National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-08-28 00:00:00, page 2

Common Council of the state corporation
of Georgia (the office of governor being
aboliffoed) with the principal citizens of
Savannah, are impi ifoned for a debt
from lhat corporation upon an execution
issued out of the supreme court of the Pro
leftor. Our information adds, that fusts
multiply so fait againlt the dates' that new
gaols are building in every ward for tbe
better accommodation of the prisoners.'
1 We have not room to insert rbe whole
of the new treafen a£t: The principal new
treafjns created by the ftatuteare —Speak-
ing difrefpe£tfully of the Prote&or, his
lady and jfnie, whether legitimate or ille
gitimate —Attempting the life of either of
the lords of the hereditary council —of any
feiiator —of the lord chief-juft'ife, or of any
other seder al judge—To violate the cliaf
tity of the lady, daughters, aunts, or mis
tresses of either of the great officers of
fldte, or to propose any alteration in the
government, unless with the consent of a
majority of the officers abovementioned.
•The 90th and 95th regiments of infantry,
commanded by the Marquis of Ontario,
aie on their march against the mal -con
tents of Virginia. These rebellious and
turbulent people have had the temerity to
petition for a redress ot grievances. From
the gallantry of the Marquis, and the de
termined bravery of his troops, lately dif
playedon a fnnilar occasion in N. Carolina,
we cannot but flatter ourrelves that their
arm* will be crowned with complete suc
cess.'
'The hereditary council will meet in fu
ture at the new palace in Philadelphia.—
This superb edifice cost the moderate furn
of lix hundred thousand dollars, ten cents,
and five mills, which exceeded the emu
lation of the firft lord of the treasury only
by two dollars, three cents, and one mill.'
' 7 he principal alteration in the jury ac
is, making the verdict of a maj rity as
conclulive in criminal cafcs, as if the ju
rors had been tinanimons.'
« A few copies of the ast to ' restrain the
freedom of the press,' maj be had at this
effice.—'!!!
—No. I.—
" There is Something rotten in the Jlate of
Denmark."
WHEN my great ancestor made the
above declaration —no matter, whe
ther in real history or profitable fable—it
may, too often, be applied to all govern
ments.
My fellow citizens will agree wiih me,
that there is something rotten in every ad ■
jniniftration of Europe—will it then be
criminal to make a fair enquiry, as to our
own ? Can the examination do us any real
injury ? The fabric is alnsofl new—if it is
unsound, there must have been some
bad materials in its composition : if it
is weak, lome original fault, in its con
ftruftion : if injured, there must be bad
management, by some part of the family,
who h -vc had the care of it—leaving it to
the good sense of the people to decide 011
the fact, it (hall be my province to state to
them, fo-ne material and striking instances
of past mismanagement, in the government
as their affairs—fome notorious abnfes of
their confidence —not to look back for jus
tice, but to be on their guard, for the fu
ture. to prevent them.
I am a federalift, an advocate for unity
of empire—l do not with to injure our fe
deral government —I vvifh to correfl and
amend it—if it is tolerably good, may the
people preft-rve it so. But it wiil soon
grow worse, if we do not watch it.
Set it down as a maxim, my fellow citi
sspns, that eve'y nation under heaven, let
their government be ever so good will
soon find it perverted and corrupted, if
the people are not continually active to pre
vent it. Do we not fee the fa£t every hour
.—that when the heir of an estate leaves the
management of it to agents, they soon ma
nage it for tbtmfelves —it he lets them
have long pofleffion, they will dispute his
title deeds, and call it their own.
Ininy future letters, I will demonstrate
the force of this maxim—at piefent, a
matter of high import, preffeson my mind,
as neceflary for our immediate decifios.
The pretended misunderstanding betweer
our firft magistrate, and the French mimf
ter, may and will be attended with tht
word of consequences, if not iiiflantly done
away. Our union was never more necef
faiy—it was never more feverelv attacker
—nothing, that I can figure to my imagi
nation, could more completely g'ut the
malignant pride and wishes of our Ameri
*in tories, and their Englilh associates.
than a fcrious dispute between France anc!
America. By our alliance, they have been
reduced to infignificance and ihame—by
our divisions tliey may reaflume their
haughtiness and importance. It is evident
that the lie they have propagated, is be
lieved, even by the Preiident, by Mr. Jay.
and Mr. King ; of course, it has had credit
among the people. Ask the President, il
the minister made such a declaration to
|jj m —his answer implies a negative—Ja>
and King fay they heard it from Hamilton
Hamilton heard it from Knox—Knox
heard it from Mifflin—Mifflin from his fe
cretary —his secretary from God knows
W here is,the man then who has heard it?
If those principal officers ot our govern
ment, do not, openly, and immediately.,
acknowledge this matter to be a lie—that
they were betrayed into a bel.ef of it, t|iey
may expeit their fellow citizens will form
a molt unfavourable conclulipn. i hey
will, and ought to suppose, that the thief
leaders of our- administration, have from
inclination, given weight to the vile re
port, ; wishing to find a pretence lor their
cold conduct towards our flittering allies.
—Alas 1 what a change in the language
of our governors ! When we wanted
men. money and arms, these generous
Frenchmen were ourgreat and good friends
—we the grateful sons of freedom ready to
spill onr blood in payment, for efficient
aid. Mr. Genet has too much delicacy to
reproach us—but feeling as I do, all the
love and gratitude I felt, as a citizen in
1778, I may freely express my opinion. I
difllke, and disapprove, not only the pro
clamation, but the tenor of the conduct o'
our executive towards France, for some
time pad. Wehave-fent a minister there,
who has inceffanily abused the National
Convention, with illiberal epithets and
bitterness ; who has offended their minis
ters not to be forgiven—and he is con
tinued again ft the will of the nation. In
dead of offering them our services, one oj
nur admimftration is supposed to be now
ivritinga gainst their-conftruftion of one of
the molt disinterested and generous treaties
that ever a nation conceived or executed.
I Will venture to fay, that had the hearts
us the honest whigs, w lw» fought our bat
tles ; who carried our President 10 victory
and tame, 011 bare feet, been flittered K
"peak, at ihis important crisis, their lan
milage would have been nearly this.Brave
and worthy Frenchmen, we do not forget
nor do we wifhtodeny, that the land* we
now pofleft, the peace we now enjoy, the
wealth we now acquire, the very libertj
we so highly value, was Jeciired by you-.
tell us how to repay thedebt of gratitude.'
They would have laid to England, "We
have 110 politive with .0 do you injury we
lave forgiven your fins, though of crimfor
dye, in the blood of our country ; but yet
have no claims on our friendlhip, having al
ied yourlelves to the highway robbers of
the world ; be Satisfied if we take 110 part
igainft you." I will, for example fake,
uppofe the cafe of an individual. Had 1
blind a man, in the hands of a ruffian, who
lad robbed his house, bound his children,
ind was, that moment, aiming a blow,
hatmuft have ended his life and the hopes
jf his family—in a word,faved him, and
dl that he bad, from perdition: what
.vould be my feelings and language, if he,
n turn, saw me attacked by barbarians ;
liould I not fairly expert him to fly to my
illiftance ? ought he not to lend me a
'word ? Could I expea him to hold my
lands, to please them, or the language of
mmility tu sooth their wrath? Could 1
?xpe£t him to snatch up his tables of arith
netic to know whether his interest lay
jgainft me or my afl'aflins : taking into
he balance, the a customer, or in
urance against a broken head ; how could
[ refrain calling him a dirty calculating
coundrel, who ought to have perifiied un
ler the hands of his enemy 1
Aug. 26. HAMLET.
NEW-YORK, August 22.
Every good republican cannot be other
wise than highly piealed with the manly
ind firm.letter of Citizen Genet, which
tppeared yefteiday. Instead of defct;nd
ng to a newspaper controversy with his
rweinies, he boldly appeals to the only per
-011 who could know . tor a refutation of
he charge—while his letter breathes the
anguage of a man, sensible to the indignity
iffered him : it does not merely lolicit the
President's intervention, or throw a veil
D»er his palt conduct. He reminds him
if the remonstrances he has had occasion
;o make, but calls 011 him as a man ofpro
jity, to deny the actuation, of his threat
ening to appeal to the people. It is to be
amented that it did not comport with the
President's dignity, tu answer the letter
limfelf. Some think that a letter from
:he President to a Minifler from the firlt
nation on earth, when appl; ing to him on
3 per/onal and confidential, and not on an
official or diplomatic fubjotl, would not
hzve derogated from his honor, more than
writing to Mr. Crugar, as chairman of tie
meeting in front of Trinity Church. There
was a liine when the President would
have afled a less stately part, Jed'tempora
mutautur et nos muiamuv cum illis!
From Mr. Jefferfon's answer, it appears
that the President could, if he hud pleased,
;>ear evidence against the declaration ot
Mr. Jay and Mr. King: as he withheld
this teltimony, it w«uld have been in cha
ra&er, to have been equally tenacious ol
his opinion. It was for a fact, not an opi
nion, that citizen Genet applied to him.
No part of citizen Genet's letter to the
President has given greater oiience to
itie good people of this city, than that
in which he calls his Britannic Majefly a
tyrant-—whatever America might have
once thought of this grtat perl'onage, flu
now th inks him a very clever fellow: Citi
zen Genet, w ill please therefore, to ex
punge this exceptionable expreflion in the
next publication of his letter or he wil
hear something from a legion of citizens 1
It is high time the crown on the upper
extremity of the spire of St. George';
Chapel flwjuW be taken down, V/ithom
administering liints for that purpose thro'
the public prints. The high churchmen
afl'ert that it is not very easily taken down,
owing to the crown's being fixed to the
fame spindle which runs through the iron
work below, and that it turns with the
vane. Notwitliftanding these difficulties
the nuijance complained of might be easily
done away, and at a (mail expense, by co
vering the crown over with the cap of Li
berty. This would make a much better
appearance than that relique of tyranny,
and would convince our fellow citizens, as
w ell as foreigners, that the congregation
is not so loyal and warmly attached to
crowned heads, as people in general ima
gine. We are told of a church.jn Phila
delphia with a mitre on the fjiire. Jt is
high time such baubles were taken down,
as they are an abomination in the eyes ol
every true republican.
By fimdry letters from an officer in tin
vjejlern country, to. a gentleman in Staun
ton, (Virginia) dated July 2, 1793, ve
learn the following : —
" That general Wayne, with about eocc
men, had arrived at fort Walhington on
the 7th of May, and more w ere expected ;
they encamped 011 the banks of the Ohio,
but were not expefled to remain there
long. Gen. Wilkirifon, on the 27th oi
May, was encamped, with a few companies
of infantry and one of artillery at Lud
low's (on Mill Creek) five miles advanced
of Fort Walhington : he had opened a
road from fort Walhington to Fort Ha
milton (about 27 or 28 n.iiei) 4ofcet wide,
and cleared of everv obflruction. A few
days previous to this, capt. Cufhing had
been out at Forts Jefferfon and St. Clair,
picking cut the invalids and all such as
were riot fit fcr a£lua! service. These are to
£0 to gai rifons, and the companies from
which ihey are taken, will be sided up
with those from the garrison- fit for in.me
diate service. A large quunity of corn is
taken toFort J fferfon, where it is expect
ed the greater part of the army will soon
be. In the beginning of June, colone!
Strong, with a detachment of 500 men.
ttpened a road as wide and in like manner
is the one formed to Fort Jefferfon, where
hey were expected to Hay for the purpose
if making hay : it was much apprehended
his detachment would havebeen attacked,
aut there was not the leaf! iign of an ene
my j several of the men loft thenifeves,
and on their return said they were chafed
3y Indians, but it is probable this was ail
i fiction. Every poflible preparation was
"naking for a campaign, but it would be
Pine time before Ihe conference of the
reaty would be known, and the neicflary
orders from the war department could
each the army, if war was to be carried
jn."
~P H I L A I) E~L P HI A.
Wednesday, August 28.
A Fhsnch paper contains the- following
remark :—' \V e have not a single ally ; or,
to speak more truly, the people of ever)
country are our allies, but thc governments
are our enemies.'
A correspondent observes, that the above
Dbfervation applies with peculiar propriety
and truth to this country. We find at lead
Tome of the principal officers of our go
vernment not only waging war against the
principles of the French revolution by
words and deeds, but are endeavouring tu
(lit up the people to an opposition by ca
lumniating the mimffer, and Cowing the
feeds of distrust and jealoufy—Witnets the
monarchical Pacificus, and the inlidious
No-Jacobin, and others —the work of one
pen. Let it be aiked whether the public
fives 3500 dollars per year to an officer tc
employ part of his time in vilifying repub
licans, and fpreadirg the tares 01 ariltu
craey and monarchy in a country which
lias in all probability (heltered him from
' poverty and infignificance.'
Citizen G. A. CHKRUI, Agent of the
French Republic at Alexandria, to the
Citizens of the United States —Alexan-
dria, Aug 20.
"IT is useless to put yon in mind of tlx
plots that the Ariltocfats have formed foi
many years past the Republican:
and the Friends to Liberty. You are not
igrWrant of the blood these cruel allafiin:
have spilt, in every part of France, in la
crificing and putting to the sword those
brave citizens that gold could not corrupt.
Open your eyes, and know that this in
famous coalition of seditious men cxilts in
this continent, and that their design is tc
eftablifli a new theatre of cruelty and ca
lamity. I was told yesterday, by peep'.e
worthy of faith, and known by. their pa
triotism, that ill-intentioned people, gran
gers to this country, have publithed inia
inous calumnies against Citizen Genet,
Minilter Plenipotentiary from the French
Republic in the United Stales of America,
which are fufficieilt to break for ever the
union that now exiils between the two
Republics, and to operate the ruin of par
wile and virtuous Miniller.
It is my duty to make al! ncceffiry in
quiries to discover the authors of such an
1 odious accufatiqn; and it. is with fatisfao
tion 1 hear that this piiSßcaticr. !:r,s net
been made by American citizens.
It is in the name of Liberty, that every
virtuous man ought to revere, I beg tie
American citizens, our brothers, to lhi:c
their hearts against all tie (editions and
calumnious discourses which they may hear
against the honour and dignity cf the re
sectable Citizen Genet, and to look upon
the author* of such seditions reports; as
men bribed by our common enemies, win*
reek nothing elle but to diftionoursud abo
i tfh the French Republic, and to (pread
:livilion and discord betwtea the iv>»
powers. 1
Extrall of a letter from N. Yori. At:™. 20-
" The city is as quiet as if there wire
,10 foreigners here. The French are re
markable for their civility, ami peaceable
einperate behaviour. TiioOjrfi there are
ibove 5000, one would not, from the noise
ivhich is made, suppose there v. crs sc.—
They generally return on board at seven
j'cluck. The Mayor was ' reqioeited by
bme persons, who app: ehnttied diftur
>ance, that he would defile the Admiral 10
irder all his men on board at an t-ariy
sour. The Mayor (aid it was hard to
onfine them on board the fleet in fucit
.varm weather, anc! while tin y continued
o b»haveas they have done, lie ftottldnot:
nterfere.—So you fee, they 3re not wild
tten, ready to prey en the delcncelefs."
Particulars relative to the flopping of the
Jloop AP.ive, a Britijh 'vcffcl, at Char-
Is/ton, ihe captpin of z-.h::h was at
tempting to arm her in that port.
August gi.
Vhe wailike appearance of the (loop
Ailive, William Mnrlhall, j after, from.
Montego Bay, occasioned fufpition in the
..reads of theft citizens,who, 10 their ere
:lit, are tenac'tousof their country's honor."
No existing i: eaty warranting a Britifn
vt flfel to r.rm in an American port, in ad
dition to thePrelidcnt's proclamation, cap
:ain Marshall's meafnres soon because ge
aerally known. The republican society,
which appears to be but a patriotic aflem
-ilage of the citizens of Charleften, f*ln
;hemfelyes deeply intereded. But wir.lt.
lot less attention to the majeily of private
irtue, than to public order, were their
jroceedings directed.
Mr. Edward penman, of the Iroufe of
Vfeflrs. James and 1 iKvartl Penman, had
aken an affidavit before Juflice Cunning—
on, that the veflel in queftiori ",vas con
•gned to him for tl)e sole purpose of load
ng with rive—that (he had 110 commiffior*.
>r letter of marque, or meant to ast ire.
my refpeft as a privateer, or had guns or
jther warlike {lores of (lis providing.
Capt. Marfllall alio took his affidavit of
laving no intention of arming his veflel—
lenied her having warlike (lores or a com—
nifficm either as a letter of marque or pri
vateer..
A committee was appointed on Tuesday
■vening, to wait on Mr. Penman, awl after
nqtiiry into the circjtn ftancet, demanded
hat the arms and military (lores said to bo
>11 boatd the Aclive, be. reianded : Mr.
penman declared his ignorance of the in—
entions of the captain, till within a few
lours —said the captain ncttd without hia
>rders, and gave hr word of honour as a
onfignee, to order the capuin to re-land
lis military accoutrement"s.
The written order of Mr. Penman to>
Dapt. Marfliall, to difarnl his vefiei was.
hewn and acknowledged to (ome gentle—
nen by the captain, accompanied with
leciaration tin r he would parr them only
>y force of arms. A >v.i tit p. cf the society
jvas held 'cd Wednesday evening, and a.
efoiufion entered into, upon a general
ip'Hiion of its legality. from the well
mown maxim, 'that pi i.ate jtiftice mult
•he place to public ficurity, 1 of obliging;
he captain to con ply with the law of na
tions. Another committee was appointedl
0 visit Capt. Marshall, on ThuiTday. morn—
lig, iit the name of th • republican (ociety,,
md demand his answer, whether or noc
le would comply with the afore nienti
)iied requifttion, allowing him till eighir
j'clock. He enquired by w hat authority
hey came—he said perhttps he would obey
he governor's commands, and used many
More evaflve politious. I'pun theit urging
he neccffity of a decifire anfuter, he told
hem he would not gi e up hisguns, &Ci.
iil obliged to by force of arms. The com
nittee made their report, and the unani
nous relblve ot the focicty determined the
;vent. Capt. Cnnnington's troop ancJ
1 detachment of the battalion of artillery
11 their uniform, attended as a guard, and
;he veflel, by the citizcns. w as boarded ant!
.varped in .withoutoppolition. The greatefi:
jolitenels was (hewn to the captain, buthis
lehaviour favoured I'trongly of obstinacy—
The following (lores were landed & fafely
:ondutt£d to thelaboratory ol'the artillery,
—3 (is., pounders double fortified, 2
:hree ditto, 4 fwivcls, 325 1 ound (hot»
"ome grape (liot, and a Dumber of pistol
Dails.
Three unfiniflied carringfs, worms, &c.
were found by a detachment of the horse
in a blacksmith's fliop, which were to be
lent ou board by Tuesday next, nndfeventy
men were to be put 011 bo«tJ when (he
(hould have pafli-d the har.
Too much cannot bo- said upon the mo
dsration oi aitusUv (UKeraed in