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REPORT —That they have made dil
igent inquiry refpcfling the truth of this
report, and have colleded such evidence
relative thereto, as was immediately
within th^ir reach:—
That your Committee are perfectly
fatished, from the information they have
received, that William Tate, Jacob R,
Browh, William Ur by, Robert Tate, Rich
ard Speke, citizens of this State, and oth
er persons unknown to your Committee,
also citizens of this State,have received &
accepted military commifllons from Mr.
Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Republic of France, to the United States
of American, authoring them, and in
ftrudions requiring them, to raise, organ*
ize, train and condud troops within
the United States of America:
That the avowed purpose for which
these troops are now raising, is to ren
dezvous in the State of Georgia, and
from thence to proceed into the Sfanijh
dominions, with a view to conquest, or
plunder, as their strength might enable,
and opportunity tempt them :—
That in the event of a French fleet ap
proaching the Southern States, a junc
tion and co-operation withit, iscontem
plated by the persons above-named; that,
although this was the avowed objed of
these troops and their leaders, among
themselves, the injuhdion to conceal the
whole iyftem, from persons not initiated,
and the subordination established, to Mr.
Genet, the author of the plan and the
source of autority to the officers; it is
probable, the corps when raised must
yield to any charge of deftin.ation which
the judgment dr inclination of Mr. Genet
may point out to them
That several of the persons above
named, received together with their com
missions, inftrudions, by which they
were to regulate their enrollments of men,
the pay, rations, cloathing, plunder, and
division of conquered land to be allotted
the officers and meh, who should enter
into this service, and making the proper,
tion of acqui^tions to be reserved to the
Republic of France:— . .
That the persons above-named, m
pursuance of the powers veiled in them
by the said Cpmmiffioners, andm obedi
ence to the inftrudions of Mr. Genet, and
Bls Agents, particularly Mr. Manqourit,
the Confnl of France, residing in Charles
ton, who signed force of the papers,
have proceeded by themselves and by
their agent?,without any authority from
the United States, or this State, to en
roll numbers of the citizens of this State
whom they deluded with the hopes of
plunder, and the acquisition of riches, in
We have no reason to conclude that
friendly arrangements would be declined
by the other nations with whom we have
such commercial intercourse as may ren
der them important. In the mean while
it would rest with the wisdom of Con
gress to determine whether, as to those
nations, they will not surcease ex parte
regulations, on the reasonable presump
tion that they will concur in doing what
ever Jufticc and moderation didate should
be done-
Mr. BUSSELL,
The inclofed proceedings of the Legifature
of South Carolina, was this monunt jut
in my peffejjion—their importance will
induce you to give them immediate pub
licity'
Proposals of friendly arrangements
have been made on our part, by the
present government, to that of Gieac-
Britain, as the meHage Rates ; but be*
ing already on as good a footing in law,
and a better in fad, than the most favour
ed nation, they have not as yet, dilcov
ered any disposition to have it meddled
with.
THE Committee, to whom was re
ferred the bufrnefs of examining
into and ascertaining the truth of a re
port, that an armed force is now levying
within this State, by persons under for
eign authority, without the permission
and contrary to the express prohibition
of the Government of the United States,
and of this State—
from the Columbian Centinil.
TH. JEFFERSON.
Yours, T. H.
That this Committee therefore re
commend that the Governor of this
State be requested to issue his Proclama
tion,forbidding all persons from-enrolling
any of the citizens of this State, and
prohibiting the citizens from enlisting
under any officer, or for any purposes
not previously fandioned by the govern
ment of the United States, or of this
State; and also forbidding all unlawful
aflemblages of troops, unauthorised by
government; and that the governor be
requested to exert the whole public
force to theutmoft extent, if necessary,
to ensure obedience to his Proclama
tion
7 hat in the opinion of this Commit
tee the said William Tate, Jacob R.
Brown, Robert Tate, Stephen Drayton,
John Hamilton, Richard Speke, and
William Urby, have been guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and they re
commend that the Attorney and Solici
tor-General be direded to institute,
and cause to be instituted and conduced;
profeculions in the proper courts of law,
against the above mentioned persons, for
accepting or engaging to accept com
missions to raise troops within the Uni-,
ted States, and for going about within
this State levying or attempting to levy
troops, and for (educing and attempting
to seduce the citizens of this State to
enroll themselves in foreign service to
commit ads of hostility against nations
with whom the United States are at
peace, without the permission of the
government, and contrary to the Proc
lamation of the President of the United-
States declaring these States to be in a
state of neutrality and peace
That copies of the evidence colleded
by this committee, together with the
proceedings of this house thereon, be
forwarded immediately to the President
of the United States, and to the executive
of Georgia and North-Carolina. House
of Representatives ^Columbia, Dec 9, 1793.
On motion, resolved uuanimoufly,
That this house do agree to the forego
ing report — '"Ordered, That the re
port and resolution be sent to the Sen
ate. J. S. DART, Clerk.
the service of the Republic of France to
be fubjeft to the orders of Mr. Genet,
the Minister, Plenipotentiary of France ;
That Stephen Drayton and John
Hamilton, also citizens of this State,have
made applications to the good ciiizens
of this State, to engage in the scheme of
railing men in this State, for the service
of France, to ad under the orders of
Mr. Genet, and to commit afts of hos
tility against nations at peace with the
United States of America, and have a
vowed, that they aft by the authority of
Mr. Genet, the Minister plenipotenti.
ary of the Republic of France
That upon the whole of the informa
tion which your Committee are able
to obtain, this is a daring and dangerous
attempt by a foreign minifter,to intermed
dle in the affairs of the United States,to u
surp the powers of government,& to levy
troops in the bofomof the Union, with
out the authority and contrary to the ex*
press sense of the government of the U.
nited States, and in violation of the laws
of nations:—
That the dired tendency of these
measures of the foreign Minister, is to
difturbthe internal tranquility of the
United States, to involve them iu hos
tilities with nations with whom they
are now at peace, which found policy
and good faith require should be preser
ved :—
SENATE, Dtctmbtr io, 1793.
On motion, relolved unanimouUy,
That this house concur with the House
of Reprcfentatives in the foregoing re
port and rcfolation.
F ? WARLEY, Clerk.
/ O’ . ? « '■ : * - r ^'- . >i’ ■
That in the opinion of your Comirtee,
this attempt is the mote alarming, as
many citizens of the United States have
been thereby seduced from their duty, by
inGdious arts pradifed on their kindred
afFedion for the French Republic, and
have been drawn into a scheme, in the
execution of which they have usurped
the fundions of government, and exer
cise the power of the fwerd, which the
wisdom of the Con.ftitution bath exclu.
Cvely veiled in the Congress and Pre
sident of the United Stares :—
Lord Harvey, the Britlfh Ambassa
dor at the court of Florence, has prefent
ad two memorials infilling upon the re
moval of M. La FlotTe the pretend
ed French minister.—But these memori
als not having'produced the desired ef
feii, his Lordlhip priented a third memo
rial on the 1 ith instant, and declared
therein, that the Britift court, in concetr
with its allies, was determined to toler
ate no longer the neutrality of the Grand
Duke of Tu/ca-iy ; and that his Royal
Highness, unless he should give a cate
gorical answer within the courle of twelve
hours from the delivery of the note pre
feted by his Lordfh, and communicate
his resolutions before the expiration of
that period, should be considered and
dealt with as an enemy on the part of
the allied maritime powers.
The Grand Duke having received this
memorial, gave immediate orders for M.
La Flotte, the French resident, and
his suit, to quit the peaceful Tuscan ter
ritories in all possible haste. The Re
publican agent obeyed these orders with
out delay.
The Senate of Genoa has likewtfe re
ceived a fttong memorial from the Bxt
ifh Minister at that court.
. The nature of the circumstances will
probably afford to the Republic of Genoa
no fatisfaftion for this violation of its
territory ; had not the Englilh recently
intercepted two Genoefe ships bound to
Marseilles, laden with gunpowder, there
might have been feme hopes of their
obtaining fatisfadion ; but this ad of
(applying the common enemy, has in*
THIS day the French have been again
completely beaten. At 5 o’clock
in the morning, Gen. Wurmser de
tached towards the village of Wantzenau,
the Prince of Waldeck, with thegren.
adiers of the A'.chduke Ferdinand,
Shock and Rodel, and the infantry
and hussars of the tree corps of Wurm
ser, as well as the Silian huflars. The
infantry penetrated into the village with
fixed bayonets, and the greater part of
the enemy found there were either cut to
pieces or taken prifners ; a few only ef
ccped. In less than a quarter of an hour
the French camp, with their brggage,
ammunition, waggons, &c. fell into the
hands of the Austrians; more than 500
of the enemy were left dead on the spot,
to pieces of cannon were taken and 150
prifners. The Prince of Waldeck
sustained scarcely any loss; he is at pres
ent mafterof Wantzenau.
The Tribnnal, on the declaration of
the jury, purporting that Briffot, Ferg
niaud, Genfonne, Durpat, T^alexe, Lehar
di, Ducot, Beyer, Fonfrede, Boileau Gar
dien, Duchatel, Sillery, Faucbet, Duper
ret, La/ource, Cara, Beauvau, Mainv title,
dntihoul, Figee, apd Lac axe, are the au
thors of, or occomplices in a conspiracy
which has existed against Ihe unity and
indivisibility of the Republic, against the
liberty and fafesy of the French people :
Condemns the above named to the
punilhmer.t of death; declares their prop-'
erty confifcated to the Republic; and
orders that the sentence Ihall be executed
in the place de la Revolution, and that it
shall be printed and polled up through
out the whole Republic.
Val aze stabbed himfelf after he heard
his sentence. The Tribunal ordered
that the body of the suicide should be
conveyed separately in a cart to the place
de la Revolution, to be afterwards inter
red in the fame place with the bodies of
the other persons condemned.
The execution took place yesterday,
between 11 and 12 in the forenoon.
We have received the following intelli
gence dated the ibtb, from the head quar.
ten of the army ofGzn. Wurmser.
. FROM THE BRUSSELS GAZETTE.
R EFOL UT ION ART TRIBUNAL.
Foreign Intelligence.
M A N H E I M, OA. 28.
GERMANY.
Vienna, OH. 19.
FRANCE.
Paris, Nov. i.
spired the allied maritime powers with
the utmost difguftand indignation ; fails
faction has been demanded of the Re
public, which will be obliged todelare
war against the French regicides.
Venice will likewise be compelled to
follow the example of the other pow
ers.
THE circumstances, in consequence
of which his Majesty has found
himfelf engaged in a defen^ve war a
gainst France are known already to all
Europe, The objects which his Majesty
has propOfed to himfelf from the com
mencmentofa war of equal notoriety. To
repel an unprovoked aggre flic n,tocon'rib-'
ute to the immediate defence of his allies,
to obtain tar them and himfelf a just in
demnification, and to provide, as far as
circumstances will allow, for the future
security of his own fubjeds, and of all
the other nations of Europe ; these are the
points for which’ his Majesty has felt it
incumbent on him to imploy all the
means which he derives from the refcurc
es of hie dominions, from the zeal and
affeftion of his people, and from the un
queflionable justice of his cause.
But it has become daily more and more
evident how much the internal situation
of France obftruils the conclusion of a
solid and permanent treaty, wh ch can
alone fulfil his Majesty’s just and salutary
views, for the accomplilhment of these
iimportant objects, and for restoring
rhe general tranquility of Europe. His
M jetly fee?, ihercfore, with the utmost
datisfadion, the profpea, which the pref
tnt circnmftances afford him, of acceler
iating the return of pe?ce, by making to
the well disposed part ot the people of
France a more par icular declaration of
the principles which animate him, of the.
objeds to which his views are direfled,
and of the conduit which it’s his inten
tion to perfup. With refped to the pres
ent situation of affairs, the events of the
war, the confidence reposed in him by
one of the most considerable cities of
France, and above all, the wilh which is
manifelled almost universally in that coun.
try, to find refuge from the tyranny, by
which it is now overwhelmed, render
this explanation on his Msjefty’s part ■
pressing and indelpenfable duty : And
his Majesty feels additional fatisfaftioa
in making such a declaration, from the
hope of finding, in the other powers en
gaged whh him in the common cause,
sentiments and views perfefl y conform
able to his own.
From ths firft period when his mod
Christian Majesty Louts he XVlth had .
called his people around him, to join in
concer.iog measures for their common
happiness, the King has uniformly shewn
by his conduft the Cncerity of his wish
es for the fucccfs of so difficult, but, at
the fame time,Jb interesting and under
taking. His Majesty was deeply afflic
ted with all the misfortunes which eft
ked ; but particularly when he perceiv
ed more and moe evidently, that
measures, the consequences of which he
could not disguise himfelf, must finally
The last accoun s from thi scity, are
under date of Oft. 10, at which time the
British and Spanish fleets had complete
possession of the place.—-Four thonfand
Neopolitan trooops had arrived to
strengthen the garrison ; several fortiea
had been made by the garrison, one of
which was attended with brilliant suc
cess. Troops from Cagliari and Conti,
were daily arriving, and Gen. O’Hara,
with fifteen hundred men from Gibral.
ter, was daily expefled.
The most ferioos preparations are
making for a third campaign. Gallicia
alone will furnifh 17,000 men.
The dates of Hungary have offered a
freth army of 50,000 men to the Em
peror.
The following DECLARATION has been
ft nt, by his Majefly's command to the
Commanders of his Mfefiy's Fleets and
Armies, employed against France, and
to his Majeffs Minifers, rejiding at
Foreign Courts.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, 08. 29.-
TOULON.