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Convention. .
24 Bromaire, jd year df this Repubnb, |
Ooe and indiviflbte. J
THE Committees of Public
Safety, Finances, Com
merce and Subfiftertce, resolve as
follow.
Article I. The Vefi^ls of the
United States of America, and of
Other ntowrt pvwCTS rtMlt Owl/
enter the ports of the Republic*
and leave them when they
and no constituted authority mall
be permitted to retard their de
parture* or oblige the Captains to
fell their cargoes against their in
clinations.
Article 11. Whenever the Cap
tains or owners of neutral yeffels
shall think proper to fell their car*^
goes to government* they (hall be
paid according to mutual agree
ment. " . . j n
Article 111. It is enjoined on all
commanders of fleets, divisions,
squadrons, or (hips, on their re
sponsibility, to refped and cause
to be refpe&ed, towards all neu
trals and allies of the republic, the
We hasten to lay before the Public a
tr inflation of the following Arret, j
LIBERTY. FqPALITY.
ExtraSt from lite Regift & v
Jolves of the Commit tees of Pub
lie Safety, Finances, Commerce
and SebGftence, of tit National
rights of nations, and the regula
tions of treaties, ftri&ly conform
ing themselves to the terms of the
decree of the Convention of the
27th Joly, 1793- ,
Article IV. In conference of
which it is expressly forbidden
them to hinder or interrupt the
voyages of such vessels, or to take
out of them the captains, sailors,
or paflengers, except military men
adually in the service of hostile
powers, with their merchandize
©r efft&s.
Arik le V. Except atfo. from
the prohibition, contained in the
proceeding article—*r ft ;• All mer
chandize belonging to powers at
war with the French Republic,
till those powers (hall have declar
ed free and not feiz able, French
merchandize on board of neutral
vessels ad. Such merchandize
though neutral .property, as is
contraband and prohibited, viz ;
arms, instruments and ammunition
of war of every kind, horses and
their harnefles, and alt kinds of
goods, wares or merchandize, def
ined for any enemies ports adtu-"
ally besieged, blockaded, or in
veiled.
Article VI. All goods leizcdl
on board a neutral veffei, as belon
ging to the enemies of the Repub
lic, (hall be dilcharged without
delay, and at fartheft within the
time fixed for the days of demu
rage by the written agreement or #
charter party which the Captain
may produce.
Article Vll. The freight of aH
goods belonging to an enemy,
shall be paid according to the
rate fpecified in the hill of fending
or charter party, ^nd the Capt.
(hall have liberty to invest such
freight money in any goods. Dr
merchandize of the growth or
manufacture of the Republic, the
exportation of which are not pro
hibited.
By Tue/days MaiK
BOSTON, FSB. it.
JMPORL ANT ARRETi
* Artfete VHH The Capt.ftf thr
board of Which the be
fore mentioned gdods of an enemy
shall be founds shall be free CO de
part as soon as they are discharg
ed. ' L (
Article IK. In the case ttf goods
seized as being enemies propertys
and which shall befound to belong
to neutrals; and declared in con
sequence not to be lawful prize,
they shall be restored in good or
derto the owrter. • x 5 ' _
Article X. The commiflion of
marine shall present without delay
to the Committee of Pubkc Safe
ty, a lift of those perfonsj born
fubjefts of nations now at war
with the Republic,who have been
seized as prisoners Ort board heu*
tral vefleis, that measures may be
taken relative to their memo^h’
Aruac xj. iuc enaemniues
due to the neutral Captains who
were detained at BourdeauXj in
confequehce of the Embargo at
that place, shall be fettled by the
Commiflion of Marine conform
ably to the refblve of ! the com*
mittee of Public Safety of the 7
Germinal. - The fame commiflion
shall tender an account within ten
days of the a&ual situation of
those claims. ;
Article XII. The Commiflion
of Marine is Ipecially charged to
receive and fettle the accounts
which shall be prefenfed to it by
an agent of the United States of
America, for provisions furnifhed
to the administrators of St. Do
mingo. The above commiflion
shall take every neceflary measure
co procure to the concerned the
most prompt justice, and shall
present to the Committees of Pub
lic Safety, Finances, Commerce,
and Subsistence, the refulc of the
doings in this bufmefs.
Article XUI. The commiflion
of Marine is charged to cause
these resolves to be published id
every part of the Republic.
The Commiflion of foreign af
fairs shall transmit k to the agents
of the Republic near allied and ;
neutral governments, with orders
to communicate it to them^
A copy of it shall be delivered
to the Minister Plenipotentiary of
the United States of America, as
an answer to his memorial present
ed the 17 Fruftidor last.
The members of the United
Committees, signed.— Richard,
Johanrtot, Duport, Merlin (of
Douai,) Carnot, Blutel, C. Cochon,
yhuriot, Thibault, Mor sis on, Ri
chard, Cambaceres, J. F. B. Dei
mos, Breard, Le Clefc, Dy fez, D.
Ramel, Poijfon, Pekt, Bard, Gar
nier (de la Meuse) Jarier, L. E.
? Beffroy, Gumery, R Lindet, Gir
ard, dinard.
(Copy) Dalbaradei
! Boudettin^
(Copy} L' Eveque,
Fernetiy
The NATIONAL DEBT of
the United States^ amounts to 76,
096,46 s dollars ; exclusive of >,
‘ 400,000, dollars due the Bank of
the United States. A sum not
near so great as the loan in En
gland for one year.
The fend Speculation is all the
{ rage at the fouth ward now. The
Legislature of Georgia has late
ly fold to a company, a traftfop
poled to contain 40 millions of
acres, for 500,000 dollars I Mr,
Gwr> Judges Wilson, and
In alt communities there ate
Men who decide upon the spur of
the occasion, and execute imme
diately from the most rafli deci- 1 -
Hori; Such were those who with
cd for an instant declaration of
war last summer. It is, however,
happy for the United States, that
all who direst our dearest concerns
ar^pt such Hotfpurs ; and that
there ate thole who wilh to exam
ine carefully and cooly before
they determine $ and when they
execute, know that they are pur
suing the belt poflible mode for
red refs.
Pendli tow, and Mr. Patrick
Henry, are among the fortunate
adventurers.
JEvery account evinces, that
complete success has attended the
negociation of Mr. Jay, notwith-
Handing the melancholly predic
tions which were rung in the peo
ple’s ears on his appointmentj and
thus the wisdom and prescience
of the Federal majority in Con
gress, is dethonftrated, to a peo
ple tob long insulted with empty
declamation, and abused with
fallhoods.
P orc * « . - ..
The celebrated Brigadier
Bowles, the Indian Chief, so often
reported dead, and who was edn
demned, about two years ago, to
the mines of Peru, by an order
from the Spanifo Court, was lately
liberated.
Letters from the Reprefenfative of
the people with the army of the
Sambre and Meuse.
. M*ettrichr, Nov. &
“ I fend you, dear colleagues,
26 Dutch and Austrian Hands of
colors > Ji belonging to the garr*
son of M®ftricht, four were taken
at the battle of the Ourc, and one
It is related as a fail, in a fete
Jamaica: account, that a horse
thrown overboard by an American
vefibl rn tempettwous weather, ad
ualty followed her two days in a
tremendous sea when the weather
moderating, the horse was taken
on board and conveyed fafe into
PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 7<<
Extraß of a letter from Lisbon, Nov
27, to a merchant in this city.
•‘THE Algerines have got as
far down as Malaga, but we
can inform you molt authenti
cally, that they cannot come with
out the Streighcs, as this Court
will keep a fu/ficient force in the
Mediterranean, to check them.”
A fa&ioes party made a recent
attempt to claim the meric of the
negotiation which Mr. Jay has
succeeded in completing. Disap
pointed in that extravagant effort,
they have how changed their key,
and in this morning’s Aurora, one
of the party has begun to abuse
the Treaty. Strange inconsisten
cy I one day they arrogate the
meßit of accomplifoing that
which the nekt they revile.
Do t hey vainly Batter themselves
that by foth ridiculous and gross
deceptions they will be able to
raise a ferrous oppofnion to the
ratifyeation of the Treaty ? Their
failure in Aprillaft, when a similar
struggle was made by the fame men
to picvent the appointment of M<.
Jav ought to teach them a differ
ent conduit
new-york, Feb. it.
at Mons, with two pieces of hart
non. Ifhall fend a 37th, which
was also taken at the battle of the
Ourt. We have found in Mte
ftricht 31 2 pieces of cannon, 302
of which are of brass, afmoft all of
a large calibrei This formidable
artellery did not all belong rathe
place. The Austrians had made
Mseftricbt their magazine of arms,
and left in it the remainder of their
heavy artillery. This is the rea
son, to our great aftonilhment, we
could not lay odr hands upon it,
in Chafing them from the Meuse
to the Rhine. We have found al
so 380,000 pounds Os powder,
without including the quantity
employed in the arsenal and in the
mineS; and 14,000 mufquetS, be.
sides those belonging to the garri
fonx The famous Crocodile’S head
is found •, and is, of the fort; one of
the fineft pieces of natural hiftory
in exiftehce.
Health and Fraternity!
giLlet.”
Providence, feE. iS.’
The Workmen at Hdpe-Fur
riace (in the Vicinity of this Town J
have already cast 76 Cannon, 32
and 24 Pounders, for the Frigates
and Fortifications of the United
States. They are ornamented
with the American Eagle and al
lowed by good Joges to be equal
to any Iron Cannon from the
Founderies of Europe. They are
cast fol id and bored by Water y
this it is supposed adds to their
S'regeth, as they stand thi fever-*
est Proof, a Number of them ha
ving been tried under the Inspec
tion of an Engineer appointed by
Government for this pufpofe, who
has expressed Mis’ entire approba
tion of them, and pronounces the
metal to be of an excellent quality r ?
From the (N. r.) MINERVA.
EtcfraS ts a hittr from an Ojfictr in tbs
Wtfttrn army, to hh fathtr, dattd Faff
tfayitt t 0a. 29. 1794.
My dear Sir,
w After garrisoning this fort With a fuf*
ficient number of meb to oppose tn enemy,
and assigning the command of it to CoU
Hamtram.x, the legion was erderd to
tike up the line of march the 27th inst.
having been on thia' ground one month,
and ten d«
“Two CanadHns, or half br»edrarrived
at head quarters the 26th inst. their cm*
bafly is kept feCret ? but as they are fmm
the Sandufk. tribes, it has been b’d they
came with efforts of peace for seven nations,
this is not given as a matter of fad. In
a few days.! hope to afford you :
intelligence pf their motives, f
before the winder doles we Ihall have the
Indians from the Wabash, at thia place of
fering terms of peece, their tribes being
more near to this Fort, than any other, and
their having already declared their oppoh
tion to a continuance of
tb hope my eXpedatioas will be fulfilled,
&c. The British commandants ftatiooed
at the fort crcfted on the Miami river, an®
By an article in the London E
vening Chronicle, we learn, that an
attempt of the following nature, has
lately been made to take off the Duke
of Tork by poison. The Duke usually
takes a glass of wine and bitters, in
the morning ; one evening, however,
be received a hint to beware of bis
accustomed refrffbment ibe ensuing
morning, and was informed of the
reason. In the morning, when his
cup-bearer brought in the liquor, the
Duke inquired i/ it was properly pre
pared-, and being answered in the
affir motivednftant ly drew biSJword,
and compelled the unhappy man to
drink it, who in consequence, sudden
ly expired*
Art attempt to POISON the
DUKE of YORK.