The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1793-11-27 00:00:00, page 1

f '°" Citizen Da MERY, Consul of the
'fyoy^Q/uc/^ to Citizen Adams,
ieut. GRhfcf the Commonwealth of
m, -b^ts.'
Button, Nov 7, 1793.
Second Year of the French Republic.
The Cir%en Coi'ul of the* French Republic,
:'it / ton,to SAMUEL ADAMS,
Jr; **<ant Governor and Commander in
ti:efcf Ac Commonwealth of Moffachu
fetts.
SIR,
JN^EWo/ers call me again near you.
T^ Minister of the French Republic
has, with reason feared thu as in so im
profit a circumßance, the consequences
of w^tch will, have so great an influence
on the defligy of both Republics, French
and American, feme essential measures
(houki have escaped my zeal.
~ Give me leave then, Sir, after having,
agait, assured you of my sincere refpe&
for all the laws and constituted authorities
of a icuntry, where I was in hopes to pass
the remainder of my days ; the dear and
pleating hopes of which, I do not yet def
ipair of; my sensibility for the good treat
ment that I daily ^eive from my repub
f'ran brothers of roUpo—and jny refpeft
fi| and grateful attachment for the virtu
ous Successor to the patriotic and virtuous
HANCOCK—to use, though with the
feelings of the greatest pain, which, alas
I may lift all my days—to use the right
-which I have, as Representative of the
French Nation, in the Republic of Maffa
chufetts.
By which unhappy receffity ; by which
dreadful fatality, dreadful perhaps for our
two nations, yet fillers, is it possible, that
my twofirft official steps, instead of per
mitting me to make use of the expression
o' theever dear fraternity, 1 am obliged
t use those which require the gravity of
Itec^cial demand of a rigorous trial.
/ C^n Duplaine, who had been ap
< n^ d to fulfil; per interim, the functions
, Consul to the State of Maffachufett^has
Ibeen dismissed without a previous judg
\ in+nt, by the Chief of the Federal Gov
hrnmenti
}This aft has been communicated to the
|Pieriprte~^ry of the French Republic ;
, his t.; orders that lam again
c<.( re to you, that he does not
?.,e w g' 3 validity, and that he or
^. t again of you the most fe
ft -?. r of the crime of which Citizen
\U.'t act fed, in order that he may
1. . by 8 sovereign, if he ought
,nl tn Sir, very earrietily, in
, ^ u^e cf tie French Nation, of Juf
/ and of Libr y, that the most formal
tend fi M I ,jy may be fully made in
this State, of the motives of that Difmif
fion,& into the legal forms which ought to
have preceded it.
+beg of you, in the mean time, that,
in scenting my orders I may deposit in
A our hands, "my Protest against this
impediment of the Executive power of the
United States, against the sovereignty of
he French people, that of the American
~pie, and the particular rights of the
State of Maffachafefr, which ought to assist
rd GippOTt foreign Agents, admitted a
them, when the verification of their
~ powers has been made by the firft Minif
y a o f the American Union."
' (Signed) DANNERY.
(No. 35- of Vol.?
Office J&fa>
[Vetblbe Papers accompanying the fame.)
THE
Columbian Informer;
Or, C HESHIREJOURNA L.
Printed and Published by HENRY BLAKE, & CO. in KEENE; Naw-Hamps hlre.
For as much, As ifto the Exequatur
Consuls, is any thing more than a verifi
cation of their powers, it would be pow
er communicated to them ; in which case
the Consuls would partly exercise the local
authority; and would no longer be foreign
Agents.
For as much, As the Consuls having re
ceived no power from the local govern
ment,ran be deprived of none by it. The
cancelling,therefore, of an Exequatur be
comes only a nugatory offence.
For as much; As the functions of
French Consuls, being nothing else than
French Magistracy established for French
Citizens, and operating in no shape up
on the Citizens of the United States; the
cancelling an Exequatur can only be tinder-
Rood as a prohibition to all French Citi
zens to acknowledge the authority of their
natural Magistrate ; and in this sense
this A& of Government has no dbjerih or
has a purpose which never can be answer
ed.
FOR as much As the Govern
ment exe cifes no other authority than
that which it has received by delegation
from the nation which it represents, and
that the nation could not have invested
with an authority, which it had not it*
felf.
For as much, 4# no nation has power to
limit, to obftrutt, and dill lefsto abolish
the authority which the Agents of a for
eign nation excrcife,by virtue of acknow
edged treaties and ofthe character with
which they are inverted.<
For as much, As the a& by which a
government acknowledges the Charaaer
of Foreign Delegates is rot,on its part, a
formal and necessary content to their po
litical exigence, for then it would partici
pate in the right of election, the mod sa
cred of rights, and of higher import to
nations, than to individuals.
For as much, At the enjoyment of the
prerogatives invested in the Consuls by the
treaties; is not a benefit conferred, but a'
mutual concession ; and that in endeavour
ing to lessen the dignity of their func
tions in one country, the Government of
it, fubjefts its own Agents to the fame de
gradation in all others.^
For as much, As a constitution in rill
free countries, and even despotism, in en
slaved ones, having once marked the lim
its of different functions, it is not permit
ted to any Government to narrow or en
large them.
For as much; As this exemption from
controul, being not only a security for the
public order within, but also the political
tranquility without, all Foreign Agents
have a right to be apprehensive of those
attacks, which an invasion by the local au
thority, makes on the Constitution, in the
connection which their functions have with
that Constitution.
For as mueh,As the Source of the powers
of foreign Agents is out ot the reach of
the local Government, and. that in regard
to this source, it owes the fame refpeftit
has a right to claim.
For as much, As the degree of rank
or extent is nothing to the nature of the
consideration due to them, and that the
right and force of the nation, as well as
the nation itfelf, is fully represented in all
those fundioas which are exercised in its
name.
Annexed to the Official Letter of the
French Consul at Boston, dated the 7th
November, 1793 —against an Aft of the
Government ct the United States, pur
porting a difmiffion of one of the Agents
of the French Republic.
For as much, As the Constitution of the
United States has given to the Govern
ment the right of receiving, not ofdifmif
ting, of acknowledging, not of denying
PROTEST.
WEDNESDAY, November 27, 1793°
I declare, that in ever, case of this fort;
the force employed to compel an arbitrary
difmiffion, and to hinder the usual delation
of subordination and afliftance between the
Agent of the French Republic; and the
French, permanently fixed, or tempora
rily resident in the United States, can be
only a persecution exercised against the
citizens of an independent nation, and
an a& of offence against the French nation
itfelf.
(Signed) DANNERY.
O«>>o4O4o6o«XD^NOo^x^^O+O
ORIGINAL MISCELLANY.
For the COLUMBIAN INFORMER, ^c.
" Teach me to carry anger as the Flint does
fire,
Which being much enforced foras abaft)
spark
And then is cool again."——- CATQ.
I FIND Messrs. Printers, that the
Censor is neither, cafy let alone, or noti
ced ; 1 therefore shall, without any apo
logy to y° u or the public, claim that free
dom (within propriety) allowed the press,
rind also my right as a citizen, under the
happy constitution of the State of New-
Hampshire. It Was my intention to have
at this timd examined the Censor's " for
mer numbers," but as he has in his great
sagacity seen fit to emit from his fund of
ostentation, the dregs of Jeurrility, I shall
undertake an answer to hia last perform-
Mr ^Cenfor fays, Zenex is not worth
his & Antion, and protests, that his effaya
are depute of reason, truth or equity ;
that lq some inscurate observers ffiould
be led' o believe a LIE and deem his fab
je£ tco, itcmptible, bis induced to pre-
foreign Agents ; and having denied it the
right ts declaring war, this prohibition
rughtfo extend itfelf to every fort of of
fenfivha, & especially to that of altering
or abailhing the choice of foreign Go
vernment, and depriving peaceable and
indy^cs individual residents, of. their
magiljficy.
For as much, as the French commerce
is a common benefit to both nations ; and
the Magistrates who protest the French com
merce, being at the fame time the friends
and auxiliaries of the American commerce,
their functions and their independence,are
as much a local, as a foreign prerogative ;
and thus an offence against their authori
ty, is also an injury against the country to
which the benefit of their exigence is ex
tended.
For as much, As the strange system of
annihilating Consuls; by the will of the
local Governments, tends to introduce in
to their rule of condu& a principal fear,
of gondefcenfion, or perhaps one still more
ignominious, ofhope and ambition; and
that such a degrading system is a personal
outrage upon the pride and delicacy ofthe
present Agents.
For as much, As although they have
in their eondu& as individuals, and in
in their private interests to answer for their
aaionsfoefore the Courts of the country
they rehde,(who proceed according to le
gal for ns and notarbitrarily) it is only to
the nation which has delegated them, that
they have an account to render, of their
official and judiciary condud,and can only
resign their million to the country from
which they derive it.
Fo L^l these reaforis. I, Consul of the
Frenchßepubiie, at Boston, PROTEST
against the aft of the Government of the
United States; which purports a difmidina
of Citizen Duplaine; the Consul, per in
terim, at Boston ; and declare, that Citi
zen Duplaine is only deprived of his func
tions, by being replaced by me, Citizen
Dannery, appointed by the Executive
Council of the French Republic, to fulfil
the duties of the Consulate.
lent the Epistle which follows this hetro"
geneons preface.
In answer to this, Messrs. Printers, 1
have ever been willing to attend to the
Fort and Feeble of the CerTor's doctrine, &
ever gave him credit so far as even thq
appearance of a difinterciTCn+d could
be traced ; my indulgence has led him to
believe he is not to be confuted; and he
threatens vengeance on his opponent In the
fame manner, as the Bkunk defies his ad
versary : But, Mr. Censor is mistaken if
he thinks he can avoid Zenex by his bung
ling attempts to represent the Billings
gate oyster wench, or by faying, in his
Censors, that every assertion, except it is
grounded on his principles is a LIE.—
If this language does not level him with
the charaaer of that blackguard he wishes
to stile Zenex, I freely confefs I know not
to what charaaer the foulnefs of the word
will apply. For the Censor to aver Ze
nex is destitute of reason, &c. is also a da
ring advancement; and places him in toe
contemptible a situation to be farther no
ticed. I might be allowed to fay in thg ;
words of Horace—'' Fangar nice cotie.''
But, I ata not however disposed to make
my way by satire, or to apply the whet-,
stone—l prefer truth to bombast—l prefer
reason to fcuhilit) —rind t make bold to
assert, that justice has not been perverted
by Zenex, except in his wishing to cast a
veil over the dark bigotry which the Cen
sor withes to play upon the public. I have
before cbferved, Mr. Censor is not too
old to learn, I arain repeat it with the
Poet, and
'' Infpiece, taneu^m ; n feco^^ ~ ,vitas
omnium ^^rtZt _
Jabro, atque ex dine funtre exemplum fir.'
Or thus, " My advice to hi^ is to consult
the lives of',er men as he would ri look
'n^ g' a "> ar ^ from thence fetch examples
for bit own toft ions." —Exercises of this
kind may qualify him in time to be the
oracle of the age, and teach him to know
his preferit dodrine, (like gruel fitted for
a weak disordered constitution) can never
enforce on found sense belief, or restore
the loft tone of the nerves occasioned by
extreme debility.—For the Censor to at
tempt to Simulate any system by the use
of his laxative theory, is as foolifh as for
him to aim it establishing reality on vi
6°B°
The Censor observes, “ many dislike
the motives of Zenex"—in return, I find
no fault with those who venerate Mr. Cen
sor's tenets —I have no objection to his be
ing their diftiple, only let them bear ii
mind, there was once a JuPa# ! Zenex Is
not so much in the quagmire but that he is
able to take an occasional peep at Mr.
Censor, rind may, as he said in his former*
observations, at a convenient opportunity (he
is not at the Censor's command) make fucto
remarks as will solve all the quelhons his
penetrating napper case has formed.—His
opinion that all good men will advocate
his eaufe, is surely continuing his con
ceitedness, and leaves no room te foftef
that charity he at times would bare us be
lieve he deserves.—ls hrs general advance
ments; likt one " not boasting perfe&-
ion P' They surely are nW-and his dis
guise, or in other words, his smoothed
over pretended fandity, is e,adly like the
gilded pill, fair to the fights but odious
within.
Mr. Censor next afa, who I am--in
answer— A MAN—willing go exercise
charity in every a& committed ar omitted
by my fellow men, and who in tile present
case has undertaken to support the free ex
ercise of speech, (consonant with truth)
even if it Should happen a neighbors con
dud Should be the topic ; notwithstanding
the futile attempts of this big bottle conju
rer to the revegfe.=For the Censor,
Messrs. Printers, to despise those, my
principles, it helps not h : m on his own
fcale—for him to hold me up as insolent,
merits not my answer.—ls hb number fix,
[Whole No. 35.}