The gazette — Portland, Me., 1799-02-04 00:00:00, page 2

iuli from pursuing the mode already ad**n‘rd, for fup*
p yiog the naval (lores. Depnfm of mn'ts, to fupph
quic kly vcftel which may come m dilinaftcd, will he
made a- Boflmt, and Norfolk—rrtafu c* indeed have
a ready been taken for this purpofe, and 'ike dcpofitv j
niuif be made at New York, or Rhodc-liBnd—other,
•irtities required by vcfl* h in diftrcls can generally be
bad in tiiclc places, and in cur other commercial ci
tie;.
The bufinrrs of naval armrment being new in this1
country, ai d compl catcd. it is impoflible in this early ;
flage, to devifr a perfeA fyftem on the fuhjcA. Every
dav’s experience will ad.l to the flock of knowledge pof- '
ft-fteci by the country ; and it may be heft for the publ r
mtereft, that the Congrefs at their preftnt feflion, fliould
rely a 1tie it ore on executive discretion than may here
after lie mcefl'ary. At the p'eftnt feflion, it maybe!
exped ent and fufficient—That the Prclidem he ruthor
iitci to procure by pur hafe nr otherwise—12 flops of 74
£i*ns, and 6 brigs or fchooners to mount not txcecd ng
i8 guns, »o t.»ke me.dure* for procuring and depofiting |
in docks of f. cfli water and in places of fafey fu< h
qts: ntitv of live-oak timber, proper for (hips of 74 guns
and frigates, net exceeding in the whole. Inch parts cf
the frames of 12, “4 gun Ihips a d as many frigates, as
may be deemed eft'ential to be of th s fpecies of timber ;
—to caufe to Ire laid out in lecuring other kinds of tim
ber for the future u t* of the navy, a fum not exceeding
100 oco dollars 1—f< to caufe not exceeding three dock*
to be ertfled for the convenience of repaying fliips.—
For fb much of thefr objects as'ean be accotnplifljcd be
fore tie next feflion of C< ngrefs—an appropriation <u
x.2cooco dollars, w ith a pr mile of fur.her appropria-!
Cions, may be ! fficient
1 have fuggefted no plan for the encouragement Of the
manufcdlure of fail cloth. This fubjcA will be better j
underftood in Congrtfs. A ctrrantv of fa c. as already'
nbfervt d. will be encouragement enough for the grower*
«f hemp •
I tTall take the liberty to lay before you in a few* days |
fuch alteration* in the rides for the government of the
r.avy, as have been fi-ggefled by fome of the mofl expe- j
cienced captains, with my own observations.
I have rhe honor ro be. with great rcfpetfl and
efteem, Sir, vour moft obedient fervant,
BENJAMIN STOODERT.
Cofl of building an 1 equipping a 74 gun (hip, of 1620
tons, exrlufive of mditarv tlores, 342.700 dollars.
Annual expense ol a 74 gun ft,ip, per eftimate, is 216
94X dollars.
FUR THE GAZETTE.
MR. JENKS,
\S an inhabitant of tlie town of Fal
moirh, I ffel it a du'y incumbent on
me, to endeavor to exculpate, in forr.e meafure,
my fellc w-townfmen m gtner.il, from the odious
ftigma of ja^abimifrty which from feme they have !
received. An emmy trt morality and good i
government, ard a jacobin, I confidcr as fy-!
nonomons chamd is. That the ir.habrants of;
Falmouth are a religious, orderly, well difpoftd
fet of people,is ton well known to he mentioned •
here—ccnlequently they cannot be jacobins
In no other indance, that I know of, has
Falmouth given any ground lor the fupprlition
«f its being jacobinical, but tlie fuffrapes of
tliof- who attended the town meeting on the
lift day of election for FeJeral Reprefentatives.
* * ,
By the reader, here it may with reafon be fa id j
“ a man’s fuff-age is 'he only cri'etion bv which i
we are to judec cfl.is political piinciplcs.” I :
acknowledge the < bfervation juft—but when the
chambers of th fe wc vote for arc n ifreprdented
to us, no judgment c-n be termed from our 1
fu forages
Tit at the voters -n this town have rendered !
themiclvts culpable, in rot improving their
important ripht of votii g for federal reprtfen
tatives, I \vi;l rot pretend to dilpute. But g re
me leave, th?©’ the chancel cf your paper, to
mention the circumllanccs which cccafioned
the votes being almoil uranlncully in fiver of
a man v hefe political r incip’es are fuppofed
to be diametrically oppofite o Geo. IvaJi'xortFj.
Th- town of Falmouth, which is fuppoied to
con fan upwards of i>wt hunched vote 5, is well
known i*0 he of la’ge exte: t; of c< uife, as a j
town mce?t.?7 cannot be held in more than ore;
puith, a maiorhr cf die inhabitants lire a great t
diilar.es from the netting. It is r!f» well
known that, the dar of clciftiop was %v commoulv
Wuucnog and cell. ihcfc circvnuianccs,
united with the fuppontion that no f cr on wa« |
let up in oppofi’i n to Mr. lVadfrxoribt induced
tho'e wim lived the grra'eft diltance front the
meeting (which by the by were the moft federal
characters) n< t to atten I. Th:s \v:s a harpy
chcumOar ce for a few ufurpir.g f iftious, wadd
le demagogues. A’l of this chaiaft r in the
town attended the meeting, a"d taking aiv n
tage of the ah ence of the n od refpcftable pco
p’c in the town, they in’roduced a porv.pou,
lett-r from a From jacobin a* he caftw.'.r 1,
which was read aloud, and ii terfperhd wl'h
fuch ohfervjti 'ns as their faftious c’unify (hulls
could fabricate, ard thereby influenced tie red
fo mu h as to procure the r votes for Mr. Tur
n r. But had the majority of thofe who a.
tended the meeting, fuppo.fed Par fen Turner an
enemy to the federal government, he would not
have received the r fuftVages, any endeavors of
the faftious few to the contrary notwlthfianding.
As tli? jacobins throughoutth? country ar:
all exer ion to carrv their nefarious itfigns into
execution, on the days of tie (ion they turn out
as ore man, to cleft fome favorite of their ow 1
fpecle'. Thus it was with us—rot ajacthin
of the town was abfent from the meeting fn the ;
thy of federal eleftion. Had the tow n turned 1
cut unanimously on that d y, as f watchful j
ever their liberties, there would undoubtedly •
have been a large maj >iity in favi r of Mr.!
IVadfworth. 1 wiih rot to he under flood there!
were rone other than the faftious attended the
meeting—on the c ntrnry, the majority were
iederalids, who voted f r Mr. Turner. not *
• • f
Jo owing him t' lie i Jaco 1 !
I have been induced to write this fr m the
inf* rma ion that this town would fcon become !
r.o’orirus t* r ’he VrtTed*, with whom it ab mu- ;
de ! ; ami iron) the certain knowledge that the j
majority of the inhabitant* arc ,‘irm liipporters j
and defender k of the conduft of the f dernl‘
government. From the degrading appellation J
• f JACOBimsy, “ Coed 1.3rd deliver nr."
A FALMOUTH IAN.
ect the Gazette.
Communication.
THOUGH* ns the letter to M. Maz/ei np
p’ies to the atfua! adminiftation of the ieder. 1
Government, 1 fttll adhere to the opini n that it
is a tvifft weak ard fl mfy performance, an 1
that notiiing is more ridiculous and childilh
than tn regret the lofs ot liberty under the con
ftitntion ; yet while I have been revolving the
incor.fiftency of fo narrow an accept atit n < f
this letter with the chamber of its author, I
have heen led into a pretty w:de fie’d ot what
v iil at lead deferve the rarae ot polit’cal ima
gination, and is more commenfurate with our
idea of Mr. Jefferfon. Such thoughts as occur
to me are too rudely made of detached mate
rials, and my 'e’fure is too broken, for n e to
think of difplaying from this text the whole
fj’ftem of Jacobin op poll ion for ten years part,
although with the ve y little advantages we
poffefs at this trunotenefs trom confidential
agency, it is indeed a precious document for
this purpofe. In this view of the letter its au
thor becomes entitled to that refpecl which is due
teas perfeft a lead, r of party as ever the Car
dinal de Retz imagined, and this view reft res
to us the man whom we have loft while we
are confide: ing-the letter »n any hrop’e fade,
or any fenfir whatever b: t a great an i c mpre
henfive one that emlnaces the Rrtheft outhr.es
of * ur hiftoty fince »lie revolution. I am deep
]y fenf.blehow weakly ’he blood of i< formati n
circulates in the extrem t:es of large dominions,
hut hoping fo: pardon where 1 fail, ! ih H at
tempt a /ketch of what m«y hr d-J ced from
this document by way cf twj or three clf.iys on
the letter to Maz/ci.
ESSAY I.
The nr a great point to be afcertarncd, il p°f
fible, is tlie date of ibis letter. In all the copies
whi h I have feen this U emitted, and we are
left to conjecture from th? appe:ran."e of it in
the Florence gazette, and the fubfequsnt publi
cation in the Paris Monitor. In our gazette
the year 1797 is added to the Paris date of jan.
25, merely becaufe the kt:cr found its way into
American papers the May following th >t date
It is fatrsfaflorily probable that the January cf
the Florence and Paris editors is the fame Ja
r.uary, and though the rear may eventually ap
pear to have been rightly fixed in this gazet e,
the time when the letter was writttn is fovety
material a circunilltnce of the obfervations
which are to follow, and the letter itfelf will be
fo much il.uciJated by this proeef, that I fhall
try to afeertaiu the date with fufficient exadnefs
from expreibors and alhifions in the paper itfelf.
If I can fuccecd in tb:s, then it w-iil be only
recedarv for forr.e perfon who knows, to info m
the public wh.*n M. M.r/zei left Am r;ca, in
erder to edablifli the petiod within which the
antierr fays our pobt'C-d fituation was “ pto- ;
dig! ufiy charge ” and though this datum
would l e of fmall importance in ccmparifon
w th the inference, to be made from '.he date of
the letter, yet it would have its value to die
curious mind, and explain m re clearly the
politics oi Mr. Jefikrfon by comparing a Hate
of tlvngs that was a re. able to him v/th rnc
which he fo ilrongly difapproves. I>ut 1 can
only endeavour to clear up the date cd the let
ter.
▼ * • 1 1 * • r d
u is very evident mat it v ns wnuen aiicr me
nrgr.ntzution cf ■«.’ e government tv der the new
contt'tution, and irom the mention o! the
“hanks a d public funds’’ it no Uf» appeals that
it was iuhfequent to the cftablifhmer.t rt the
revenue-fyftem of the United Stat s. Fr m
voir us parts of the letter i’ Is dear thitau op*
pofirion to government was already ioira d and
uocerftood ’heir fyftem, that it was organized
and that the writer was ore of the party.—
“ Ingratitude to France” c.r rd J net be men
tiered unlefs it was written .dm.'the proclama
tion of r.c t:a t;—end t.:c progrels cf injuftice
to France implies a refufal on the part of our
government to take a p »rt in the war. If the
“/iUbutiart tics” inftead of the conftifution,
fl.ould he uJKen to mean the Britifh treaty, this
alfo will have keen a piir.r event ; but tins is
hardly to be rcliccl t’;Un 'v*lcn Jt is f; howed bv
“tr* jirjl Jlumters -xhich futeteJea tvr labours,'*
far that party fmee it was fonr.ed, lias never
“ fiumbered” nor (left. Upon the whole, per
haps the only certainty to which we can arfi>e
is this, that* the letter to M Mazzi was writ
tea af er the adoption of the confluution, after
the :ndituticn of the revenue fyftem, after 'h.
|-roclamati n of neutrality, after the iotr gius
cf G net. and after Mr. jelterfon’s relign tion
of the office of lla'e, to which Mr. Randolph
fuccecdeJ. To this may be added the proha
blity which ariEs from the European date*,
ani from the Europe m knowledge of our par- !
t es and avidity to g„in advantage and cuife f
(pience from them, tli it it was written fometime
in'he year 1796. And fin illy, to ftrengthen |
this latter preemption all will recollect that at
this time the new lbefi Jent wa« to be thofin,
and that fo powerful was the influence of France
in favour ot Mr. JefFerlVn, as juftly to infpire .
him with the crnbdencc to fay that “ Lilliputian
ties" fliould hi broken.
I hus is the Vice-prcfident placed in the yre- i
dicamer t oi faying whatever it (hall appear that :
he 1 as laid in this letter, and whatever can ;
fauly be deduced irom his la: 011 me, at a t me
when our givjim cn' was happily founded,
when it hid been in 111 1 . nd pr* f.’frcus opera- |
lint:, and when Fr mre h id conceived its ut'er :
d ftrmftion. Nor Is Ids all ; l <r at the time of'
his writrnp, M. Gene h*d uni bfhed his iuftruc
ti ns f cm the provificnai ex cu ive of France,
hy which it appealed that he was ordered to
draw us into the war, the ftrugyV t > p*e'crve
( nr neu'tali’v was arduous and afftlclive ;o go.
verr.ment, and the (late w..s in critical d*m£er.
VVc hail ’ o def-nfjV force, cur people was Si
vided, we had be come the contempt cf the
world, and we had no opinion of *mfe*vt’S.
If Mr. Jefferf >r.’s Lmimcnts, and h s indentions
at this fme fnall appear to he hnruraUle to the
Unhed State -, if the great feepr of hispohry
i {hall feem cakn’atcd to uni e inftead of dividing
'the people, if he was thl:erniog* hone-ll and
faithful >o the public confidence whirh lie foli
(ited, ar.d if lie re ponded that great reliance
which he had taught his own nation ti place
upon his t dents and integrity, let h m be hon
ourably acquitted. But if he had been cor-I
lupted in France while ambafEub r there, if;
he accepted tlie cflice of State to forward the
defigns ot that nation which he well under
Hood, and rcfigned it when he difeovered the
impregnable firmne'snf Mr. Waflungton, if on
rdigning he p aced h mf.li at the head of ti e
malcontents a id gvc his name to the opposi
tion, ii he corresponded in Europe to wxaken or
embarrats the governm xt of his own country,
and it his influence and machinations have ac !
tuabv caned tlie immenfe esptnditurr and great ;
pcrpbxity which his fedov. ciizcns have berre ’
for feveral years ar.d yet are beating, let him j
remain at hi ixefent poit in peue:, if he c. n,
till the end of hi- official te^n), and then c< m
I Icat ill. Virginian triumvrite of Randolph,
1*10 roc, and jtffeifon. (i o be continued.)
NATIONAL CONCERNS.
Legiflaturc of the Union.
house or represent atiu: s.
WEDVf sr> * Y* JAM. I 6.
Mr.- Gi'ilatir, oft being informed that the
Prefident was preparing the ernr. uni a-ion fn
tie iubjeft of tbe exsfpng diiT-rcnc's with
Prance, agreeJ to let his motion on lint fuhjCcl
he on the tabic.
SPURIOUS SC, EKES
Mr. Griiwold’s bill or th s lubjcfl, was again
debated. Mr- Ifa.'C Parker m v d as a pr;vifo, i
th d nothing in the /id JJjoultl hr cerftm&e l to abridge j
the right of ay citizen of / hr United State/ to abgh) j
fy him elf or hit Lnv'ul agent, for the re dr j r rf in
dividual injuries, fsV. which puffed i;t ’die alhrm*
ative. Yeas 67.
THURSDAY, JAN. I 7.
NAVAL ESTALLIoHMENT. A lengthy \
report on this fabjcJf, was read talcc, and com- j
milted for Mordav next.
SPUR reus A CENTS.
'I he crgrofTed Hid on ti ls fubje«Tf was Tahen {
up, and the quefPion f r nclung it, occafi' nc-J |
ano-her -Ebcre !—In which it was :u!vocated by .
M'drs. Oti , Denni , Harper, Allen and Pmv- j
! nrd ; and rppH d by Meitrv Livir.ghon, (.Hi !
bor. c, M’D wed, Gaihilin and Nicholas. At •
length the qtieiion was ta’;en as foil w
Yeas, 58—Na) s, 37.
in r.:c rfvjc cj K'pr.-jr-^! to-, ';i.s cay. n t c .
| debate on Mr. Grfvrold’s Mr. H.i p r j
j Rated that the p«<per read by Irm fn-nr days ;• j
g°, and commented up n.cam® tn hi, h un s in t
j the following manner :—A gcruleman ( f this j
country, who happened t > be in Par s at the
fan e time with the pe-fon v.h » is Tippled to j
have [>rcTented the paper, brought t to Ameii
ert, an i delivered it to a ge tl man I’crc, ** as ‘
the memorial delivered by that perMn to the
Trench government.’’ The gent’eman who
thus rere ved it, rn> doled It to an arqua r.ta”ce
of Mr. H’s. in th 3 tew, who gave it to him,
together vi:h an extract of a letter whciein it
was enclofed.—Th’e txrr-icl he rrnd in the in!- .
1 >i 'g words. “ YeRerday Mr Woodward
car.:: up, and prefent d me with the enclofed ;
memorial, wni:h he fty* was p*ef nted by l)r. .
Lo an to tbe Trerrh MiniRer, Sc was pr cur1 d ,
lor ham by Mr. Richard C >dman.” On this ,
teRimony, and on the interval evidence of the j
paper i'.’eh, Mr. H. faid he wts willing to l®;tve
*he qu Rion as to the delivery of this paper,
which had bend introduced meelv «s an cx. m
p'.e to Ihew the dangerous purpcfes wle cto j
fuch rniflMrn,W p nmit.ee, might t e employed.
j
friOAT J ’N 1
Mr. V/adfworth pref.nted a petition from the
inhabit*! ts ot Maine, being owners and malic, s
nt vclfeU, ptaying f r the erection of a monu
nvnt on B ing’s I Hand, which was refer ed to
the Secretary of the Tteafu»y.
MONDAY. JAV. 21. j
A fntflage was received lrom "The Preiident, j
inclofing a report from the Secretary of Stale, j
mention'd in hi, meflasre of Friday l ift, ion. •
taming tit® Set rotary's ohfervations on the doc
ument* therewith lent. The r.-ad'ng of this re- i
pot: ocenj ied an hour and an half,and tends tn '
fliew that the opini n which Mr. Gerry cuter- i
tons that the Tienc-h ure difpo'e i to a peat e i
wi h t is countty, :s altogether unfounded.
It was agreed t<> have the ulu.il number of
copies ptintcu.
1 UESD \ T. JAN 2 7. 1
1 !u Hnurc v.cnt into n eomrrittce of lie whole on
’he Sill iurther to f„t end the commercial intercouriie
between the tlnue l States and Trance
I he fourth ftclion enact* that the Prifident Hull
hice power to open h nc^ooiatioti with Fia ee, or an, ,
prrf.n (.airnmr tr etcr*(/, ng ib- gove nrt.enf oj any place belong
ing to :hr hunch republic
Mr. J«ii-!io .is r-oved to Orike on* the word# n Italic*
whi*.n c <*,.Co f h a lenphy diicu&cm, hu: tiic iotn
mittce role *«.thcui a dec.hot*.
Intel •cjlmg Documents. •
MESSAGE from the PreGdcnt of the United State*,
accompanying Guidry paper, le aner to the atfahs of
ths United Mate* with thr French republic - Laid
before both houtrs of Congrefe on the i8th ultimo.
GentUtnen cf ibe Sen ile, and
Cent ewer rtf the Iiouf‘ 'J R'frrJ: ntalivet,
TIIL communication relative to our affair*
with France, a luJed to in mv addrefs to both
IT uf s, at the opening ot the fcfTon, is confin
ed in the fh cts which accompany thi-. A re
port of the Secrevty of fla’e, containing f me
observation* on their., will be fent to Corgrcfs
cnMon.’av. JOHN ADAMS.
United States, Jan. 18, 1799.
Letter from the Sccrrt?ry of State to Mr. Gerry, dated
June aj, 1798.
Dkimrtmcnt ,/ State,
SIR, Tbilaie!fli*. *gunt if 1798.
T> i the ioflruiSions dated th: 23d < t March,
w hich, agreeab y to the P cli ent’s dirc&it n<-, I
addreffed to Generals Fin k <*y -ni Marfh li &
youtfe f, and of which fix fets were tian m.t;ed,
one by a ddpatth b a' fern on p rpofe, and
fome of which t'oub lefs muft have reailud
you during the la ft m r.th, you will have fcen
that it was expefted that .11 oi y u would 1 a^e
!cf Franco lo* q before »’ ofe init»uftions could
urive. and v ha Ii wcic uanimited rather from
*i w da 1 c uti n than reerfftty, feeing r.o
pi - b :hils:. m ho;,c oxi’ted that you would ac
. lb th* oi j a o; y< m mdl.-n. Ti e rcfpc <5F
ue to yen helve*. :uid t your conn r> irr-lifti
-lt required tli-t you fnoolJ tti’n your backs
to a govc.nme t that tr a'ed b th v th on*
r i- t t ; a c> 1 *c pi not diir.i: (lud b t ; ggr.a
v.'ted by the Ha’teiu y, bui inftdi ti- dift notion
in your 1 .v nr. n dilparagctrent ot mm oi fo
rc peel a 1c talents untainted honour and pure
patr rtifm, as ger.ernls Pncknrv and Mailh 11,
ar.d in v. : o 11 their goverr ment and th. ir c un
try tqofed ent re confidence ; ar.d tfp.cialljr
'hen ti c real objeft < f th tt dif.it ft on was to
enable the French govern *nerr, frarrp'ing on
the authority ai d d gnity of our r.wr, 10 defig
n te an envoy with wl" m they v oul t c« nde
fc .n ’ to negoc’?*?. It is therefore to i e reg ct
re 1 that you did rnt corcur with your col
league- in demanding paf ;v rts to quit the
teiritor'cs of the French Republic, lime lime
before they lilt Pars.
f -_1 XT *--* _ .1 J.T*_ *
V’Uli.1 I .ii-.U Vi '.iVin t '14
to the PrefiJent yoor letter of Ap.il :6th,with
its inclof.ires ; all which we e, i n the 21ft i if.
laid before Con^rofs acc' meri -cd bv a rreff ge
in which the Prelldcnt reel-res tl e r..r’r-:atioa
:tr an end, and that “ he will never Fn ano
ther mini Her to France wiih( or 0 ur....es tf ,t
he will be re cived, rc p ft a and honored, as
the Reprefentadve ci a -rear, L.c, p wuful &
independent natron.”
It is preformed that pen vdll 'orfi 'cr the
in Rut ft ions d t e 2pd •: M rth h tore rren
tioned, as an cfcanal rccal ; 'e t h waver, by
any pciVbi ity, t’.o:-; jo ir flh n- Hi Id - o- liave
reached von, and vv»;r Jocdd ft d be in Fi .i.cc,
1 am direebd by 'he Pr. • :e: r : • w mlt to
vou tld> 1 ttcr. .1 ilt' ir.frtm yc ’. that \< u ^ri
to con dc- it as a > 0 ,r.ive le^er f i r* cd.
/ t S,r, ■ • r < ‘
{S !) ' *’ 1 l \1 U 1 .. X i'tCKI'RINQk
Eleridol. Otttrv, Ffip
itil*. G **. R R * S C<v>' I M l
SI”, ''t pt.ii fji Gill 179!?.'
I HAM. the h' n r t *n v \\ ri my
arrival h re th s n ctntng. n the r - : t.nc So
p I*. C t ( A IA «\ ' ( rn II iv re, 1> t la'I In m
For:fra"nth, iv (heat 1’rita‘n ; and to inlafs
co- 'cs of to- 1 Vers *0 yctinei1' f f the 12th and
13th 0! Miy i hh. *, ar.1 2, oi c lorrcf
pnn V rc I e vv.c '. M . i al evraod. the French
Minift r of Ft r:ign Aff i: end my fell, r.jmber
e i -u< or ’i g to * e ref» • ive dates Iron 3 to
2;S inclu'n ely ; of m a rett- it c rd ii feis Lift
It tier, N . 29 ; * f r. y l.ttcr t > Mr. I Amtval &
hisanfwc', No. 30 ami g 1 : of m c ter to Mr.
K n s our r.vn Her at Lon A n, an.' f.n extraft
to 1) i5t r TalVe !, h: beater titereA, N. 32 Sc
33 ; alto tire fu’dlanee of a conference with the
Dutch irvnller, a day 01 t" o befi re l left Par
is N \ 7-f ; an ■! an anonymous pnbl cation,
“ on the Pie'ident’s ernrr: vv.i alien” cf our
chfpatf hr», fai I to have ih'cd bom uie French
ohic* of f< rci ::r affair , No. 33.
vVfen 1 hit the Un'tvd Siptcs in Aagud,
1797, the citizens in general appeared to be
earndhy defm ui ol a recr m ilLtiom xvi h
Fr rr.ee, on tvims confident with the honor, in
! ureft, and welfare oi tire tw o Republics ; tl efe,
being Lee from claim s and c ir.troverf.es in
r^-:t d to tetrpoiv, bonnuar'es, and many rth
tr matters \xhich enr.bro . |Lites j n d .n m c< m
oetU’ons relative to their producijOnb, niiUih
fa^Hirts an ! commerce, had a mutual mni'dt
irve-e'l in the renewal * f thfir ccmn:er*and
friendly intercourfe with each other. Nature
le ms to have entitled the United S’a’c*, n
their remote fituaiion, to the \ caceable pnrfuits
( f heir indn‘tty, by means whereof, in its va
rious branches, their wealth and power were
rapidlv increafir.g ; and to an exemption from
the conflicts of Imope ; which, involving their,
w uld check their popu’ath n. drain the r re
f tir et, and enfu»e their poverty. On a candid
inveftigation then of the c.*ufc> oi the unhappy
diffe en.es between the two government*, on a
difpoiitinn to coned! errors, to whitli all gov
ern tner ts arc tt,o'e or JeL liable, fl d < n t 'car
n tuual refutation to reciprocal iufti e, the fuc
cefs of the million was once conceived to de
pend ; and as this temper marked »he plan oi
pacification adopted by the government cf the
United States, theie was a rational prolpedt oi
fuccefs.
Soon after our arrival at Pari, the F ’ne was
changed, and the hope of rccencilLtiou betaj