The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-23 00:00:00, page 2

THURSDAY, NOV. 27.
A bill extending the usual privilege of
franking attached to th'e members of the
lioufe, to the delegate from the territory N.'
W. of the Ohio, and for making provision
for his compensation, was read twice, and
, referred to a committee of the whole house,
to-morrow.
The house then proceeded in carriages in
a body to the house of the president, to deli
ver their address. A conliderable number
of members remained behind. '
The house proceeded to the election of a
chaplain. Messrs. Dent and Otis were ap-,
pointed tellets.
A message was received from the senate
informing the house that they had elefted
Biffiop Clagget their chaplain.
The election was then gone into by the
house, and Rev. Mr. a Lyfle, previously
nominated by Mr. Parker, was chosen.
FRIDAY, NOV. 28.
The houfe' went into a committee of the
~whole on the President's speech, Mr. Mor
ris in the chair.
Propositions for 'the reference of the fev
er^l parts thereof to felea'committees were
made and reported ; to which the house a
greed and the committees were appointed.
Mr. New moved that a bill regulating the
grants of land appropriated for the refugees
from the British provinces -of Canada and
Nova Scotia, palfed last session by the house
of representatives, be referred to a fcle&
committee, which was agreed to.
'MONDAY, DEC. 1.
The commissioners of the Sinking Fund
refpe&fully report to Congress as follows : 1
That the measures w%ich have been au
thorifed by the Board, subsequent to their
report of the iith of Dec. 1799, so far as
the fame have been completed, are fully de
tailed in the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, to this Board, dated the 27th of
Nov. iSoo; and in the proceedings of the
Officers of the Treasury, therein referred
to, which are herewith transmitted, and
prayed to be received as part of this report.
J.E.HOWARD,
President of the Senate pro. tern.
Nor. 29, 1800.
The Secretary of the Treasury refpe&-
fully reports to the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund.
That no purchases of the debt of the U.S.
have been made since the date of the last re
port to Congress of the iith of Dec. 1799 ;
and that the sums of the Capitol Stock
heretofore purchased and transferred, prior
to the present year, in trust for the U. S.
. the interest whereon is -appropriated by law
towards the reduction of the public debt, a
mount to four millions, seven hundred and
four thousand, two hundred and nineteen *
dollars and sixty cents, as will more particu
larly appear from documents hereto annex
ed, marked A.-
That the following sums have been appli
ed towards the difeharge of the principal
debt of the United States since the date of
of the last report to Congress of the iith
of Dec. 1799 —Amounting in the whole to
Dols. 1,316,894 36.
There remained in the hands of the trea
, firrer of the U. S. as agent of the Board of
Commissioners, on the 25th of the present
month, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand
and eighty seven dollars and four cents,
which, with the growing produce of other
appropriated funds, will be fufficient for the
reimbursement, at the close of the present
year, 6f the sixth inftalment of the fix per
cent dock, bearing a present interest, and
the ninth inftalment of the fubfeription loan
for dock of the Bank of the United States ;
which reimbursements are required to be
made by the 1 ith fe&ion of the a& of Con
gress, passed March 3d, 1795.
All which is most rel'peafully submitted
by- . OLIVER WOLCOT.
Document A. is an enumeration of the
different descriptions of stock redeemed, viz.
1,841,607 dols. 9 cts. of fix per cent
614,836-dols 47 cts. of three per cent
, 966,376 dols. 4 cts. deferred ; 1,280,000 of
five per cent—l,4oo dols. of 5 1-2 per cent'
.—lt aJfo contains a fpecificafion of the va
rious sources of revenue, which, make up
the total sum redeemed.
"TUESDAY, DEC. 2.
On motion of Mr. Claiborne, a com
mittee was appointed to confider the ex pedi
ency of renewing the ereaion and support
of trading houses with the Indian tribes on
die wellern frontiers..
Mr. Otis observed, that at the time he
moved for the reference of the letter from
the Secretary of the Treasury, he-was of o
pinion that it might be necessary to give par
ticular inftrudions to the committee to regu
late their measures in the contemplated in
vestigation. But dh further renedion he
thought it would be best to leave the com-.,
rnatee at large to make the investigation in
such way as they, in the progress of their
enquiries, fbould confider most fatisfadory.
Objects, not forefeen, might occur, requir
, iag different modes of procedure from any
'now agreed upon. Such was the opinion
of the committee, who had diie&ed him to
move an inftruaion to the committee to ex
amine into the state of theTreafury, the mode
of condua business therein, the expenditures
of the public money, and to report such
faffs and statements as will conduce to a full
and fatisfa&ory underfunding of the state of
the Treasury, since the appointment of the
Secretary, Agreed to.
General 'Lee, from the committee ap
pointed for the purpose, reported a bill for
ere&ing a Mausoleum to George Walking
ton, which was read twice and referred to a
Committee of the whole house to morrow.
The bill dire&s that the mausoleum shall
be of marble, to be ereaed, in the City of
Wafoington, under the fuperintendance of
the 4 Secr'ys.
The letter of the Secretary of the Treasu
ry, inviting an inveftigation^ of his official
condua has been referred to MYITIS- Otis,
Nicholas, Griswold, Nicholson, Waln,
Stone and Craik.
Late foreign intelligence,
—<-<^^4^ll,.>.., —
Conspiracy against Buonaparte's
LIFE.
4 PARIS, OCT. 14.
Some time since, the Police had informa
tion, that robbers and incendiaries had it in
contemplation to set fire to the theatre, and
in the tumult to rob and plunder. On th©
10th, at the theatre, at the moment when
they were about to put their design in exe
cution, they were arretted by the police of
ficers. On some of them were found flow
'matches and other combuflibles—and from
this extraordinary circumstance much con
tusion and many allaffinations were expect
ed. It was conjectured, that the life of the
Frft Consul was the objeCt—and of course,
that none but Jacobins could be concerned
in it. They have been arrested, and dag
gers arid pistols have been found on them.
This story has been reported in so many
ways, that the official journal has allured
the public, that the vigilance of the police
had developed the conspiracy ; greater part
of the coufpirators had been arrested—And
that the play went on without a moment's
interruption.
OCT. 15.
During the firft days of the second decade
of Vendemaire (2d and 3d October) one
Demefville distributed money to certain fuf
peCted persons, who had resorted to him for
that and other purposes. On the 9th Oft.
it was afeertained thet eleven of these per
sons had fixed on a day and hour to afluth
nate the firft Consul, which was to take
place at the theatre. These people being
known, the police took proper measures to
. watch them. The next day two of these
aflaffins were arrested ; both of them Ital
ians by birth. 'One of them Carrachi, was
apprehended in the passage behind the box
es ; both were armed with daggers. Dem
efville, and others concerned, were arrested
during the night. He and Carrachi have
discovered the whole plot ; they were both
•accomplices in the murders of September
and at Versailles, and were hardened in their
crimes. Carrachi, who was a sculptor, had
been for some time executing the bull of the
First Consul, who had frequently fat for the
purpose.
Barrere, Deftrem, Lamarque, and other
Ex-Conventionalize, are implicated in the
plot, arrested.
The conspiracy was discovered by an em
igrant, who had agreed with the conspira
tors on the day and hour in which their pur
pose should be accomplilhed, & discovered
the whole to the First Conful.' Immediate
ly on this, Buonapaite, fearful that the af
faffions might accomplilh their designs, and
that the republic should not be in commo
tion by his loss, appointed Gen. Moreau as
his successor ; four couriers were, accord
ingly, immediately dispatched to him.
The Members of the Council of State,
with the livlieft emotions, heard of this con
spiracy against the life of the First Consul.
They congratulated him, with great refpe&,
on the defeat of the conspiracy : assured
nim that they would search into the bottom
of the horrid design, and bring the authors
to condign punishment ; and of their undi
minished confidence in him.
When the troops at the camp at Amieds
were informed of the conspiracy against Bu-„
onaparte, they urged to be marched imme
diately to Paris. Only 50 however, had
permission ; and yesterday with their knap
tacks at their backs, they addressed the First
Consul, and in- a laconic manner described
the devotion of their comrades of the army
to him. - ,
Xefterdary the Members of the Tribun
ate waited on the First Consul, in compa
ny with his two colleagues, the Ministers
and Couufellors of State. Craffou, the Pre
sident of the Tribunate, addressed Buona
parte, and ekpreffed a with to disc over the
authors of the conspiracy, that they might
receive due punishment. Buonaparte, in
answer, said, " That it would not be in the
power of eight or nine aflaffins to take his
life, while the public confidence was repof-1
ed in him, and he was furiounded by his
brave guard." And added, "if it should •,
ever be the case, that he had loft that confi
dence, his life was of no estimation to him."
Many persons are daily arrested, who are
more of less concerned in the conspiracy.—
One Ehreitein is arrested, who, during the
reign of terror, was a Member of the Re
volutionary tribunal.
Carrachi has discovered every thing.—
This Carrachi is the fame perfun, who is
mentioned by Joseph Buonaparte, when
Ambaflador at Rome, in his report of the
revolution there ; and is the person who as
sassinated Gen. Duphot. When Carrachi
left Rome, he went to. America, and from
thence to France. He advertised, that he
would finifh the buff of Buonaparte, ano
wished that he would allow him one fitting
more, to accomplilh his designs ; and the
day before he was arrested, he petitioned
Madame Buonaparte to prevail on her hus
band to give him one more fitting.
An order is illued that every Italian shall
quit France in 24 hours, and be furnifhed
with passports for Milan. The Corfleari
Arena, who drew a dagger on Buonaparte
at St. Cloud, is one of the leaders ot the
conspiracy.
, It is asserted, that Gen. Moreau has ar
rived in Paris.
OCT. 15.
This day the First Coriful will review
_6,c00 chosen grenadiers and chAffeurs.
A great event is now in the womb of
time ; which threatens to develope itfelf e
very hour.
PARTS, oct. 14.
The candidates proposed to fill the office
of Minister of the French Republic to the-
United States of America, are La Fayette,
the Counfellor of State Regnault de St. Jean
d'Angley, and Bureau de Pufy. The Com
mercial Commissaries for the various ports
in America, will also be nominated.
It is said, that a daughter of Gen. Fayette
will be married to Lucien Buonaparte ; and
we are assured, that La Fayette will be sent
as a Minister to the United States of Ameri
ca.
LONDON, November.
BRITISH HOUSE of LORDS, nov.u.
KING'S SPEECH.
About 3in th afternoon His Majesty u ent in the
uftial flare to the House of Peers, where, being
seated on the Throne, and the Commons being in
attendance below the Bar, he delivered the fol
lowing molt gracious speech :—
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
My tender concern tor the welfare of my Sub
jetts, and a sense of the difficulties with which the
poorer Clafles particularly have to itrnggle, from
the prelent high Prices ot Provilions, have induc
ed Me to call you together at an earlier periods
than I had otherwise intended. No obje& can be
nearor My Heart than that, by your care and wif
dom,all N[eafures may be adopted as may, upon
full consideration, appear bell calculated to alle
viate this severe pressure, and to prevant the dan
ger ot its recurrence by promoting, as tar as pof
ffible, the permanent extention and improvement
of our Agriculture.
For the objeft of immediate relief, your atten
tion will naturally be directed, in the firft instance
to the best mode ot affording the earlleft and most
ample encouragement for the importation ot ah
descriptions of Grain form abroad.
Such a Supply, aided by the examples which
you have set oh former' occasions, of attention to
economy and frugality in the caufumption of Corn
s molt likely to contribute 19 a reduction in the
present high price and to injure, at the fame time
the means of meeting the demands for the necef- -
fary consumption of the year.
The prelent circumitances will also, I am per
suaded, render the date of the Laws refpe&ng
the Commerce in the various articles of Provi
sions, the object of your serious deliberation.
If on the result of that deliberation, it shall ap
pear to you that the evil necessarily arising from
unfavourable Seasons has been encreafed by any
undue combination, or fraudulent practices, for
the fake of adding unfairly to the price, yon will
feel an earned desire of effectually preventing
fuchabufes ; but you will, I am sure, be careful
"to dillinguilh any practices of this nature from
( that regular and long established course of trade
which experience has shown to be indispensable,
in the present state of Society, for the supply of
the markets, and for the fbbfiflance of My Peoy le.
You will have seen with concern the tempora
ry difturbauces which have taken place in some
parts of the kingdom. Those malicious add dif
affetled p^rfons who cruelly take advantage of the
present difficulties to excite any of My Subjects to
Its of violation in she Laws and of the Public
peace are in the present circumstances doubly crim
inal, as such proceedings must necessarily and im
mediately tend to ffiereafe, in the highest degree
the evil complained of while they at the fame
time, endanger the permanent tranquility of the
Country on which the well being of the induftri- 1
ous clafles of the community mull always princi
pally depend.
The voluntary exertions which have on this oc
casion been made forthe immediate repression of
of these outrages and in support of the Laws and 1
Public Peace are therefore entitled to My highest
praile.
,Gentlemen of the House of Commons.
Under the circumstances of the present meeting
I am desirous of aiking of you such supplies onlyl
►as may be necessary for carrying on the public
service, till the Parliament of the United King-<
doms of Great-Britain and Ireland may conveni- I
ently be assembled.- Tlie ellimates for that pur-|
pose will be laid before yon ; and 1 have no doblt<
of,our readiness to make fuel )provision as thel
public interests may appear to require. ; f I
My Lords and Gentlemen, t
1 have directed copier to be laid before you of 1
those communication which have recently passed I
between Me and the French Government, re-f
Kiting the commencement of Negotiations for <
ice. Yow will fee in them fielh and Uriking 1
proofs of My earnest desire to contribute to iffy
re-ellablilhiu^nt ofgeneial irirnquility. That de
-lire on My part has hitherto been unhappily, buf
° stated, the determination of the Enemy to enter
only oi, a kparate Negotiation in which it was
impossible for Me to engages confidently, either
with public faith or with* a due regard to the pcr
manept ftcurity of Europe.
My anxiety for the speedy restoration of Peace
remains unaltered, anti there will be obstacle or
delay on My part to the adoption ot such measures
as may belt tend to promote and accelerate that
deferable end, contdlemiy wirh the Honour of
their Country and the true interest of My People;
But if the dilpolitions of our enemies should con
tinue to render this great object of all my Witoes
unattainable without the facritice of these elicit
tial conliderations, on the maintainance of which
41 its advantages mult depend you will, 1 am con
fident, persevere in avoiding Me the fame loyal
and fleady support, which 1 have experienced
through the whole of his important conceit, and
which has, under the bleliing of Providence tua
4ed Me during a period oi such unexampled dif
ficulty and calamity to all the surrounding nitron
to maintain unimpaired the security and honor of
these kingdoms.
CONVENTION.
BETHEEfr THE
French Republic,
-AND THE
United States of America.
ct-HE firft consul of the French Republic, in the
l name of the French, People, and the Pr«fid<'nf
of the United States of America, equally animated
mith a dejire to put an end to the dference^ uhiji
have arisen between the two States,have-refpedive^
ly nominated the Plenipotentiaries, &i;^ejled t/©,s
with full power to negociate upon theJe differences
and terminate them .•-that is to Jay, the Firjt <pm-
Jul of the French Republic, in the name of the
French People, has nominatedsr Reprejentatkes
of the said Republic the Citizens /Jeph Bonapart,
the Ex Ambassador of the French Republic at Rune
and the Counfellor of State : Charles Pierre Claret-
Fleurieu, member of the national infitute,-and of
the Office of Longitude of France, and Counfellor .f
State, President of the Section of Marine ; and Pi
ere Louis Raderer, Member of the National hjh
tute, and Counfellor of State, Pt ejident of the Sec
tion of the Interior; and the President of the United
States of America, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate of the Jaid States, has ap
pointed for their Plenipotentiaries Oliver EUJworth
Chief Justice of the United States,William Richard-
Jon Davie, ci-devant Governor of North Carolina,
and William Van; Murray, ReJident Minifer at. the
Hague :
Who, after having exchanged their full powers
and patiently and carefully dijeuffed their reJpeG- c
%ve interests, have agreed to thejollming articles :
Art. I. There shall be a firm, inviolable and
nuiverfal peace, and true and sincere IriendfLip
between the French Republic & the United States
of An erica, as well between their countries, ter
ritories, cities, and places, as between their citi
zens and inhabitants, without exception of per
sons or pieces.
11. The Ministers Plenipotentiary of the two
parties, not being empowered at present to agree
relative to the treaty of alliance of the 6th of Feb
ruary, 1778, to the treaty of friendfllip and com
merce of the fame date, and to the convention of
the 14th of November, nor to the indemnities mu
tually due and claimed, the parties shall further
uegociate upon these points at a convenient
time ; and until they shall be agreed upon these
points, the said treaties and convention fliall have
no effeft, and the relations of the two nations
shall be regulated as fellows:
111. The ships belonging to the State taken on
either fide,or which may be t: ken before the ex
change of the ratification, shall be given up.
IV. The properties captured and not yet de
finitively condemned, or which may be captured
before the exchange of the ratifications, except
contraband me/thandife destined for an enemy's
port, mail be mutually revered upon the follow
ing proofs of property, viz.
- Ou the one part and the other, the proofs of
- relative to merchant vetfels afmed Ur
unarmed shall be a paffpor.t in the following form:
“To all those whom these presents may come,
be it known, that power and permiflion has brpi
given to — — mailer or commander of the veftl
called the -—-, of the city of— -,of the bur
then of tons, or thereabouts, now lying in
the port or harbor of- , and defined for——,
laden with , that after his ship has been vifir.
ed and before his departure, he shall make ourh
before officers autforifed for that purpose, their - 1
the said fliip belongs to one or more of the fubje&s
of ^ the execution of which form shall be an
nexed to these presents, in order that he may ob-
Rrve and cause to be observed by his crew the
maritime ordinances and regulations, and give in
a lift signed and attefled, containing the panies and
fiFuaiues, places of birth; and abode, of^he perf#m
computing the crew of his ship, and of- allbn
board her, whom he shall not receive on board
without the know ledge and permission of the of
ficers aulhofifed for that purpose ; and in every
port or harbour w here he shall enter with his flip
he shall present permission to the proper officers,
and make to them a faithful report of all that has
parted during his voyage, and carry the column
arms and flag of the French Republic or the U
uited States, during the said voyage ; in tetliimmr
of which we have signed these presents, cabted
them to be countersigned by——, and thereunto
put the seal of pdf arms.
“ Given at ..in the year of our Lord,??.—-
And this passport shall be Sufficient wittout any
other document uotwithftanding any regulation
to the contrary. '
It shall not be necessary to renew or revoke this
pafTport. whatever number of voyages the said
ship shall have made, unless they shall not have re
turned home ' within the fpaceof a year. r
With refpeft to the cargo the proofs shall be
certificates, containing an account what place the
ship has left, and where it is going to, so tl# ,
prohibited and contraband ntyYh&ndife ftftfy he
diltinguifhed by certificates, which cerrifiQuy
shall have been made by the officers of the plute
from whence the ship shall have set out, agreeable
to the accultcmed forms of the country. And h
these passports of certificates, or both, flwll have
been deftroj ed by accident, or taken away £
force, the want of them shall be Applied by evei*
other proof of property admiOibfc licco; dim to
the general usage of nations.-