The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-03-21 00:00:00, page 1

| ' Lrom the CENTINEL.
T he Pelo de Se ! 7—Np. I
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OrfMUNROE convifted of inconfifien
ey, infidelity, and ingratitude ; from
A bis o 9 DOC UMI:gN 78. i
J_Nf)xmora'l or political propofi
-1 N "tion can be fairer than that a
dman can be, and ought to be con
demned from his own confeflion of
guilt: Other witnesses may perjure
kth, the senses of honest men
-may deceive them, the most {crutini-
Zing jEdge may mistake the motives
of the accused, but the Culprit can
“pevererr. .
= When a vain Minister writes a book
“about himfelf, and publishes an appeal
~from the constituted authorities to the
wpébplg,the people who disapprove such
~appeals,have a right to use theweapons
¥:;~§hg§§xﬁproperl;fgorced on them,for the
corredtion and purnithment of the Ap
pellant-who fübmits to their decision.
- The writings of Scipio,(whofe eagle
ey€ saw the milchievous tendency of
~Munroe’s appeal) have proved, that
the government ought to have recall
ed this minister with disgrace, but
they are confined to a simple juftifi
cation of the government, and the
writer has disdained to notice the ig
norance, mconfiltencies, falthoods and
treacheries which Munroe has volum
inously confefled. Besides, the mas
terly production of Scipio will fall in
to the hands of only a small part of
the community, while the poison, to
which. it is a perfet antidote will be
retailed and difpesfed through prosti
tuted prefles to the extremities of the
United States. = With these impres
sions, I propose to examine, retail and
amplify the ideas suggested by Seipio,
and to embrace a larger obje than
the one which has been hitherto pur-
Hued. I confider Munroe as one of
‘the heads of a party, which has been
at oneé the frourge and disgrace of the
Uhiited Stadés: £ confider him as Bav.
‘ing accepted and a__lz;fcﬁd his office, to
_promiote the views of that party. Ev-.
ery important - document therefore
(such for example as the letter to
Mazzei) which tends to display the
principlés and eondu& of one of these
ﬁéde‘rs of party should not be fuffer
ed to pass into_glent oblivion. . ,
Such may be considered, this in
cconfiftent, this absurd confeflion—this
ridiculous manifefto ‘of this_difgraced
minister I If it promoted no hif‘gh'er
obje& than the flagrant proof of the
anfidelity of this individual, 1 would
leave him to the fate, to which his
daborious defence, and an unquiet con
{cience mult have destined him. But
all honest men, must fee in “Munroe’s
‘wieaw”” the< compleat developement of
the views,the objects, the plots and the
artifices of an affiliated, an tﬁrganize.c_l‘- :
partysa party co-eval with our ljg(‘)vel-'n"-
menty hostile to its welfare—allied toa
foreign nation in prineiples and in in
“tereft, and determined by all poflible
means to check the’profperity—op
.pofe the progrefs—lleffen the dignity,
and facrifice the Jndependence of our
country. It had always been the
conviction and belief of thinking men,
that the opposition int'this country had
an intimate and ¢lofe connedtion and
“eorrefpondence avith their brother pa
triotsin France. Tt was_ always ob
served that the thermometer -of their
with the Mercury of the trapfatlantic
%’ﬁ%ﬂf—fﬁwas asserted, that the
Avhole opposition which France has
made 1o the trzary with G Bic
/@n, originated in this country, Mun
-7o has now gltablithed the truth and
“oncie e %Iw}}ndféﬁable
politive telimony swe have now not.
_opinions mercly but. the precise para
sgraph—the express docyments 61 &
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No. 11. '
Our diplomatic author, armed as
be assures us, with the internal con
{cioufnefs of re@itude, exhibits a brief
_and laconic defence, consisting of fix
ty-lix pages of mtrrative, and four ’
hundred and seven pages of docu
ments. The former, though intended
as a defence, is little more or less than
an exaggerated detail of the nonsense,
and calumny which may be found in
‘the Aurora apd other lying papers, a
philippic, strongly tin&tured with ja
- cobin gall, against the late adminifira
tion—and a general account of his.
mission, which 1 expe& to prove tobe
- materially falfe. oAR o
Waving for the present, the con
sideration of the question, (if it can
be called one) whether a public Fune
tionary has a right to publish the pri
vate and confidential letters and in
ftru&ions sent to him in an official ca- .
pacity—whether the moment of dis
charge from his office is 2 moment of
abfoﬁttion from: every honorable tie, .
~and admitting in this stage of enqui
" ry, that this condut is somewhat {hort
~of treachery, still it is manifeft, that
_the administration, cannot without
-facrificing its dignity, without fanc
tiefing the propriety of this treache
rous appeal, stoop to reply. Liike the
“case of RanpovrrH, therefore, the go
vernment is silent. . ‘
It 1s the duty then of every man
~who has the means in_his power to
- volunteer himfelf in its defence, and
- to make the weapons of Munros re
% cail ‘upoa_‘himf_elz 1 shall therefore
~ proceed to give a fammary of all his
-~ letters ‘with' occasional comments on
~each of them, and {hall then close with
- recapitulating the firongeft features of
infidelity, inconsistency and falthood.
E "TEXT—Muxgroes’s TWO FIRST LET
| Coh ODR M S A
His firlt letter is dated the loth of
%A“g“ﬁ 1794, . which he mentions
~that “he bas been presented by Mr. -
“Morris to the Commissary of Foreign
- Affairs, who premised to apprise him
of the formi in which he Wasto je re- |
rceived as soon as it should be fettled,” -
- but that there would be great delay”
from the derangement produced by the
Wav and also from the ne- |
ceflity of ﬁmegﬂ#@rﬁnoﬁ be. -
ing madeyehis being ghe it infance
ot Miniter addrolle 0 e Repu.
. Six_or seven pagés are filled with
Qe ee RN e T R G NR F A
_accounts and conjeftures of the con
telts and views.of. paties which then
| Amicated Fgause bnmﬁa&lifﬂf
better detail «m&‘. ufand Gazet o
A AR L N e Y TRt TR
~ln the Summer of 1794, Mr. Mun
roe was appointed minister to France,
by President WasuingTOoN, who was
his friend, and who it is believed
then loved, esteemed and refpetted
him ; and in the summer of 1796;the
fame President, finding that 4e awas
deccived in the man, and believing that
the interest of the United States re
quired his recall, displaced him. . All
this was regular and constitutional. .
- The President is the sole judge of
the fitnefs and faithfulnefs of all offi
cers whom He employs to aflit him,
and s not;accountable to ewary indi
vidual whom he displaces for the jus
tice or propriety of his conduét. Al
though many intelligent men of 2/
parties were surprised at the appoint
ment of Mr. Munroe, yet it is believed
that not oze man of information in the
United States was astonished at his
recall.
The man, and his disgrace, like his
friend and fellow patriot Randolph,
would long since have funk into obli
vion, if he had not bestowed so much
labour to preserve the remembrance
of his infamy, and to criminate the
mealures of Wajhington's administra
tion.
It has become neceflary and it {hall
be my humble endeavour to give a
summary of his cause and appeal, and
to prove the inconfiftencies,the fol
lyy and the falthood of 4is defence.
_lf after four months labour and ex
amination, with the aid of 4// the ja
cobin talents on the Continent, there
still remains weaknesses, contradi&ions
and absurdities, it is to be attri.
buted not to the want of exertion,but
to the nature of their cause, “for zruth
alone is confiflent and it thall prevail.”>
SCIPIO, junior.
— OUR COUNTRY’s GOOD. OUR CONSTANT AIM
INDIAN RETALIATION.
Qk BOUT forty years ago, when
4 A these Americans did not know
-the Enropeans, a traveller penetrated
-into their country, made them ac
' quainted with firé arms, and {old them
&nuﬂ;? and gunpowder : they went
a hunting and got- greéat plenty of
. game and of course many furs. Ano
ther ‘traveller went thither some time
after with ammunition 5 - but the In
dians being ll provided, they did
-mot caresto barter with ‘the JFrench.
“man, Whowwﬂ a very odd trick,
o order to ell his powder wichot
adtion Vlﬁchwaswﬁg fought on both
sides, but ‘the English, though they
had captqred‘onegti funk fix, finally
filed off, and that'the French, having
offered to renew Phe combat, likewise re
tired to Brest, whither they condudted
the covoy from America, (which was
_the obje& of the contest) fafe.” -
- . Mr. Muxros’s second letter is da
_ted zsth Augult, and seems to have
-been written chiefly for the purpose
of making known the cordiality of
‘his-own reception and ‘the unequivo
-cal friendthip of France.—*l had rea
son to beligve” fays he, 4t was the
general desire that I should be receiv.
ed as soon as possible, and with every
demonfiration of refpet for the country I
_réprefent.”” The- delay which had
happened, he attributes altogether to
the thock which the public boards re
ceived from the late disaster, (Rosss
prerjE’s fall) and he repeats again
and again in his letter of three pages,
‘the assurance of the affeltion and aitach
ment. of France and every department
of its government to their ally, the
United States. He adds, however,
“that there are many American Cap
tains at Paris who had been captured
in derogation of our Treaty, and
that he shall immediately make an
effort to bave the order rescinded and to
obtain compensation for the injuries
sustained.” He closes the letter by
observing that ¢ tranquility continues
to reign through the Republic. Every
person” he observes, “ seems to be
freed from an oppreflion really terri
ble, because fan&ioned by the autho
rity of the cople and covered with
the mask o? patrioti{fm.” o
COMMENTARY.
- Several firiking refleftions inevita
bly present themselves on reading the
aboye letters. In this narrative, page
7th, Mr. Munroe assures us,” that on
his arrival, he found, ¢“that the work
of alienation and difupion had been
carried further than he had before
Aufpeéted, that coolness and difirufi
: j%.ang{y marked their proceedings, and
that things were in a train for an en
tire separation of the two countries.”
But in the above letters, written at
the moment of the impression, not a
{entiment of the kind is communica
ted to the Executive. It appears that
the moment he was announced to the
Convention, he was received with o
pen arms, with every demonstration
of refpe—that a national house was
offered him as a diftinguithed progf
of affe@tion—that this attention was
the more flatterigg and the more de
cided proof of a god® understanding,
as the minister of Geneva had been
fix weeks at Paris without being ac
credited, Here then we find the Am
‘baflador and the Man in a posture of
diret contradiction, Both cannot be
right, because they are wholly incon
iﬁﬁent ; the public must be the um
pire. When the letters were written,
“he was in good humour with the go
vernment, and had no motive of mis
representation. =~ His narrative on the
other hand was written as an apology
for his disgrace, and as a profefled at
‘tack and a real libel on adminiftra
‘tion. 'We are therefore compelled to
believe that his narration in this par
ticular is falfe.—The spirit of jacobin
ifm is a lying spirit, and it eften de
feats those whom it inspires in a mo
ment of necessity. Another senti
ment forces itfelf from the mind of
every liberal man, who peruses the a
bove letters. It is the unspeakable
meannels and folly of Muxro, in
diminishing the glory of Lord Hows’s
vi@ory over the French. If he be
fieved that ‘a braye admiral after so
decisive. 2~ vidory, was capable “of
“ﬂ“%'o;("fm& the vanquished, he
isa Fool ;if he did not believe it, he -
is something worse. ~~ © .
| MAN, by studying mankind with
i attention will find them all
formed of the fame materials x
born to the fame end : stones of
arch, members of one body, prisoners
in the fame jail, he will not then be
seeking how to knock another down
with his fetters, instead of agreeing
together how to knock them off.
| SIR Robert Taylor affords a ftriks
mg example 'of the habit and
good effects of early rising. We have
been informed that this gentleman,
who was bred an architedt, and’fol
“lowed it with considerable reputation,
never was found in bed for the space
of forty years at five o’clock. He
lived in good health to seventy five
' years of age, and left to his only son,
_the present Michael ‘Angelo Taylor,
Esq. a fortune of abbve one. bundred
thousand pounds, beside a handsome
jomture to his widow.
‘His death was occasioned by a cold,.
which he caught attending the fune
ral of a friend. = e
AN AMIABLE - ASSOCIATION
" YAS been established for some
l I “years in Philadelphia,compofed
-of Females of the Society of Quatkers;
whose ‘objeéts, by mutual contribu
tions, and with the addition of chari
“table donations, to relieve the unfor
tunate of their own sex, providing for
;and edy agtinge‘tﬂwi children, and giv
ing ufeful employment to those who
are ablefpagork. o -
‘they madéßo diftindtion ‘as to reli
-gious perfuafien ; female diftres, in
‘every foMh to them is sacred. As
they have not made it a pradice to
Svl igt o e
remained fearcely known but to the |
ﬁﬁ@’gwm"wﬁw till ‘their
much troubling himfelf with the con
sequences that might result from his
imposture, to his countrymen. He
thought he had done a great action
an deceiving these poor people. - -
_Asthe Indians are ‘naturally cit
rious, they were desirous of knowing .
how powder, which they call grain;
was made in France. The traveller
made them believe that it was sown
in Savannas, and. that they had crops
of it as of indigo or millet in Ameri-
UQas « b EBR P
. The Miffouris were pleased with
the discovery, and sowed all the.gun
powder which they had left, which o
bliged them to buythat of the French
man, who got a considerable quanti
ty of beaver skins for it, and after
wards went- down the river to the
Illinais, where M. de Tonti command
ed. : | -
__The Miffouris went from time to
time to theSavanna,to fee if the pow
der was growing ; they had placed a
uard there to hinder the wild beasts
grom {poiling the field ; but they soon
found out the Frenchman’s trick : ‘lt
must be observed, that the Indians
can be deceived but once, and they
always remember jt. . Accordingly
they were resolved to be revenged up
on the firt Frenchman that thould
come to them. Soon after the:hopes
of profit excited the traveller to fend
his partner to the Miffouris, with goods
proper for commerce—theyfoon found
-out that this Frenchman was aflocia
ted with the man who had imposed
upon them ; however, they dissem
bled the trick which his predecessor
had played. They gave him the pub
lic hut which was i the middle of
the village, to deposit his bales in,
when they were all laid out to view
'the Miflouris came in, confufedly,
and all those who had beea foolifh e
nough to sow gunpowder, took away
some goeds ; so the poor Frenchman
‘was rid of all his! “ales at once, but
‘without any equivalent from the In
‘dians. He complained much of these
proceedings and laid his. grievances
before the great Chief; who answered
him very gravely, that he thould have
jultice done him, for that purpose he
must wait for the gunpowder harvest,
his subjects having sown that commo
dity by the advice of his countryman ;
that he might believe upon the word
of a sovereign, that after the harvest
was over, he would order a general
hunt ; and that all the skins of wild
beasts that would be taken should be
given him in return for the impor
tant {gcret. which they had taught i
them. R
q LL perfonsiindebted to, or that Bave
any demands again{t the estate of Joha
Davis, late of Lee, husbandman, deceased,
are requefled to exhibit the fame without
delay for settlement to Clement Davis, |
Administrator of the said eflate. ' .
Lee, March 13, 1798, .
15 Dollars Reward.
STOL N out of the House of the fub
feriber on the night of the sth inst. the
- following articles, viz. one faur Hat, one
pair of ‘new draw-leg Boots, two ruffled
Shirts, one pair of Shoes, one, pair of plated
Buckles, one brown Surtout, one pair of
light coloured caffimere Breeches, one
striped cotton Wailleoat, one cale of Ra
* zors, and a‘number of dollars in cash, to
gther with- sundry ether articles. The
“Thief was a lodger in the house, and calls
hirifelf Thomas Tylor, sometimes Dudley
Tylor ;heis a short thick fellow, with a
laarge» nose, black eye:, and dark brown hair;
had on when he went away 2 blue short
Jacket, lined with white, with a large rent
“on the righs thoulder, a,r,‘oat,' a*
pair of gréy home{pun Trowfers, and a {g\air
of light blue Stockings, Wholoever shall
‘take up said Thief, and fecure’ him, shall
-be enntled to the above reward from =
S gl s NATHES(GRIFFETH.
- Portsmouth, March 12, 1798, R T
400 bl excellnt CORN.
" 50 barrels Tar and Pitch,
G Jeaales Couto, SN2 WS
o MarchGiaggß T
DANCING-SCHOOL.
ol 0 oGO ,
Messrs. Renard €3 Barbot
‘ RESPECTF ULLY inform the public
that they intend openinga DAncine
SCHOOL in this town, the begining ‘of
April, for teaching young Ladies and Gen
tlemen, Dancing, = Messrs. Renard €3 Barbot
will negle&t nothing to deserve the appro
bation of those parents who shall please to
trust the tuition of their children with them.
A subscription paper is left at the Gazette
Printing Office, where the terms, &e. may
be known, oo
Portsmouth, March 13, -
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e Ow Rmsow@;g 7 sxus, _
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' occupied by Mr. Ivory Hovey,
on Spring-Hill ; for further particu
lars apply to : ki
- SAMUYL STORER:
February 27, 1798. i
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"Portsmouth, Jan. 31, 1798. '
‘exertions in the late-"vﬁgﬁ@cfs‘ prefled
them ‘into ‘public letice and* public
applae, -0
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And on the winds triumphant swell the notes
So /aft, the’ high, [o loud and yet so clear,
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Sweet to the world & gratefulto the fiies.
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OFMY, . <SOO wanlier SR o i
, WNECDOTE:
Q N Indian chief ‘being asked his
opinion of a catk of Madeira
wine presented to him by an ‘officer,
said, he thought it a juice ‘i@xtra&ed
from womens tongties and lions
hearts : for after he had drank a
bottle of it, he said, ke could talk for
ever, and fight the devil. :
[9/. r. Annum.