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reafury of the United States.
Art. io. and that no debt which shall not have
the qualifications above mentioned,&that no tin
juft or exorbitant demand may be admitted, the
commercial agent of the United States at Paris,
or such other agent as the minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States shall think proper to nomi
nate, shall assist at the operations of the bureaus,
and co-operate in the examinat ons of the claims
and if this agent shall be of opinion that any debt
is not completely proved, or if they shall judge
that it is not comprised in the principles of the
fifth article abdre mentioned,and if notwithstan
ding his opinion, tie bureaus established by the
French government should think that it ought to
be liquidated, be shall transmit his obfer'ations
to the board ettablifhed by the Unites States,
who, without removing documents, shall make a
complete examination of the debt and vouchers
which support it, and report the result to the
minister of the United States. The minified of
the United States shall transmit his observations,
in all such cases, to the minfller of the treasurer
of the; French Republic, on whole report the
French goverment shall decide definitively in ev
ery case.
The rtj-aion of any claim shall have no other
effed than to exempt the United dates from the
payment of it, the French government referring to
itfelf the right to decide definitively on such claim
so far as it concerns i'felf.
Art. 11. Every neccffary decision shall be made
in the'eourfe of a year, to commence from the ex
change of ratifications, arid no reclamation shall be
admitted afterwards.
Art. 12. In case of claims for debts contraaed by
the government of France with citizens of the U
nited flutes since the Sth Vendemiaire g'h year, 30th
September, I^oo, not being comprised in this con
vention, may be pursued, & the payment demanded
in the fame manner as if it had not been made.
Art. 13. The present convention shall be ratified
in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be
exchanged in fix months from the da f e of the signa
ture of the ministers penipotentinry, or sooner if
possible.
IN FAITH OF WHICH, the rcfp e aive Mir
ifters Plenipotentiary have signed the above articles
both in the French and English languages, declar
ing nevertheless that the present treaty has been 0-
riginally agreed 00 and written In the French lan.
gunge; to which they have hereunto affixed their
ieals.
It was from motives likethele that, tak
ing advantage of an a& of injustice of a
Sfanith officer at New Orleans, which af
feded in a high degree the int ereßs or the
inha itants of the countries watered by the
Ohio and Mißißippi, and of the Rrong re
sentment excited by that injustice, they unit
ed their utmoftexertios to hurry us into a
war with France and Spain. The repub
licans, though determined at all events to
have the very people who were fuffering the
injury preferred negectation to war, know
ing that in case negociation fliould fail, the
evils of war would be born with the more
patience, as it would be known that they
could not have been avoided. Ihe project
of Aegociating was treated bi all the feder
alifts as base, cowardly, and degrading to
our national character. They laid it de
monflrated the extreme puhllarimity of our
chief magistrate ;—that it was a fauiple of
what we were to expea from his adminif
tration : that the ablurdity of th plan was
equal to its meannrfs for that from the very
nature of things, it was demonllrable to any
man of common understanding that it could
not poffiMy succeed. Negociation however
was tried , its success you know, It secures
to its iutcreds of inestimable value, it re
moves far from us the molt probable source
of future wars ; and it opens a profpea of
future wealth xnd power almost exceeding
calculation : -and yet this treaty, whose
benefits are above all pride, is, and will con
tinue to be decried; and calumniated by a
fadlion, who havd almoß loft the with of ac
camplifhing any thing beyond mere gratuit
ous mifehief.',
This single tranfa&ion, Fellow Citizens,
forces on the mind conviaion relative to the
views of federalists more clearly, more irref
iftibiy, than could be d >n by volumes of ar
gument. That they drove to plunge the
country Into a war, of which no man could
feriouflv pretend to foretel the deration or
the result, is certain ; that their motive was
not what they pretended, a regard to the in
terests of the weflern people, isalfo certain,
for those people were willing and desirous to
wait the result of negociation ; and bcfyles
it is a fact well known; that our Northern
federalists univcrUlly hold these people in
detestation ; forthe truth of this allien
we appeal to you, fellow-citizens. What
then was their motive ? It was no other,
than ihe gratification of perianal ambition,
or party hatred; 1 o these objects then, the
men to whom you have confided • :ur high
est interests, your property, your peace,
& liberties, have attempted to facrifice those
Done at Paris, the tenth of Flared, eleventh
year of the French Republic, 30th April, 1803.
ROB. R. LIVINGSTON.
BARBE MARBOIS.
JAS. MONROE.
Freemen of Connecticut.
REPUBLICAN ADDRESS
TO THE
CON TINUED.
The federahßs driven from the govern
ment of the United States have hither
to found means to maintain a preponderance
in some of the Rate governments where they
Rill wage a fpiteful war against republican
ism & its friends. Let us come home to
our own State of Connecticut. Will it
be denied that at this moment the gov
ernment of,Connecticut is set in hostile
array against the exiting government of the
hation ? against that immense majority of
men andof Rates who love and cherish the
preient adminiftratjon and the principles on
which they aft r No, this cannot be deni d,
for it is a fa& of which no man is ignorant.
It is true that no man who avows his appro
bation of the mafures of the pr feiit adroin
ißration receives the countenance of our Rat?
government. It is true that republicans are
fuperceded in office merely bceabfe they are
republicans. It is true that federalists
forego no means in their power to keep
alive the unreasonable hatreds and jealousies
which theyhav- excited against th: gen ral
government and its friends ; and yet thef
men talk of reconciliation. What do they
mean by r. cociliaticn ? Will they unite in
place ; but the clergy underflood that the
federal fyftern, and that the analogy was the
British fy Stem, aud that the analogy was
Intended to extend to the clergy was soon
put beyond a doubt. /
Mr. Adams in his inaugural speech an
nounced his intention of giving countenance
to men of religion.—This was the firß op
en promulgation of a governmental, a feder
al.religion.- Henceforward religion became
the fhiboleth of the party.
If we were disposed to excite yotir laugh
ter, fellow citizens, we have only to name
to yob men living among you, men known
to you all, who became Suddenly like the
priestess of Delphos, filled with the Divini
ty, to raving. Religion !! Yes this is the
religion of which republicans are destitute.
Entertaining no projects of oppression againSt
their iellow citizens, but aiming by the fim
pkß, plainest means to accomplish their
greatest good, they have no need to offer
bribes to a priest hood. They are friends
to true religion, to real piety, to every prin
ciple that has a tendency to increase .the vir
tue aid happiness of men. It is only when
prießs desert the duties of their piofeffion &
become the instruments of faction that they
meet the reproaches of republicans.
high interests These are the men who
demand a contirfuataion of your confi
dence !!! These are the men who
declare that opposition to them is hofi ility to
order, to morals, to religion, in sh rt is rank
jacobinifm ! !!
Os the mora sos men who have basely
betrayed the truth that has been reposed in
them, by attempting to ere& a monarchi
cal-, aristocratic tyranny on the ruins of lib
erty, and being defeated in that dagicious at
tempt, have drove to bring war and ruin
on their country for the gratification of the
mod malignant, the word of pafiions,w e will
fay nothing ; but tQ their religion! yes to the
religion of federalifm, as it has been a word
of magic potency, we will pay one moment
attention.
When the federalifts were searching a
bout them on every tide for aids and auxil
iaries in their great pr(je& of establishing
monarchy, it would have been marvellous
if they had overlooked or neglected an ally
so obvious and so powerful as the priesthood,
especially as it was so prominently a part
of the British edifice which they Were copy
ing. They were net fay, so we do not
know that any negociatioh Was ever entered
into on this fubjed, a perfect understand
ing might be obtained without it, it is prob
able therefore that in form it never took
Until the accession of Mr. Adams to the
Piefidency, it will be rememberd; that the
infidelity of republicans, or the peculiar pie
ty of federalifts, had never been heard of ;
in truths as it refpefts the proportionate
numbers of men who avowed, cr entered a
Speculative difbeiief in revelation, the par
ties probable flood on nearly equal ground ;
there is, we apprehend, no reason, at any
rate, to believe that the number was propor
tionally greater on the republican fide than
on the federal : tor can it be pretended that
republican chriftians are less pious, or less
fincerc, than federal chriftans ; indeed
this never was was the ground of the diflihe-
tipns.
The influence of the clergy wherever there
is a clergy over the minds of the people
mud from the nature of thir profefhons be
very great. —All the government of Europe
have found it oecetfary to purchase this in
fluence en made, ar rather to incorporate it
with the other powers of the government,
and to admit the clergy to a Glare, propor
tioned to their influence, in the common
plunder. In England, whose government
is the great prototype of American federa
lifm,the share of the clergy is one tenth
part of the annual produce of the whole
kingdom, beftdes the dignity and privileges
of nobility to a number of the clerical
chiefs called Archbishops and Bishops, with
many others dignified grades, of piieft
hood.
fiipporiing republican measures, will thy
rnoonce their errors and do justice to thof
men and those m afur.s that have fared our
conutiy from ruin and placed it in a state of
prosperity never betor. known upon earth ?
Let them do this, and republicans will be re
conciled to them.
Republicanism and federalifm can never
unite, can never b_ reconciled, they are
liberty and flav ry and thy are terms of
essential opposition. It has been observed of
late that some of the ruling party in Con
ne&icut have aflom d a language like this
Weallow that the meafur-s of the g neral
government are wife, that our affairs are
condu&ed better than our fears predicted.
Wlut then? our State government is a totally
! different thing from the general government
— Why do you with to make a, change a
mong the officers of the State government?
Our answer is, b cause many officers bf our
State government ar? federalists, or are igno
rantly anting thr part of federalists—that is
they arc enemies of liberty and of the friends
of liberty ; they a: enemis cf the general
government arid cfthe principl son w hich it
is conduaed; they keep the state in a posture
of hostility to the federal government and so
long as they bave pow-r to prevent it they
Will nevr^p-tmit a cordial co-operation
of the state with the general government.
The qeftion is not fellow citizens whether
Jonathan Trumbull, or Ephraim Kirb ,
or any other man, shall be governor of
the state of Connecticut, but whether the
state of Connecticut Shall be curdially restor
ed to the bosom of that family of which She
was once an honorable, a highly TUemed
member, or the present alienations be en
couraged and eficieafed until they ffiall ar
riv to the State of open rupture. Th pre
sent state of things cannot long ex J, it
cannot be flationary, and the bickerings
between the government of this flare and of
th United States must end in reconciliation
or they must end in war. What th nis the
object of thof federJifts Who direct the
operations of the party and who ate lefpon
fible for all the consequences of their enter
prises ? Do th y expert to break tne repub
lican dates down to their measure ? No their
folly cannot soar so high. Do thev contem
plate a dissolution of the Union ? D^re they
look on the conference of an event like
that ? It they have ever turned their eyes
that way, let them tremble. No fellow
citizens, this is finely an idle fear. We
know that you may be, many of you have
been, deceived with regard to the views and
meafurcs of the two great political parties:
how long this dtlufion will continue we
know 001 ; but we know that you are in gen
eral republicans; attached as ardently as ^hy
men on earth to a free & frugal government,
you cannot therefore be induced to throw
away your liberties to plunge a dagger inyour
own vitals.
A thousand absurdities have beeh tittered
relative to the plans of the republicans in
case they (hull obtain a majority in the leg
islature of this Hate. Almost all the views
of republicans; so far as we know them we
have already explained. Republicans have
not projects hostile to religion, its hiinißers
or its ordinances ; in this repeat they hold it
to be eflentially; ard under all tircumßahtes
wrong and tyrannical lor a government to
interpose any further than may be heceffary
to prevent the violation of the peace of focie
ty. They would teßore elections to hat
freedom from perfohal and pecuniary influ
ence which they formerly enjoyed. To the
militia to all those men who are though:
worthy to be entrnfted with the defence of
libertv, they would extend the right of fuf
frage," that meft important right bf free
dom. They would divide the state into
difirias for the election of councillors and
of members of Congress. These are the in
ovations, if such they may be called, which
republicans have at heart.
It is not peculiarly out cause, fellow-citi
zens, that we are pleading, but your own
cause, the cause of cur common country,
the cause of the whole human race, for the
whole human race are ibtereßed in result of
the experiment now on tria here. We aik
of you no implicit faith; but we request,
we beseech yon to lay aside prejudice, to ex
amine impartially; and with a Sincere defirc
to difeover the truth, whatever may he urg
ed in favor of the projects of either party. —
Surely we ought to be heard, When we re
quest only that you will with cootnefs ^nd
firmnefs pudue your own highest happi^ts
and as liberty has now, on this globe, no
abode but with us, that you will in,! madly
combine with bet enemies, to drive her from
the face of the earth.
Since the Almighty has kindly vouchfafed to preserve &
prosper us another' year, it become .us, at the elofe of it, to
repeat our graceful acknowledgments tor the daily fuppott
Signed by order of the General Committee.
° LEVI IVE'S,Jun. Glerk.
Angntt 30, 1803.
tiv his EXCELLENCY
Caleb Strong, Esq.
Governor of,he Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMA TION.
and affiance #wk?ch helm Imparted 10 ti% and m imitate
of the example of our forefathers, to unite fub&kly in the
Solemn and delightful employment of celebrating Eis praifi
Tier,Jure, With the advice and content of the Counci.
I appoint THURSDAY, the Fir/ % f£to„%, „,„ to [
observed in this Commonwealth as A DAY OF PUBLIC
THANKSGIVING:—And the Ministers and People of
d.ff.-rcnt religious denominations, are requeued to rffemhh
in thYir refpedive places of worthip on that day, that we
inky jointly pour forth the tribute of cur gratitude in the
most devout and fervent praises to GOD, and render him
our sincere and humble thanks for all the necessaries and
comforts which support and delight our lives—for His diU
tirguilhing goodness in exempting us from calamities which
other nations are fubjed to, and granting us bleffin% to
which they are fitters —for the peace and tranquility we
ate favoured with—for our civil and religious liberty for
the degree of health which He has been pleased to contin
ue or to restore us, and for His mercy in preferring us from
that fatal difcafe with which some of the other ftr.c es have
egain been vifitedfer the—prosperity which He has afford'd
to our commerce and ffheries—for His bkffings on the
labors of the hufbaudmen, and the abundant supply of the
fruits cf the earth—and above ail lor the revolution of the
gefpei and the benefits and confohtions, which rdult from
Its doctrine and precepts.
And from a reahfing sense of our unsvortbintfs, let us fi
nite in confining our multiplied offences, and prayer to the
GODef our fathers, thit He would forgive us, and th^
His former kinduefs to them, and our continual experience
of His favour. may eftabliQi our dependence 00 Him anQ
chfereeour obedience to His commands ; That He would
Bleh the national and state governments, and dicta sha
President and Congress to such measures shall be conducive
to the public fafety and peate r That the thurches may bh
purified and enlarged, and attain the higher perfection dt
chriftian knowledge and virtue. •That He would Imile upon
all our valuable in<erefh, and especially upon the means of
religious inftru&ion, and the inflitutions which have been
established to promote feience and literature, and to form
the manners and morals of the people. And that having
enrichcd.es wish His providential bounty, He would grant
us those fu,plies of His grace, by which we foil be ahi
pitted to the duties of life, aid prepared for a Bate of pef
ha and cndlefs felicity.
That He would restore peace and mutual friendship to
the contending nations of Europe. That the interest cf
true virtue and piety may flourish in all parts of the earth,
and the minds of men be every where formed to rational
devotion and diffufive benevolence—And that the molt
distant ?nd barbarous nations may leek their salvation in the
grace of the gcfpel.
And the people of this date arc requeued so abflain from
such labour and recreation is arc iuconfiflent with the fo
lemhitics of the day.
Green at th Council Chamber, :n BofloK, tbit
twenty-faenth day of ORcber, in the,car cfour
Lord, one tboujh'nd eight hundred and three ,
and in the twenty-eighth Tear oj the Independ
ence of the United States of America.
CALEB STRONG.
By bis Excellency's command, with the advice and consent
of the Council.
Yesterday was apprehended in this town for puffing
counterfeit notes on the bank of the United States, John
kamfey & Andrew L. Love ; both from the county of York,
in South Carolina. The notes are well executed, and no
material difference can be perceived between the Prudent's
name of the genuine and those of the counterfeit — th Sim,
ion, the cashier s name, the letter o is too high, and if filial
ly examined the initial G is tto clunftly formed at the end,
as it ends blunt and not curving out like the genuine. The
Eagle is imperfect, its head and legs beihjr so bint that the,
are fcartely viable. They are ail d^ted in 1799 *Boo,
and l8ot; and some of the latest dates are affixed to the
Imalleft numbets. The aggregate of the notes found in
their peffeffion, including thele they had palled in the
neighborhood which were immediately recovered, amount
ed to toso dollars— They Ire all ten dollar Notes, except
two or three, which are of five, and twenty. Five Amer
ican Eagles were likewise found with them. But the fraud
may be eefily discovered; they are in the firftplace too
light, weighing only about seven dollars and an naif, and
their beihg somewhat thicker in the middle: than the edge;
together with the badnhfs of their execution, contrihutti
to convince a feerfen immediately that they are counterfeit :
if these are not deemed fufficient proofs, by taking a needle
or fume Sharp pointed instrument, and feratching the gold
oh feme premineht part of the coin tkc copper will diflin
dll, appear.
A Court Will be. called on Saturday the l,th foft, fcr
the tlamihatiun of the above mentioned perfohs.
A few dhys ago three men were apprehended in a cave
in fifhkill mountains, in this State, with apparatus for coin
ing, and a number of counterfeit dollars. The cave wak
large and commodious, and contained feme old worn out
bellows, &c. the marks of former inhabitants. One efrhe
fellows was ,firtl taken, When he, informed of the others
and went with, the pufuers to the cave, where the ether
two were arrtfied ;br" ''"onduairg them to Poughkeefie
one of them made hisefcape, but the State evidence, & tb£
other are lately lodged in gaol.
[He, Inf vreek, mentioned a tcbbery which tuns
committed on Me Ittajuty ts NewJeiJey—thi
following are the particulars.)
TRENTON, N. j. OCTOBER 24.
ROBBERY!
On Friday morning last, between the hours of one and two
b' clock, Mr. Saltar, Treasurer of the State, was alarmed by
a r.oife which he heard in a lower apartment of the bcnfe
ih which he resides, and in which is his efface and the place
of deposit for the public money. Not being under ^pre
henfions of any thing ferlobs, he did not alarm the red ot
the family, but proceeded down flairs with a lighted canule,
and on perceiving a window raised in a back room, was pro
ceeding to flint it, when immediately on his entering this
room, he was furrohnded by four men armed with kniS,
who immediately demanded the keys of the public tkafare,
and threatened him with instant death ih case of re
fufal or rtcife. Alone and dcfencclefs Mr. Salter was forced
to comply,and compelled to accompany them while the,
plundered the public mbney. After taking what they con
ceived the whole of the paper money in the treasury, each
one helped hirafelf to a bag of dollars, containing, it is fup
pofed.about 560. A bonfultation was then held by the
villains how they Should dispose of Mr. Saltar, when the
Allow who fecmed to aet as principal, seized a small rope
which was lying near, tied his hands behind him. bis knees
and feet together, and putting a flick io his mouth for a gag#
secured it [here by a firing at each end which he tied
round his head ; they then laid him upon the floor, at the
back-tide of the room, went out with their spoil, and locked
the door upon him. „ .
All this was rranfafted with so much silence that no one
awakened in the house. Mr. Saltar endeavored ,
make a ncifc with bis feet against the floor, but having lift -
his fores in the chamber where he slept, he was u^foe to
John Avery, Secretary.
GOD save the Coinntanwealtb of Massachusetts.
LEXINGTON, (+IRC.) SEpf. 10,
Beware et Counterfeits.
By Mail.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. JO.