The Columbian informer, or, Cheshire journal — Keene, N.H., 1794-11-04 00:00:00, page 2

Reflect, that in affording this, however
regretted fuccour, you insure for your
own consumption, the approaching har
vest. Divide with us the fruits of your
economy ; employ the treasures of the
Church to obtain them, give up the hdy
Utensils and vases to the Emperor, that
with them he may pay your defender,.
In return for them, you Ihall receive his
obligatory receipts in due form, and reg
ular interest thereon. Replace the re
sources of Belgium, which are cut off
froth us, and now flow only for our ene
mies, watch over, fora little longer, with
companionate charity, our sick and woun
ded.
' Rife, Courageous inhabitants of the fer
tile diftrids of the Rhine and Moselle ! To
arms, yebraTe men ! Stand forth on the
banks of your rivers, and watch over the
precipices of your defiles; accompany our
<ranfportsj guard our magazines; Rife
by thousands, and join with us in battle
for 'your altars; for your homes ; for;
your Emperor; for your liberty.
4 We will not lead you beyond the rivers
of your country ; we will not depopulate ;
your country ; but you ffiall feeure the
grang posts behind us, and Watch over the
To what fiould these truths and this
£onvi&ion lead us ? Te Peace. Let us
retire from the scene of carnage, while
yet we can retire with honor. We have
gained a victory at sea, which Great Brit
ain will contemplate to the latest ages,—
That victory will enable us to make peace
in tefrmk qually honorable and profitable.
The opportunity offers—the times de,
mand it—let u then make Peace.
; It is there they find themselves posted at
this day, weakened but not vanquished ;
wearies ;n an unequal contest, but neither
humiliated with difeouragement, nor ben
ding under del,air.
• Itis there they .jaw form the advanced
bulwark of German liberty, the bulwark
of your Religion, year laws, your Fam
ilies, and Children.
The Meuse is tire line of Separation be
tween total ruin and Preservation, dellruc
tion, refeue, misery and happiness.
Rife ! then, my German brethren and
friends. On you alone will depend the
possibility of your deliverers living or dy
ing in your defence.
I myfelf, a Prince of the German Em
pire, filled with anxiety, not less for the
fifety of my country than for the preser
vation of my warriors, I call upon you
to procure us sustenance, and bring forth
the fores ofyour magazines.
In this they have facrificed those sacred
ties which bind distant nations to their
refpedive homes and families, not lei's
than yourselves, and have voluntarily re
nounced every endearment of domellic fe
licity. The inexhaustible means of a de
lirious nation, to whom life, the happi
ness of man, religion, moral duties, and
all the ties of Civil Society are become a
mere sport ; its innumerable hords forced
on by their tyranny, to Daughter, and who
purchase by oceans of blood, the delusive
shadow of an imaginary Liberty ; the in
inaftivity of a hood winked people, in
sensible to the approach of danger, and
deaf to the paternal voice of its Prince,
the infiduous conduct of many of its am
bitious Represents wives, men whom te
elate that nation has discovered, and now
abhors as the author of its boundless mif
trr—all these caufeshave forced our ar
toies tofall back on your frontiers.
We p'ur^fely pass ever the other pow
eh of Europe.—We omit the observations
on the armed neutrality of Sweden and
Denmark, and on the alarming watchful-;
nefs of Russia.—We cast from our coniid
eratign all the petty fates of Italy, whose
exertions in so mighty a cause ate mere
feathers in the scale.
Our brave armies are forced fromthofe
fertile plains, where for the paefervation
of your property the fafety of your lives,
the support of your religion, the welfare
of your children, the wealth of your
flourishing Provinces; in ihort ; to res
cue the whole nation from utter ruin and
annihilation, they have sustained the most
ievere combats during three deftrueftive
campaigns. Campaigns, in which, by
their blood incessantly flowing for three
years, they upheld the glory of their arms
by the generous facrifice of their lives ;
nay, of the whole of their natural pow
ers.
STATE PAPERS. ,
PROCLAMATION OF, THE PRINCE
OF COBOWRG.
ADDRESSED TO THE GERMAN NATION.
German Brethren, and Friends,
That great and expensive injuries hav
ing thus, under the colour of his Majes
ty's authority and commissions, been
done to a numerous class of American
merchants, the United Statescan for rep
aration have recourse only to the justice,
authority and interpofitie.n of his Maj
esty.
That the vessels and property taken
and condemned, have been chitfly fold,
and the proceeds divided among a great
number of persons, of whom "some are
dead ; some unable to make reflicution,
and others from frequent removals and
their particular circumstances, not easily
reached by civil process.
That as, for these losses and injuries
adequate compensation by means of judi
cial proceedings has become impractica
ble, and considering the causes which
combined to produce them, the United
States confide in his Majefty'sjuftice < id
magnanimity to cause such compensation
to be made to these innocent fufferers as
may be confident with equity ; and the
undersigned flatters himfelf, that such
principles may without difficulty be adopt
ed,as will serve as ruffes whereby to afeer
tain the cases and the amount of campen
fation. &
So grievous are the expenses and de
lays attending litigated suits, to persons
whose fortunes have been so materially
affeded, and so great is the didance of
Great- Britain from America, that the un
dersigned thinks he ought to express his
anxiety, that a mode of proceeding act
summary and little expensive may be de-
The undersigned presumes that these
fafy willappear from the documents which
he has had the honor of submitting to his
Lordlhip's consideration ; and that it will
not be deemed necessary at prefect, to par
ticularize these cases and their merits, or
detail the ciieumlknces which diferimi
nate some from others.
fafety of your own confines. Sure, Ger
man Citizens, we are not deceived in
your inclinations ? We have placed full
confident in the German good Sense.—
We rely on the hearts—on the undegener
ated blood of the Gcrman Nation.
For three years to your Emperor
borne the enormous burthen of the war
alone, and- dillant nations have bled- in
your defence; and yourselves now muff
be convinced that the day of ncceffity is
come, when you also must take up arms.
Mr. ,AY to LORD GRENVILLE.
THE undersigned Eavoy of the Uni
ted States of America has the honor of
representing to the Right. Hon. Lord
Grenville his Britannic Majesty's Secreta
ry of State for the Department of For
eign Affairs.
That a very considerable number of
American vessels have been irregularly
captured, and as improperly condemned
by certain of his majesty's officers and
judges.
That in various instances these captures
and condemnations were so conduded,
and the captured placed under such unfa
vorable circumstances, as that, for want
of the securities required, and other ob
ftaclcs, no appeals were made in some
cases, nor any claims in others.
It is then that 1 Commander of a faithful,
and tried army, will promise to you, in
the name of my troops; That we will
observe the moft* rigorous discipline „ We
we will (bed the last drop of our blood for
your welfare ; we will die for you, as we
have already combated for you ; and nev
er fhal lhappy Germany bend down its
head under the blade of the guillotine ;
never shall her peaceable inhabitants
change their generous manners,their tran
quil simplicity, their property, protective
lans, their intilicentious condolatory re
ligion, for that all-calumniating fpirit,that
legally fpoilaxive system, that forced in
fidelity and atheifin imposed by violence
on the subjugated French.
But should you, on the contrary, like
the infatuated inhabitants of Belgium,now
groaning in the besom of misfortune, de
prived of liberty and property, and re
ligion. Should you also permit yourselves
to be fedured by fecrec traitors, we shall
be compelled to repafs the Rhine, and
give you up a prey to your enemies, and
to carry off with us, without diftindion
or hesitation, .every necessary of life which
might furnifh new resources of the ene
my.
J^y 3°, 179 b
The Field-Marshal Prince of Cobourg,
Given at our Head -Quarters Fouron Le
Cemte,
IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.
In the cases of the second description the
proceeding might in feme instances be more
difficult, from the lapse of the time usually
allotted for preferring appeals—but his
Majesty bejng anxious that no temporary
er local circumstances, such as those to
which Mr. Jay refers in his note, should
impede the course of substantial justice, has
been pleased to refer it to the proper offi
cers to confider of a mode of enlarging the
time for receiving the appeals in those ca
ses; in order to admit the claimants before
the regular courts appointed for that pur
pose.
The undersigned has no doubt that in
this manner, a very considerable part of
As to the cases of the firft description,
Lord Grenville apprehends that the regu
lar course of law is still open to the claim
ants : And that by preferring appeals to
the commissioners of prize causes here, a
gainst the sentence ofthe courts below, the
wihole merits of those cases may be brought
forward and the most complete justice ob
tained.
The undersigned Sec'ry of State has had
the honor to lay before the King, the min
isterial note which he had received from
Mr. Jay, Envoy Extraordinary and Mio
ifter Plenipotentiary from the United
States of America, refpc&ing the alledg
ed irregularity of the capture and condem
nation of several American vessels, and
also refpeding the circumflances of perfon
,al severity, by which those proceedings
are fated to have been accompanied in
some particular instances.
The undersigned is authorized to allure
Mr. Jay, that it is his Majesty's wish that
the most com,kt# and impartial juflice fhauld
be done to all the citizens of America, who
may in fad have been injured by any of
the proceedings above mentioned ; —all
;experience shews that a naval war, exten
ding over the four quarters of the globe,
must unavoidably be productive of some
inconveniences to the commerce of neutral
nations, and that no care can prevent some
irregularities in the course of those procee
dings, which are universally recognized as
refusing from the just rights incident to
all belligerent powers.
But the King will always be desirous
that these inconveniences and irregulari
ties Ihould be as much limited, as the na
ture of the case will admit, and that the
fulleft opportunity should be given to all
to prefer their complaints and to obtain
jedrefs arid compensation where they are
due.
In Mr. Jay's note, mention is made of
several cases where the parties have hither
to omk>ed to prefer their claims, and of
others where no appeals have been made
from the sentences of condemnation pro
nounced in the firft instance.
vised, ai circurnftances and the peculiar
handfhips of these cases ma, appear to
permit and require.
And as (at least in feme of the cases)
it ma, be expedient and necessary as well
as just, that the leniences of the courts
of Vice-Admiralty fhculd be revised and
corroded by the courts of appeals here ;
the undersigned hopes it will appear reaf
onahle to his majeft, to order that the
captured in question (who have not al
ready so done) be there admitted to en
ter both their afyah and their claims.
The undersigned also finds it to be his
duty to represent, the; the irregularities
before mentioned, extended not only to
the capture and condemnation of Ameri
can veffcli and property, and to unusual
personal severities, but evep to the im
pressment of American citizens to serve
on board the armed vessels. He forbears
to dwell on the injuries, done to these un
fortunate individuals, or on the emotions
which they must naturally excite, either
in the breads of the nation to whom they
belong, or of the just and humane of ev
ery country. His reliance on the justice
and benevolence of his majesty, leads him
to indulge a pleasing expedition that or
ders will be given, that Americans so cir
cumstanced be immediately liberated, and
that perlons honored with his majesty's
commission do in future abstain from sim
ilar violences. It is with cordial fatif
fadion that the undersigned refleds on the
impressions which such equitable and con
ciliator, measures would make on the
mindsof the United States, and how nat
urally the, would inspire and cherilh
those sentiments and difpofitioDS which
never fail to preserve as well as to produce
reaped, esteem and friendship.
(Signed) JOHN JAY.
London, 30th July, 1794.
Lord GRENPILLE. in Rtyj to Mr. JAY
PITTSBURGH, Oa. ii.
Refolutiom of the Delegates of townjhip of the ^^
l^tb of Augufl, affrabled at Parkirfa'e
Ferry on the id of O&cber, agreeable tv
the notice in the Pittsburgh Gazette.
Refolded —THAT it is the unanimous
opinion of this meeting, that if the signa
ture of the submission be not u^iverfal, it is
not so much owing to any existing difpefi
tion to oppose the laws, as to want of time
and information to operate a correfpondenc
fentrment ;. and with refped to the greatest
number, a prevailing concioufnefs of thei:
haring had no concern in any outrage, and
an idea that their signature would imply a
sense of guilt. •
Refohed uva*imov,,—T\Rt we will /&
mit to the laws of the United States, that
we will not diredly or indiredly e„a,
the execution of the ads'for railing a Urff ^
nue on distilled fyirits and stills, that ^
will support so far as the lew requires, the
civil authority in affording protection to all
With refpea to the desire exprefled by
Mr. Jay that new orders might be given
with a view to prevent as far as is possible
the giving any just ground of complaint
on this head, Lord Grenville has no rea
son to doubt that his Majesty's intentions
ref,effing this point are already /efficient#
ly understood by his Majesty's officers em
ployed on that service ; but he has never
theless obtained his Majesty's permiffien to
assure Mr. Jay, that inftrudions to the ef
fed defired,will be renewed in confcquence
of his application.*
The undersigned avails himfelf, with,
pleasure, of this opportunity, to renew to
MY. Jay his assurances of Lis fincereefteera
and consideration.
Department of State, O&ober 20tb, 17,4.
I hereby certify that the foregoing rep
resentation of 30 July from Mr. Jay te
Lord Grenville, and Lord Grenville's an
swer of I August, are true copies of the
original on file, in the office of the Depart
ment of State.
the injuries alledged to have been fuffera
by the Americans, may, if the complaints
are well founded, be redressed in the ufuafr
eourfe of judicial proceeding at avery final!
expence to the parties, and without any o
ther interposition of his Majesty's govern
ment than is above Rated ; —until the re
^lt and effect of these proceedings shall be
known, no definitive judgment can be for=
med refpefhng the nature and extent J
those cases (if any such shall ultimately be
found to exist) where itihall not have been
practicable to obtain substantial redress in
this mode.
But he does not hefcate to fay before
hand, that if cases shall then be found to
exist to such an extent as properly to call
for the interposition of government, where
without the fault of the parties complain
ing, they shall be unable from whatever
circumstances, to procure such redress in
the ordinary eourfe of law, as the jufticc
of their cases may entitle them to expert,
his Majesty will be anxious that iuftice
should at all events be done, and will read
dily enter into the difeuffion of the mea
fores to be adopted, and the principles to
be established for that purpose..
With refped to all ads of personal sever
ity and violence, as the King must entires
dy disapprove every such tranfadion, so
his Majesty's courts are always open for
the punishment of offences of this nature'
and for giving redress to the Offerers in
every case, where the fa& can be ellablifa
ed by fatisfadory proof; nor does it ap
pear that any case of that nature can exist,
where there would be the finalleft difficulty
of obtaining in that mode, substantial aid
exemplary justice.
On the fubjedtof the impress, Lord
Grenville has only to assure Mr Jay, that
if in any instance, American seamen have
been impressed into the king's service, it
has been contrary to the king's desire; tho
such cases may have occasionally arisen
from the difficulty of diferinrinating be
tween British and American seamen, espe
cially where there so often exists an inte
rest and intention to deceive. Whenever
any reprefentaiion has beep made to Lord
Grenville on the fubjc&, he has never
failed to receive his Majesty's commai&
for putting it in a proper eourfe, in order
that the fa& might be inquired into and
afeertained, and to the intent that the per
fonfin question might be released if the
fads appeared to be fatisfa&orily eftab
lilhed.
GRENVILLE.
Downing Street, Ift Aug. 1794.
PENNSYLVANIA.
GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. C.C.