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6. A live lobster at the flank, a red-hot
heater in the stomach, and a bum-bailiff at
the heels, of Citizen G-—t.
7. Citizen Genet’s end to all the sons
offaClion. -
tion. ' t r /
9. Federalism in high Spirits, booted
and (purred, a horse-whip in his hand, and
money enough in^in pocket, astride anti
federalism, riding iike the d-J.
Second Division— emphatic,
5. The Senate of the U. 8.---May the
hearts of five or fix of the members, be as
wide open, as the doors of their cham
ber.
4> Citizen Fauchet—-May his wife and
prudent conduit, counteract the pernicious
effects of his predeceffor’a folly and Wick>
ednefs.
I will only add, that your mes
sage Teems to promise to Congress
some statement upon these fub
jedSi I have the honor, Sir, to
be, with the highest refped, Your
most obedient fervanr,
EDMUND RANDOLPH.
^be President of the U, States,
True Copy,
Geo : Taylor, jr. C.C.D.S.
3. Alexander Hamilton—May hisene
miesjor a livelihood,buy fix-per.cent flock
at twenty-five (hillings the pound; and
tell at fifteen.
MelT. Hud fan and Goodwin,
^r^HE following Toasts were drank lift
1 Monday, by a number of patriotic
Gentleman in this town. As it is falhion
able to publish toasts, perhaps these had
better appear in print, for the benefit of
the Democratic Societies in the United
States. 1
Firfl Division- -feriuui.
j. President Walhington—-May his
fun of glory Ihine with increasing luftre,
as it descends to the horizon of life.
2. Liberty and happiness to M. La
Fayette.
Thus, Sir, have I reduced to
general heads, the particular com
plaints, without making any in
quiry into the fads, beyond the
allegations of the parties interest
ed.
Against the Spaniards, the out
rages of privateers are urged ;
And against the Dutch, one
condemnation in the admiralty is
inhfted to be unwarrantable.
Under this complication of
mifchief, which persecutes our
commerce, 1 beg leave, Sir, to
submit to your consideration,
whether representations, as far as
fads may juftify, ought not to be
immediately prefled upon the for
eign governments, in those of the
preceeding cases for which they
are responsible.
Among these, I class, I. The
violences perpetrated by public
fliips of war. 2. Prohibitions, or
regulations inconfiftenc with the
Jaw of nations. 3. The improper
conduit of Courts. 4. Infractions
of treaty. 5. The imposition of
embargoes : and, 6, The breach
of public contracts. How far a
government is liable to redress
the rapine of privateers, depends
upon the peculiarities of the case.
It is incumbent upon it, however,
to keep its courts freely open, and
to fecore an impartial hearing, to
the injured applicant- If the rules
preferibed to privateers be too
loose, and opportunities of plun
der or ill-treatment be provoked
from that cause, or from the prof
ped of impunity, it is impoflible
to be too strenuous in remonstrat
ing against this formidable evil.
8. Expatriation to every child of fedi-
From the Connecticut Courant.
Hartford, Ma*ch 12,1794.
** We have been alarmed with the ap
prehensions of a war with America ; but
I hope there will be wisdom on your fide
of the water, tho* little I fear on ours, to
prevent it. Both countries molt be materi
ally injured by such an event, and neither
* ' • ■ ‘ r 'I
Copy of a Letter from Dr. Priestly, to
Mr, J. Gough, at Savannah.
CLAPTON, AUG. 21, 1703.
SIR,
I WAS highly gratified by the ac
count you were Co good as to transmit to
me, of the favorable manner in which the
news of the revolution in France was re
ceived in America, especially as at that
time there were doubts entertained on the
fubjeft. That many viewed it in an un
favorable light with you I have no doubt,
but that a revolution, in all the eflentials
so nearly resembling your own, should not
be thought a joyful event by the Ameri
cans in general, I could not believe. Your
letter made me quite easy on the fubjefl,
and enabled me to fatisfy my friends.
Since that time there have been more re
volutions, as they may be called, in
France; all,however, J am willing to think,
favorable to liberty andhappinefs, though
at the time I and all my friends were dis
posed to forebode ill, as our particular
friends were the fufferers,~The last con
ftilution fee ms now to give almost univer.
fal fatisfaflion ; the infurrcflion fee ms to
be nearly fopprefled, and as to their foreign
enemies, they make light of them. In
deed they have only fcrved to rouse and
unite them.
"Meffri. Printers,
I should be extremely terry to give my
fellow-citizens any unneceflary alarm ; but
as a civil officer of this government, I con
ceive it my bounden duty ; at all times, to
communicate any information, whereby
their lives, liberty or property are at flak?.
The information 1 now communicate to
my fellow-citizens, is, that the Spauifh
fleet and army, destined to attack the
French part of the island of St. Domingo
have been compelled by a most dreadful
plague to return to the Havannah, The
Admiral has loft upwards of 400 men on
board of his (hip alone, and there were up
wards of 3000 down with the malady in
the fleet. The British General at St
mingo has forbid their landing, or even
coming into port ; and the inhabitants of
Havannah. unanimously rcfolvcd, that they
should not set their feet on (hore in that
city. It was fyppoftd they would be tent
to some uninhabited island.
Third Di<viJion-^—~^urafi , ve.
io; The Samlonof government —when
the Phihftincs of America, shall force him
to pull dowm the mighty edifice of fedc
ralifm, may they all be buried in promis
cuous ruin.
11. May the pismire of Virginia, look
with awe at the mountains of union and
peace, and creep silently into the ant-heap
of despair.
“NO forces the English can
bring on the coast will be fuffi
cient to take Brtft, or any other
capital place. But, for a moment,
I will suppose the French are a
sleep, and that the English and
fifty thousand men are at Brefh
What then ? Why they mull, in a
(bort time, return home ; if they
can; for surely they cannot remain
at Brest, which, in a short time,
will be surrounded by a French
army, who will besiege you in it j
you must therefore abandon it, or
advance into the country. Ad
vance, in the name of God; you
are at Rennes, the capital of Brit
any- What then ? I alk once
more ; why, you will be surround
ed, your communication with
Brest and your fleet cut off, and
your army perishes by the sword,
or by famine.”
General Lloyd's opinion on the plan
of ■ invading the territories of
From a Charlefon, S, C. paper t Ft 6, 4;
France*
From the London Morning Chronicle,.
OF BREST.
A Civil Magifrate.
ment the fafety and welfare of the United
States (hall require it, to Jay an embargo
generally or particularly, upon ships in the
ports or harbours of the United States, for
a term not exceeding, at any one time,,
forty days, and also to prohibit for a like
term, generally or particularly, the expor
tation of commodities from the United
States, and such embargo or prohibition to
continue from time to time, until the ex
piration of fourteen days after the com
‘mencement of the feflion of Congress next
ensuing the present.
After some lengthy observations by Mr.
Sedgwick, the refolutioQi were seconded
and Uid on the table.
Resolved, That the said regiments shall
be furnifhed with arms and accoutrements
at the expente of the United States, to be
returned at the expiration of their term of
tervice.
Resolved, That revenues by taxes or du
ties, competent to the purpose of defraying
the expente of railing and paying the said
troops, be provided.
Resolved, That within two years and
fix months after the time, which shall be
prescribed by law, for beginning to enlist
the said troops, if ho war (ball in the mean
time break out with any foreign European
power, the regiments aforefaid shall be a
bolished and cease.
Resolved, That the President of the -
nited States be authoited, if in his judg-
training and exercise hereafter mentioned.
Resolved, That each non-commiflioned
officer and private (hall, by virtue of his
enlistment, be entitled to a bounty, con
fiding of a suit of clothes per annum, of
the value of twelve dollars, and (hall also
be entitled to half a dollar per day, for
each day he shall aflemble for the purpose
of trainin’ or exercising; which, except
in cate of war, with some foreign European
power, (hall not exceed twenty-four days
in one year ; and in that case, each non
commiflioned officer and private shall be
entitled to the fame pay and rations, and
shall be fubjefl to the fame rules and regu
lations, as the other troos of the United
States.
**l fend this by my fans, who are going
to find a settlement in your country. All
[ have (three) will be there, and then I shall
exped to follow soon, I cannot give you
an idea of the violence with z which every
friend of liberty is prosecuted in this coun
try.—Little of the liberty of the press on
political fubjeds is left, and the country
in general goes heartily with the courts
with all (heir measures; so that nothing
but general calamity, which I fear is ap
proaching, will open their eyes. The
source of all this evil is want of knowledge
in the lower and some not of the lower,
orders of the people. The French have
wifely provided against this evil by a fyA
tem of public inftrudion. Here even Sun
day Schools begin to be reprobated, as
making the common people too knowing.
** With much gratitude for your com
munications.
House of Reprefentatives^March 12.
MR. Sedgwick, after some prefatory
remarks, read a set of refclnion?
which he, a few days ago promised to bring
forward. They are as follow :
Rejoiced, That there be raised, armed
and equipped, fifteen regiments of auxili*
ary Loops to consist of one thousand inen
rank and file each, with the proper offi
cers.
Refolded) That the commissioned offi
cers thereof be appointed as ether officers
of the United States, and that the non*
commiffi^ned officers and private* be in.
lifted for the term of two years; and with
this condiion, that if war Ihould break
out in that time, between the United States
and any oreign European power— they
shall be bcund to serve for the term of three
years, after the commencement of the war,
if the fam< shall so long continue.
Refol^vel* That in case offuch war, the
officers of aid regiments shall be entitled
to the likepay and subsistence, and to equal
rank and command with the officers of the
prefect military establishment of the U
nited States; but except in such case, shall
be entitled to the pay only for the time
they shall aduaily attend on the days of
of them could be a gainer. This indeed,
is the case with refpc&to all wars, but
more obviously so in this than in most
others/ '
1 am, yours fincetshr,
J. mESTLY.”
CONGRESS.
“ Such and so terrible are the effect of
opium (that belt of medidne)though drawn
immediately from the poppy, by deco&ion,
when it is indifcrertly administered, on pro
portionate to the ftreogth of the patient.
This is a fuffident admonition to parents
and others, unikilled in medicine, to for
bear the administration of those things,
the powers and effeCls of which they know
nothing of.”
>: BOSTON, March 27.
FROM NEW YORK.
By a gentleman from New-York, who
arrived last Tucfday we have received the
• ♦ ' '' " ’
WHITESTOWN, (N. Y.) Feb. 19.
“ Fori Stanwix, Feb. loth, 1794*
** Yesterday a very unhappy circum
stance took place in the family of James
Buel, of this town : His wife having a pair
of twin boys, about ten weeks old, being
somewhat tendfome and noisy, the thought
less mother, having heard the use of poppy
flowers recommended to procure deep, to
Hill them, inadvertantly dosed them so te
verely with the decoflion thereof, without
the leaf! experimental knowledge of its pow
er or effefls, that it threw them both into a
profound sleep, in which they continued
for some time ; at length cramps and con
vulsions ensued of an alarming nature— -a
physician was immediately called in, but
the period was coo late, one of them being
so far spent that the administration of med
icine had become impracticable, and death
was soon the confeqence. The other being
of a stronger constitution, and not so much
exhausted, was yet capable of receiving
medicines, which so far abated the violence *
of the fytnptoms, that he is yet living, tho*
much despaired of.
han; following Inttlli^gf.
IN the .th of Odober fmaU
sloop . Norfolk in Virginia, Capt.
Castle, w some French gentlemen pas«
fengers, u om he reported at the cuftcm
houfe,' 4 had permission for them to land
—tha iterwards information was lodged
again., him, he was immediately taken
with his passengers and sent to Port-au-
Prince, and committed to gaol, where he
lay in irons, head and feet until the firft
day of January, at which time he was loot
ed 4rcm that confinement and had the
pi Pledge of a final! room, with about fprty
o.iers where he remained till the 26th of
Tmuary ; his veffei was seized and con
/emned without trial: and not will ft audit
ing the repeated applications of the Ame
rican matters of veflels, he had never been
brought to trial. Nothing appearing a
gainst his passengers, they had been liber
ated by paying 25 Joes each. That Capt.
Thomson on his arrival, from Charleston
was put into prison, where he remained
four months, and his veffei condemned
witbout trial. That Capt. Moody, in the
ihip Favourite of Alexandria, laden with
sugar and coffee, was seized and condemn^
ed without being allowed to speak for him
felf, or employ a lawyer. That by order
of the commiflary, all American vessels
were twice very ftri&ly searched for arms,
by a gang of his black citizens, who took
all they found, and notwithstanding they
were absolutely necessary on board of a
veffei, our requests to have them returned
were in vain, neither did they allow the
least recompense. That the American ves
sels were the third time manned with fix
armed negroes on board each veffei, who
remained on board fix days, and behaved
in the most insolent manner. The Amer,
ican captains were then ordered to land,
their (hips provision, candies,and evey kind
of liquor, before they would rele^ the
guard, which they were obliged to comply
with, or support them on board ; and af
ter being robbed of their provisions, the
embargo was Rill continued for several
weeks, and when permitted to fail, they
were obliged to leave the port, many of
them without 48 hours provision on board.
The House went into a committee on
Mr Madison’s resolutions. The late de
predations of the Britilh on our commerce,
has changed in a degree the nature of the
question, and complexion of the debates.
The resolutions are now opposed as too
weak for our present exigencies. A mo
tion was early made to amend the refold-*
tions by fpecifying Great-Britain as the
objed of them, and was carried by a con
siderable majority. No other question was
taken, except on postponing the resolutions
generally, which was loft. The fubjed will
probably be relumed to-morrow.
N r ' O R K, March 19.
Bj a gent, from Pert-au Prince t we