The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1797-05-29 00:00:00, page 1

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" vift, injirua me to endure
'' &&©!, aubuh admit^na cure;
Or bow that evil can be borne.
Which breeds, or 0% tab bate (ffom"
fe Swift.'
MANY evils, we, by rashness and
wdifcretion, bring upon our.
fairer Thefc we can generally bear
' wiih iorii&e. At any rate, if becomes
us not to complain, for we thereby dis
cover enr, own folly and weakoefs.
Evil# of thi^kind, Sometimes, admit of
i& a cure ; at Jcall, we may learn to avoid
them.
But there are some evils, which, with
all ourfagacity, we can never avoid;
and yu, to enduse them, is painful and
humibating. Such an evil is Binder#
)dwjb who was the author of my motto;
[< '" °°' ™ c "° m "* attacks ; and he
calls upon rhe tye, to inttrutt him how
to fuft^nthem. , .
Slander i, pfoduaive of numerous
e r"' s ""he. humble walks of domedic
!" e * , ""' & P an d foments difeordr,
jeatoyfe. and animosities, in families,
neighborhoods, and larger communi
# ties. ,3% pifling by these, we may ob
'",.=' ''" ", incessantly vents itfeif ar
gainft thnfe who are generally esteemed
Irfans, of worth and tefpeiftability.
The wc,thy Clergyman, the faithful
,ffiid,lahorions Preceptor-, the wife and
I prudent Sratefman, men whose lives
h ^r" ht+ bice are ever devoted to
frtVQM IT Qweftate or ineir country;
4 Even %ecannot escape the venomous
anacksof Bander. Whoever tifes a
bove the common level, st him the poif
pneu arrows of defamation are iinme
" diatay directed. So true is the oblafc
vuiopof the poet ;
0 S#and tab m boxer, fame, Q, quit,
', Atioderb, cubo inferior Jit,
I Conceive thi tyehes in conscience bound,
Woj^dm# dragjou id the ground."
Bug 'os time to be pointing out a
' 'topedy, if there is any. And here we
after all, have recourfc to rhb old
^' x \' b ^W'd^'i be.toedmejl keep
4% : ” The man, whose mind is for
, pitied ft found philosophy, and who
is coifeious of his own reaitude of
,bcdit ^d life, will not e afil> be affected
/by the brawlings of Bander. He en
' i°v> peace and fertility within ; and
' • ^.^^ h # e " of defamation pass by
MW, like hilling wind, or the buzzing
A I' ""' every petfon wify. to free
& bii character from the imputation of un
,worthy actions ; and so far as this can
be done, without forfeiting the dignity
• of &,% it is doubtless juftifoble ;
but, a? Zander generally proceeds froth
,^ e ¥"° r ^ defpift^lc, and the vul.
P',"y,f°P to expostulate or rea
'^ with them, is like attempting to
fttnca mudjys fountain, by fau dling
, " ^b ffcmlQto balk
'%btir n.at0,u,1 9 LET THIM TAZt."
OBSERVATOR.
——foOtero—ite.- t
1, from the Gawk as the United Sinfes®
\, ^ ^arnYng NOT
T''" " en seen, that the govern
-1 meut of France has an ipdifputable
&"''" '° '' e capable preeminence of ha
ff virg takenrhe lead in the violation of
• , neutral rights ; and that thelirft romance
^ on the part of the British government
f is nearfy a month posterior to the corr^
#;enctmw of the evil by France, But
to it was not only posterior, it was also lefi
, tompfebcofiye ; that of France extend.
td to a/lprrotfom; that of Oreat Britain
to ceuaip kinds only, Corti, Flour and
Q '^ French decree. „ t 0 the United
Sn.es ifecdl, fafpended and
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revived. &to other neutral nations,
it contained a permanent precedent to
fanftiob the practice of Great Britain.
This decretal vetfacility is alone ' com.
plete evidence of wane of principle. It
is the more cenfurahle, because it is as.
certained that it proceeded in part at
least from a corrupt source. The sac
red power of law-making became the
minister and^he accomplice of pri
vate rapine. 'Decrees exacted b> . the
folema obligations of treaty were facri
. need to sea rovers—to enable them to
enjoy the prey for the feizute of which
they ought to have been coadizoly
publifyed.*
Ihe next and most injurious of the
afteof G. Britain is the order ofthe 6th
of November 1795, which indrafts the
commanders of ihips of war and priva
tiers to hop, detain and carry in for
adjudicate all^ Chips laden wih the pro
duce of any French colony, or carrying
provifon# or other supplies for the use
of such colony. It was under the cov.
er of this ordrt, that were committed
the enormous depredations on our com.
merce, which were the immediate cause
of fending an envoy co Great Britain.
The terms of this order were ambig
uous, warranting a fefeicion that they
were deigned to admit of an oppressive
^s^™¥ & {V' 4 rftf° -,._-.#,. .fr—w-#~ -
duavowjl it. Whether this was re
°"'° # " "Aether the order was
ill fad mifcoUbwed by the British offi
cers and tribunals in the Weitlndies,
it is certain thaf the British government;
almost as so?? as their comtruftwn was
known in England, notfay disclaimed
it, but idded a new order, dated the yth
^'J^?^' '? % revoking ,hat. of the
°' November, and expressly re.
graining the power to detain and cart
in tyTeis for adjudication to f lic h a
wereladen with thtyroity of h Fienc,
Wandgwigfrom a tyh in the fad to a
port in Europe —to Jucte a, were laden
yith & like produce helping to fabjertt
of France whither soever twund—tofab
as <were laden in whole in part 4&ih na
vf< 7 mi ^y jtoret hi to a French
fland.'
I his last order obviated in a great
measure the mifehief of the former ;
and though its principles were in some.
£ elpe& such as we ought never to re—
cognize, yet they were conformable
with the practice of the principal mari
",' Fewer# in antecedent ' modern wars,
especially of France and . Great Britain#
These afts comprise the whole us
those on which the Mripffi fpoiiations
have been founded. Taken with all
4'!'?^ °'Conftruftion adopted by.
^ n ^h officers and courts in the
wettinls, they amount to this and
to no more—" tbefeifoe and afro,ria-?
I ^* °', r ^%jbar,aud meal, going to
French parity on the condition of paging for
them—he l&ure and amfleatia, ofcut •vefr
J™ with &ir cargoes, when laden with
A >," otA French c&tg„ot in the ;
as < of carry ing proviliona or other fop-.
?'" for the use ot foch colony." Our
trade with France' herftif, except in
corn, flour arid meal, andja contraband
articles, has foxhe wOrftof times re
mained uqmbletted, and has even been ;
^rit'^ '°"°"™ °° directly from
I%!>itons .and oppressive as were the
acts of Great . Britain, bow very far
4 0r they fail short of the more iui-
— —_ _ , ;
* The report ofthe feccetary of state
mentions , (as was known at that tim<)
fhatone repeal wai effected by the in
tiuence of the owners of a privateer
which had captured the valuable Amer-f
icao lhip, Lawrence; to give <ffcft to ;
her condemnatiou.
quitou, and oppreWve decrees of France,
,s thrfehave been faffrated and afled
upon, not only by its colonial admini
strations, but by some of its tribunals in
Europe, The decree of the zd of July,
'796, Reports in fdbftaoce, that Fiance
^"k'^at rhe neutral powers as they
have . permitted her enemies to treat
them.--&t under this walked battery
the whole of our trade with the enemies
of Frantehas been availed. The two
edicts of he? procanfuls in the Weft-In
dies, proclaim the capture of all neu
tral, velfels bound to or coming from
English, ports—and the uniform con
sequence is confiscation of vessel and
cargo. We are now likewise officially
informed that a French consular tribu—
nal at Cadiz has condemned neutral
vessels carried in there on the fame
broad principle. The -evil to us has
been signified! by various aggrava
tions. Ourveffels going from one nea-
Irai port to another, "even, our vessels
going so and returning from French
ports have been the victims of the pira
tical tyirir which dilate those edify.
° utra g, imprifooment, fetters, dif
cafe, add d^ath, inflicted or brought up
on theicommanders and crews of our
veiTels,,dufe the bitter cup of our fuf
fe,i%± overflow, and leave the im
'T^^^, a.^oC 'or& ffaralici, —with-
out feeding for it in the ferocious reigns
of Bubary.'
The ambiguity ofthe Bririfh order of
November was a just fabjed of re,
broach to its authors—What (hall we
fat ofthe petitions ambiguity of the
French decree of the id of July, 1796 1
Wn n retaliation of ihe partial injuries
wh,ch neutral nations had fuffered from
the enemies of France was denounced,
who could have dreamt that an uoiver
fil war on their trade was meditated ?
Who that has a spark of the American
.tn.his foul can refufd his utmost indig
nation as well at the manner as at the
Fitter of this attrocions proceeding?
Not only the parrifaas of F. the advo
cates for the honor of republican gov
ernment, but the friends of human na
ture, must defre that the final explana
tion may rejeft, as a criminal abuse, the
praffice upon that 4,ee, and repair as
Talas possible the mifchicfs which it has
occasioned.
But the treaty with G. Britain (ftil!
exclaim the dupes orhirelings of France)
:that abominable internment, is the Pan
dora sbox from which all our misfor
tunes issue—When that instrument was
confirmed, who could have expected
any thing better ? Peace, ft seduced qt
fed ucing babblers I—Had Denmark or'
Sweden any (hare jn making that rep
robated treaty ? Befide# the refutation
of your flimfy pretence, by the ill treat
ments in other shapes of several of the
neutral powers in Europeby the in
formation from. Cadiz of the iudiferim
inste seizure and condemnation of neu
tral veffel# going to dreaming from. En
gli(h ports---Do ye not read in the re
cent accounts from St. Bartholomews,?
it Swedish inland, that not Americans
only /hat Danes thar Swedes, that all
the .neaminations partake in the com-'
mon calamity—^alike the prey of a de
vouring rapacity ? Will y e ftiil then in
fill in the barefaced impotture of ascrib
ing to the treaty, grievances which are
the mere effc& of &fflri< of oppreflion
and rapine?
Read the letter of Mr. Skipwith tty
Mr. Munroe, dated at Paris, the third
°c ° c ^°ber; i^g^ briar to the fignuure
of the treaty by Mr. Jay- -Remember
~* Santhonax and Co, Nov. an, 1796°
Victor Hughes i[h Pluvojfe, ,h „a'r
of the Republics
" Aftaa agebt, a&ing Q,,„„,
m' l'?° American miniver, aml
that both the miniver and agent are dit
tingurihfl by a, partiality for France
which exempt &m from the fufpiciou
, exaggerating her misdeed^-What '
does that letter tell us ? Why, in express
'"?!^ h " innumerable embarrassments
and difficulties had for a long time op
pressed our commerce in different port#
of the republic—that if the French gov.
ernment did not foori remedy the inces
sant abuses and vexations pra&fed dai
upon our merchants the trade of the
United States with France must cease.
Hepce may ye learn, t^at long before
our treaty with G. Britain the vexations
of bur trade in the ports of trance were
extreme as to have become in olera
°e ;="hat ''the indiscriminate cap
ture of our vessels at sea by the vessels of
° f c ' h L e r ,* blic "° formed only one
Class of the injuries which our com
merce had futtained • in a word, that
[he predatory system of France existed
before the treaty, and has only of late
acquired greater, adivity from the crav.
mgs of an exhausted creafury.
. Ihe man, who afrerthiM mass of evi
dence ihall be the apologia of France.
4pd '', calumniator of his own govern
ment, is not art American— The choice
for him, lies between being deemed a
fool, a oiadmaa; or a traitor.
AMERICUS.
* This is also a passage verbatim
from Mr. Skipwith'sletter.—And he
produce# al^^^^ taffier ^ fuppm
his affections.
Ah a& to amend and repeal, in p ar r,
the a&, entitled, " An aft to afcek
tain and fix the military eftablifhmcat
of the United States."
BE it ena&db, the Senate and House of
Reprefentatroet of the United States of
America, in Cforejs affimbled, Ihit the
third feflion of the Art, passed the thir
tieth of M#y, one thousand seven hun
dred and ninety-fix, entitled, «'An aft
to ascertain and fix the military eftab
lilhmerft of the United States," togeth
er with all other parts thereof, which re
late to provision made for the Major-
General and his fta£ be repealed ; and
that all such parts of the said a&, to
gether with so much of she said aft,4o-1
,gerher with so much ofthe twenty third',
f-ttion, as may be construed to affeft the
: Brigadier, and the whole of the eleventh
feftion of the said aa, be, and are here
by repealed.
fa he it firtfa enaaed. That there
.shall be one Brigadier-General, who.
. may choose his .Brigade; Major and in
fpedor, from the Captains & fubalterna
in the line (to each of whom, there fhal(
be allowed the monthly pay of twenty.
;fy^olta, in addition to his pay in the,
; line, and two rations extraordinary, per.
day ; and whenever forage (hall not be
furuifhed by she public, to ten dollar!
per.roonth in lieu thereof.) That there;
mail be one judge advocate, who (ball
be taken from the commissioned officers
of the line, and Bull be entitled to re
ceive two rations extra, per ,day, and
twentyfive dollars per month, in addi
tion to bis pay in the line; and whe^
ver forage Ihall nor be farnifhed by the
public^ to ten dollars per month; in liQ
thereof.
* '' R J* r&r ^aed. That there
thall be one Guarter-maftcr-general/arid
°°, pay-^fter-general, tyhofyi fc
eg,,, the fame pay and emmireats, ref
peflivel,jwhich those offictys toe beep
heretofore allowed by J, w. h:
&&Wfurtbeir matted; Tliat from
add after the thirtieth da, of June next,
the monthly pay of the Iteutenahts@l
be thirty dollars, and that of the en
4g,' twenty-fae.doihmr That to,the
brip&Q white commander in chief;
and to each officer, while commanding
a feparatc putt, there (hill be allowed
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