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sovereign powers of the Country, they
have a right to proceed oo their own
conitrudions and conclusions as to what
ever h to be done within their limits.
The minister then refers the cale to his
own government, aiks new in ft ructions,
and in the mean time acquiesces in the
authority of the country. His govern
"me nt examines his ccnftru&ions, aban
dons them, if wrong, infills on them if
right, and the case then becomes a mat*
ter of negociation between the two na
tions. Mr. Genet, however, assumes
anew and bolder line of condud. Alter
deciding for himfelf ultimately, and
without refpedl to the authoity of the
country, he proceeds to do, what even
his sovereign could not authorife, to put
himfelf, within the country, on a line
with its government, ad as co-sovereign
of the territory, arms vessels. levies men
gives commissions of war, independently
of them, and in dired opposition to their
orders and efforts. When the govern
ment forbids their citizens to arm and
engage in the war, he undertakes to arm
and engage them. When they forbid
vessels to be fitted in their ports for crui
sing on nations with whom they are at
peace, he commissions them to fit and
cruise. When they forbid an unceded
jurifdidion co be exercised within their
territory by foreign agents, he undertakes
to uphold that exercise, and to avow it
openly- The privateers Citoyen Genet
2nd bans Culottes, having been fitted
cur at Charleston (thcugh without the
permiflion of the government, yet be
fore it was forbidden) the President only .
required they might leave our ports, and
did not interfere with their prizes. In-
Pead, however of their quitting our ports,
the Sans Culottes remains Hill strength
ening and equipping herfelf, and the
Citoyen Genet went out only to cruize
on our coast, and to brave the authority
of the country by returning into prot
again with her prizes. Though in the
- letter es June sth, the final determina
tion of the President was communicated,
that no future armaments in our ports
should be permitted, the Vainqueur de
la Baftile, was afterwards eqipped and
commissioned in Charleston, the Anti-
George in Savannah, the Carmagnole,
in Delaware, a schooner and a (loop in
Bofton,and the Polly- or Republican, was
attempted to be equipped in New York,
and was the fubjedt of reclamation by
Mr. Genet, in a style which certainly
cid not look like rdinquifhing the prac
tice. The Little Sarah, or Little Dem
ocrat was armed, equipped and manned
in the port of Philadelphia, under the
very eye of the government, and as if
' meant to insult it. Having fallen down
the river, and being evidently on the
point of departure for a cruise, Mr.
Genet, was d<fired, in my letter of Ju
ly 12th, on the part of the President, to
detain her till some inquiry and deter
mination on the case should be had.
Yet within three or four days after, she
was sent out by orders from Mr. Genet
himfelf, and is at this time cruising on
our coasts, as appears by the protest of
the maftcr of one oi our vessels mal
treated by her.
The government, thus insulted and
set at defiance by Mr. Genet, committed
in its duties and engagements to others,
determined ftiil to fee in those procee
dings but the charafter of the individ
ual, and 'not to believe, and it does
not believe that they are by in
ftrudlion from his employers. They
had assured the British Minister here,
that the vessels already armed in their
ports should be obliged to leave them,
end that no more should be armed in
them. Yet more had been armed, and
those before armed had either not gone
away, or gone only to return with new
prizes. They now informed him that
the order for departure should be enfor
ced, and the prizes made contrary to it,
should be reftorddor compensated. The
fame thing was notified to Mr. Genet,
in my letter of Aoguft 7th, and, that
he might net conclude the promise of
compensation to be of no concern to
him, and go on in his courses, he was
Reminded that it would be a fair article
of account against h s nation. ■
Mr. Genet not content with ifing
our f orce whether we will or not, in the
military line, against nations with whom
we are at peace, undertakes alfoto direfi
the civil government; and particularly,
for the Executive and Legislative bodies
to pronounce what powers may, or may
not be exercised by the one or the oth
er. Thus in his letter of June Bth,. he
promises to refpefl the political opinions
of the President, till the Representatives
(hall have confirmed or rejected them ;
as if the President had undertaken to de
cide what belonged^ the decision of
Congress. In bis letter of June 14th, he
fays more,openly that the President ought
not to have taken on himfelf to decide on
the fubjeft of the letter, but that it was
jf importance enough to have consulted
Congress thereon ; and in that of June
22d, he tells the President, in dircft
terms, that Congress ought already to
have been occupied in certain questions
which he had been too hasty in deci
ding : Thus making himfelf^and not
the President, the judge of^^^^wers
ascribed by the constitution ^he fixecu
live,-and dilating to him w^occafion
vhen he should exercise the gjgyer of
convening Congress at an embr day
than their own afl had prefcribeW
On the following expreifions no com
ment shall be made. 4;/.
July 9. “ Les principes philofophiques
proclamees par le President.” A
June 22. “ Les opinions privees ou
publique de M. le President, et cette
egide ne paroiffant pas fuffifante. B
June 22. ”Le gouvernement federal
s’eft empreffe pouffe par je ne fcais
quelle influence.” C
June 22. “Je ne puis attribeuer des
dette nature qu’a des -impressions et
rangeres do nt le tern et laverite triom
pheront.” D
June 25. “On pourfuit avec a charne
ment, en virtues inftrudions de M. le
President, les Amateurs FrancaisE
June 14. Ce relus tend a accomplir le
fyfteme infernal du roi’d ’augletere, et
dufantres rois fes accomplices, pour
fevre perir par la famine les republi
can Francais avec la liberte.” F
June 8. ** La lache abandon de efs
anmis. G
July 25. En vain le defir de conserver la
paix fait, *il facrifier les interests de la
France a cet imeret du moment: En
vain le foif de richeffes I’honncur dans
la balance politique, de l’Amerique ;
tous ces menagemens, toute cette con
edfeendance, tout cette homilite qu’
aboutiffent a rein : nos enemis en
reint, et les Francois trop confiants
font punis pour avoir cru que la na
tion Americane, avoit un pavilion,
qu’elie avoit quelqne egard pourfes loix
quelque conviction de fes forces, et
qu’elie terroit au sentiment de la dig
nite. Il ne m’eft as poflible de
peintoute ma fenfibilite fur ce fcan
dale qui tend a la dimure tiou de votre
commerce, a I’oppreffion du Dotre, et
a l’abaiffement des republiques bi nos
con citoyens ont ete trompes, fi vous n’
ets point en etat de foutenir fouvera
inete de votre pouple, parlez ; nous
l’avons garantie quaud nons etions es
claves, nous faneours la rendre redout
able etant dedeverrus libres.’ H
[For remaindtr Jee last
It is now thought impossible here for
jhe corps of the army, under the com
mand of General Wurmfer, to force the
lines ot Weiffembourg, until he shall
have been reinforced by the army of
Reserve, which is already on its march
from Tyto).
Our Miniflers are already busy with
fetching, out the expenses <for the
firft half year of the campaign of
1794. The expense which has
attended the transporting of the heavy
ordnance amounted by themselves to
GENERAL Ferraris who was lately
appointed Vice-President of the
Aulic council of war, hjas been sent to
the King of Prussia, td request his Ma
jesty to .second, in a more efficacious
manner, the operations of the campaign
on the Rhine.
Foreign Intelligence.
By Friday s 'Mail.
Vienna, Sept. 14;
GERMANY.
The civil commiflioners of the nave
at Nice wrote, that on the 12th, four
English frigates hove in fight, who sent
an advice-boat, off to the representatives
of the people with propositions to ac
cept the constitution of 1789. The
proposition was refufed, and the procla
mation burnt in the presence of the mes
senger, who was blindfolded and sent
back to the boat.
Letters were received from Bourdeaux
and Yfeabeau, and the representatives
of the people in the department of Gi
ronde : announcing that^urdeaux was
full of Ariftrocats ; that the Jacobins
were persecuted, the name of the moun~
tain detested, and that they talked open
ly of giving up the city to the Englilh
Britijh JVeJi-Indies.
1 KINGSTON, (Jam.) O£i. 26.
His Majeftyls Packet, Carteret, Capt
Cotefworth, with the mail for Great
Britain^failed from Port-Royal onTuef
day morning. She is to call at Cape
Nichola Mole, for the Commodore’s
dispatches, and hes Several French pas
sengers on board for that place.
The fleet of fliips seen so long since
by the Iphigenia, one of Admiral Gar
diner’s squadron, and supposed to be
French, but not heard of till a few days
past, now proves to have been a squadron
from Old Spain ; they were lately left
off Trinidad, employed in collecting
troops for the avowed purpose of attack
ing the French part of St. Domingo,
immediately after the feaft of San B;u
--no, the 19th of Oftober inst.
Upwards of forty French emigrants
went passengers in the Surprize, which
failed on the , 21st instant for Jeremie,
and near one hundred have taken their
passage in the ship Jane.
The Amel a failed from the Downs
the 27th of August, but brings no pa
pers, having left such as she had with
Commodore Ford,at Cape Nichola Mole,
dy verbal information we learn, that the
troops for foreign service had failed for
Gibraltar, to relieve those ceftined for
the Weft-Indies which were to be ac«
companied by a detachment of ten fail
of the line from Lord Hood’s fleet.
58,000, coo florins; but this expence
falls off in the next campaign.
Dec. 31. A letter pnblilhed in a morn.
. ing. paper from a Member of Congress, to
some merchant in Peterlburgh, (Virginia)
mentions the energy of Great Britain, in
making the truce between Portugal and Al
giers. It 'is but jufiice to declare, thatfub
fiquent information has been received from
higher authority than the one alluded to,
declaring that the truce was made without
the intervention of that nation, and by the
agency of a person who has had no inflruc.
tied from that power fora confsderahle pe
riod, and whose appointment has longbetn
fupeceded.
GOVERNOR MOULTIRE,
'h dfpeech to the Legijlature of South
Carolina, made the 30th of Now. informs
them, that in consequence of the general war
in Europe, be had ordered a Jmall, but
rejpe&able battery to be ereßed on thefpot
where Fort-Johnftone flood ; and farther
that ” from letters which ho had received
copies of which he communicated, he thought
it his indifpenfsble duty to cause the militia
to mount guard,at such plates as is conceiv
ed would J ecure the peace of the citizens,
and the fafety of the fate ; and al/o to
fend expresses to the fewer al commanding
officers, requiring them to be vigilant in
their refpetiive military departments and
keep up con slant patrolesS
tiAmerican Intelligence.
E are desired to inform the pub
lic, that the Minister of the French Re
public has not authorifed the recruiting,
formation, or affemblingof any armed
force, or any military corps in the terri
tory of the United States.
It was the report of y offer ay, that the
commanders of the Brttijh feet lately arri
ved tn the Weft Indies, bad it in orders,
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25.
A county convention has been called
if some of the inhabitants of Montgom
ery, for the purpose of deliberating on the
late of the European ofairs^ as they re
fpe& the United States. “Z can call
spirits from the vafty deep J said Glen
dower.—“ And Jo can If replied Hot
fpur—But will they come for calling
A FEW Evenings since, an
English Lady, whose wic
and talle render her the life and
orhament of asocial circle, was
requested to favour a parry of
Company with a Foalt —upon
which she pronoudeed the fol
lowing elegant
From the Columbian centinel.
MF. RUSSELL,
not to flop or mo'ejl any American <ve^eh
fwbatervtr^ on the high Jas and that the
orders nwere ijjued in consequence of the Jpir~
ited applications of our Amhafador at the
Court of London, on the fubjedi.
EXTEMPORE.
BLEST be the land, once Britain’s boafl ;
Bled be the land, ’which she has loll!
May Albion’s genius vimo the plan.
And form the freedomyou we began r
From the proceedings-of the
people throughout the union, in
all their meetings to deliberate
on the proclamation of neutral
ity, but one (entiment appears on
the merrits of the fubjeA, and
that a full approbation of the
measures of the executive to pre
fer ve to the United States, the
invaluable bleflings of peace.
This declaration of the peo
ple, fays a correspondent, is firm
ground,the Legislators of a free
Republic, cannot poflibly err in
the line of their duty, when thus
poflefled of the genuine opinion
of their constituents.
Peace is a most precious jew
el, that cannot be too highly es
timated—but alas, peace is too
tranquil a scene for some peo
ple—These sublime geniuses feel
themselves unduly retrained in
the calm of tranquility; the wings
of their imaginations dipt—they
flag, faulter, flutter and fall—
ftorms, tempefts,tumults & con
vulsions furnifh their element,
and like the politician, in Alex
ander’s Left ure on Heads, they
delight in wars, blood and carn
age,and fatten on blockades,fieg
es, battles, victories and defeats. 1
A correspondent observes, 1
that to makeour citizens jealous
of their rulers, and to create
confufion among ourselves, ap
pears to be the aim of time
SERVING POLITICIANS——they
may declaim at the corner of our
streets—they may spout at the
Jacobin Club—and if they please
they may represent the character
of MARAT, as a perfect model
worthy to be copied by every
American; but of this they may
assure themselves, that while
virtue, humanity, and the love
of our z country, (hall'continue to
be the predominant features in
FROM A PHILADELPHIA PAPER.
BOSTON, January
NEW-YORK. Dec. 31^
Dec. 24.'