The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-10-15 00:00:00, page 2

lion was then made, that to
prevent a rupture, should
remain here till information
could be sent to my Govern
ment of these events. Em.
barraffing as such a state was,
I submitted to it rather than
to bring on a war. You af
terwards sent me your note of
the i4thGerminal,(3ift May)
proposing that I should re
fome our reciprocal commu
nications upon the interests of
the French Republic and the
United States. To this I re
plied on the 4th of April that
I could only confer informally
and unaccredited on any fub
je& refpe&ing our mission,
and communicate to the Gov
ernment of the United States,
the result of inch conference,
being, in my individual ca
pacity, unauthorized to give
them an official flamp.,—The
day after the departure from
Paris of the last of my col
leagues,! again addreffedyou,
and quoting the above para-,
graph, informed you, that this
I considered as the line of con
dud: well understood to be
observed on my part ; to this
you made no objedion ver
bally or by writing, and thus
acquiefeed in it ; had you not,
I should have immediately
demanded my passport. At
one of our firft interviews af
ter that letter, you stated a
difficulty in adopting the plan
proposed by my letter of the
2oth of April, from your not
being informed of the Gov
ernment of the United States
in regard to a treaty ; these
were so reasonable that I
'thought it best to communi
cate them to you, and accor
ding to your own opinion
since expieffed, they would
require little or no time for
difeuffipn; nothing can ex
ceed them for moderation or
justice.
Believing that you was se
riously disposed to bring for
ward the plan of a treaty for
the consideration of the Gov
ernment of the United States,
and being also convinced that
the fubje& had been so fully
difeuffed, and was so well un
derstood, as not to require
much time to accomplish it.
I informed you that I should
embark for America in June,
and although you objected to
it in the firft instance, you af
{towards appeared to be fully
convinced of the neceffity< ofl
if, and promised to digest the
plan proposed without delay,
and to fend it to me for ex
aminafr,l conferred with
you at different times on the
expediency of fending a Min
;iftet to Adelphi, to com.
plete the negociation, and
3ou promised to consider ot
> cng:n me arriv
'make myfelf quite easy ; thaw
France did not wish a war
with the United States; that
she had no thoughts of it ;
that the American affairs v6ere
then before the Executive
Directory,&: that every thing
would be arranged to my
wishes; I again stated the ne
cessity of fending a Minister
to America to complete the
negociation; you laid you
would propose one to the
Executive Directory. This I
could not suppose wasfor the
purpose you have since stated,
of residing there after the ra
tification of the treaty.
Thus were matters circum
stanced until the arrival of the
Gazettes, containing the Dis
patches of the Envoys totheir
Government, which gave a
more than momentary turn
to your correspondence with
me.—When I informed you
that I mould embark in the
Sophia, as soon as she could
be fitted for the lea, there was
Hill time to furnifh the plan
of the treaty, and to fend it
by me, if expedient. You
desired me to remain here ; I
told you my return was indif
penfible---and gave no other
reason ; I thought that fuffi
cient. You conceive it de
pendedon me to be publicly
received by the Executive Di
reaory ; but our opinions are
different on this point. A
Government fends three En
voys to treat with another
Government ; this objects two
of them and proposes to treat
with the third-candor must
admit, I think, that the latter
cannot accept the proposal,
without transferring, in this
instance, the Executive au
thority of his Government,
who would only have nomi
nated three Envoys to the for
eign Government who would
have appointed one of them.
You fay, that, if my powers
were altered by the departure
of my colleagues, yet, on my
own hypothesis, I ought to
have referred the question to
my Government, and in the
interim to have fixed with you,
by a calm andamicable difeuf
fion, all the contentious points
of our differences. If my
Government, as you repeat
edly averted, was apprised
before the 20th of March'
of the proportion" to treat
With me separately, it is evi
dent that if was not disposed
tofend me new powers ; for
the Sophia failed on the 28th
of that month ; and, know
ing this, you dill urged me to
make the application. I have
been always ready, and, had
you^c^ forward with ^
L'" %'"''h "°fr
I
1 you, on every part ot it, out
'1 posed till some time after I
was ready to embark, was on
ly relative to the Consular
Convention which will food
expire, was. contrary to myl
stipulation relative to confer
ences, in which you acquiefc_
ed, and would have required
months to be completed.
You wls the firft, you affirm,
to press seriously the negocia
tion ; y6u will agree with me,
that the merit Would have
been greater, had the measure
itfelf been feefible. You fre
quently remind me of your
exertions, which l am difpof-,
ed as much as possible to ap
preciate, ; regretting at the
fame time their circuitous di
reaion. On my part, I think
you will be convinced that
every thing has been done,
which circumstances herein
truly detailed would admit.
It ii with pleasure 1 learn that
the Executive Direapry iiftill rea
dy, and it ai much dilpofed at ev
er to terminate, by a liberal oego
ciation, the difference! which fub
,fift between the two countries.
Thit dilpofition has alwayt existed
on the part of the government of
the United States. A negociation
then, if let on foot, free from all
proportion! of loan! and explana
tions of speeches, to be held if ne
cessary io a city of some neutral
nation, and providing for a decif
fion by three or five commiflion
era, of all points which may not
be determined by direst negocia
tioo, would still be accompanied,
in my opinion, with fucceft ; but
having no authority,! cannot make
the propofitioo.
A preliminary measure appears
to be require in which the digni
ty of this government is as deeply
concerned as the iotereft of the
United States: The depredations,
outrage!, and cruelties committed
on our commerce and citizens io
the Weft-Indies, and on our coafti,
by French privateers, some of
which it is said have 00 commif
fioos, are perhaps Seldom parallel
ed among civilized nations. It is
said that this government has not
been early apprized of these e
vents, which have a great source
of irritation in the United States,
and a principal cause of the repres
sive measures adopted by them.
A recall of the commiffioos of the
privateers, and reftrainihg them by
ievere penalties to the proper ob
jeds of capture, cannot fail tb have
a happy effect.
You claim a promise of my
good offices as a privates citizen
ii America. These (halt not be
wanting to represent truly every
measure of this government, and
to render fuccefiful all such as may
be well adapted to eff.a a recoa
ciliation. This is all that can be
expeded of me, and the duty.
swhich I owe to my country will
acquire it. And now, Citizen
Miaifter, bavtog given you ates.
• timony of my esteem, loch M re
fofa from a frank and candid con
dua, 1 bid you adieu, wiring fin
cerel, a speedy fr.l>tfo
and commerce between the two
Republics.
riririri Accent. Citizen MtoifterJthe
ft%'^r~" tt^conuaerauCT, ~;„
E. GERRY.
The passports, said to have tee
feme witCTne Minifler't let er t ?
Mr. Gerry o' the 24th Meffdo,
were not delivered to him Uftil
Ifeveral days afterwards, and the
last of them not until the 6:h of
Thermidor.
Lateff Jhjmgn gntelltgmce.
WA Gentleman of this town, has
obliged ws with the loanof last Tues
day's Portsmouth paper. We thank
him for his politeness ; and should be
grateful to any other person who mjy
please to confer a Similar favor. Os
this paper, the following are the molt
materiel articles.]
ENGLAND.
LONDON, AUG. 10.
A DISCOVERY has lately
been made, which promise!
the most important cbnfequences
to Navigation. It cenfifts of a
compafa and latitude instrument,
in which, we underhand, th ? mag
netic fluid is so disposed and con
troled, thze it ihall lie truly on
the meridian in all parrs of the
globe, and that cooftaatly. The
other instrument, by a fim^r
management of the fluid, gives
the latitude, with the fame univer.
fality, in all seasons and weathers,
with minutes of a degree.
Buonaparte's Expedition.
A letter from Alexandria, which
appears in the Echo Paper of the
the 4th inst. has the following ac
count of the preparations made
there for Buonaparte's Expedition.
—"The magazines whirl! have
been forming here are all ready.
We are taught to exped the arriv
al of 40,690 men ; they now
speak but ot 20,000. The other
20,000 are to go by the Ille of
Cyprus to Aleppo, & from thence
to pahi by the Euphrates co the Per.
fisp Gulph. The column from this
place will go to Seuz, by Rosetta
and Cairo, thence to embark on
the Red Sea, where the French
Engineers have conftruded rafts,
which cannot be endangered by
the (hallows. These carry 3,4,
or 500 men each. The Ihlps of
war which the French have at the
Illes of France and of Bourbon,
are to meet them at the. mouth of
the Gulf, and to proteA their pil
lage through the Indian Sea,
wnere the Eighth hive only a
few frigates.
" The two French Commiffa,
ries who are here, insinuate to the
Turks that they are going to
fight the enemies of the religion
of Mahomet — This produces such
an efta, that they may raise any
number of recruits, if so difpofed.'
—Two Frenchmen, who have
fetved in the Army of Tippo Saib,
have been here lor some days.
They wait for the French Com
mander io Chief, to confer with
him on the future operational
India. The French have plenty
of money, and are of course well
served. The Pachas have receive
ed orders from the Porte to furnifh
whatever they may require.',;l
pln letters from Leghorn, of the
fl ult. we are roid, thit it was
currently reported to genergll, .
believed there, that Buonapartt's
nraeniratioDa Biter fetevintf MuL
1, was for Canes, and afterwards
for C^ndia bnth
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