th of
June next, was read the third time and
passed.,.
dec. 15. M. Peleg Sprague, from
Newhampihire, (in the room of Mr. J.
Smith, who resigned) Appeared and was
qualified.
Mr. Edmond, from the committee of
enrollment, reported the bill for suspend
ing the ftemp aa as duly enrolled, and
the Speaker signed it accordingly.
Laleft European News.
g, B, an arrival at Salem, in 49 days
from Bourdenux —|© days latest.
FRENCH REPUBLIC.
PEACE between the Empe
ror & the French Republic.
Council of Ancients, 04. „.
A MESSAGE was received
from the Diredory, an
nouncing the happy intelligence
of. the signing of the Treaty of
Peace, concluded with the Empe<
for of Germany the 17th of Q&
The members teftified by repeated
thorns of "Five la Republic," the
high faishaion the intelligence
gave them. The feffien wa im
mediately adjourned.
" CITIZENS DIRECTORS,-
"Geo. Berthier, and Ciira
Monge bring you the Definitive
Treaty of Peace, which has been
figged between the Emperor and
%BUONAPARTE."