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crime of which Citizen Duplaine is accused,
inorder that he may Depunifhed by his so
vereign, if he ought to be.
I request then. Sir, very earnestly, in rhe
name of the.Fiench' Nation, of Joßke and of
Liberty, that the molt formal and fqlemn En
quiry may be fully made in chit State, of the
motives of that Difmilnon, and into the legal
forms which ought to have preceded it.
I beg of you, in the mean time, that, in
executing my-orders I may depeftt in your
hands (( my Proreft against this impediment
of the Executive power of the United States,
against the sovereignty of the French people,
that of the American people, and the particu
lar rights of the Stare of Maffachufetta,which
ought to aflift and support foreign Agents,
' admitted among them, when the verification
of their powers hes been made by the firft
Minister of the American Union.”
Signed, DANNERY
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, NOV. IJ.
COMMUNICATIONS.
A citizen requests to know, what answer
the Lieutenant-Governour has given to the cx
trairdinary address, of Mr, Dannery. It
is of importance to the citizens ofMafatb'ufetts
to know ; —and they have aright to demand,
’whether the incendiary proceeding of the Ccn
ful in question has met his mod painted indig
nation ; or whether it meets, in the kt-ft de
gree, his countenance or acqAefcence! And
they ought to know it in as public a manner
as the address to him has been public.
In a free and sovereign REPUBLIC, inde
pendent of every power on earth, could it be
possible for the Freemen who inhabits it, ever,
to have expefted^ that a Foreign Agents the
satellite of another Foreign Agent— l ave
' dared so far to intermeddle with THEIR
government, as to declare his right to cosftrue
THEIR Conftitution—to'definc the powers
THEY have given to those whom THEY
have appointed to administer that govern
ment ; excitingly to fay, That ALL FOR
EIGN-AGENTS have a RIGHTS heap
prehenfive of the administration of that gov
ernment ; and, to sum up the total of official
arrogance, to ** PROTEST again the aft of
the government of the United Statesf for remo
ving a. Fice-Conful, who under the guns of a
man of war, and with an armed force, preven
ted an officer cf the United States, charged
with ths execution of a civil precept, from
performing his duty—when that-ducy was the
refeue of property captured by a PIRATE.
And, as their eyes have witnessed it, whar,
but that enlightened policy— that dignified
J^JeW orders call me again near you.
The Minifler of the French Republic has,
with reafeu, feared that as in so impertan; a
circumstance, the ccnfeqaences of which, will
bevc so great an influence on the ceftiny of
both Republics, French and American, feme
eflential meafores should have escaped my
zeal. ,
nations, yet filters, is it possible, that my two
fir It official fttps, instead of permitting me
to make use only of the expression of the ever
dear fraternity, I am obliged to use thdfe
which require the gravity of the official de
mand of a rigorous trial.
CitizenDaplaine.who had been appointed to
fulfil, per interim, the funftions of Consul to
the State of Maflachufetts, has been difmifled
without a previous judgment, by the Chief of
the Federal Government-
This est has been communicated to the Ple
nipotentiary of the French republic; and it
is by his orders that 1 am aj^in charged to
deciare to you, that he does not acknowledge
its validity, and that he orders me to fclicit
Give me leave then. Sir, after having, a
gain, affcrcd you of my sincere rcfpetl for all
the laws and conftitutcd authorities of a coun
try, where I was in hopes to pass the remain
der of my days ; the dear and pleifing hopes
of which, Ido net ye: defpir ;of my sensi
bility for the good treatment tbsc I daily re
ceive from my republican brothers of Button
—and my refpeftful and gra'eful attachment
for the virtuous Successor of the patriotic and
virtuous HANCOCK,—to use, though with
the feelings of ;he greatest pain, which, alas,
may last all my days, to use tin right which I
have, as Reprefentauve of the French Nation,
in the Republic of Maffichufetts.
By which unhappy nccedity ; by which
dreadful fatality, dreadful perhaps for cur two
again of you the most severe scrutiny cf the
OFFICIAL LETTER /
From Citizen Dannery, Ccnful of the
French Republic to Citizen ADAMS, Ls.
Governor of the Commonwealth of Mafia
chufitts.
Boston, Nov. 7, 1793,
Second Year of the French Republic.
The CitiXrn Consul of the French Republic, re-
CiAng at Boflon, to SAMUEL ADAMS,
Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief
$ of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
ther meetings of the London CorM
ponding Society, at any house within
his Lordship’s jurifdi&ian. /
From The COLUMBIAN CENTINEIL
•’ . y ■■ • ' < J. ' ,
' FRENCH. SQUADRON. »
We 2re informed, that the French squadron
which lately failed from New-York, under
the command of Admiral Sergey ; and which
we onderftand was deftinvd oh an expedition
to the Weft-Indies, in order to ffipprefs the
ariflocracy wfckh prevailed.in feverai parts of
the islands, and particularly at Jereme, and
the Mole, have abandcMd'their objeft, and
have fulled for Framer, This moverpent is
political urbanity— -that perfed command of the
pajjions, which is the charaftcriftick ci F tiemen,
whose Laws are their avengers, debar them
from executing on the Intruder, the efFed of
their moll pointed indignation ? But both the
Minifler, and his satellite, know they are in
the United States,and that the citizens there
of, are partial to the failings of Frenchmen*
Let them, however, beware—There are boun
daries beyond which even American urbanity
and partiality will not confecraie intrusion.
The citizens of the United Stapes ought to
be reminded, that it is their beloved WASH
INGTON, who is the ohjed of the repeated
infill's of the French Minifler.
Tn what relation dees the Fiench Minifler
Hand wbh the Amtrican people ? is a queflion
many elk- The answer it, that nor even the
moil diftaut connexion fab lifts between them.
It is also asked, who appointed him, and to
whom is he accountable ? —The answers sre,
the French Executive Council appointed him,
and to them he is alone accountable—Com
mon feufe then inquires, why in the name
of reason, does be not make bis complaints
to his matters'—-and forbear the office of a
perpetual new spa per scribbler ?
Whether the French male and female Em
bafl’y to Salem, will be able to compromise
with the Captain of a Salem vcflcl,* for the
firipcs he has received, we pretend not to fay :
Unfortunately they were intttded by the Cap
tain of a Privateer, fitted out by Genet,
called the Genet and is a Pirate in the opin
ion of every one. The patrictifra and firm
hefs of Mr. Gray, the owner of the infuhed
vefid, will not, we prefumc, ou any ctnßdtra-
Hon, fuller this flagrant ad to be fmethered.
Good News
FROM PHILADELPHIA-Nov. i
** I am now so happy uto be able to in
form you, that a rapid decrease of the cufcr
der has continued since the late of my last.
, I saw z physicians yesterday, who have been
aftive during the whole ti;« ; they informed
me hat they had had no new application,for
5 days paft.' The burials in the city are now
not more numerous than at this time last year,
I believe not io many. Mr.ZJ/2^,who has been
so long at the hofpita!,& whose beroifm I for
merly mentioned, informed me last evening,
that only one psrfob died there yesterday.—
Not one was carried out; and out of 1J 4 now
there, it was. not fuppo ed that mere than 10
or 12 would die.—This is a nioft alUnilh
ing change. The weather has been uncom
monly cold,and what has been anxiously wish
ed for, is come at last—-a most plentiful rain,
I think the epidemic will trouble us no more
this year at lead and as 1 am fully
fatislied, it. was not generated here
but was imported, either from the Streights,
or Hispaniola, Ido not entertain the fears
that some perfens do, of its breaking cut a
gain in the Spring. Great numbers of per
sons hive already returned, and the honfes
which have been long font are opening, air
ing and cleaning through the city. Ail fu.
lure danger, will, I conceive, arise hum this
cltawling not being thoroughly done. The
magiflrates appear to be ferfible of the im
portance of the business, and are taki -g mea
sures accordingly«
“ A most noble spirit of benevolence has
broke forth in the neighbouring towns and
counties, as well as in the more distant part ?.
The bcdefsftions received will alleviate the
diftrefles of multitudes, and leflen the embar
rassments of the corporation ; for every ccn
fidcration has been made to give way to the
►general distress, so that, independent of the
dittrefles brought on the poor, by the epide
mic, they would have fufleied greatly this
winter : But without the aid received, the
disorder would have, probably, lingered a
mong is all the winter. Cheerfulnefs and
spirits have changed every countenance from
a fettled gloom, to tranquility and joy.
“ The absentees, who have returned, look
wild —You may easily conceive their feelings
-—when they mutt be in a great degree ’igno
rant of the aflual state of the alleys, courts
and streets, through which they pass. I have,
however, not heard of any perlon being taken
Tick, who has returned ; and I det pot think
there is the least danger in traverftng the ci
ly, through any of the . principal firsts, or
even any part whatever. The rain will re
people the city ; and bullnefs will revive.—
The (hipping are coming up continually.
“ You will fee by the papers that »hc pub
lic offices are to be opened in the city, next
week.
'^The President is also expelled from Vis -
ginia. A house, lam told, is taken for him
in Germantown, but I think it will be per
fedly.fafe for him to come immediately to
the city and that be will not go to Ger
mantown.” .
said to be attributable to CapL Romfard, cf
the Jupiter, who urged the measure to his
crew ; and was followed therein,by the crews
of I’Eole and the other fhrps cf the fqadron.
Information of this event vias received at
New-York, by the Cerf' sloop of war, and
has'been the occasion of much unealinefs to
the French Minifler.
BARBARITY.
The flagrant aft of barbarity, inflifted by
the crew of the Ci'izen Genet pirate, on the
body of Capt. Henderton, of Salem, is fuf
ficicnt to rouse the utmost resentment of every
American $ and a correfpondeut it happy to
learn, that Mr. Cray intends prcfecuting
the complaint to the most complete fatisfac
tioo.
The following deposition made relative to
the unparalleled inkit, piracy, and barbarity,
mentioned above, is extracted from the Sa
lem Gazette of yeflercay.
The Depos 1 t ion of Jose p h Wa it, of
lawful age, unifies and maketh oath, that he
tock passage from the island of St. C’nnflo
pher’s, in the Weft-Indies, on board she brig
William, Benjamin Hendirfan, matter, bound
for Salem, in the Commonwealth cf Massa
chusetts : That on rhe morning of the 19th
of Oftobcr last, being in latitude 25. north,
this deponent discovered a fchconer, Handing
towards the fame brig, and which fchooneria
about two hours aherw&rds came along flee
the said brig ; on which the Captain was
hailed in Eoglifh 10 knew from whence he
came ; who made answer, that he was frem
Point-a Petre, Gaudaloupe- He was then
ordered to hoist out his boat ar.d come cn
board fa’d fchccner with his papers ; ard
not*ithftsnding the said Benjamin Hcnderfon
.repref nted that his beat was very leaky, and
potable to swim, be was obliged to comply,
as they threafened to fire Into the said brig
from the schooner, in case of refufal : Howev
er, previous to the boat being hoisted out a
small boat like a fkiff came from the schoon
er with .three men in her, one of which men,
on coming on board, appeared co this depo
nent » be an officer: That this deponent en
tered into comerfa ion (in French) with the
officer, and was informed, that the fchonrer
was a French privateer, called Citiyon Gb
n r t, mounting ten four pounders, and man
ned with sixty men, and that his name was
Dcpca'. Also they h.jd been frombhdauelphia
tri! days and had taken feveo prizes.— Capt,
Henderson was then ordered by the officer to
go cn board the fehoefner, which he did, and
after remaining sometime, returned cn board
the brig, and told this deponent that he the
said Hendtrfon mutt return with all his papers,
and this deponent mutt also go with him :
That on going cn board, this deponent was
interrogated by fever si cf the crew, as to
where he was born,' and other frivolous
questions, to which this deponent cannot par
ticularly recolleft his answers, as he was un
der great apprehensions for his fafrty, from
the hoftiie deportment cf the officers and
ciew of the said fchconer: That in about ten
minutes after, four or five of the faiiors vio
lently aflaulted and dragged Capt. Henderjon,
by the collar, to one of the guns cf the said
schooner, where they held him down, whilst
another of the crew,with a 3 inch rope, beat
the said Htnder/cn on his bare flefb, until his
left fide was black and blue from his knee to
his (boulder : That the Captain of the
schooner, abused said Hinderfon most grossly,
and repeatedly gave him the lie, upon his of
fering any thing in his defence; That this
deponent with Capt, Henderson then returned
onboard the brig, and were accompanied by
feverai of tile privarecis crew.whoon going cn
board the said brig ranfackcd every thing
that came in their way, and robbed and
plundered the said Henderson of ctlh and ether
articles to the amount of about two hundred
and fifty pounds lawful money, and also rob
bed this deponent of property to the amount
of 1001. lawful money.
After this bchaviouf,this deponent wenten
board the privateer a second time, to endea
vour if possible to get refti:ution of his pre.
perty, and then expoflulated with the Capt.
of the privateer on their conduft towards a
neutral vcflcl tq which this deponent got no
other fatisfaftion than that of being told that
the Americans were a parcel of damn’d ras
cals, and did not deserve to be treated other
wise : That this deponent then quitted the
privateer, and fhc immediately Hood feuth
ward. This deponent further deposes, that
the said schooner had French National
colours hoisted at the main-top-mast-head,
the whole time ; and that the Capt. of the
privateer put on board the said brig fjur Ber*
median faiiors in confeqoence of which, the
{atdßenjamin Henderson was under the necefli
ty of retrenching the Blip’s provifinns, and
put the whole of the (hip’s company, this d.e
ponent incladed, on allowance. That this
deponent did nos to his recolleftion hear the
name of (he Capt. o.- apy other of the officers
mentioned, except that of the said Defect,
who was bailed repeatedly from < the said
schooner by the name of Dupea. Further this
deponent moftSolemnly deposes, ihtt no part
of Capt. Henderson a coaduft or behaviour
was such as to warrant the unexampled treat
ment he met with from the Capt. and crew
of the said privneer, but on the century hie
'■ ■ „■ ' V. ■ 'I
Extraa of a I tier, da ed BAfaji. Sept, J7.
<c fbe situation of mere an tile people
in this country fts truly'diflreffing—Our
Laws are bad, and they are as badly
managed, fbe only hopgs we have, that
when they are at the worfi, they will
take a turn. The war is an unnatural
one, a war of KINGS against the
PEOPLE. We have good reason to
think the event will fheiv the folly of
it. It is much JufpeHed here that the
Allied powers in Europe will' not allow
neutrality ; if Jo, America will be bros
in for a share; and the general opinion
here, is, she will assist France.™
A KEEN TRICK.
Five Criminal prisoners, in the new
jail of Philadelphia,one day last week,
blackened their tangles, and other
ways To well counterfeited the com
mon symptoms of the yellow fever,
that, for fear of infecting the prison,
they were conveyed, feemirgly in a
low Rare, to the hospital on Bush-
HilL Here they took the firft op
portunity to make their escape, noc
however without ftrft robbintr the
nurses of a considerable sum of mo
ney. One of rhefe persons, we are
told, is since retaken, and carried
backtojaii. -V. t
. ■ * —..
behaviour was/that of a captive in the hand *
and power of an unmerciful conqueror. Thia
deponent further fays, that no commission or
authority was (hewn by any one on board the
said privateer, to jutti() such proceedings.
Joseph Wait.
IS there, or is there not, Officers cf a For
eign Nation, im piopet\y authorifed, row in'
Bafton, as well as in other parts of America/
recruiting men for the purpose of making a
firtie upon one of the Spanish fettlemen/s ? It
so ; Is it, or is it cot a bold and inftmoui a",
tack upon the Sovereignty of the American
Republic ? And ought, or ought not, fpirired
meafurei to be taken to fruftraic the infa
mous attempts of th?fe, who by every a-tifi.s
io their power, are eadeav uring to involve
America in a War. WA TC HM A N
TTT~y f «■ 1 ■ ■ ^■m I■■ • -
7— ™
C HAR AC! ERESTIC SKETCHES.
National Urbanity. Mils Hannah
Moore, an elegant Engliffi ^rl er, lemark^
'* I fiat all the ooafled corquefts of tjie Ed
wards and Henrys of England France,
do not confer such fubflantial glory cn Great-
Britain, as (he derives from having received,
protrfted, and fapperted, amorg multitudes
of other f-flerers, a; a time and under cir
cumfiauccs f;» peculiarly difadvsntageous to
herfelf, THREE THOUSAND Pntfh of a
nation habitually her enemy, and a religion
intolerant and heftiie to htr ov n, “-i ff
flic exclaims, is the Johd triumphs of tr^e
ChriftianityV * ' J
Refinement;. It is a faft, that not
withstanding there are in the city of s^aiis
near Thirty Theatres, open every n ght; that
there was net at the date cf the Ml accounts,
ts one place open fur religious worfliip of any
kind or defcriptior, throughout that vast me
tropolis.” , The French, it is tree, may have
fomethingelfe todo, than going to church; but
in America, we orderedJucb tbirg, much bet
ter.” and, without any degtee c l (uperftitiGß,
it may rationally be interred,, that to our fre
quent appeals to the Throne of Giace, sed
reliance on the favour of Ileaven, our fucceii
is in a grear measure to be attributed. Ar.d
we ado, in the language of a Poet of our own
country, that it appears,from tl C pie Lat gen
eral rlfing of the Ft ench People— *
That he who rides upon the jf beret,
B'itb bright Angelic char 10 tiers ;
Thus /peaks with mighy voi c :
' ‘ All Galli a— -bear th ’ A. mtg by Lo^d,
Maintainyour firtbright , g-aig tbc/werd,
** Be this your happy cbotced ,
The awful charge will spread alarm's
A univirfaljbout —TO ARMS—
'A'HI fund frum Jea to fen——
They'll front the, haughty tyrant fee, &
** Ard let ail liell, and Europe linow—^
That Frenchmen will he freed*
Ejfex, IT — Nov: it, 1793.— Then J°jtpb
H 7 ait, within named, personally appeared ;
and, after being carefully examined, and du
ly cautioned to teftify the whole truih, made
solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing de
pofition,by him fubforibed. The oath is ta
ken “ perpetuam rei mtmiriamP before
Commonwealth of Maffachufetrs.
Isaac Qsgccd, 1 Jufticea cf rhePeace
Edward Pulling, J quorum uuus.
MR. RUSSELL,