The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1803-03-31 00:00:00, page 2

Washington, March 10, 1803.
Sir, —When you reprefehted to me
towards the end of November last, that
the port of New Orleans had been
shut against the citizens of the United
States, without the alignment of any
equivalent place of deposit for their
merchandize on the Banks of the Mis
sissippi, according to the stipulation in
the 22d article of the treaty of amity,
commerce, and navigation, between
the King my master and the United
States, I did not hesitate to declare to
you that I considered this measure as
flowing solely from the mistaken zeal
of the Intendant of Louisiana, with
out the approbation and even without
the knowledge pf my court. I well
knew the sincere desire of the King,
my master, to live in peace and good
harmony with the United States; as I
also knew well the scrupulous good
faith with which the Spanish govern
ment fulfils the engagements which it
forms, particularly when they are
founded on the solemnity of a treaty.
I have now the fatisfa&ion of in
forming you that my firft opinion has
been verified, and of declaring in the,
most positive terms, that the procla
mation of the Intendant is an aft pure
ly personal, without the fandion and
even without the knowledge of his
Catholic Majesty. In reality, if the
said proclamation had appeared here
in an entire state, no doubt could have
taken place as to the source of this
proceeding: But the operative part
thereof alone has circulated through
the United States, the preamble intro
ducing it, having been, probably with,
out design, omitted.
I have therefore the honor to com
municate herewith an entire and cor.
re& copy of the aforefaid proclama
tion; and by the expressions which
I have underlined, it will be clearly
seen that the arrangement is absolute
ly personal, and has originated in the
faculties which the Intendant suppos
ed to be incident to his station.
This assertion is not founded mere,
ly on the obvious inference from those
'expreffions : The intendant himfelf
declares it to me in the most direct
terms in a letter of Jan. 15th, which I
have just received from him; and the
Governor of the Province confirms
the fame thing with the fame solemni
ty in another letter of the fame date.
Neither the one nor the other dilpute
the right of the citizens of the Weft,
ern States to a place of deposit on the
Spanish banks of the Mississippi: but
the Intendant thinks, that the term of
three years allowed for the purpose at
New Orleans, having expired, and
much prejudice to the royal interests
being experienced from its continu
ance in that city, it was incumbent on
him to suspend the deposit there, with,
oiit venturing to take on himfelf the
assignment of another equivalentplace
I—not because he doubted the right of
the inhabitants of the U. States there
to; but because it appeared to him to
be an a& exceeding his authority,
and which he ought co leave to the
royal determination of our Sovereign.
Bank Shares, that the sale made by
them was expedient, and the result
highly conducive to the interests of
the United States, was adopted—yeas
42 —nays 12.
It may be necessary to observe that
the letter of the Secretary of the Trea
sury is a complete refutation of the
charges made in the discussion of the
motions of both Mr. Griswold and
Mr. Bayard.
Tranjiation of a letter from the Marquis
de Cafa Yrujo, (Spanish MiniJier,)
to the Secretary of State.
[OFFICIAL.] March 14.
IMPORTANT.
From the preceding fa&s, it will ap
pear that the arguments, made use of
in the late debates in the Senate, for
involving the country in war, were
entirely without foundation.
Those arguments, and the measures
to which they would have led, were
predicated on the idea, that the con
dud of the Intendant was authorifed
and directed by the government of
Spain —Whereas the reverse now con
clusively appears ;—and that, so far
from being authorifed, it is pointedly
disavowed.
We rejoice, that other arguments
prevailed, and that the peace and pros
perity of millions have not been haz
arded by rash and precipitate mea
sures. Nat. Intelligencer.
Pbiladelpbi, March 15. The
4th of March has been celebrat
ed with great spirit in a number
of the principal towns cf Massa
chusetts—the people of that state
are resuming their merited sta
tion in the union, there is not
now so much animosity display
ed by writers for the papers or
preachers in the pulpit, as dis
graced both a few years ago.
The French brig La Cerf, ar
rived in the Delaware from the
Havanna, has brought dispatches
from the governor thereof to the
Spanish and French ministers in
this country. ' t
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March 16. The federalifts do
not appear to be pleased with the
information that the intendant
of Louisiana has acknowledged
that he has had no orders from
Spain relative to the port of New-
Orleans—our advice is derived
We have great fatisfa&ion in pre
senting to the public the official com
munication of the Spanish Minister to
the Secretary of State ; as it com
pletely demonstrates the important
fad on which our government pro,
ceeded, that the irregular ads at New
Orleans were those solely of the In
tendant, unauthorifed by his court. —•
The unequivocal declaration of the
Minister that the Spanish government
has no participation in those a&s, and
his now taking upon himfelf in confe.
quence of this official acknowledge
ment of the Intendant himfelf, to a.
dopt such measures as shall insure to
us the enjoyment of all the rights flip,
ulated in the 22d article of the trea
ty, on the arrival at New Orleans of
dispatches already forwarded, while
they juftify a reliance that our rights
on the Mississippi will soon be restor
ed, furnifh he highest proof, at this
time attainable, of the disposition of
the government of Spain faithfully to
observe its engagements.?
Under these assurances, we need
only add, that there is every reason to
believe that the measures taken by the
Minister are such as will be commen.
furate to the objed, and such as in
volve the use of means, too decisive
to be ineffectual.„
The governor of Louisiana saw the
fubje& under a point of view more
correH in my judgment, and more fa.
vorable to the inhabitants of the U.
States.
From the whole it results that the
suspension of the deposit not being an
aft of my court, and no person even
disputing the right of the American
citizens in the case, I shall now take
upon myfelf to adopt measures which
must ensure to the United States, the
enjoyment of all the rights stipulated
in the 22d article of the treaty, on the
arrival at New Orleans of the dis
patches which will be forwarded under
this date.
The federalifts in congress had
a dinner to celebrate, as they
termed it, the birth day of Wash
ington—among other toasts ex
fenator Ross gave " Better secu
rity than parchment for our rights
on theMiffiffippi" —although this
parchment /ecurity was that es
tablished by the man whom they
pretended to honor.
Another of the toasts drank by
the federalifts at Washington,
was—“ freemen when infultcd
take coqnlel from their courage"
—if this had been drank by a re
publican while the British were
capturing our vessels, impressing
our seamen, insulting our coasts,
he would have been called a dif
organizer, a Jacobin ; it would
have been termed interfering with
government, but no such thing
now—it was the government of
England, that stupendous fabric,
which permitted its agents to in
sult us then, now it is an agent
of Spain ; how admirably the
courage of the federalifts comes
and goes.
The anniversary of the election
of Mr. Jefferfon to the presiden
cy has been much more general
ly celebrated than we had antic
ipated—we have received nume
rous accounts of feftivals, the
toasts are in general excellent ; —
in no instance that we yet know
of has the vice-president, Mr.
Burr, been mentioned, either as
a man or as an officer—an awful
example, and a glorious evidence
of republican integrity and ad
herence to principles.,
Infurreaion —We find the fed.
eraljfts are using every means to
excite the people of Kentucky to
Nothing can fatisfy the fede.
ralifts but actual and declared
TVar —they tell us what Washing
ton did, but what did he do when
our rights were infringed, our
flag insulted ? he prepared for
war, fay, the federalifts ; but
what were the preparations? not
a single step was taken, more or
left, by the Washington that has
not been by the Jefferfon admin
istration—when England infu/t
--ed Washington negociated, so has
Mr. Jefferfon though an agent
only is concerned—when En
gland threatened congress au
thorifed Washington to call out
eighty tboujand militia when he
judged it expedient ; because the
federalifts lay there is danger
congress have authorifed Mr. Jef
ferfon to call out the fame num
ber of men under the fame cir-
cumftances, and with a similar
diferetionary power—yet we hear
so much about pusillanimity.
from such a source as must ren
der a denial of its truth not to be
expected, the federalifts therefore
observe a ftri& silence, it must be
a fatal blow to their cause when
the community are officially in
formed that all the federal cla
mour for war and endeavors to
excite in furregion have been
founded on a mere suspicion of
the intendant being authorifed by
his government to deprive us of
the privilege of deposit.
When the Kentucky legislature de
clared their disapprobation of the alien
and sedition laws, the federalitts were
for marching to keep them from an.
archy and confufion—now, they are
exerting all their means to promote an
infurreftion! Aurora.
March i^ d On Thursday a veflel
arrived at this port from France, in
42 days. According to verbal infor
mation, as stated in the Philadelphia
Gazette, much discontent existed in
France against Bonaparte's adroinif
tration, and Moreau was universally
looked up to as the person best fitted
to fill the executive department. Dis
patches have been brought by this ves
sel from Mr. Livingston to our gov
ernment; and it is asserted that Mr.
L. has solicited to be recalled, this
however comes in questionable shape.
The following resolutions have paff.'
ed the house of assembly of the state
of Newyork in committee of the
whole
" Resolved, as the sense of this com-\
niittee, that, by a fair conftredion'
of the constitution of the U. States,
electors of president and vice presi
dent may be chosen by the people.,
" Resolved, as the sense of this ft
committee, that a committee be ap-\ -
pointed to bring in a bill for dividing
this flare into nineteen didri&s, for 1
heretofore the Weftern people were a
set of whifky drinking, debauched &
murdering jacobins, approaching to
a level with heir neighbors the Indi
ans in every trait of barbarism—now
they are spirited, patriotic and good
men !
Philadelphia, March 14.
Extraa if a letter /r#m a rejpeaabh gentlmti at
Lexington, Kentucky, dated Februar, 15, 1803,
to bit friend ir this city.
" The Mississippi business is a fubje&
of much talk, but of little action. The
Kentuckyans are not embodying
themselves, as some of your papers
represent, but they will patiently a
wait the event of negotiation. After
the high toned memorial to congress
had passed the house of assembly unan
imously, a motion for the purchase of
arms was almost unanimously negativ
ed." Q
It would be almost worth while to
look over the files of the federal pa
pers during the last years of Mr. Ad
ams's administration, to cont r aft the
profeffiuns and language of the fede
lalifts then, with what we hear from
them relative to Kentucky now :
of information and Landing &
that state inform that certain
characters well known have late
ly been very adive in this mif
chief—they have convoked meet
ings, addressed harangues to the
people from stumps of trees, in
citing them to march again^
New Orleans. l
a&s pf hostility and infurreai^y
—letters just received from nr/i
That the wifli of the federalifts
is to excite the people at Ken
tucky to infurre6tion cannot be
doubted—in congress and out of
it the desire has been avowed ; it
has been declared to be the only
course to be pursued, and that
there should be no delay—what
are we to think of these things ?
are the honor and fafety of the
union to be maintained, by a
part of the union throwing off
the obligations it is under to the
rest ? is this (hewing refpea for
the conftitutiori, for religion and
the laws ? oris it not in open hos
tility to all three to excite to a
state of anarchy and confufion ?