The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-10-02 00:00:00, page 2

o LONDON, June 29.
His majesty has been graciously
pleased to sign a warrant for the pay
ment of 13,6801. for the relief of the
fuffering clergy and laity of France,
resident in this country.
BALTIMORE,~Sept. 19. <~
We bave been obligingly favored with
< Norfolk papers to the 15th infl. brought
by Capt. Barbine’s packet, from awhich
wwe copy the following circun flantial
account of the capture of the /bip Nigre,
... -&y the American frigate Conflitution,
detaildd to the printers of -the Norfolk
Herald by Capt. N?'cbblfon’bz’ng@lf s
NORFOLK, SEPT. I§.
— Conflitution’s Prize] -
-~ In our lalt paper we mentioned the
-atrival of a Thip of war, taken by the
~ United States frigate Constitution ;
* we are now enabled to furnifh our
readers with the following statement :
On the Bth inst. in lat. 33, 10. long.
70. at 6 o’¢lock, a. . they’ dilcovered
~ a fail, to which they gave chace ; at
10 o’¢clock they got along fide and
fired ‘a shot over %«er, on which she
“‘hoifted Englith colors and fired a thot
~to leeward. The 4d leutenant was
* sent on board of her, and on fearéhing
- found a train of gun powder to the
" magazine, to blow up the ship ; the
officers were drefled in' the French
“naval uniform, and said they were
French royalilts,and were bound from
" Jamaica to Philadelphia ; they had a
‘commiffion from the Englith govern
ment, and a regiltér and clearance
“from Jamuica, aﬁ of which appear to
.be counterfeits ; they have no articles,
- fThipping paper,or log book on board ;
“ the crew are made up of {even French
officers, I'renchmen, Spaniards, three
* Englithmen, Portuguese, Italians, one
* Aummerican, Dutch, and several ne
¢ groes, in all about 75 men. A Britith
- ofhcer, his lady and two children, and
an American (of Baltimore) are paf
“dengers. She fs talled the Nigre, is
* butilt of cedar by the Spaniards, was
“taken by the DBritith, two or three
« years ago, and fold ‘at Jamaica ; she
“mounts 24 guns, nine and twelve
pounders, is coppered, well found,
and is a remarkably fine veflel. It
* appears flie has a large sum of money
* on'board, as well as 30 hhds. of sugar
and 15 puncheons of rum ; the ¢rew
have a great deal of money, and évery
one of them-an American made trunk
full of goods, clothes, &c. which it is
" fuppoied they have plundered. ‘
One of the seamen on board the
Constitution has sworn, that seven
months ago he belonged to a schooner
from Portsmouth, (N. H.) which was
taken.by a French privateer, on board
‘of which the boatswain of the Nigre
was s officer, who stripped him and
the (rew naked, and sent them into
Guadaloupe. They have behaved in
a cruel manner to the paflengers,
whom they turned out-of the ca%in ;
and, we understand, had attempted to
poison them by giving them drugs in
their wine. il 4
There was every reason to beliéve
the ship was cruizing, as she was not
- eonfigned to any person in Philadel
phia, and it is supposed has different
_fets of papers. . ‘fhey had Englith
and national colors both bent, when
boarded by the officers of the Consti
tution ; they failed from Port ‘Royal
. to Port Antonio with a few '/han‘ds,'
and took the remainder on board at
tharplag, £ A ./, )
It also appears'they could not stay
at Jamaicayun consequence of ‘a Pro
-¢lamation issued by the Governor of
Jamaica, 8f which the subjoined *are
the headsz . . t 3
“The commander in chief has, with
-the advice of the privy council, issued
agproclamation; under the ‘alien bill;
- -patfed last feflions, ordering that after
« the firlt day ‘of September next, all
~ veflels havihg Trench people on board
arriving at_lg,ort. Royal from St. Do
~singo, (hall not be_ fuffered to-pass
the torts,until the French paﬂ'engeri
_are carried on thore- and: examined,
with regurd to their-principles before
John Ramsay, and Dennis O’Farzel,
' Efgrs.appointed by the Proclamation,
.commiflioners of police,. who will
* judge whether: they .are .proper per
; i‘ons to have certificates granted them
- 1o go at large in the island—And all
Frencl people of every description
now here, T,ﬁ(cjti'z'):ns and naiur'ali.zed
fub'e&scmeﬁwdf epted) are to repair before
thejhonmb . John Jaques, Kean Os
born," Simon - Tgylor, Henry Shirly
and Alexander Shaw, Efgrs. to beex
“‘amined by them, and to receive from.
them jgobr&':ﬁc_iets, otherwise to be
_confidered improper persons to reside
.4n this island ; and every French per
| "{ogmvcﬂi‘ngi in thlc’;ﬂan;n without 4.
ga.?'.ne&bebrk eforeany justice of the peace 3
~and in case of his or her not giving a
“Frisfadlors xeafon for bis or herbeing
without it, and ‘the magistrates have
reason 10 ﬁf%ppfeiaeor she is going
or her'in fafé custody, and ‘fend no--
ee 5 b commmndes i
" Lieenant Claiborne is making.
repatations daureceive the prisoners
We are happy to hear, that Mr.
Liston, the British Mmifter near the
. United States, and Admiral Vande
put, the commander on the Halifax
station, have evidenced a disposition
to make arrangements for furnithing
convoy for ‘the American trade to.
Europe. The attention of these gen
tlemen to the welfare® of our. Com-.
merce is deserving of public enco
mium. L — i {OOS 4
- BarTl2Ep}—-On Sunday, by Dr.
Thatcher, the Twin. Sons of .Mr.
-Samuel Sumner, merchant, by the
immortal names of Fobr Adams and
George, Washington: May they be
Iplendid signs in: the Zodiac of Patriot
|- Capt. ‘lnfley, from::Jaquemel for:
. Portland, spoke off: Watland, inform-.
- ed, that Jaquemel was evacuated ;'
+and the Mole to be in a few days.
. The Swiss ‘experience, that. they
" have changed .an. Ariflocracy (as the
« Chronicle calls «it) - for' a - Dejpotifm.
~Citizen Suter exclaimed ~in: the Sawifs’
“conncil,? awhat i our Conflitution wort b
if aue:arc to be- contronled by Frepeh
sbayomets I Mr. Nuzet [aidy “it avas.
ibebter to be cut o piecesy than to live
rander-a foreign Styoke’ Lo A
.. iThe Isles - of France and Boutbon
;are virtually, but not nominally inde
“pendent of France. They govern
-themselves. ~ French fpldiers, those
“modern heroes and freemen, ripe from
~the hot bed of equality, attempting’
some of their heroi¢ tricks, and to
~pxerciic their principles. of liberty,
"~ BOSTON,: Sept. 2%. 4
. The American Consul at Havan.
nah, has received information, that
the French are ordered to #wke, burn,
fink, or deftrop American vessels.” "
“"" Preparations” arée ‘making for the
_delivery of the Caftle'to the Govern
“ment of the U, 8. "The convidts are
“to be lodged in’ different jails ¢ill the
“execution of theit sentences, and yef
“terday fix' were ‘lodged in our prison
beingitsquota. 0
.. 36,000, is already the Fed. sub-
SEHPOT R Shle ' ~ieesis G 5 w3t
' "400 dollars are ‘offered for the de
teftion of any persons concerned in’
burning a Spanish veflel at ‘Savannih
Tately. s TN
‘ Tze inhabitants of Adams’county,
" in the Territory N. W.of the Ohio,
have forwarded an ‘approbatory Ad
dress to the President.. = ...~ .
- 'The General and Field Officers of
Baltimore County, have also fubferi-:
bed to the F,edqrj Reeded . . e
.+ Mr. Marshall has publickly declar
~ed to the People of the U. S. that the
“situation of the late Envoys to France,,
while” in Paris, was indeed attended
‘with the unpleasant circumstances:
which have been traced. S
- at Fort Norfolk, where they will be
| langed in two, or three days.
} thatp;hegNigre, 3 days Mﬁ;@s
¥ a gentleman paflenger we learn,
- out; retook t};q,qoutmri‘gmngba&
~maica thips Favourite and Bouthy
‘[:fr}ParE;capmi'ed a ﬂtm'tnﬁn&ebefere lyy
~a French privateer; andfent themin
to Port Antonio. :
- -By the fame gentleman we-are also
informed, that Jeremie was'evacuated
the 12th ult. by the British; and they
had accounts at Jamaica, that' they
_had also commenced the evacuation
of Cape Nichola Mole. &
Mr. P. Garts, paflenger on boa¥d
.the prize from Jamaica, embraces this
medinum of publicly returning his ac
_knowledgments to Capt. N%:.holfon,
_for his politelefs and attention to him
while on board the Constitution.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28.
- A man was found dead the day
before yesterday, in a house in Front,
near Walnut street, dire&ly opposite
the Green tree pump. The corpse
was firlt. discovered, by the very of
fenfive smell which was found to pro
_ceed from the house., From the time
-that has elapsed, since the family left
the house, the corpse, it is thought,
~muit have been lying there at least a
month—it was in .so high a state of
putrefadtion, when discovered, that it
was removed by pieces to the coffin,
in which it was deposited. ' '
An - addition to the above, a man
was found dead in a house in South
Water Street, near Chefnut, it is sup
posed that he has been dead for three
weeks—it was discovered by.a man
having occasion to go. into the house
for some things which he had Ileft ;
on opening -the door, there -was such
.a stench came out of the house, that
~he was obliged to retreat. g
A ‘negre man_ entered the house
-and found the body of a man almost
devoured by vermin, information was
given at the Health Office, about 4
o’clock in the afternoon ; the people
waited till eight o’clock in the even
ing andheard nothing from the Health
Office, two black men was hired for
16 dollars, to take the corps and throw
it into the river. Yesterday morning
the corpse was {een floating in the
dock. e L
A man was found dead in a fail
loft yesterday morning : The people
near the fail loft, fay that he was'well
on Saturday at noon. e SEh
-were mcted the measure they had
" made to others, and transported, some
to Seraingapatam, some to Batavia
. (niece to France) and others to the
~ bosom of their mother. The iflan.
ders cannot speak Englith yet. =
| A (Septhmßer 29, . &
+ __ This morning arrived, Capt. Sam’l
Taylor, who came passenger in the
brig Eliza, Kempton, artived at New
‘Bedford, from Bilboa, which place
they left the 6th August. Accounts
had been received. there, of an EM
BARGO throughout -France, on all
American vefels. 'That Mr. Gerry
was not allowed to leave Paris. Mr.
~Pinckney and family, was at Lyons.~
|, MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.
. On the loth inst. the **Meridian Sun
| dodge,” at Brookfield, was publicly confe
‘crated, and its officers inflalled, by ‘the R.
! W . Isaiah Thomas, Esq. (who has a deputa
| tion to visit, inftrul, &c. the lodges in the
g “three weflern counties of Maflachufents.) A
,‘fermon was preached on the occasion by the
. LChaplain of the Grand Lodge—**on the im
© portance of illufrating our profeffon by our
; example,”—and aninftru@ive and interefling
. Charge-was niven by the officiating Grand
' “Master. The whole was performed in the
.. .presence of a evowded, refpeélable,. and -
|- highly gratified audience. '
| After the public services, the brethren and
guefls partook of a noble fealt, under a molt
clegant alcove, erefted and ornamented for
" the occasion. g 7
-~ On the following day the R. W, Grand
Mafler, pro tem was pleased also to confe
-crate and inflall the, *‘Olive Branchk Lodge,”
atOxford, ~Theceremonies were in public,
before a large dudienice. ~ The Grand Chap-.
lai_; fl:livgzeq e:dciifcou’ffg 1; ‘om the pacg"ﬁ’c dg]é
ofitton’ and tendency of Freemofonry ¥an
"fhc R W, Br. Th)'oéi,-in -a’j{dic?ou's and
persuasive charge slated the duties of the
AR iad i ;
To the public félemnities succeeded a
. bounteous fealt—and brotherly love and joy
- crowned and closed the day. -
" SALEM, Sept. 28.
- Last evening Capt. Thistle, late
‘mafter of the Pilgrim, of Beverly, con
~demined at Bayonne, arrived home.—.
"He came in the brig Eliza, Kempton,
of New-Bedford, from Bilboa, with
Capt. Mackay of the Galen, and about
“20’other American paflengers. = He
heard, that the“baggage ofg Mr. Gerry
“had ‘artived at Bordeaux, and that he
“had repeatedly applied for a paflport
" to come ‘Away himfelf, but was asoften
refufed. <He informs, that on the gth
“of %uly*ﬁ} general embargo took place
-in Francé on American vessels. '
"~ Capt. Thistle has favoured us with
‘the following ‘Ship News'¢ < -
* ' "The‘brig- Sally, Stacey; of Marble
head, bound-to Bilboa, wastaken by
- FrencK pFivatéery and sent into Bay
‘ onne; July I¢.- P pNas ]
i ‘The "fiip Ehza, M'Neil, ‘from
~“Charleéfton, mounting 12 guns and 30
“men, was taken by a French privateer
<miounting 18 g pounders and 18o'men,
~after maintaining an engagement of
~omie hour and an half, in which she loft
“one man killed and three wounded ;
“'was cdrtied into Passage in Spain the
« 13th of July, and thé¢ mate and all the
“ people put into prison; as was the crew
“of a schooner from Baltimore. -
~ In the small pott of ' Passage there
' were 8 French -privateers, mounting
- from 18 to 20 guns, mostly 6 and'q
* pounders, and manned with 160-to
- 200 men; tany of them Americans.
¢ The Americans who came paffen
“gers with Capt. Kemptont were in a
- very ‘ diftrefled -situation 'at - Bilboa,
.after being dismissed from their veflels,
- which had“been “captured ‘and con
- demned at ‘Bayonne. In Capt. K.
~they found.a friend, who generously
“felieved their wants, as far 'as was in
¢ his power, and conveyed ‘them' back
to their native eountry. . -~ = . . ¢
7 CaptiWatker,late of the brig Union,
- of Kenncbunt,arrived here last evening.
-~ . Capt. Wi informs, that the fch’r
«Clariffay ‘Benjamin' Raynes, master,
“from Demarara bound to Old York,
was taken by a French privateer, who
took out all except the'mate and one
*man. These afterwards attempted to
- recover their veflel. The mate: with
‘a blow laid the prize-master, .as he
“thought; adead wpon -the deck, and
then turned upon the man at helm ;
but the prize-master, who was only -
stunned, quickly recovered himfelf,
-and thrult a dagger through the
-mate’s back, which killed him inftant
rly.’ ~The other man made no further
efforts ; but when the vessel arrived
-at Guadaloupe, he was loaded. with
irons, put into the lower hold of the
frigate, and “kept upon bread and
water.. The master and other hands,
-who were ¢arried in in the privateer,
were also put on board the frigate as
prisoners; but not in so rigorous a con
finement: The Captain and people
of the privajeer declared; that if they
had known of the attempt of the mate
- to.tetake the veflel, they would have
thrown the master overboard. - -
+. Capte W. was informed at Guada
loupe, that there was not :more than
fit ‘months provifiens ‘in the island,
and considerate men appeared. to. de
precate the effects of a war with the
- States.
. oAb, Bordeaux, Fuyne 22.<—Venus,
“Qréfton;%ﬁﬂi.m‘“’ﬁﬂlwghﬁ
_Portfmouth, condemned ; brig Union, -
‘of Newburyport, on trial, is supposed
“will becondemned,. - . 0 o
Latest News from Europe.
On Friday arrived R‘-BOE » the {hip Eliza,
- Capuain Odell, ' 3g days fiom Land’s
}} End, England, = < 7 5 .
{London papers to August 14—twenty days
the latest )
FRANCE.
§6& Mr. Gerry on the 10th July, rede.
manded of the Fremch government, his
Passports, to leave France, We have not
Jeen his Letter to Talleyrand, but the Sfol
lowing is that Minister’s anjwer, There
was'a London paper at Weymouth, whick
contained Mr. Gerry's letter to Talley
rand ; Lut whick Capt. Odell, nor his
passengers could not procure,
.~ PARIS, (24 MESSIDOR) JULY 19,
Letter, from the Minifler of foreign rela
tions, to Mr. Gerry, Envoy of the United
. States, enclosing kim his ;a]ports.
AS long, Sir; as I had room to flatter
: myfelf that I might fulfil the wishes
of the Executive Dircgory, by endeavour
ing in concert with you, to re-eflablifh the
former good understanding between the
French Republic and the United States, I
exerted my best efforts both in my. confer
_ences and in my correspondence with you,
‘to facilitate the means, to eftablith the ba
sis, to "enter 'on the bufinels, and to con
vince you of the utility with which your
-presence at Paris must be attended. It was
10 your charafter of Envoy from the Ame
rican Government that I received you, and
“that I wrote to you ; it depended upon
yousfelf to be ‘publicly received, and ad
‘mitted by the Executive DireGtory, With
out coinciding in opinion with you,.that a
ny changes bave: been. induced by the de
parture of Meflrs. Pinckney and Marshall
in the full powers in which I read that you
were authorifed to treat {eparately, it ap
peared to me, that in the very hypothefisin
~which you placed yourfelf, you ought to
refer the queflion to your Government,
and in the interval to fix withme, in a calm
and fryendly difcuflion, upon all the dispu
table points .on which we differed. This
way of proceeding was the more natural,
because without attending to the premature
information which your government has ob
tainctl of the offer to treat with yoa after
the departure of your colleagues, my note
of 28 Ventofe, (March 18) which must
bave reached Philadelphia, towards the end
of Floreal, left no shadow of a doubt on
this fubje@—it contains thrce objelts per
feétly diftin&t—it begins by re&ifying, with
the dignity that belongs to the French Go
vernment, the statement of grievances made
by the United States, and drawn out by
their Envoys, in the inverted order of fafls
the preceding 28 Nivofe, (Jan. I%)—it
next points out the motives that prevented
-the negociation being cartied on with the
. Envoys colle&tively, It finally declares; in
the most solemn manner, the conciliatory
dispositions of the Executive Dircélory,
and its formal desire of reuniting, Between
the two countries, the ties of their ancient
“amity, and the intention of treating with
you. Such an explicit declaration could
‘not have been made but with the view of
furnifhing the President of the United States
with infallible means of coming tc an ac
commodation. 1t was throwing down a
pledge of peace in order that it might be
taken up. 1 presumed to think that you
could not be long without receiving anala
gous inflruflions, and even other powers,
were they neceflary ; or at least, that if you
had announced to the Prelident a design of
returning to America, some other Envoy:
would come and occomplifh tbchappy task
‘which we' should have the fatisfaltion of
‘preparing.~—To hopes, thus solidly found
ed, there were added some observations on
the inconvenicnées that attended your de
parture. .1 gave you tounderfland, . that
notwithstanding your assurances to.me, no
one would believe that it proceeded solely
from your own inclination, from a thorough
conviflion of the invalidity of your pow
ers; or from adefire of feeing tgac b&gr?efs
of the negociation intrufted to other hands.
I observed to you on the conjeftures to
which it would give rife ; on the means it
would furnifh to the Britith Cabinet, that
spares no dpains to its endeavours to drive
l?raantc and the United States to extremities
from .which it alone would derive advan
tage j and even on the very suspicions that
it must call up in the mind of the French
Government. I endeavoured to make you
fee into its pofiible consequences ; but 3 va
riety of circumstances occurred, which have
already retarded the reconciliation of the
two Republics ; it is but natural for him
who feels a sincere solicitude for peace, to
be under apprehensions left new obstacles
should arise to retard it. These considera
tions which I shall ever recolle&t with ride,
inddced ‘me 1o oppose the deﬁre‘whicg ou
had enteriained of gining Franee. .ﬁut
you peremptorily insisted upon it in your
letter of the ged inst. The Direfory has
consequently authorifed me to furnith you
with 3:: paflports which you have request
ed for )*-iomfclf and for the vessel that awairs
you at-‘Havre. You have them enclosed.
May your return to the United Srates, and
the communication of what has palled be- -
tween us, since you only have represented
your government, remove the injurious o-
Eu'”i‘-n of hostile intentions on the part of
radce ! You have frequently affared me,
that if you could not treat here as Envoy,
your good offices should not ge wanting as
a citizen on'your return to the United Siates.
It were impofiible for you to renderamore
signal service to the two countries, than by
‘contributing to make theirpolitical and com.
mercial rclations accord with their inclina
tion and their interet. Assure your go
vernment that the Exccutive Direltory per
severes In° the intention of loyally and sin
cerely endeavouring to reconcile the differ
nces that have arisen between the French
iﬁgohhc and the United States, as fooh as
an opportunity of so doing shall be fin.
If it be really true, that the dispositions
of your government, ase prepased 1o co-op
eratey let them but give a proof of it, and
‘you before-hand answer. for its fuccels.~—
You cannot dissemble,” Sir, rhan!nozhmg
bas prevented you from following up with
‘me the examination and the redreflion of
“the grievances which divide the two coun
tries, we Thould not Jong fland in need of
ady thing but Bur relpefiive raiificaiions.
Who can entertain a doubt of the French
Government, when it shall be known that
for now mearly three months every pacific
solicitation came from me, and that in faith
fal compliadce with the engagements I con
m&:&;ﬁ my note of 28 Ventofr,(March 18)
wasthe firft seriously to press forward the
bufinefs-of the negociation afier the depar
ture of Melirs. "PrxckNey and Mar
saaLL ? It will, I wull, be said that a re
fufal to trear with them argued an anwill
ingnefs to come to a conciliation, whereas
that refufal was accompanied-wirh-a-pro
mife to treat with you, and veur full pow
ers represented you as a person who wasau.
thorifed to treat separately. - To:that docue
ment ihall I inccflantly appeal, becaule it is
the basis of the opifnion which your govern:
ment ought to have formed, and that even
in admitting you were tied down by secret
reftriions, I could not.in my mind oppose
what 1 do'not know from the .trufl due to
your ostensible authority. Yes, Sir, when
scarcely acquainted with the departure of
Mefl. PinckNEY, and Marsuare, I
made it a point, in every conference which
I held with you from that moment, 1o e
vince to you the urgency, the propriety, the
poflibility of an aflive negociation. ¥
collefted your ideas ; they were d'g rent
from mine. 1 laboured to reconcile them;
and 1 was about to transmit proposals 1o
you when a packet from your government
artived at Hevre. You then seemed pre
pared to depart. Till then 1 had. never
imagined that you conceived the design of
embarking till we had come to an agree
ment upon the definitive articles 1o be raz
‘tified by your government. A few days
after, 1 reccived some dispatches from Pé:-
ladriphia, which for 2 moment gave a new
turn to my correspondence with you. Up
- on the 2od Priarial (June 10,) I notified to
you that the dispositions of the Executive
- Direflory were the fame, and I requested
you to inform me whether you were in a -
tuation to negociate | Upon the goth Pri
arial, (June 18) I tranimitted you.a com
plete plan of negociation. Upon the gth
Mcfidor, June 27, 1 sent you my firft note
for difcuflion upon one of the points of our
treaties which are not put in execution
in the United States. You declined
to make any reply toit. Itis necessary,
however, to agree uponthe details of &
fubjeét in order to arrive at any conclusion,
Upon the 18th Mefidor, July 6, I sent you
two other notes. In vaig' I accompanied
these powers with the most cordial invita=
tion rapidly to run over this series of indif
penfible discussions upon all our grounds.of
complaint. You never even gave me an
opportunity to proveto you with how much
liberality the Direflory were disposed to
att in this matter. You cominoﬂfonly to
~write for your permission to depart. Yet
~itis the French Republic on which the
~ blame is laid in the Unsted States; ot being
averse to peace ! Perfidions infligators
will insinuate that it has always been a
verse to it. 1 shall go back, therefore, to
the period when symptoms of discontent
manifefted thenifelves, that is to fay, on the
arrival of the Minister Genet; at Philadel
phia, in Priarial,ift year. A universal joy
appedred at the declarations he was authorif
ed to make. He then exprefled the amica
ble and genetous intentions of the French
- government, which, powerfukin the national
energy, abstained from reclaiming the aid of
its allies. In-a short time some of its pro
ceedings gave umbrage : they were the efs
fe& of a 2eal ill adapted to circumstances,
and unfortanately flill worse interpreted.—
The President made his complaints in
France, at the end of the fame year. The
Committee of Public Safety, gave immedi
ate fatisfaltion ; and other Agenis arrived
at Philadelphia in the beginning of Ventofe,
year e. Their inftruétions will bear the wt
moft pablicity. * Not ‘to interfere in any
party affairs—to refpet the government—to
prompt it to maintain its neterality with
vigours—to repress all srmaments “which
might endanger, it~to maintain the rights
secured to France by treaties. Such 1s the
substance of these inflru@ions ; such, fur
ther, were the inftru&tions given to the Mi
nister Adet, who facceeded these agents in
the year 3. = Surely nothing can be more;
‘pacific. . Néverthelels the rights of Frante
_are insensibly affefied ; the most Imiportant
clauses of her treaties are rendered infignifi
cant. Her ships experience the most dis-
Couraging vexations ; En%lan'd fporis. with
impuaity with theneutrality of the Uaited
‘States whick becomes # source of grear loss
to France, which ‘placed too much cons.
~dence in it., A tranfallion, clandellinely
negociated, concludes. with eflablifhing to
the disadvantage of a power at amity with
the United States, the pretensions of its most
implacable enemy. From that time forward?
there has been nothing between the Ameris
¢an government which ‘the representations
-embarrass, and the Minjfters Plenipotentiary
of the French Republic who were bound to
make them, but a correspondence which has
-gradually risen in point of asperity. = The
French government' has never interfered.
It has reficd in the hope that whe true interest
of the United Sares would Jead them to dis
cover th;t.ED%ll!'i was drawing them into -
her vortex, Far from aflaming a hofile
attitude, it affefled indifference, 10 order to
be patient, confilently with dignity. The
number of complaints which were presented
compelled it at Jength 10 a& ina different
manper. On the 25th Brumaire, Novem.
ber 15, year s,adeclaration was made of
the grounds of comiplaint, and in-erder to
bring about a negociation, tog long deferred,
it draws from the treaties of Paris and Lon.
don the arguments best calculated to ageele.
rate it. It was animated by no hostile viey
~no disposition towaids aggreflion.——ln or.
der to obtain jullice from the United States
it places them in a fituation'ta be the fieß
to calt for an arrangement. Let us fee
whrc;ber it has rejeQed any honerable pro.
PQ al. v 7 + » k -
Mr. Pinckney had set out before the de
claration of the esth Brumaire, which fol
pended the accuflomed relations. . He came
ta replace M_.}Munfqp.,;nd like him 1o ex
g!a_mv,a‘t_id.‘ %allpage the condudt of the United
States, without any {ﬁ:ﬁ powers re(pe@-
ing the negociation desired of France. He |
could not be received, not being in a fitua
i resz;b%sqﬁ’gimﬂ Mmg
a retumpuion of political conneflion. The
President of the United States thought it
soy to call n excraordiary mecung of
the Legislative Body. 1 shall ot review
his opening fpecch, nor the rurns which
the debates ook in the courte gs that feflion,.