The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1795-05-28 00:00:00, page 4

Extract from the Register of the
Decrees of the Committee of Pub
lic Safety, to the National Con
vention.
TH E Committe of Public
Safety, considering that the
23d Article of the Treaty of Com
merce, between France and the
United States of America, of the
6ch of February, 1778, stipulates
formally,
■*—-r* *•
Happiness u h
MINDS.
THE midnight moon ferendy Tmik*
O’er nature’s Toft repose.
Nodowering cloud obscures the Ay,
Nor roftlingtcmpeft blows.
Now every passion finks to rest.
The throbbing heart lies ftill*
And varying schemes of life no ihort
Diftraft the labouring wUI.
In silence hufli’d to reason’s voice
Attends each mental power.
Come dear Emelin and enjoy
Reflexion’s favorite hours
Come while the peaceful (cent invitee.
Let’s feareh the ample round j
Where (hall the lovely fleeting form
4 Os happineft be found.
Does it amidst the frolie mirth
Os goy aflcmblies dwell.
Or hide beneath the solemn gloom
That ihadesthe hermit’s cell.
How of the laughing brow of joy
A fickning heart conceals,
And thro* the cloister’s deep recess
Invading sorrow fteds.
In vain through beauty, fortune, wit.
The fugitive we trace;
It dwells not in the faithlefs fmilet
That brigtens Clodio’s face. „
Perhaps the joy to these deny’d
The heart in friendfhip finds ;
Ah dear delusion, gay conceit
Os visionary minds.
Howe’er our varying notions rove,
Yet all agree in one.
To place its being in feme state
At distance from our own.
O blind to each indulgent aim
Os power supremely wife,
Who fancy happiness in ought
The hand of Heaven denies*
Vain are alike the joys we seek,
And vain what we poflefs,
Unlefa harmonious reason tunes
The paflions into peace.
To temperate wiihes just decrees
Is hapinefs confin’d ;
And deaf to folly’s call attends
The music of the mind.
iff. That the French and Am
ericans may navigate in full secu
rity with their vessels without any
exception being made on account
of the proprietors of the merchan
dizes laden in thole vessels, from
whatsoever port they come, and
akho’ the power for which they
are destined, is, or may be an en
emy to the contrading nation 4 that
they may in like manner navigate
with their vessels and merchandizes
and frequent the places ports, and
harbors, of powers, enemies of the
two contracting nations, or of one
of (hem, and carry on commerce,
apt only from an enemy's to a neu
tral port, but also from one ene
my’s port to another* •
ad. That free vessels shall make
free goods: and every thing that
shall be found on board of vessels
belonging to the citizens of one of
the contracting nations, shall be
judged free, if even the lading
should belong in whole or in part
to the enemies of eitber t contraband
articles being always accepted.
French State Paper*
Considering that since, and not
withstanding the affeftacion. with
which that Cabinet continuse dai
ly to insult the right of nations,
and to violate the neutrality of non
belligerent powers, in causing to
be seized their veflels laden with
merchandize defined for France,
the National Convention enjoined
by the 7th article of the law of the
13th of this month, all the agents
of the repbulic, and the command
ants of the armed forces, and
all officers, civil and military, to
cause to be refpefted and observed,
in every particular, the treaties u
mting France to the neutral pow
er® 5* ancient continent, and
to the United States 5 that by the
fame article, an infringment of
those treaties is forbidden, and that
all afts which may be contrary
thereto, are annulled:
Considering that it is of impor
ance to make known to the world
this grand aft of loyalty and just
ice, and speedily do away every
pretext which malevolence might
employ, ether for obftrufting or re
tarding its effeft or perverting the
lame co the prejudice of the Re
public—*-It is Decreed
Art, i» The colonial and ma
rine commissioners shall notify,
without delay, all the command*
ants Os the naval armies, division,
squadrons, fleets, or veflels, of rhe
article of the law of the 13th of
this month, cited above 1 and in
form them in coniequence, that
they must regard as null and of no
effeft the disposition of the ^th ar*
tick of the Decree of the Com.
mittee of Public Safety, of finan
ces,and of commerce and fopplies
of the 1 sth November last, which
gd. That this fame freedom (hall
be extended to the persons who
may on board of the free veflels,
should 'they even be enemies of
oneof the two contrading nations j
& that consequently those persons
cannot be taken fromon boardfuch
veflels unless thty be military char
aders,&adually intheferviceofthe
enemy, confideting that the crimes
of England, have given to the war
of despotism against liberty, a cha
rader of injustice and attrocity un
exampled in hiftory, the National
Convention! found itfelf obliged,
in using the right of repri fa I, to de
cree on the pth of May, 1793* chat
veflels of war and French priva
teers should arrest and conduct in
to the ports of the Republic the
neutral veflels which should be
found laden in whole or in part,
either with produce belonging to
neutral nations,& destined for ene
mies ports, or with merchandizes
the property of enemies; but that
soon after, on the iftof Ju1y,1793,
the National Convention hastened
to re-eftablifh,in all their vigor, the
dispositions above recited, of the
Treaty of the 6th of February,
1788 ; that in fad it has been re
voked by that of the 27th of the
fame month, so far as relates to the
produce and merchandizes belong
ing to that enemy’s power; thus
it remains free for produce and
merchandizes the property of neu
tral powers, with regard to which
the French government have not to
blush for having decayed to shew
its justice and loyalty, until the
Cabinet of London revoked as
they have done, a considerable
time after the order ifliied by them
during the preceding year, for seiz
ing every neutral veflel carrying
produce or merchandizes of neu
tral nations to France ;
HALF a loaf is beet ter than NO
bread,
MANY people, perhaps,
would understand this
old proverb to mean, that it
is better to have some bread
to eat with their pot-luck,than
none at all—But I shall ex
plain it Jo mean, that it is
better for a man that owes
half as much as he is worth,
to fell his farm, pay his debts
honefliy, and move into a
new country, (where he can
purchase good lands cheap)
go to work diligently, live fru
gally, and with the smiles of
Providence, in a few years, he
mayhavea whole loaf for him
felf ; apd perhaps a loaf for
each of his children—But if
he flays in the old towns, and
follows the fame courses, by
the famerulethathe has eatup
the firft half of his loaf, he
will eat up the last—and then
he will have no bread—Hag
gard poverty, with all its rag
ged train, will flare him in
the face—he will then be re
duced to one of these four
things, either to flarve, and
this will bea lingering death—
or to steal, and this may bring
him to an untimely end—or
to beg, and this will be a dog’s
life, running about and pack
ing up the crumbs, for char
ity grows very cold to bank
rupts now a days—or else he
must go out at days work, and
this is a hard way of getting a
living from hand to mouth—
authorifed the seizure of merchant
dizes belonging to enemies’ pow
ers, until they should have declar
ed free and not seizable the French
merchandizes laden on board of
neutral veflels*
Art. a. Merchandizes, even of
neutral nations, denominated con
traband, [or prohibited, shall con
tinue to be liable to seizure.
Art. 3, The articles comprised
under the name of prohibited or
contraband merchandize,are arms,
instruments and Warlike stores of
whatsoever kind they may be;
horses and their harness, and all
kinds of effects, produce or mer
chandizes,deftined for an enemy’s
port, aduaily besieged, blockaded,
or inverted.
Art. 4. The Commiflioners for
exterior relation shall transmit the
present Decree to the Agents of
the Republic near the allied or
neutral governments, with orders
to communicate it to them.
Art. 5. The present Decree
shall be inferred in the Bulletin of
the Jaws.
(Signed)
CAMBECRES,
MERLIN (of Dowav)
PLET, 7
CARNOT,
L. B. GUYLON,
DUBOIS CRANCE,
PR lEURf of the Marnte)
Maree.
Faithfully translated from the ori
ginal, By Geo. Taylor, jun;
Ch, Clerk. Dep. of State.
23, 1795.
The MON I TO R 4
From the MIRROR.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the inclofure of the
Subscriber, cn the 24th of April last.
a red chefnut coloured MARE. 13 hands
high, with a ftarin her forehead, five years
old, pacesail ; whoever will give Informa*
lion, of fa id mare, so that the Owner may
have her again, shall be handfovbely rewas*
ded. by JOHN SHAW.
Brentwl, May ^tb 1795.
~ ~ , 1,,,,—. , ,
t, WANTED,
AN Honest a&ive Boy in a
XJk Store, 14 or jj years old,
of gocd Learning. Fhquire of
DANIEL CLARK.
Exeter, My 18th, <795.
—— ***
RAGS.
CASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen RAGS at
this Office. "
and took the whole loaf, and
4t was not enough to pay them.
Now if Ned had been content
Therefore toy advice to filch
is, to cut your loaf in two,
and fend home the half you
have borrowed—and with the
other half make a second tri
al, before it is all fpeht, and
you regret your folly,when it
is too late to retrieve youl?
circamftances —Many a one,
by trying to keep the borrow
ed half too long, have loft the
whole— Ned Shift had a very
pretty estate—he was honest
and induftrious —but must
need be trading, till it became
his constant practice to make
one debt to pay another—*
This he called making Shifts
—and he kept on making these
fllifts till he had fhifted him
felf out of all his estate, and
RAN away from the sub- /
feriber, an indebted apprentice boy, J
named John Barker, about nineteen year*
of age. All persons are hereby forbid
employing (aid runaway, and also against /
harboring or truftng him on my account, as /
they would avoid the penalty of the law.
A CTlVEyoung MEN are
wanted for a term of three year?, (or
iels looner difeharged) to recruit the army
of the United States, in the Weftern Terri
tory.—As the monthly pay of the non com
missioned officers, privates, and maiicians
is liberally increaled, and a bounty of four
teen dollars to be paid on enlistment, clo
thing and provision amply furnjlhed the
troops, the fubferiber flatters himfclf that
numbers of the youth of this State will be
induced to try their fortune abroad.—Any
who may be inclined to embrace the pro
feffion of arms for the period above 'men
tioned are invited to enroll their names,
with D. TILTON,
more.—The creditors came
what he had borrowed, he
might have saved part to him
felf, but trying to keep it
whole too long, at last made
him totally breadlefs— Let this
be a warning to all, timely to fend
home borrowed bread —& make
a frugal use of what is left, by
laving every fragment.
to have cut the loaf in two
seasonably, and sent home
JAMES FOLSOM 3d.
Exeter, May gth, 1795.
Captain in the service of the U. States.
Exeter, May ad 1795.
One Farthing Reward,
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