The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-04-18 00:00:00, page 3

By the last Mail.
CONGRESS.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuespay, April 3. -
MESSAGE was announced
A from the President of the Uni
ted States. It was in the following
words :
Gentlemen of the Senatey, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives
« In compliance with the requeflt of
the House of Representatives, expres
sed in their resolution of the 2d of this
month, I tran{mit to both Houses the
inftru&ions to and dispatches from the
Envoys Extraordinary of the United
States to the French Republic, which
were mentioned in my meilage of the
tgth March lalt, omitting only some
names, and a few expreflions descrip
tive of the persons. .
¢« ] request that they may be con
sidered in confidence until the mem
bers of Congress are fully poffefled of
their contents, and shall have had op
portunity to deliberate on the confe<
quences of their publication ; after
which time I submit them to your
wisdom.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, April 3, 1798."
'The above Message having been
read, the Galleries and House were
cleared of strangers, and the House
was occupied in reading. the papers
accompanying it, from this time (a
bout half past 12) until past 3, when
they adjourned without taking any
order refpedting them.
Fripay, April 6.
Mr. Macon moved that the House
again resume the consideration of the
confidential communication from the
Prelident, which motion being agreed
to, the galleries were accordingly
cleared. i
~ After the doors had been closed a
bout an hour and an half, they were
opened, when the injunétion of secre
cy being taken off.
Mr. Bayard moved, that 1200 co
pies of the Dispatches from our Com
miflioners in Paris, which were lately
communicated by the President of the
United States, to Congress, be print
ed for the use of members, which
would furnifh each about 12 copies
for the purpose of transmitting to his
constituents. Mr. Smith moved to
amend the resolution, by adding after
the words ‘Congrels’ and ordered by
the Senate to be printed.
Mr. Blount always thought it im
proper to print more copies than were
necessary for the use of the members
in condu&ing the business of the
House—When members with to fend
papers to their-constituents, they can
purchase what number of copies they
please ; for if he were to have 12 co
pies laid upon his detk, he should have
occasion to purchase 20 or 30 more,
for the purpose of fufficiently commu
nicating the matter to his constituents.
Mr. Brooks did not fee why mem
bers should be put to the expense of
‘purchafing what it would be for the
public good to circulate. He there
fore moved for 2000.
Mr. Harper was in favor of the
2000, and if any one would move
3000, he should be in favour of it, as
he thould wish to fend a good number
to his constituents.
1200 was finally agreed.
Paris, 11 Pluviofe (Jan. 30.) The
15,000 French troops, which march
ed towards Switzerland, have pafled
Geneva with drums beating, colours
flying, and arms shouldered. They
are waiting the arrival of a well
known Gen. which the Dire&ory na
med the day before ° yelterday,
and who left this city yesterday.
- Dujardin, member of the Council
of 500, has informed his constituents
at Chalons, of the existence of a pow
erful party inthe Republic, whose ob
je& was to reduce the national repre
sentation to an hundred mémbers ;
to be called the French Senate, at the
head of which there was to be a sin
gle chief. - ;
10 Pluvigfe. If credit can be Igiv
en to letters from Radltadt, the Em
peror is seriously occupied at this mo
ment in a plan of pacification between
the French Republic and Great-Brit
ain, and that there was a prospect of
succeeding therein.
PHILADELPHIA, March 30.
Arrived, ship America, in 152 days
from Madras and Tranquebar, own
ed by Messrs. Joseph Anthony and Co.
and loaded entirely with Pepper. The
America is frigate built, and pierced
for 22 %Jhs- “Upon anchoring off
Chefnut-{treet wharf, the saluted the
city with 16 guns.
g Bezunghs. - o
. IMPORTANT.
CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE.
-~ After considerable “difcuflion, sthe
Senate has voted, to make public all
the communications lately received
by Congress from the President of the
United States, relative to our dispute
with France (except the instructions
which were given by the Executive
to our Commissioners) by ordering
500 copies of the dispatches to be
printed, so that a few days will devel
ope the secret, to be informed of which
the public mind has for several days
been very anxious.
To gratify in some degree, that
anxiety, we give the following, as be
ino what we have reason to believe, a
toﬁarably corre&t outline as far as it
goes :—
When the last dispatches left our
ministers, they had not been, nor were
they likely to be acknowledged by the
French Dire&ory. They had, how
ever had some conferences with two
persons, (whose names are omitted by
the President) who informed them
that they were commissioned by Tal
leyrand Perigord, the Minilter of Fo
reign Affairs, to wait on the Envoys
Extraordinary from the United States,_
to state to them upon what terms an
advantageous treaty might be made
with the French DireCtory. These
terms were, that in the firft place a
douceur of Fifty Thousand Pounds
sterling should be made to Talleyrand
Perigord ; and that as the Directory
were greatly in want of money, the
United States must engage to pur
chase from them a debt of sixteen
millions of florins, due from the Ba
tavian to the French Republic (but
which they at present are unable to
pay) by way of loan to the French.
X and Y stated that these were the on
ly conditions on which the Ameri
can Ministers could expe& a favora
ble reception from the Direétory.
X and Y dwelt much on the pow
er and resources of the French Re
public, and of the consequences which
mult inevitably ensue to the United
States from a war with France re
ferring to the fate of Venice and o
ther countries whose views had been
inimical to the interests of France.
Adding, that the Dire&tory were well
informed as to the divided state of o
pinion in this country ; -and that the
misunderstanding betwixt the two Re
publics, had been owing to measures
_injurious to France, which had been
brought forward and {upported in the
government of this country, by what
we call the Federal party, but by
what they call the British fa&ion.
That our Ministers had afterwards
an interview with M. Pericorp him
felf, who informed them, that before
any negociation could take place, it
was indifpenfibly neceflary that the
terms which had been proposed to
them by X and Y, should be com
plied with.
It does not appear that our Minis
ters have held any conference with a
ny of the members of the Executive
Directory themselves. :
Our Ministers fufpeét that Merlin,
the Minister of Marine, 1s particular
ly interested in all prizes carried into
French ports, and that it is not like
ly, therefore, they will diminish in
number.
- BOSTON, April 14.
Important and Authentic.
From Philadelphiay April 4.
Yesterday the President, in confor
mity to request of the House of Re
presentatives, communicated to Con
gress the instructions he had given our
Commiflioners in France, and the dis
patches he has received from them ;
they are lengthy & will make a pamph
let of 60 or 70 pages, and I presume
a large number wifll {peedily be pub
lished for the information of the Peo
ple. Their prominent features I will
give you as well as I can from me
mory.
The inftrutions generally express
they thould use every effort to {fettle
‘all our differences with the Republic,
by a Treaty, giving them every ad
vantage, which they should pretend
we may have given to any nation,
and proposing such alterations in the
present Treaty, or to make a new one
on such liberal terms as in their dis
cretion they may judge will. heal ex
isting animosities and promote the in
terests of both countries ; that touch
ing the losses we- have sustained by
{poliations on our commerce, they
thould propose to have the claims ad
justed by Commissioners, as is provi
ded for in the Britith and Spanish
Treaties ; that however, the subject
of spoliations should not be indispensa
ble, but that in no treaty should they
recognize an abandonment of the
claim for those injuries. In short, the
inftru@ions breathe an ardent defize
of effeting a reconciliation on terms
as broad as a regard to our charadter
as an independent nation would admit,
and such as I am persuaded no man,
let him be ever so much of a French
man, can objeé to. ‘ '
- Our Commiflioners, soon after their
arrival at Paris, addrefled a letter to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs ; in
forming him of the obje&t of their mif
fiony and requesting ‘an opportunity
of delivering their credentials and be
ing presented to the Dire&ory. .To
this letter they had not received any
answer when they last wrote, and they
had no hope of receiving any. In the
course of their being at Paris (fay from
the last of September to the Bth of
January{) no official notice had been
taken of them, either by the Dire&ory
or the Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
but that during that time they had
several conferences with two persons ;
whose names our Commissioners pro
mised to conceal, who said they were
in the confidence of the latter, on the
fubje& of their miflion ; it seems those
persons did not a& officially but were
understood informally to speak the
language of the Minister.
They exprefled the great irritation
the DireGtory had against the United
States, and particularly the speech of
the President at the opening of last
summer feflion, and that some disa
vowal must be made by way of atone
ment. Upon our Commiflioners re
presenting that by our Constitution,
it was the duty of the President to in
form Congress every thing which con
cerned the interest of our Country,
and therefore any disavowal of senti
ment was not only improper but im
pofiible, they [gavc them to understand
after some hesitation, that money, money
would make the atonement ; that if
they would stipulate to give fif?y thou
[fand pounds flerling, by way of douceur
to the Minister, take of them thirty-tawo
millions florins of Dutch paper, which
they f{aid was then worth ez billings
in the pound, and give them par fgr
it (and which might eventually be
worth par) and loan them a further
sum, equal to the supposed value of
their {poliations on our commerce, esti
mated at fiftcen millions dollars (leaving
our merchants their claim on France
for eventual indemnification ) that then
the Minister of Foreign Affairs would,
use his influence, which they said was
great, with the Dire&ory, to have
them received, enter on the negocia
tion and endeavour to have the depre
dations on our Commerce to cease.—
They urged these propositions with
vehemence, said that money was want
ed for general purposes, as well as to
fatisfy particular officers of Govern
ment ; that Merlin, one of the Direc
tory, had a fufficiency from his share
of prize-money, but others had not
such a resource.—On our Commiflion
ers observing, that they had no powers
of that kind, and as we had not of
fended, the proposition was unreasona
ble, the reply was, that money was
what they wanted, and that inasmuch
as they had made peace with the Em
peror and brought other neighbour
ing nations to their own terms, we
ought to think ourselves well off with
so {light a requisition, and warned us
by the fate of Venice and what would
{oon be that of Switzerland. On our
Commissioners remarking that they
cameto appeal to' the principles of
justice to adjust our disputes, they re
plied by a pob! Don’t you give money
-to the Indians and theDey of Algiers
when you make peace with them, and
that they had better engage for those
terms now, for if they subdued Great-
Britain, as they expefted, the terms
would be much more severe, and that
unless we did they should ravage our
Commerce and coasts with their cruif
ersi Our commifioners replied to
this, that such condu& would unite
our people to repel such aggrefiions,
and that being united, no nation on
earth could subdue us. To this they
said they were not afraid of eur union,
for they had so many friends in our
country as would prevent it,and throw
the blame on what we call Federalists
and what they call the British party,
for it was well known the French were
adepts at intrigue, &c. Mr. Gerry, in
order to be fatisfied that those two
persons spoke the sentiments of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, atked the
Minister Talleyrand the question, who
replied, “they did.” = ;
N. B. The above is the substance of
the communications as nearly as I can
recolleét. It needs no comment, the
papers when published will evince a
bundantly what I hatfe stated, with
many aggravating cir?umﬁances. |
, | “APrIL §.
“Some of the most uniform and
ardent oppofers of the President have
assured me with their own lips, that
they are petfeétly fatisfied with the
sincerity and anxiety which he has
discovered to preserve peace with the
French Republic ; and that he could
have done nothing more.—This 'is a
pretty candid confeflion from those
who so lately have appeared {o jealous
of the Executive, and who have pro
feffed a want of confidence in his mea
sures. - When these papers are publish-.
ed, the President will stand confeffed,
‘the friend to his country, & the great
statesman ; such as all impartial men,
acquainted with his services and cha
raéter, have pronounced him to be,
these twenty years dgaﬁ. Whether
a counterpart to these great qualities
will be exhibited by the Great Men
of another country, you may conjec
ture, but Iwillnot fay, =
“Gallatin, Giles and Nicholas, de
clare themselves fatisfied with the con
dué of our President, and the temper
and spirit of the instructions.” S
We are informed from the most re
spectable authority that Mr. Gerry was
not present (as has been reported) at
the Paris Ball, given to Buonaparte
and wife. Mr. Gerry was invited, but
did not accept. G
ot s . |
In the storm on Wednesday night,
3 coasting sloops went on shore—one
of which was the Maria, of Yarmouth, i
(Cape-Cod) Isaac Gorham, master,
on Scituate rocks. Crew saved, veflel
and cargo -entirely lof. The Captain
and pal%engers, wish thus publicly to
return their sincere thanks to the be
nevolent endeavours of Mr. Benjamin
Barker, of Scituate, to relieve their
distress after they were landed.
The brig Union, Delano, of Boston,
which failed from Guadaloupe, Feb.
16,1 s taken by the Englith frigate Lap
wing, and sent to St. Kitts, where the
1s to wait 21 days for trial.
The Sally, Stoddard, from Liver
pool, for Boston, has been captured
by a French privateer, recaptured by
a British frigate, and sent into Lisbon.
TheSea Otter, Bennet, from Boston,
for Naples, is detained by a French
privateer, and sent into Carthagena.
NEWBURY-PORT, April 13.
In the gale on Wednesday night,
a sloop belonging here, and the {chr.
Dolphin, Torrey, of Burncoate,loaded
with wood, were drove on shore on
the beach near this harbor. The sch,
will be entirely loft. |
O T TS O R s S L
PORTSMOUT H, April 18.
We hear that the CRESCENT
Frigate, arrived fafe at~ Algiers, in
29 days, and that the DEY was much
pleased with her.
The government brig Sophia, Capt.
‘Geddes, has failed from Philadelphia
for France., It is supposed she goes
to bring home our Commiflioners.
The information which has already
transpired refpeéting the dispatches
from our Envoys, ought now to
produce one general sentiment, To
STAND OR FALL WITH THE GOV
ERNMENT, .
. WRECK. _
* On Wednesday night last, struck
either on York Ledge or Isle of Shoals,
in aviolent gale, the {chooner Peggy
Topfom, belonging to Kennebeck,
_Jona. Prebble, malter, and William
Winkley, pilot, bound to Newbury
port, loaded with wood, when she
firft firuck, it stove her keel in, and
_upfet her, 3 of the men, viz. Wm.
‘Winkley, James Morris and Robert
Kerry took the boat to go on shore,
and were drowned, and che drifted
‘on shore on Rye-beach, and after a
coroner’s inquest was taken, were all
three decently buried. Jona. Preb
ble, Robert Bagley, Daniel Heath,
and one more,remained on the wreck,
which having righted, drifted to God
frey’s ledge, Northampton beach,
where the wreck stove all to pieces.
Those who remained on the wreck,
drove a shore on part of the quafter
deck. The distress of these unfortu
nate men, was great, being from 1o
o’clock at night to 6 in the morning
-on said wreck, exposed to the boiste
rous tempetft. ‘ ‘
Tuesday the 10th inst. Mr. Peter Man
who has been mifling from his family
and friends nearly 2 months, was
found dead, buried up in snow, about
a mile from his house in Dover. The
night on which he was firft miffing,
ushered in a violent snow storm, and
it 1s supposed .he wandered from his
way, got bewildered and laid down,
and being greatly fatigued thus pe
rished in the tempelt. ;
How many thousand, thousand are the
varied ways,
By awhich, the sons of Adam close their
days. !
DIED—At Famaica, Mr. Henry
Muchmore, aged 23, of this town.
At Concord, Peter Green, Efg. aged 52.
At Pembroke, Mrs. Fudith Moore,
awife of Mr. Enoch Moore.
At Haverbill, the Rev. Abner Bailéy,
aged 84. ' ‘
At Newbury-Port, very- [uddenly,
Nathaniel Carter, Esq. aged 83.
I this towny a Child of Mr. Fobn
Frothingham. ' a
DROWNED])—In Pifcataqua-Riv
ery on Wednesday last, Mr. Isaac Tuttle,
of Back-River, near-Durbam. s
- Summer Eftabli/ment.
~ The Mail from ‘the South
ward will arrive at the Poft-Office in
this. town from the 15th day of April
to the 15th day of O&ober next, on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fiidays
at 6 o’clock, P. ‘M. in consequence of
which, the GAZETTE wg;l during
said term be publithed on T'usspays,
to commence on Tuesday next. =
"Grocery Store.
Benjamin Leverett
Has juf? reccived and has for sale at bic
2" Grocery-Store, -
No. 1, Bow-street, Spring-Hill,
. A general assortment of -
- Welt India Goods
: .And Groceries, '
whith he awill fell as cheap as can be pura
chafed at any flore in Portfinouth,
Consisting of
FRENCH Brandy ; W. I. Rum 3
Holland Gin ; Cherry Rum 3
Auxcayes Molasses. '
Sherry, Lisbon and Malaga Wines 3
London bottled Porter ; Philadelphia
Loaf, East India and Brown Sugars.
Freth Hyfon, Souchong and Bo
hea Teas of a superior quality.
Welih’s, Rumney’s and Faulker’s
No. 1 and 2 warranted Chocolate ;
Coffee ; new Rice ; fuperfine Flour
per bbl. or retail ; Surfinam Cotton
of a superior quality ; Poland Starch ;
best Hair Powder ; French and Span
ith Indigo ; Salt Petre.
Sweet Oil in flatks ; Pepper ; Al
fpice ; Ginger ;. Nutmegs per f, or
retail ; Cloves ; Cinnamon ; fine
table Salt in baskets ; Mustard per .
or bottle. - %
Fresh Mufcatal Raisins in boxes, per
box or retail ; do catk Raisins per cask
or do ; Oatmeal. »
Freth Zant Currants ; freth Figs
per frail or retail.
Shell’d and unfhel’d Almonds ;
frefh Anchovies and Capers ; mould
and dipt Candles ; crown and bar
Soap.
Warranted Pigtail Tobacco per
roll or retail ; Ladies’ fine twilt To«
bacco, do Fig do ; Segars.
Cotton and Wool Cards ; Elliot’s
warranted Snuff per keg or retail.
Gun Powder and Shot ;3 Pollock
Fish, &c. &c. .
B. Leverett returns thanks to bkis
Sfriends and customers for their numerous
[favors received, and hopes by his assiduous
attention to his bufine[s to merit the con
tinuance of them.
| TO BE SOLD BY
Eliphalet Ladd,
At his store in Ladd’s-ftreet, for cath
- or approved credit,
OURTEEN hhds. 4th proof Ja-
F maica Rum, a few hhds. 2d &
3d proof do ; hhds. & bbls. Jamaica
Sugars ; hhds. Molasses and N. E.
Rum ; 160 hhds. St. Übes Salt ; 16
tons Logwood ; 16 bbls. excellent
Cyder ; 20 tans Junk ; a few dozen
Codlinés ; 20 bolts Canvas ; Iron
Ware ; Painter’s colors ; Nails ;
Brads, &c. :
- —A4LSO— .
Tolet a few handsome Tenes
ments for families.
Portsmouth, April 17, 1798.
FOR SALE,
That large, convenient
Double HOUSE,
WITH the Store adjoining, site
uate on Dover Landing, now
occupied by Mr. David Boardman.
It is an excellent stand for a person
in trade. Terms of payment will be
made easy.—For particulars enquire
of
Lang, Brierley & Co.
Portsmouth, April 13, 1798.
Edw’d Parry
W arry
At the sign of the Lamb and Flag,
Market Streety Portsmouth,
HAS JUST RECEIVED ~
American Manufactured
LookiNG-GLASSES,
' Of different sizes and prices.
(CrHe flatters bimfelf that every true
American will prefer the manufalture of
his own country ; arnd that no young
boufe-kecpers ‘will purchase foreign glafles,
when dmericay at present, produces those
of equal elegance, to any that can be im
ported. ; \ PP
Irifth Linens.
J.yo, Just received, and for sale as above,
- A case of beautiful yard wide °
Irish Linens,
Some are of a superior quality ; they
* will be {old cheap, either by whole
. sale or retail,
S Linens are now becoming fearce ;
Insurance and Risk run ln;i The
Jpring importations will be feaw. . Fam
slies, awho need a supply, had better pro
vide themselves immediately, as the con-
Jumption of linensy will this year exceed
the supplies. Grand bargains to those
who purchase now. B 4
Portfmouthy March 20, 1798,
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