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NEW-YORK, OCT., 27^ r;9^.
2a T t ar of the Trench Republic.
Giiizen Genxt, fyiniftcr Plenipoten
tiary of the French Republic, to
(Mr. Jefferson, Secre
tary of State.
-Sir,
I i..
■ , | HAVE just received, together
A with your letter of the 3d inst.
the difmiffion of Citizen Du
plaine, Vice-Consul at Button, and 1
b batten to declare to you, that Ido
r not acknowledge its validly; because
. the Constitution of the United Stares
has not given the President the right
1 h which he now appears dtfirous to ex
ercile—ic has empowered him, as
firft Minister of the American peo-
A pie to admit and to receive the Mi
niflers of Foreign Nations sent to
the great American" confederation,
and their confulary agents,diftributed
to the particular States •> but, in con
fiding to him this official function, it
has nut given him the power of dis
charging them, to fend them away, or
to fulpend them when once they
have been admitted. Such an au
thority cannot be exerted, fir, but
by the sovereign of the agent, or by
the one to which he is sent. On the
part of their own sovereign, their re
call can only be the object of his par
ticular will, or in confcquence of ne
gotiations' began with him for that
. objed : On the part of the sovereign
to whom he is lent, a difmiffion can
be the refuk only of an ad: of regular
justice, or of an arbitrary act. —If it
is a national ad of iuftice, the sove
reign should be furnifhed with every
pofiible light upon so important an
object, that he may be enabled to
prove to the foreign sovereign, that
his minister was unworthy of his con
fidence, and that the difmiffion or sus
pension was indispensable ——ls it is
^n aCt merely arbitrary, it is among
' *he class of ads of aggreffion,and bt
, • comes a cause of war; and you know,
-fir, that an this refped the conftitu
-5 tion of the United States has referred
!• * to the reprtfentatives of the people,
the right of declaring it. Ido not
recoiled what the worm eating wri
; tings of "Grotius, Puttendorf, and
-Vattel, fay on this fubjed—F thank
God I have forgot what these hired
a jurifprudifts have written upon tlje
rights of nations, at a period when
they were all enchained. But the
fundamental points of your Liberty,
and our own, are engraven in my me
mory in characters hot tobe^dfraced,
and the Rights of JMan are enclosed
in my break with (he source of life.*
1 have incessantly before my eyes
, your constitution, and our own ; and
it is because 1 fully feel the just and
1 wife intention^ of those who founded
them, that’l demand of you, fir, to
• ask the President of the United States
ji to procure examination, by the Le
gifiature repre fen ting the sovereign
k people of Mafiachufetts, of the con
duct of Citizen Duplaine, in the lame
manner as 1 have demanded an ex
amination pf my own in the ensuing
Congress. -
In governments like ours, po.liti
' cal affairs can only be judged by po
litical bodied, and if the Vice-Consul
Duplaine his infringed the particular
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fX/FC.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Monopoly made a capital of cnee,
(2<OLLET d’Herbois, in the name
oi the committee appuinred for that
pdrpofe, made a report refpc&ing
monopoly and propoled a long pro
jed of decree, by which monopoly is
declared a capital offence.— I hole
who make falfe declarations of their
provisions or merchandize, and
thole who fuffer provisions or mer
chandize of the firft necessity, such as
bread, wine, fruit, coals, cil, iron,
cloth, &c. to spoil in their magazines,
are to buffer the pain of death ; and
every citizen who informs against
such offenders, is to be allowed one
third pf themerchandize,as a reward ;«
the second third is to be distributed
among the poor, and a third to be
confifcated for the benefit of the
republic.—The convention adopted
the whole project of decree, without
discussion.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4.
A letter was read from Gen. Fer
rand, detained a prisoner in the Ab
bey. He requested that if the sur
render pf Valenciennes was the cause.
of his being kept a prisoner, certain
papers which he has transmitted to
the Minister at war, and others at his
own houfe,which had been put under
seals, might be examined. The bad
ftace of his health, he said, induced
him to require, that the law, stating
that a prilpner should be tried twen-
J ty-four hours after his being impri
soned, might be speedily put in exe
cution refpeftinghim.
as he proved incontestably, that he
never had any intention of refilling,
by forte/he orders intimated to him
by judicial authority, although they
were contrary to the political rights of
the French nation.
laws of Maffuchufetts, or the general
laws of tjie union which that govern
ment is bound to fupportj to that
Rate the cognizance of a crime a
gainst the majesty of the nation be
longs, in the nrft instance, and it is
for her officers to announce it to the
federal government, in order that the
foreign agent, found to have violated
die hws of the country, may receive
punishment from his sovereign, if he
men's it. 1 insist with the more
confidence upon this step, fir, as the
Attorney for the d^ftrift of Boston,
made three efforts to procure a bill
to be found at the circuit against
Cir z n Duplaine, and three times a
.popular and virtuous jury threw out
lis complaint, and this Vice Cmnlul
was finally acquitted in the most ho
nourable manner. How could, in
fad, any room for accusation against
him be found, fmee he only aCted in
conformity to the treaties, to his m
ftruftions, to the decisions of the fe
deral government, communicated to
a l the Rates, which even truftto the
care of the French-Consuls the prizes
fuppokd to be made within the ju
rildidion of the United States, and
Foreign Intelligence.
TUES DAY, November 19, 1793. ;
GENET.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21.
A Member. Here is an extract of
a letter from Nantz, dated the 15th
August. “ They are in experts ion
or a Naval combat under E’tiie-ine :
may God give us victory ! our fleet
is in the highest fpiiits.”
Barr ere mounted the Tribune, and
gave deplorable news from Lyons.
That city has gained over to their
views, that of Moncbrifon. The
room of the patriotic club,in that an
cient capital of ci-devant Forez, was
profaned by the inhabitants of'Lyons,
the furniture was broken and regis
ters burned ; as also the tableau,
which contained the declaration of
the R'ghts of Man. The Primary
AfTembliss were called, but tew citi
zens gave their luffrages, and the city
resounded with “ Live Loins the
17th, and deflru&ion to the Conven
tion.” Neverthtlefs the peaiants of
Boin, a neighbouring town, were a
bout to punilh thele outrages, when
the Inhabitants cut them to pieces :
they then went to Boin," where the^
committed great devaflations.
Letter from Clermont Ferrand ask
ed for immediate fuccour.
Letter from Lequino and Lynne, Com
mtjfionersal Sotj/on, dated Augufi 28.
“ she 30,000 men detached from
the army of rhe Molelie, to join the
army of the North, are daily palling
through Soiffons. We have been
witnefles of the order, the difciplme,
and the ardor to fight, dilphyed by
these brave Republicans. We have
notfuch fatisfadory accounts to give
of the part of the garrison of Valen
ciennes, that pafied here. This part
wascommanded by the Chief of bri
gade Boileau. It is infeded by the
gold of the Duke of York. These
base Frenchmen had their pockets
full of Englilh money, and aflignats.
Many of them were heard to fay
that the Duke of York alone could
reign in France. - We have received
on this fubjeft, the denunciations
which we tranlmitto you.
“ The harvefl here has been the
most abundant ever remembered-—
Measures are taken to prevent the e
vil disposed, who wish co flarve us,
from succeeding in the infamous; .at
tempt.... .
A letter was read from the Admi
niftratOrs of the District of Melon,
which contains the following para
graph :
*’ Pitt’s gold is circulating in the
midst of you, and the hirelings of our
adversaries are laudly calling Out for
a new Legifiaryre ; but du you re
main atvour pofts,brave all dangers,
and never qui/ them, until you fhali
have laved your country, [Honour^
able mention f
The Convention decreed, That in
order to perpetuate the memory of
the Federation of the tothdf August,
a brass medal should be struck, hav
ing on one fide the figure of nature,
and on the other the ark of alliance,
with the Departmental Fafces, & the
following inscription :
<l Con dilution accepte indivifiFlement^
par les Francoisle 10 Aout y lygsfan
2de la RepubliqueP .
( Ine constitution unanimously ac
cepted by the French, the ioih of
August, 1793, the 2d year of cbeße
public.)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20.
London, sept.
The London Corn? 1 ponding So
ciety for effecting a Reform in Par
liament, wer.e to have met yesterday
at the Globe f a vein, in blee t-Street,'
but Sir James Sanderson, the Lord .
Mayor, lent a letter to the house,
tha: the meeting Ihould ngr be fuf
fe»ed. In conicquence of this disap
pointment, the Committee adjourned
to Lewis’ auction room, in Oxiord
road, where Bco members attended.
L Noble,Elq Was called to the chair,
tom which he delivered a fpetch,
congratulating his country upon the
very refpe^able appearance of the
friends to rational liberty. A mem
ber produced an address to his Ma-,
jefty, flaring the grievances under
which the bulk of the kingdom la
boured,and tracing the caule of them
to the unequal re p rest at atron of the
people, and the corrupted Rate of the
boroughs. In terms equally flrong
the petition reprobated the war with
France, as being inconsistent with the
policy, the humanity, and the com- ‘
mercial imtrefts of the country. .
It therefore prayed his Majesty to
flop the effufion of human blood,
and to aflifl *n the refloration of the
conflitution, upon the principles of
the glorious revolution. Upon the
Lcond reading, the principles of the
petition were unanimously approved
of, and it was referred to the
Seled Commitcecj to take proper
advice, and prepare it for fignatures*
The. Lord Mayor has, forbid the fur
*
Cadiz, aug. 10 Fam very for
ty to tell you, that the Spaniards h ive
been completely defeated both m
Roufiilon and Nivarre.
The General Don Ventura Caro
had been made prisoner by theprench,
but a Captain at a regiment, com po
led of smugglers, refeued the Gene
ral from the hands of the enemy, and
then reproached him in lev ere terms,
with having facrificed, by his igno
rance and incapacity, the excellent
troops entrusted to his command.
CAMBRAY, AUG. 25.
ExtraEi of a letter fromCiti%en^efzo\t y
Commffioner of gunpowder at Tours,
a^d President of the Department of
Indre and Loire^ to the superintend
ents of ammunition fat cd the 2 id of
Auguji, 1793.
“ The Adminiftrafion of La Ven
nie has this moment informed us,
that 6 00 of our troops have recov
ered Chol’et and Montagne, the
hrad-qcarters of the Rebels. May
this great news be confirmed. £
would be the immediate and certain
harbinger of the total defeat of the
rebels. The Department of Mayence
and Loire officially confirms the cap
ture of [even small Englifti vcflels be
fore Belle lfle, loaded with gunpow
der, and designed for the rebels.—
They have lent them to Guerande,
unloaded, and divided into three
parts ; cue for IFeft, a second for
Rennes and Sr. Maio, and rhe third,
for Namz, where seven loaded car
nages already are arrived ’*
aug. 20 The fafe arrival of the
Welt-India fleer, confuting of ijo
fad, from Sr, Domingo,and the other
IflandSjhas been announced by which
a reinforcement of more than 6oco
seamen is obtained f^r the Navy.
ENGI. AND.
■ [Numb. 20