The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-06-09 00:00:00, page 3

" Since my return, I find no appearance
of a line remains, and from the manner in
which the people of the States push on, and
a&, and talk on this fide, and from what I
learn of their conduct towards the sea, I shall
not be surprised, if we are at war with them
in the course of the present year ; and it so,
a line must then be drawn by the warriours."
From the context of the whole passage, it is
nianifeft that Lord Dorchester was perfuad
ed, that the aggression which might eventu
ally lead to a fate of hostility, had proceed
ed from the United States : And so far as
the State of Vermont, to which I presume his
Lordship principally alluded, was implicated,
Permit me then to ask, whether these
things be so ! It has been usual, for each par
ty to a negociation, to pay such a deference
to the pretensions of the other, as to keep
their affairs in the fame posture, until the
negociaion was concluded. On this princi
ple you complained, in your letter of the
sth of July, 1792, of the jurifdidion at
tempted to be exercised, under the State of
Vermont, within the diftrid occupied by the
troops of your King ; and demanded, that
our government should fopprefs it, from re
fped to the difeuffion which was pending.
On this principle, you were assured that prop
er measures would be adopted. On the fame
principle you renew on the 10th of March,
1794, a similar application, and are answer
ed, that the measures of the government
should correspond with its assurances. Ac
cordingly, although the forts, garrisons and
diftrids, to which your letters relate, are con
feffedly within the limits of the United States,
yet have Our citizens been forbidden to inter
rupt you in the occupancy of them. What
return then have we a right to expert ?
But you will not suppose that I put the
impropriety of the present aggression, upon
the pendency of the negociation. I quote
this only to shew the contrast. Between the
temper observed on your part towards us,
and on our part towards you. This posses
sion of our acknowledged territory, has no
pretext offatu quo on its fide ; it has no pre
text at all. It is an a&, the bofility of which
cannot be palliated by any connexion with
that negociation. It is calculated to support
an enemy whom we are seeking to bring to
peace.
A late mission of the United States to
Greatbritain, is an unequivocal proof, after
all that has happened, of 'he sincere wish of
our government to preserve peace, and a good
understanding with your nation. But our
honour and fafety require that an invafon
Jbould he repelled.
Let me therefore inform you, Sir, that I
have it in charge from the President of the
United States, to request and urge you to
take immediate and effe&ual measures, as far
as in you lies, to suppress those hostile move
ments ; to call to mind, that the army of
the United States, in their march against the
enemy, will not be able to diftinguilh be
tween hem and any other people, associated
in the war ; to compare these encroachments
with the candour of our condua, and the
•doctrines which you have maintained ; and
to admonilh those who flhall throw obstacles
in the way of negociation, and tranquility,
that they will be responsible for all the un
happy consequences.
I have the honour to be,
With refpeft,
Your most obedient servant,
(Signed) EDM. RANDOLPH.
Mr. Hammond, Minister)
Plenipotentiary of his >
Britannic Majesty. )
morning is, if true, hostilities itfelf. The
President of the United States has under
stood, through channels of real confidence,
that Governour Simcoe has gone to the foot
of the rapids of the Miami, followed by three
companies of a British regiment, in order to
build a fort there.
IN answer to your letter of the 20th cur
rent, which I did not receive until late in the
afternoon of yesterday, it is necessary tor me
to premise, that whatever may be my person
al opinion, with refpett to the stile and man
ner in which you have thought it proper to
address me upon the present occasion, it is
not my intention to offer any ^nimadverfion
upon them, but to proceed with temper and
candour to the examination of the fubjeds
of your letter.
Though I never can acknowledge the right
of this government to require from me so
categorically, as you have required it, an ex
planation of any measure emanating from the
Governours of Canada, over whole actions,
I have no controul, and for whose condu& I
am not responsible ; lam willing to admit
the authenticity of the speech to certain In
dian nations, to which you have alluded, and
which you have ascribed to the Governour
General of his Majesty's possessions in North
America. Butin order to afeertain the pre
cise sense of the only passage of that speech,
to which you have referred, and of which you
have given merely a partial citation. I shall
quote the passage at length ;
" Children,
SIR,
Mr. Hammond's ANSWER..
Philadelphia, Ma, 22, 1794.
from the allusion of his Lordship to the con
duct of this government towards the fea,'
have deduced other motives of apprehension,
on which, from the solicitude you evince to
establish a contrast between the temper ob
served on your part towards us, and our part
towards you, I might have conceived myfelf
juftified in dilating. I might have advert
ed to the privateers originally fitted out of
which have remained during the whole win
ter in the port of Newyork armed, and now
are, as I am informed, in condition to pro
ceed immediately to sea.
I might have adverted to he conduct which
this government has observed towards the
powers combined against France in the en
forcement of the embargo. For while the.
vessels of the former are subjected to the re
strictions of that measure, those of the latter,
have been permited to depart from Hamp
ton-Road, though three weeks had elapsed
subsequently to the imposition of the embar
go, though they were ameanable to i's opera
tion,and though they were chiefly laden with
articles calculated to support an enemy whom
we are seeking to bring to peace." I might
have adverted to the uniformly unfriendly
treatment which his Majesty's ships of war,
and officers in his Majesty's service, have,
since the present boftiliues commenced, ex
perienced in the American ports ; and lastly,
I might have adverted to the unparalleled in.
fult, which has been recently offered at New
port, Rhodeifland, (not by a lawless collec
tion of the people, but) by the Governour
and Council of that State, to the British flag?
in the violent measures pursued towards his
Majesty's sloop of war Nautilus, and in the
forcible detention of the officers by whom
foe was commanded, I have however for-.
I am convinced that that persuasion ^as not
ill founded. For notwithstanding the posi
tive assurances, which I received from your
predecessor on the 9th of July, 1792, in an
swer to my letter of the sth of the fame
month, of the determination of the General
Government to difeourage and repress the
encroachments, which the State and individ
uals of Vermont had committed on the ter
ritory occupied by his Majesty's garrisons, I
assert with confidence, that not only those
encroachments have never been in any man
ner repressed, but that recen (infringements
in that quarter, and on the territory in its
vicinity, have been committed. Indeed, if
this assertion of mine could require any cor
roberation, I would remark, that though
the space of 50 days elapsed between my let
ter of the loth of March, 1794, u P on 'bis
fubjed, and your anfiver, of the 29th of
April, 1794, you did not attempt to deny the
faffs which I then Rated, and which I now
explicitly repeat.
In regard to your declaration that " Gov
ernour Simcoe has gone to the foot of the
rapids of the Miami, followed by three com
panies of a British regiment, in order to build
a fort there," I have no intelligence that
such an event has actually occurred.—But
even admitting your information to be accu
rate, much will depend on the place, in
which you assert, that the fort is intended to
be erected, and whether it be for the purpose
concluded would have been dismantled ; but
of protesting fubjeds of his Majesty residing
in the diftrids dependant on the fort of De
troit, or of preventing that fortrefs from be
ing straightened by the approach of the A
merican army ; either of which cases I im
agine that the principle of the ^a/u quo, un
til the final arrangement of the points in dif
enffion between the two countries shall be
concluded, will ftridly apply. In order how
ever, to correct any inaccurate information
you may have received, or to avoid any am
biguity relative to this circumstance I shall
immediately transmit copies of your letter,
and of this answer, as well to the Governour
General of his Majesty's possessions in North
America, and the Governour of Upper
Canada, as to his Majesty's Ministers in
England, for their refpedive information.
Before I conclude this letter, I must be
permitted to observe that I have confined to
the unrepreffed and continued aggrerfions of
the State of Vermont, alone, the persuasion
of Lord Dorchester, that they were indica
tive of an existing hostile disposition in the
United States against Greatbritain. & might
ultimately produce an actual state of war on
their part. If I had been desirous of recur
ring to other sources of disquietude, I might,
Charleston, at the commencement of the
consent, but under the express permission of
the Governour of Southcarolina.
this government to restore such as were made
antecedently to the gth of June 1793. I
might have adverted to the permission grant
ed by this government to the commanders of
French ships of war, and of privateers, to
dispose of their prizes by sale, in ports of the
United States. 1 might have adverted to the
two privateers, le Petit Democrat, (now la
Cornelia) and la Carmagnol, both which
were illegally fitted out in the river Delaware,
and which in consequence of my remon
strances, and of he assurances I received, I
present hostilities, and which were allowed
to depart from that port, not only with the
I might have adverted to the prizes made
by those privateers, of which the legality was
in some measure admitted, by the refufal of
FROM BOSTON, June 4. It is certain that
the King of Prussia has withdrawn bis arm, from
the combined forces ogainft France, except bis con
tingent of 10,000 men—his army was 100,000.
Spain too, thinks it is bes to take care of itjelf.
Theje circumfances indicate Peace in Eurcpe.
From Belfaft, April 10. It appears by all
accounts from England, that the war is to be pur-
Jued with encteafed vigour, netwitbfandtng the
ceceffion of Pruffa.
Oftend, March 25. We expeA jcheibing ve
ry extraordinary witbin a Jew days. Oar gener
als think it necessary to take precautions againf a
ny thing that may happen. Accordingly, not only
thefares & she great est part of the so but
Mlthe heavy baggage 0) the army, is to be moved
to Antwerp ; and all the so pping of any value or
defed quickly to leave Oftend harbour, 'I bey talk
of evaluating the Flemifb and Belgic country.
From London, ApriQ.
The Turkijb Ambaflddcr is certainly on she eve
of bis departure from London, and a v&jfl has been
appointed to take bimfrom Dover to Ofend.
Monday morning early, Lord Elgin arrived in
town from Brufels. We lilieve the true cause cf
bis sudden departure willfoon be explained by the
future conduct of our faithful ally the King of
Prussia. It may be defended on as certain, that
the King of Pruffa, our great, faithful, humane
and good ally, will give no more affifance in the
war against France. It is rumoured, that Pruj
fa is not the only power that bus ibewn symptoms
of defeHion from the grand alliance. Spain too,
it is fail, begins to think, that its left policy will
be to take care of itfelf.
The Court of Berlin is said to have acceded to
the proportion for an exchange cf prisoners with
the French.
Yesterday arrived here, in 42 days
from Londonderry, the ship Atlas,
Captain Bunker, by whom we have
received Dublin papers to the Bth,
and London papers to the 4th of
April. Copious Extracts therefrom,
shall be given to morrow.—From a
fuperficial perusal of the latest papers
we find that his Majesty the King of
Prussia has withdrawn his army.—
" Since the defedion of the King of
Preflia from the Allies, (fays a Dub
lin parigrtphift) it is surprising to hear
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 23 —It is
reported that the British Minister here
has received notice from our govern
ment that General Wayne should
have orders to oppose any armed force
of whatever nation, which he might
fall in with io hit expedition. These
orders, it is said, are to be given in
confidence of the truth of the account
that Governor Simcoe has marched
three companies into our territory.
This warning is a piece of courrefy
which might well be omitted, at
least towards a nation whole orders
to plunder us were studiously kept a
secret. Gen. Adv.
NEWYORK, MAY 24.
FROM EUROPE.
born to expatiate upon these points, because
I am not disposed to confider them, as I have
before stated, as necessary elucidations, of the
immediate object of your letter, and much
less to urge them in their present form, as
general topics of recrimination.
/ have the honour to be with great rf/pfA,
Sir, Tour most obedient,
Humble Servant,
(Signed) GEORGE HAMMOND.
Government having received ad
vice, that Danish ships, laden with
corn for France, are soon expected
down .he North Sea, under convoy
of one or two men of war to prevent
capture# ; but the Arrogant of 74
guns, and Adamant of 50 guns, with
several stout frigates, are sent out to
cruise in those seas with positive or
ders to take and bring into our ports
any Danish or Swedish (hips which
they met with, laden with corn ; so
that it is very possible our (hips will
have a contest with the Danish con
voy.
Genius, fays the London Morning
Chronicle, ever inventive, has pointed
out to the fertile naturalists in France
(it is said) a chymical process, by
which, instead of besieging of fortreff
es in future, a concussion of air, and
all the consequences of an earthquake
for ten miles round, can be produced,
to beat down houses and spread gen
eral devastation !
Austrian Flanders.
WHEREAS Samuel Parker has
absented him/elf from m, bed, for , years ftafl,
withoutjuft cauje, and bat lately advertised that I
rejujed to led and board with him—This is to for
bid all perlons harbouring or trusting him on my
account, at 1 cannot conveniently pa, an, more of
bis debts—l never refujed to bed and board with
bim, when be made prefyifan for me, or when be
was willing tofare with me m, own bed, or par
take of an, provifon of mine— All perJons are cau
tioned against parchafng an, notes of him, without
my leave, at be bat fold ,veral which were ret
due. 'MARTHA PARKER.
Pembroke, ,n z, 1794.'5
A quantity of Hemlock Bark, to
peel; or, hire a band by the month —-for which a
generous price vuill he given, if application is made
immediately to NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, fuze 4. Bgtf
Ply Moet h , (Eng.) March 22. A letter
was received here yAhrday from a gentleman at
Guern ey, which fates, that a cutter belonging so
that place bad flipped into St. Mades in the night
of the \^b inf. and brought f three French of
ficers (royalist)) whom fbe landed at Southampton,
if they immediately kt fexpref for London, with
intelligence for geverrment, laid to be of the bigb
ef importance to this country.
While the cutter lay at St. Malets, on embark
ation of troops was taking place, which continued
day and night ; the number to be embarked was
laid to be 13,000,J0r which purpose a Efficient
number cf tfar.;,irts were lying there for their re
ception, and it is generail,foppofed they are defin
ed on an expedition againf ,<O, cr Guernjey.
Several large frigates were hing in the harbour
who were re take she trefferts under their pre
tcaion, and to fail immediately when the embark-
THOSE who received papers of the Printer
the last year,in the townsfollowing, are in
formed that their accounts are read, for jettlement
from No. 54 . to No. Bc, at the following places,
viz. Mr. i bomas Lewis and Mr, Oha. Clough,
Canterbury —Capt. Stepbin Haines &Mr Wal
ker Bu/wcll, Nortbfitld —Capt. Tilton, Mgrs.
Ward & Curbing, & Capt. Colby, Sandbormon—
Mr. Boynton, Meredith—Mr. Andrew Woodman,
Col. Ladd, Mr- Burns, Mr. David Beane and
Mr Swett, Gilmantown.—Mr. Wood's store, Mr
Abraham Batchelder,and Mr. Nathaniel Batchel
der,fan. Loudon—Capt.Hook, Chicbefttr—Copt.
Prescott and M*,. Brown, Epsom—Mr. fohn
Meed, Deerfield— At Major Moor's store, Candia
[, The Printer hopes bis friends will notice
the above, and render him offiftance by dijeharg
ing their accounts—NOW is the accepted time-
Leave good Rye, at 4/. or Corn at gs. a bujhel,
at an, of the above places immediately, and it will
be accepted—otherwise HARD CASH will be
called for He would give a longer indulgence,
but be is obliged to pay for the paper be has used,
the ptf,&c. &c. and con/eqaetitl, is necessitated
to call on bis enfoners for payment.
Mr. fames Robinson, the present pofl, is autho
rised to receive pay and give receipts in my name.
Concord, fune g. E. RUSSELL.
WHEREAS Martha, wife of me
the subscriber, refufes to bed and board mith me,
this is therefore to forbid all persons harbouring or
trofing her on my account, as 1 mill pay no debt of
ber contraßing. SAMUEL P 4RKER.
Pembroke, Ma, 12. 1794° 82
WANTED to contract for the making of
several tbouf and pairs of good thick leather
men's SHOES—to be delivered Joon —The pay for
making faidJhoes, to be wholly in leather —and a
generous price given, if application be made imme
diately to NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, 7^7, 1794. tyf
Falmouth, M.rcb 25. The Vifeount Pinger,
aid-de-camp to the Marquis de Drejnay, the French
General who commands the emigrants, came to
kkfvmcutb in the packet, and we learn that the
Royalfs cn the banks of the Loire, are 81,000
Qrong ; but that only half that number a?e proper
ly armed, the ref having only flicks, clubs, or any
weapon they could get.
ation was completed.
with what activity the most Gogol e
advocates for this war of cevaftation,
now circulate the reports of an ap
proaching Peace.
It was re poited & believed, that Jer
fty was in possession of the French.
No action of conf^ q tence has hap
pened—though many fk^mifhes
Tbe Eafern and Northern Post.
' Without Rain from Heaven, the Corn shall
witheron i s ftalk.'
Without pay, what ffiall the Printer do ?
HEMLOCK BARK to peel.
SHOES to MAKE.
ATTENTION !
WANTED TO LET,