The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1799-03-13 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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Vol. XLIII — Numb. 2206.]
WEDNESDAY, March 13, 1799.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
Published by Authority.
Acts passed at a Session of the General Court held at Concord, December 1798.
An ACT to make perpetual "an act making further provision for the administration of justice," passed February 19, 1794. Whereas in said act it is provided, that the same be in force for the term of five years from the passing thereof and no longer. Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That said act and every clause thereof, be, and continue to be in force, in the same way and manner, as if no limitation in and by said act had been made.
Approved December 4, 1798.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled, "an act for the better preservation and increase of Deer, within this State," passed November 25, 1778.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the before recited act, and every clause thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved December 7, 1798.
An ACT in addition to the laws relating to proprietary matters.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That from and after the twentieth day of May next, all proprietors' clerks and collectors, and all other proprietary officers, shall be inhabitants of this State; and upon their ceasing to be inhabitants as aforesaid, their respective offices shall cease; and all persons who now, or shall then hold any of the offices aforesaid, and who live out of this State, shall cease to hold said offices from and after said twentieth day of May next.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That in every case where the proprietor's clerk now lives without this State, or shall so live on said twentieth day of May next, it shall and may be lawful for one sixteenth part, or more, of the proprietors of said lands, to apply in writing to any Justice of the Peace in this State, requesting him to call a meeting of said proprietors, who shall on such application issue his warrant or notification accordingly; and the same notice shall, in all respects, be given for calling said meetings, as by law is required for calling proprietary meetings.
Section 3. And be it further enacted, That the number of votes to which each proprietor at any proprietary meeting shall be entitled, shall be according to the number of rights or shares said proprietor owns in said land, in the proportions following, and not otherwise: that is to say, for one right or share, one vote; for two rights or shares, two votes; for every two rights or shares above two, and not exceeding ten, one vote; for every four rights or shares above ten, and not exceeding thirty, one vote; for every six rights or shares above thirty, and not exceeding sixty, one vote; and for every eight rights or shares above sixty, one vote. And if two or more persons be the proprietors or owners of a right, share or lot, such persons or any one of them, shall be entitled to vote according to their interest therein, agreeably to the rate and proportion aforesaid.
Section 4. And be it further enacted, That no collector of any proprietary tax, shall execute a deed of any real estate by him sold for taxes, until the time for redeeming the same shall be expired; and in case any proprietor's collector shall die, remove, or any way be rendered incapable of completing the duty of such office, their successors respectively shall complete the same. And any persons shall have the liberty of redeeming any lands sold for the payment of proprietary taxes, at any time within the term of one year from the date thereof, the person redeeming the same, paying to the collector a sum amounting to the real value of what the lands sold for, all legal charges, and the interest thereon to the time of payment.
Approved December 24, 1798.
An ACT to establish an equitable method of making rates and taxes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That henceforward all public taxes shall be assessed on the polls and rateable estates in the manner following, viz.—Each male poll from eighteen to seventy years of age (excepting those from eighteen to twenty-one enrolled in the militia, ordained ministers, students of colleges, paupers and idiots,) to be valued at one dollar and thirty-four cents; stallions or stud horses, that have been wintered three winters, each at five dollars; other horses and mares that have been wintered five winters, each at sixty-five cents; other horses and mares that have been wintered four winters only, each at fifty cents; other horses and mares that have been wintered three winters only, each at thirty-four cents; other horses and mares that have been wintered two winters only, each at sixteen cents; oxen that have been wintered five winters, each at fifty cents; cows that have been wintered five winters, each at thirty-four cents; all neat stock that have been wintered four winters only, each at twenty-five cents; all neat stock that have been wintered three winters only, each at sixteen cents; all other stock that have been wintered two winters only, each at
eight cents; reckoning the winter to begin the first day of December, and to end the last day of March; orchard land accounting to much for an acre as will one year with another, make ten barrels of cyder or perry, each acre at twenty-five cents; arable land, accounting to much for an acre as will produce twenty-five bushels of Indian corn or other grain equivalent, one year with another at sixteen cents; mowing land, accounting to much for an acre as will produce one ton of English hay, or other hay equivalent, one year with another, at sixteen cents for each acre; pasture land, accounting to much as will keep one cow, one year with another, four acres, each acre at seven cents; mills, wharves and ferries, to be estimated at one twelfth part of their net yearly income, after deducting repairs; all other buildings and unimproved lands, whether owned by inhabitants or non-residents, at half of one per cent. of the real value; all flock or property whether of tanners, curriers, blacksmiths, or other tradesmen, employed in the business of their trades, at half of one per cent.; all stock in trade of merchants, shopkeepers, or other traders, reckoning the same at the average value thereof for a year, at half of one per cent.; all money on hand or at interest, more than the owner pays interest for, at three quarters of one per cent.; and all property in the public funds, to be estimated at the same rate according to its real value.
Approved December 26, 1798.
(To be continued.)
New Set of Dispatches.
[Brought by Mr. Gerry, relating the affairs of France, after the departure of his colleagues.]
[continued from our last.]
[No. 24.]
Paris 20th July, 1798.
Citizen Minister, I RECEIVED, on the 27th Messidor, (15th of July) your letter of the 24th, (the 12th July) on which permit me to make some observations.
You alledge, that, in the United States, the French republic is accused of not wishing for peace, and to show that it was always desirous thereof, you recur to the arrival of Mr. Genet in America. Far from accusations of any kind, I wish to cultivate harmony between the two governments, as the solid basis of peace. From that epoch, to the departure from the U. States of Mr. Adet, the correspondence of the Secretaries of State of the United States, with the French Ministers in America, and the American Ministers in France, contains the history to that time, of the unhappy differences between the two republics, and evinces the sincere desire of the government of the United States, amidst the inevitable embarrassments resulting from the convulsive state of Europe, to preserve harmony and friendship with the French republic, and to perform with scrupulous attention the duties of neutrality. If, by any unfortunate events France had sustained injuries during that term, still the manifest disposition of the government of the United States to justice and moderation, was a sure pledge of redress.
When Mr. Monroe was recalled, a minister was sent to supply his place, and you say, "he could not be received, because he was not in a situation to fulfil the conditions necessary for the renewal of the political connections." Had he been received, he could have applied for other powers if necessary; nothing is more usual. The application, which you have so strenuously urged on my part, must have been for the renewal of powers annulled by the act of sending away the other Envoys, surely then your arguments would have applied with much more force to the case of a minister, whose powers were only supposed inadequate to the objects of his mission. The act of rejecting this minister, accompanied with circumstances of high displeasure on the part of the government of the French republic, could not fail to wound deeply the government of the United States, and to produce observations on such an important event. Let the cause and effect be buried in oblivion, the remembrance thereof cannot promote harmony. This you will readily accede to when you consider the amicable and attentive conduct immediately adopted by the American government, in sending three Envoys Extraordinary, with adequate powers to effect a reconciliation and a renewal of a commercial intercourse between the republics.
From the arrival of the Envoys at Paris to the departure of two of them, the objects of their mission were defeated, by insuperable bars arising from demands of loans, which, violating the neutrality of the United States, would have involved them in immediate war, and of procuring reparations for the observations hinted at. Towards the end of that period, after imposing on me secrecy, you stated the embarrassments and dissatisfaction of the Executive Directory, on account of the opinions and conversations of my colleagues, its determination not to treat with them, and its desire to negotiate with me; and you added that my departure would produce an immediate rupture. Astonished as I was at this communication, I informed you that I had no powers to treat separately; the measure was impossible; and that had my powers been adequate, a treaty made under such circumstances could never be ratified by my government. You differed from me, we reasoned on the subject, and each adhered to his opinion. I urged in vain the unreasonableness of admitting prejudices
against my colleagues, without informing them of the causes thereof; the good effect in removing these, which might result from such information, and the necessity of making known to them all that had now passed between us. You held me to the promise of secrecy, adding, that if I would negotiate, we could soon finish a treaty; for the Executive Directory were not in a habit of spending much time about such matters. You desired another interview, in which, after a discussion of the subject, I confirmed and adhered to my determination. In this flat affair remained for some time, and I flattered myself with the hope, that failing in the proposition for negotiating with me separately, your next would be to accredit the three Envoys; in such an event, the secrecy mentioned would have been proper. This expectation was strengthened by the two subsequent interviews which they had with you, and you may judge of my surprise on the receipt of your letter of the 28th Ventose, (18th March) containing a refusal to treat with two of the Envoys, and renewing the proposition to treat with me. Finding that I was the person alluded to, and that all hopes of our being jointly accredited were at an end, I again refused, in the most positive terms, to negotiate separately; another proposition was then made, that, to prevent a rupture, I should remain here till information could be sent to my government of the events. Embarrassing as such a state was, I submitted to it, rather than to bring on a war. You afterwards sent me your note of the 14th Germinal (3d April) proposing that I should resume our reciprocal communications upon the interests of the republic and the United States. To this I replied on the 4th of April, "That I could only confer informally, and unaccredited on any subject respecting our commission, and communicate to the government of the United States the result of such conferences; being in my individual capacity unauthorized to give them an official stamp." The day after the departure from Paris of the last of my colleagues, I again addressed you, and quoting the above paragraph, informed you that this I considered as the line of conduct well understood to be observed on my part; to this you made no objection, verbally or by writing, and thus acquiesced in it. Had you not I should immediately have demanded my passport.
At one of our first interviews, after that letter, you stated a difficulty in adopting the plan proposed by my letter of the 20th of April, from your not being informed of the wishes of the government of the United States in regard to a treaty: these were so reasonable that I thought it best to communicate them to you; and according to your own opinion, since expressed, they would require little or no time for discussion; nothing can exceed them for moderation or justice. Believing that you was seriously disposed to bring forward the plan of a treaty, for the consideration of the government of the United States, and being also convinced, that the subject thereof had been so fully discussed, and was so well understood, as not to require much time to accomplish it, I informed you, that I should embark for America in June: and although you objected to it in the first instance, you afterwards appeared to be fully convinced of the necessity of it, promised to digest the plan proposed without delay, and to send it to me for examination. I conferred with you at different times, on the expediency of sending a Minister to Philadelphia to complete the negotiation; and you promised to consider of it. At length the Sophia arrived, and a few days afterwards, you informed me, that I might make myself quite easy, that France did not wish a war with the United States, that she had no thoughts of it, that the American affairs were before the Executive Directory, and that every thing would be arranged to my wishes. I again stated the necessity of sending a Minister to America to complete the negotiation. You said you would propose one to the Executive Directory. This I could not suppose was for the purpose you have since stated of residing there after the ratification of the treaty.
Thus were matters circumstanced until the arrival of the Gazettes, containing the dispatches of the Envoys to their government, which gave more than a momentary turn to your correspondence with me.—When I informed you that I should embark in the Sophia, as soon as she could be fitted for sea, there was still time to finish the plan of the treaty, and to send it by me, if expedient. You desired me to remain here; I told you my return was indispensable, and gave you no other reason. I thought that sufficient. You conceive it depended on me to be publicly received by the Executive Directory; but our opinions are different on this point. A government, sends three Envoys to treat with another government; this rejects two of them, and proposes to treat with the third. Candour must admit, I think, that the latter cannot accept the proposal, without transferring in this instance the executive authority of his government, who would only have nominated three Envoys, to the foreign government, who would have appointed one of them. You say if my powers were altered by the departure of my colleagues, yet on my own hypothesis, I ought to have referred the question to my government, and in the interim to have fixed with you, by a calm and amicable discussion, all the contentious points of our differences. If my government, as you repeatedly have asserted, was apprised before the 20th March of the proposition to treat with me separately, it is evident, that it was not disposed to lend me new powers; for the Sophia failed on the
28th of that month, and knowing this you still urge me to make the application. I have been always ready, and had you come forward with the project of a treaty, would have entered into a calm and amicable conference with you on every part of it, but not into a formal epistolary discussion, which was not proposed till some time after I was ready to embark, was only relative to the Consular Convention, which will soon expire, was contrary to my stipulation relative to conferences, in which you acquiesced, and would have required months to be completed.
You was the first, you affirm, to press seriously the negotiation; you will agree with me, that the merit would have been greater, had the measure itself been feasible.
You frequently remind me of your exertions, which I am disposed as much as possible to appreciate, regretting at the same time their circuitous direction. On my part, I think you will be convinced, that every thing has been done which circumstances herein truly detailed, would admit.
It is with pleasure I learn, that the Executive Directory is still ready, and is as much disposed as ever to terminate by a liberal negotiation the differences which subsist between the two countries.
This disposition has always existed on the part of the government of the United States. A negotiation then if set on foot free from all propositions of loans and explanations of speeches, to be held if necessary in a city of some neutral nation, and providing for a decision by three or five Commissioners, of all points which may not be determined by direct negotiation, would still be accompanied, in my opinion, with success: but having no authority, I cannot make the proposition. A preliminary measure appears to be requisite, in which the dignity of this government is as deeply concerned, as the United States. The depredations, outrages and cruelties committed on our commerce, and citizens in the West-Indies and on our coasts, by French privateers, some of which it is said, have no commissions, are perhaps seldom paralleled amongst civilized nations. It is said, that this government has not been early apprized of these events, which have been a great source of irritation in the United States, and a principal cause of the repressive measures adopted by them. A recall of the commissions of the privateers & restraining them by severe penalties to the proper objects of capture, cannot fail to have a happy effect.
You claim a promise of my good offices, as a private citizen in America. These shall not be wanting, to represent truly every measure of this government, and to render successful all such as may be well adapted to effect a reconciliation. This is all that can be expected of me, and the duty which I owe to my country will require it.
And now Citizen Minister, having given you a testimony of my esteem, such as results from a frank and candid conduct I bid you adieu, wishing sincerely a speedy renewal of amity and commerce between the two Republics.
Accept, Citizen Minister, the assurances of my perfect consideration. (Signed) E. GERRY. To the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.
[No 25.]
(TRANSLATION.)
Liberty. Equality.
Paris, 4 Thermidor, 6th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
(July 22, 1798.)
To the Minister of Exterior Relations. To Mr. Gerry, Envoy of the United States.
Allow me, Sir, to confine myself to the two last paragraphs of your answer of the 24th of this month to my letter of the 24th Messidor, (July 12.) Easy as it may be to rectify those which go before, it would be to enter uselessly into the circle of digressions. It is my duty to feel what in the state of things you think due to your government; and this consideration would be alone sufficient to stop me, if I set a less value upon conciliation.
You repeat to me that the government of the United States has always been disposed to terminate amicably the differences which subsist between the two republics. This fresh assurance, at a time when hostile demonstrations have just been made, could not but temper their effects. But let them a frank, candid, and truly amicable act speedily realize those dispositions. Far from entering into the answers of the President to the addresses which have been presented to him from different parts of the United States, whatsoever they may be, I would behold in his expressions nothing but a political expedient. I do not thence judge less favorably of the true intentions, which you possess in his name, and I would not have engaged you to warrant the success of the first proof, which he will render of them, if the Executive Directory, which was ready to receive you, had made a fixed determination upon the subject. A negotiation may therefore be resumed even at Paris, where I flatter myself you have observed nothing but testimonies of esteem, and where every Envoy who shall unite your advantages cannot fail to be well received. Moreover, I know not, Sir, why you tell me that it would be requisite to lop from this negotiation every preliminary respecting a loan, and explanations on the subject of the speeches delivered. Be pleased to read over again the propositions which I transmitted to you on the 20th Prairial, (June 18;) they contain all the ideas of the French government; and you will not find in them a word which justifies your re-
curring to those two questions. An odious intrigue had got possession of them; the dignity of the French government could not permit this mixture; and it did not wish that views as pure as its own should be associated therewith hereafter. As to the preliminary measures, which you suggest, Sir, the government has already anticipated your desire. By information which it has just received, it indeed learns that violences have been committed upon the commerce and citizens of the United States in the West-Indies, and on their coasts. Do it the justice to believe, that it needs only to know the facts, to disavow all acts contrary to the laws of the Republic and its own decrees. A remedy is preparing for it, and orders will soon arrive in the West-Indies calculated to cause every thing to return within its just limits, until an amicable arrangement between France and the United States, shall re-establish them respectively in the enjoyment of their treaties.
This period, Sir, cannot be too near at hand. I do not cease to regret that you should refuse yourself the accelerating of it, by yielding to circumstances, persuaded as I ever am, that you were fully authorized.
Accept my wishes for your happy passage, and the assurance of my perfect consideration.
(Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
[No. 26.]
Paris, July 25th, 1798.
Mr. Gerry having seen in the Redacteur of this morning, the publication of a letter to him from the minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, dated the 24th Messidor, (12th of July) requests him to order a just translation of the answer dated the 20th of July, to be also published. Mr. G. being on the eve of his departure from Paris, presumes the Minister will readily comply herewith, to prevent partial and undue impressions against him in his absence.
[No. 27.]
(TRANSLATION.)
Exterior Relations,
Liberty.
Equality.
Paris, 16 Thermidor, 6 year of the French Republic, one and indivisible, (August 3, 1798.)
The Minister of Exterior Relations, to Mr. Gerry, Envoy of the United States.
Presuming, Sir, that you have not yet embarked. I address to you a decree of the Executive Directory, wherein you will find a part of the measure, which I announced to you the fourth of this month. Its latitude will not be confined to that. Neutrals, in general, will have reason soon to be convinced of its firm attachment to the principles to which it is desirous that all the maritime nations might agree. It depends upon the United States in particular, to cause every misunderstanding immediately to disappear between them and the French Republic.
Accept, Sir, the assurance of my perfect consideration. (Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
[No. 28.]
Havre, 8th August, 1798.
At the moment of my embarkation, citizen Minister, I have the honor of receiving your letter of the 16th Thermidor, (3d August) with the arrest of the Executive Directory of the 13th, both of which shall be communicated to the Supreme Executive of the United States, immediately after my arrival there.
Accept, Citizen Minister, the assurance of my perfect respect.
(Signed)
E. GERRY.
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.
No. 29 is the Arrest which we have already published.
No. 30 and 31 are letters that passed between Mr. Gerry and Mr. Hautval, relative to some immaterial inaccuracies in the latter's Statement.
No. 32 and 33 are unimportant letters to Mr. King.
[No. 34.]
Substance of a conference with the Dutch Minister the 25th July, 1798.
Just before dinner, the Dutch Minister called on me, and said he had received from Mr. Talleyrand, a printed copy of his letter to me dated 24th Messidor (12th July) that the Dutch government took a friendly part in the disputes between France and the U. States, and that he came to offer his services, and the mediation of his government, who had authorized and instructed him on this head.
I answered, that the conduct of Mr. Talleyrand in publishing his letter to me, had an hostile appearance; that if a mediation could be supposed necessary, it must be offered to the government of the United States; I had no authority to accept it. That if the government of France was sincere in its declaration, made thro' Mr. Talleyrand its Minister, all that was wanting was to open a negotiation; for he had expressed a desire to shew by a treaty how well disposed France was to put an end to these disputes; that the government of the United States was so reasonable, and just in its demands, that it could not fail to evince a good disposition to a reconciliation, that the etiquette of setting on foot a negotiation appeared at present to be the only embarrassment; more especially as the principal obstruction to a negotiation ceased, this government having relinquished all claims of loans and rev. jun. of the President's for, jun. 1799.
March 1, 1799.

U. States has been twice defeated in sending ministers to Paris the government might not be disposed to send them a third time; and that if the French government would propose some city in a neutral nation, as a place for opening a new negotiation, or which would be better, would send a Minister to the United States, I did not doubt it would succeed: that this was a mere matter of opinion; for I had no instructions on the subject; neither was I informed, whether my government had or had not formed an alliance with any other nation, as had been frequently reported. The Dutch minister answered that the proposal of a mediation must go to the government, and enquired in that case if I would stay at Paris: I answered no, it was not necessary; neither did I conceive the propriety of offering at this period a mediation; the proper mode of settling disputes, was, in the first instance, by treaty; If in any points this should fail still there were other means besides the mediation of a third power, which might be adopted; but that if his government wished to make the proposition I would carefully transmit it to the government of the United States.
He said that Mr. Talleyrand, who had stiled his letter a pacific manifesto, and had sent a printed copy to each foreign minister, had no hostile intention in publishing it; but considered it as a friendly measure. I answered we then had different views of the subject. I then shewed the answer to that letter which the Dutch minister read. I thought it necessary for the information of his government to make to him the communication mentioned.
[No. 35.] (TRANSLATION.)
Upon the communications made by the President of the United States to the American Congress, on the 14th Germinal, 6 year, [April 3d, 1798.]
The American and English papers have lately resounded with the publication of the most strange communications, which the Envoys of the United States have thought it their duty to make to their government. It is with respect to those Envoys a deplorable monument of credulity and contradictions; and it is with respect to that government a provocation still more deplorable.
It is requisite by the evidence of facts and the very words of the Envoys themselves, to shew their inconceivable error. It is requisite, by the force of reason and the mere sentiment of the happiness of the two republics, to answer to the provocation so visibly suggested by the British government.
That government indeed, after so many and such ridiculous efforts against the French Republic, endeavours to organize corruption around it. Grown desperate on account of so many glorious treaties of peace, which the latter has concluded, it has flattered itself, by its peculiar perfidies, to rekindle the former wars in Europe, and to excite against it a new war in America; but all this system of British corruption shall be exposed and confounded; and the American people shall know the height of the precipice to which they are urged by the servile friends of their former oppressors.
For a long time the French Republic complained, and certainly it had a right to do so, against the inexecution of the most important parts of the Convention of 1788, concluded between France and the United States. The maritime hostilities were soon followed by the most aggravating injuries. It was in vain that the Republic made a sacrifice of armaments, which might compromit the American neutrality.
The most legitimate of its armaments was soon after contested. The French vessels experienced a thousand vexations. Their prizes were no longer under the protection of the treaties. The courts of justice arrogated a jurisdiction over them: lengthy and ruinous chicaneries discouraged the captors: the French ports in the two worlds were soon declared to be blockaded by British proclamations: the vessels which departed from them were stopped on a loose suspicion of being enemies' property: those which carried provisions thither were turned back. On the other hand, the British ships of war entered the ports of the United States after seizing French property or property claimed to be such. By degrees they became stationary there, and made of them military stations, whence they attacked both French and Americans in connection with France. The Republic however confined itself in appealing to its treaties with the United States, and to pressing their government to cause their own neutrality to be respected. they answered it with a treaty clandestinely negotiated and concluded with Great Britain.
Does this treaty, however, secure the neutrality of the United States? No.—It renders the presence of the English forces in their ports lawful; it gives to England rights which, in the midst of war, ameliorate its situation to the prejudice of France: it allows the facility of again starving France and her colonies: it sacrifices the generous principles established, in favour of the liberty of the seas, in the treaties.
It makes complaints; the American government eludes, and wants it multiplies official
notes without approaching the main point of the question. Reparations are demanded: they are not made. It speaks of nothing but wrongs experienced by the United States: it skims over those which it makes France suffer. The treaty of 1778 is rendered more and more insignificant; and the last blows are struck at the French cruisers in the American seas, by the prohibition to sell their prizes. The Republic is under the necessity, in order to manifest its too long suspended resentment, and bring about a negotiation, to appropriate to itself the same clauses of the English treaty. At length the United States, sensible only of the disagreeable consequences which have resulted therefrom to themselves, appeared to wish a reconciliation.
Three Commissioners have been sent for that end to the French Republic; two of them, General Pinckney and Mr. Marshall, manifesting against French prejudices brought from America, or imbibed from the nature of the connections which they lost no time in forming here; and the third, Mr. Gerry, announcing more impartiality, and manifesting himself more disposed to lend a favorable ear to every thing which might reconcile the two republics.
From this ill suited union, which disclosed dispositions not very conciliatory, there must needs result and there has in fact resulted a crooked and embarrassed career on the part of those Commissioners; hence their constant aversion to do what might reconcile, their eagerness to write what might disgust.
At first they manifested a desire to be acknowledged; but explanations of some expressions evidently insulting to the Republic, which were contained in the opening speech of the President of the United States, were demanded from them as a previous condition. They did more than to refuse; they did not even comprehend this demand, and had recourse to groundless recriminations. Soon afterwards a willingness appeared to spare them the embarrassment of the disavowals; and in order to detach them from England, and to restore in small degree, the balance so strongly inclined in favour of that power by the last treaty, it was wished that an unequivocal proof of attachment to our cause which so recently was their own, might be obtained from them: it suited the finances to exchange at that period, for specie, some Batavian inscriptions at gradual instalments: the Minister of Foreign Relations gave them to understand, that their offering to purchase a certain quantity of them, would be considered as a friendly act. They said that they did not possess the power: and they shewed that they had not the will.
To come at some accommodation, some friendly explanation, frequent communications with the minister of the exterior were necessary. The latter complained publicly that he did not see them, and they avowed that he caused them to be often informed of this reproach; but two of the Commissioners, shielding themselves under ceremony, refused to comply with the desire. Mr. Gerry at length resolved to go, spoke twice with the Minister; and whether from embarrassment in explaining himself, or fear of compromising himself, he said but little; and did not venture to decide on any thing.
In the mean time the Envoys thought themselves bound to transmit to the President of the United States, a very voluminous account of their negotiation—Of what then could this account be composed? It was necessary to fill it with the despicable manoeuvres of all the intriguers, who, seeing the Commissioners charged with the most important interest, secluding themselves from the government with which they ought to treat, hastened to gather round them, and insinuated them with the idea of their credit and the opinion of their importance.
One of these intriguers appears to have grounded himself on some acquaintance, which as a foreigner having recommendation, he had succeeded in obtaining with the Minister: another (and it is the one who is the most active) grounds himself solely upon the acquaintance which he had with the first intriguer, for he declares that he does not even know the Minister. Such moreover is the situation of the man, whoever he may be, who is placed at the head of this department, that he is obliged to receive and listen to many persons, who are far from having any share in his confidence, and he has no means of preventing the abuse they may make, in his absence, of the most insignificant visits, of which they avail themselves, as suits their interest with men of no experience.
In the publication which the American government has made of the report of its Envoys these persons, without being avowed, are designated each by a letter. The minister impatient to know their names, demanded them with importunity, and finally obtained the communication which he im-
mediately handed to the proper authority. It will be learned with pleasure that they are foreigners, and it will be readily believed, that they did justice to themselves by hastening to quit the territory of the republic. Only one of those letters Z. designates a Frenchman, who hastened to declare himself.* The language he held is irreproachable: he is presented as having some times served as interpreter; but it is clearly seen that he interpreted none but honorable propositions.
* See his letter printed at the end of these reflections. (The remainder will be published in the next Gazette.)
BOSTON, March 6.
BUONAPARTE'S DEATH.
FROM LONDON PAPERS,
A few days later dates, than those received by the way of Salem, the New-York Gazettes give many particulars of the assassination of Buonaparte, and his officers at Cairo. The account thus far partakes of officiality. On the 14th December, Mr. Fawkener arrived at Lord Grenville's office from Vienna, in an extra packet boat, bringing dispatches from Sir Morton Eden, his Britannic Majesty's Minister at Vienna, dated Dec. 3.—These advices state, that on the 2d Dec. an Express arrived at Vienna, from Constantinople, communicating advices from Baron Herbert, dated Nov. 17th; and asserting that Buonaparte having convened the Arab chiefs at Cairo, for the purpose of communicating to them his plans for opposing the hostile Bays and Pachas, the envoy from the Bey of Tripoli, drew a pistol from his girdle, and shot Buonaparte dead:—that a massacre of the French officers and soldiers ensued; and that the consequences were, the advance of the hostile Bays, and the capture of Alexandria, by the Pacha of Rhodes, assisted by the English squadron. Thus circumstantially narrated is the event. The great distance of the scene of action from Europe, and the various languages which intelligence has to be translated into, render it extremely difficult for Americans to ascertain the situation of the French in Egypt. If the subject is worth their attention our readers can make some calculations on the probability of the event from the above particulars.
U. S. MILITARY APPOINTMENT.
1st Artillerists and Engineers.
Major Henry Burbeck, Lieut. Col. Commander, vice Rochefontaine. Capt. M. Ford, Major, vice Burbeck, promoted. Lieut. Peirce S. Pope, to be Captain, vice M c Rea, resigned. Lieut. Eben. Massey to be Captain, vice Ford, promoted. Lieut. John M c Clennen to be Captain, vice Peirce, deceased.—Lieut. Nehemiah Freeman, to be Captain, vice Mitchell, deceased. TO BE LIEUTENANTS.
Samuel Fowle, of Massachusetts; James House, Pennsylvania; David Meredith, ditto, Eben. Beeb, Connecticut; States Rutledge, S. Carolina; William Yates, N. York; Warham Shepard, Massachusetts; James P. Heath, Delaware.
2d Artillerists and Engineers.
George Waterhouse, R. Island; Robert Heaton, jun. N. York; David Evans, jun. N. Carolina; Leonard Williams, Vermont, to be Lieutenants.
Thursday, the Fourth Day of April next, is appointed, by the executive of this Commonwealth, to be observed as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and prayer, throughout the state.
The report of the election of James Monroe as Federal Senator, is not confirmed in the latest Virginia papers.
The recently received accounts from London, which are to Dec. 20, speak not officially of the fall of Buonaparte, but gives the news which we a few days since published, in a great variety of shapes, and through a great variety of sources.—These accounts add, that immense bodies of troops are stationed on the continent, ready for active operation, in case the sound of war should be more agreeable in the ears of Frenchmen than the still small voice of peace and friendship.
COMMUNICATIONS.
PRESIDENT'S NOMINATION.
The insolence of Porcupine , in commencing an attack on The President of the United States, for a measure, of which it is impossible Porcupine can ever be a judge, is beheld with a mixture of contempt and indignation. Contempt, that an individual, who is known to the people of the United States, only as a pamphleteer and scribbler against the principles of the French Revolution, should, upon all occasions, hold himself up as their political guide. Indignation, that an obscure foreigner, who merely exercises in this country a mechanical business, should presume to place himself in opposition to the illustrious afterer of American Independence, the undaunted supporter of our rights and interests in the most critical situations,—for upwards of thirty years. But something more than contempt and indignation, must soon follow. Those who have patronized Porcupine as an anti-jacobin writer, will no longer support him, when he becomes the calumniator of the statesman and patriot, whom the voice of America has placed at the head of the Union. Ignorance and impudence are strongly portrayed in the last numbers of Porcupine , and nothing but repentance and contrition ought to restore him to the good opinion of any, who are attached to the Federal Government. The leaders of a foreign faction are free game—but when he meddles with the Supreme Executive of the Union, and loses sight of that respect which is due to station, to talents and to virtue, he becomes abhorrent to those feelings, manners and principles which designate a true American.
material, except heavy disagreeable weather, off the coast; and having the winds so far to the westward as to preclude the possibility of making our passage round the Bank, were compelled, contrary to our wishes, to go through the Old Straights of Bahama. On the afternoon of the 27th, were boarded by the British frigate Romilla , Capt. Rolles, our papers examined, and we treated with great politeness. They purchased (at our own prices) a number of articles from the cargo and of the people. Three days before, they had captured a French privateer sloop, of 10 guns and 60 men, and retook an American brig, her prize. After two hours detention, we were permitted to proceed, which we did, without meeting any interruption, until Monday, 31st December—for particulars of that day, we give an extract from a journal kept on board.
"Dec. 31st, Key Roman in sight, bearing south, distance 4 or 5 leagues—A Schooner has been in chase of us since 8 o'clock, and has every appearance of a privateer. At 1 o'clock P. M. finding the Schooner come up with us very fast, took in steering sails, fore and aft, and stood for her; she immediately tacked and made sail from us; we fired a gun to leeward, and hoisted the American ensign to our mizen peak; she hoisted a Spanish jack at the mizen topmast head, and continued to run from us. Finding she outailed us greatly, and wishing to get through the Old Straights, at 2 o'clock, P. M. we again about ship, and stood on our course. The Schr. immediately wore, fired a gun to leeward, and kept after, under a great press of sail. At half-past 2, the again fired a gun to leeward; but perceiving ourselves in the narrows above-mentioned, we kept on, to get through them, if possible, before she came up with us, which we effected. At 3 o'clock, finding ourselves thoroughly clear of Sugar Key and Key Labeos , we took in steering sails, wore ship, hauled up our courses, piped all hands to quarters, and prepared for action. The Schr. immediately took in sail, struck the Spanish jack, hoisted an English union flag, and passed under our lee at considerable distance. We wore ship, she did the same, and passed each other, within half musket shot. A fellow hailed us in broken English, and ordered the boat hoisted out, and the Captain to come on board with his papers, which he refused: He again ordered our boat out, and enforced his orders with a menace, that in case of refusal he would sink us! Using at the same time the vilest and most infamous language it is possible to conceive of. By this time he had fallen considerably after of us: He wore and came up on our starboard quarter, giving us a broadside as he passed our stern, but fired so excessively wild, that he did us very little injury, while our stern chasers gave him a noble dose of round shot and langrage. We haul'd the ship to the wind, and as he passed us, poured a whole broadside into him, with great success. Sailing faster than we, he ranged considerably ahead, tacked and again passed, giving us a broadside and a furious discharge of musketry, which they kept up incessantly till the latter part of the engagement: His musket balls reached us in every direction: but his large shot either fell short or went considerably over us: while our guns, loaded with round shot and square bars of iron six inches long, were plied so briskly, and directed with so good judgment, that before he got out of our reach we had cut his main sail and foretop sail all to rags, and cleared his decks so effectually, that when he bore away from us there were scarcely 10 men to be seen. He then struck his English, and hoisted the flag of the "Terrible Republic," and made off with all the sail he could carry, much disappointed, no doubt, at not being able to give us a fraternal embrace. The wind being light, and knowing he would outail us, added to a solicitude to complete the voyage, prevented our pursuing him: Indeed we had sufficient to gratify our revenge for his temerity; for there was scarcely a single fire from our guns but what spread entirely over his hull.—The action, which lasted an hour and twenty minutes, we conceived ended well; for, exclusive of preserving the property entrusted to our care, we feel a confidence that we have rid the world of some infamous pests of society. We were within musket shot the whole time of the engagement, and were so fortunate as not to receive but very trifling injury; not a person on board met the slightest harm. Our sails were a little torn, and one of the quarter-deck guns dismounted. The privateer was a Schooner of 80 or 90 tons, and fought five or six guns on a side.
Detraction and calumny, the weapons with which the wicked assail the good, and the mean attack the great, though they frequently succeed, are fortunately sometimes expended without injuring the characters against which they are levelled. It is presumed that the abuse of THE PRESIDENT of the United States in the Philadelphia and other papers, will prove of the latter description, and that its permanent effect will be, the confusion of those who have so unblushingly made use of it. The storm already begins to subside; and many who have been led to join in, staring around them, ask, why and for what did we do it?
That the virulent Porcupine should display his rancour on the subject of the President's late nomination, is by no means surprising; but that the chaste pages of the Gazette of the United States , should be stained by the foulest obloquy upon the political father of his country, creates something more than surprise. It plainly discovers an insatiable alike unjust and dangerous — unjust , because it is aimed at the highest wisdom, virtue and patriotism— dangerous , because it tends to unhinge the machine of state, to deprive the supreme Executive of that Independence , without which he could never exercise the important functions of his office, to the benefit of his constituents. That this abuse should be countenanced by any portion of those who have so recently poured forth the effusions of grateful hearts, in the numerous addresses to the President, shows indeed, "the short tenure of all earthly love, and the uncertainty of man's applause."
Lord Duncan's fleet, and the Dutch squadron were both at sea, at the date of our last European accounts.
La Resolute, a Frigate lately captured by the English, has been burnt at Plymouth. The British government has purchased the hulls of five of Lord Nelson's prizes at 17,000l.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
March 4. Arrived, Schooner Hope , Parsons, Bermuda, 16 days. Left there ship Merchant , Fitzgerald, from Liverpool bound to Portland, had put in there in distress, having sprung a leak near the Grand Banks, obliged to unload, and throw keel out both sides.
The ship Eliza , Odell, for Canton; Diana , Barker for London; Venilla , Bates, for Dublin, and brig Apollo , Hadaway, for Emden, failed yesterday from this port with a fine westerly breeze.
The New-York Gazette says, that, with the ship John Jay , lost on the Irish coast, the Captain, and 15 of the crew were drowned.
The British ship Colossus , of 74 guns, was wrecked on one of the Scilly Islands, Dec. 10.
The Sally , Patch, 7 days from Boston, for St. Bartholomews, carrying away her mast and bowsprit,—and springing a leak, was abandoned by her crew, who have arrived at New-York, in the barque Anna Cecelia , Capt. Dekker, who spoke the armed ship George , of Kennebec, from Jamaica, bound to Boston, Feb. 5, near Nantucket Shoals, the George was short of provisions, but had plenty of water, was then 25 days out.
SALEM, March 5.
GALLANT ACTION.
Copy of a letter from Capt. Richard Wheatland, to his owners.
Ship Perseverance , Old Straits of Bahama. Jan. 1, 1799.
GENTLEMEN,
Conceiving we may possibly meet an opportunity of forwarding this immediately on our arrival at the Havana, or perhaps before, induces me to give an account of our voyage thus far.
Until 26th Dec. met with nothing
We are now within 48 hours sail of Havana where we expect to arrive in safety: Indeed we have no fear of any privateer's preventing us, unless greatly superior in force. The 4 quarter-deck guns will require new carriages; one of them was entirely dismounted. We remain, &c.
RICHARD WHEATLAND.

CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SATURDAY, FEB. 23. THE Treasury Department reported on the damages awarded, respecting the capture of the ship Niger. Committed.
The Marine Corps augmentation Bill , was read, and committed. Two Appropriation Bills passed.
REQUISITION TROOPS. Mr. Varnum called up a resolution for re-enacting the law, directing 80,000 militia to be held in readiness. After considerable discussion, in which the measure was opposed by Messrs. Allen, Dayton, Dana, Sewall and J. Williams; and advocated by Messrs. Varnum, M'Dowell, Gallatin, the Claibornes, Harper, Nicholas, Venable, and S. Smith; the resolution passed 48 to 40; and Messrs. Varnum, M'Dowell and Harper, were appointed to report a bill thereon.
ASSESSORS COMPENSATION. The amendments of the Senate to the Land Tax , were taken up. That which empowers the Secretary of the Treasury, to increase, where he may think it necessary, the Assessors' pay Two Dollars per day, occasioned a long debate. It was however finally carried 57 to 36.
MONDAY, FEB. 25. Petitions, for the repeal of the Alien and Sedition Laws , were presented from several bodies of Aliens and friends of Sedition. They were committed.
Information was received, that THE PRESIDENT has approved the Acts passed providing for the National Defense, which had passed the Legislature.
The Navy Government bill, was read a third time, and passed; as was the Boon Island Beacon bill .
An additional Appropriational Bill, for 1799, was read and committed.
ALIEN & SEDITION LAWS, &c. The Committee, to whom was referred, the petitions complaining of these, and other Laws, reported, at much length thereon. After replying to all the complaints against them, and confirming their constitutionalality and necessity; in a plain and impressive manner, the Committee recommend the following resolutions, viz.
Resolved, That it is inexpedient to repeal the act passed the last session, intitled, "An Act concerning Aliens."
Resolved, That it is inexpedient to repeal the act passed the last session intitled, "An Act in addition to an Act, intitled an Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States."
Resolved, That it is inexpedient to repeal any of the laws respecting the navy, military establishment, or revenue of the United States.
After these Resolutions had been discussed, as usual in Committee of the Whole, they were taken up in the House, and passed upon. The question on the first resolution was put, and carried. Yeas 52, Nays 48.
YEAS. —Messrs. Allen, Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Brace, Brooks, Bullock, Champlin, Chapman, Cochran, Craik, Dana, Dennis, Edmond, Evans, A. Foster, D. Foster, J. Freeman, Glen, Goodrich, Gordon, Griswold, Grove, Harper, Hartley, Hindman, Hofmer, Imlay, Lyman, Machir, Mathews, Morgan, Morris, Otis, J. Parker, Pinckney, Reed, Rutledge, Schureman, Sewall, Shepard, Sinnickson, N. Smith, Sprague, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Tillinghast, Van Allen, Wadsworth, Waln, J. Williams. 52.
NAYS. —Messrs. Baldwin, Bard, Blount, Brent, Brown, Cabell, T. Claiborne, W. Claiborne, Clay, Clapton, Davis, Dawson, Dent, Eggleston, Elmdorf, Findley, Fowler, N. Freeman, Gallatin, Gillespie, Gregg, Hanna, Harrison, Havens Heifter, Holmes, Jones, Locke, Lyon, Macon, M'Clenachan, M'Dowell, New, Nicholas, J. Parker, Skinner, S. Smith, W. Smith, Sprigg, Stanfield, Sumpter, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Van Cortland, Varnum, Venable, R. Williams. 48.
The question on the second, passed by exactly the same Yeas and Nays. And on the third, Yeas 61.
TUESDAY, FEB. 26. The Post-Office Bill passed to a third reading.
The American Seamen protection bill , was read and committed.
Several bills for the Senate, were read, and acted on. Amongst them a bill conveying French citizens that have been, or may be brought into the United States.
The Marine Corps augmentation bill , passed to a third reading. [The augmentation is to be a first Lieutenants, 6 second Lieutenants, and 194 rank and file.]
The sick and disabled Seamen Relief bill , passed to third reading.
Late Foreign Advices. [Received by the ship Sisters from Guernsey, arrived at Norfolk, Virginia. London dates to Dec. 24.]
"PEACE TO THE WICKED." RASTADT, DEC. 14. Gen. Chateaneuf Randon has forwarded the inclosed note to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, by the Telegaph .
"The uigmatum remitted on the 5th Dec. by the French Legation, was accepted on the 9th, by the Deputies of the Empire . The conclusion to which the Imperial Commissary adhered has been officially transmitted to the French Ministers."
On the 10th the French Ministers officially notified the Deputation of the Empire, that the war which had again broken out in Italy should have no influence in impeding the negotiation at Rastadt.
PARIS, DEC. 7. CAPTURE OF LEGHORN. The English and Portuguese squadron, with Neapolitan troops on board, appeared before the city of Leghorn, the 28th November, and summoned the Tuscan General, Jacob Lavilette, to permit their landing. After the General had advised with Council, he acceded to the disembarkation of the troops, under the express condition of respecting the neutrality of the port of Tuscany . [This account is official.] Lord Nelson has declared all the vessels belonging to the Ligurian Republic to be lawful prizes.
MALTA—AGAIN CAPTURED. LONDON, DEC. 21.
Official advices have been received by the Admiralty of the capture of Malta. The garrison surrendered prisoners of war to Lord Nelson. The William Tell , of 80 guns, with the frigates Diana of 48, and Justice of 44 guns, [all the fugitives from the Nile, except the Generaux ] are made prizes.
SURRENDER OF MINORCA. DEC. 24.
Gen. Stuart's aid-de-camp has bro't official accounts of the surrender of Minorca, to the British arms. The troops landed the 12th November. Some opposition was made; but both the forts Mason and Citadella capitulated the 14th. The prisoners are 4000 in number. The Park and Tower guns were yesterday fired on this event, which puts us again in possession of the important harbour of Mahon.
HAMBURG, DEC. 7. Baron Badberg is ordered by the Emperor of Russia, to prevail on his Swedish Majesty to join the coalition against France.
The French General Faypoult has squeezed Genoa out of a further contribution of 800,000.
The assassination of Buonaparte, at Cairo, is still persisted in by the English paragraphists. Their information is official from Constantinople.—Whether correct from Cairo thence, time will develop. We expect report in this, as in many other instances, will be the precursor of fact.
PHILADELPHIA, March 1.
Tuesday the Senate approved the nomination of Oliver Elsworth , Esq. Chief Justice of the United States, Patrick Henry , Esq. late Governor of Virginia, and William Vans Murray , Esq. our Minister at the Hague—to be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, with full powers to discuss and settle, by a treaty, all controversies between the United States and France. In the Message of the President, information was given that "it is not intended that the two former of these gentlemen shall embark for Europe, until they shall have received, from the Executive Directory, assurances, signified by their Secretary of Foreign Relations, that they shall be received in character, that they shall enjoy all the prerogatives attached to that character by the law of nations, and that a Minister or Ministers of equal powers shall be appointed and commissioned to treat with them."
NEW-LONDON, March 6.
The following curious circumstance we are informed by a gentleman from New-York, occurred there on Saturday last. The Steward of the British Packet had employed a drayman, who in handing some articles into a boat, accidentally dropped a cake of Bee's wax into the water, for which cause he refused to pay the man his wages. In consequence the drayman employed a constable to go on board the packet in quest of the Steward; whom he was not permitted to take; the drayman then applied to the Mayor of the city, and 12 constables were sent on board; one of whom the Captain struck, but the civil officers persisting in their duty, the Captain of the packet ordered his colors hauled down, threw the mail overboard, and gave up the vessel. He has gone on to Philadelphia to relate the affair to the British Minister.
Yesterday was fired a true federal salute on the victory obtained by the Constellation . The true Americans assembled on the occasion, and federal toasts were drank. Amongst others— Capt. Truxton, and the officers of the Constellation . May the Constitution whenever attacked, meet the same fate of the Constellation .
BOSTON, March 9. Mr. King, who arrived yesterday from New-York, since mail, politely handed us copies of the subsequent Handbill, published at New-York, on Sunday last.
Office of the Mercantile Advertiser , March 3d, 1799. Sunday Morning. The Editor is indebted to a gentleman of this city, who politely handed him the Charleston State Gazette of the 22d ult. received by a vessel arrived this morning from Charleston. Its contents are of a nature so interesting to our country, that we cannot delay a moment in laying them before our patrons and the public. We have, therefore, issued an extra-sheet; and, we hope, the magnitude of the subject will serve as an apology for this breach of the fourth commandment.
CHARLESTON. His Excellency, Governor Rutledge, and the collector of this port, about five weeks ago received a letter from Col. Pickering, Secretary of State of the United States, to the following effect:
That government had obtained intelligence that four persons were to embark from Hamburg for this port, as agents of the French Directory, with DISPATCHES OF A HOSTILE NATURE TO THE PEACE AND WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Secretary of State then gave the names of the persons and their description; also of the vessel, and the passports which it was expected they would have; and informed further, that the dispatches and papers of consequence, would be secreted in two false bottomed tubs, and requested that the necessary steps should be taken to secure the suspected persons and their papers, as soon as they arrived here.
Capt. Thompson, the boarding officer of the port, was accordingly instructed to notice particularly, and report without delay, all passengers from Europe.
Yesterday he had the happiness and good fortune to board the brig Minerva , Captain Cramp, in 119 days from Hamburg, and reported her arrival, and that there were four or five passengers on board. This brig was the expected vessel, and the Collector, Major Simons, attended by Mr. William Crafts, agent of the United States for the naval and war departments, went immediately on board, with proper assistance, to examine and secure the suspected persons and their papers.
As soon as they got on board, they enquired for persons by names they had received, and were answered affirmatively; these were directly searched and given into custody, and the search continued for the tubs,—which were fortunately discovered in the cabin; the tubs were broken open, and the papers taken out; the horrors of guilt were depicted strongly on the countenances of the guilty wretches, and their bodies shook with fear and trembling. There was a design to have thrown the dispatches overboard from the cabin window, but it was prevented by the expedition of the gentlemen who undertook the business. Three of the fellows are mulattoes, and one of them a white person; a woman was also taken up, who was evidently concerned in the conspiracy, and endeavoured to take care of the tubs under her arm.
The four men and their female accomplice, are now confined at Fort Pinckney, their trunks and baggage are taken to the custom-house, and the important papers are under the examination of Maj. Gen. Pinckney, to whom they were immediately delivered. The development will come out in season.
Capt. Howland, arrived on Wednesday from Cadiz, informs that Lord St. Vincent's fleet sailed from before Cadiz about the 16th Dec. it was supposed in Cadiz that it had gone into the Mediterranean.
On the 18th of December, one Spanish ship of the line, four Spanish and one French frigate failed for South America.
Before Capt. Howland failed, authentic accounts had been received at Cadiz, of the capture of the island of Minorca by Ad. Nelson. It was reported that the inhabitants would not permit any assistance to be made to the landing of the British forces. Several Spanish gun-boats, captured at Minorca, had arrived at Gibraltar.—[Thus far the handbill.]
TRUXTON'S VICTORY. On this event, we most cordially congratulate the public.
Whatever the issue of the differences between the United States and France may be, it is highly essential that the French Directory should be made to feel, that the seamen of America, are as able to defend the American flag, as the government is determined to supply the means to do it; and that if an open war should be reported to, the French ship-carpenters will be made to furnish aug-
mentations to the navy of the United States, at full as cheap a rate as they have done the British.
The gasconading taunts of the French on our naval preparations are well known. Our seamen have been insultingly styled, " John Adams' Jack-asses ;" and Viller Elagues , and other Governmental Agents in the West-Indies, have been heard to say, they intended to fit out a 20 gun ship to bring into port the three American frigates; and a cock boat to capture the residue of our armed vessels. One or two more encounters will teach them to set their notes on quite a different key.
At the present period, the victory of the gallant Truxton cannot be too highly estimated.—In a political point of view, it is of as much moment to the United States, as the victory of the Nile was to the British nation. It proves the metal of our ships, seamen and government.
On the French lists, the Insurgent rates 40 guns;—but gentlemen who have been on board her, say, she mounts 44 including corronades .
The information received at New-York, was communicated from a gentleman who was on board the French ship during the engagement.
In the N. York papers, the losses are thus stated— Constellation 1 killed, 7 wounded— Insurgent 50 killed, 30 wounded.
NEW LOAN. On closing the books at Philadelphia , the subscriptions for the loan were between 14 and 15,000,000 dollars. Scrip has risen considerably.
FROM NEW-LONDON. NEW-LONDON, March 3.
"Arrived here the Narcissus , Capt. Hall, 21 days from St. Kitts.—Capt. Hall brings the highly pleasing information of the capture of the Insurgent French frigate of 44 guns, by the American frigate Constellation , Capt. Truxton, of 36 guns. The action took place off St. Kitts, in view of the inhabitants; Capt. Hall was an eye witness. As the fleet went out, the Constellation and her prize were going in. The Norfolk spoke the Constellation , and received dispatches from Capt. Truxton, for the Secretary of War; which we understand were put on board the Narcissus , as being one of the quickest sailing vessels in the fleet. The action continued between two and three hours; fifty-five minutes close engagement. The French ship had 50 men killed, and lost her mainmast. Capt. Truxton had three men only, killed; the Constellation received no damage of consequence."
ANOTHER ACCOUNT. NEW-YORK MARCH 2.
The sch'r Tourtenelle , Capt. Wadsworth, arrived last evening, in 14 days from St. Thomas's. The Captain informs, that on the 10th February an engagement took place off St. Kitts, between the United States frigate Constellation , Capt. Truxton, and L' Insurgente French frigate of 40 guns.—After an engagement of two hours and three quarters, L' Insurgente struck, and was carried into St. Kitts, by the Constellation . The action began at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Capt. Howard, from St. Croix, confirms every particular of the above narration.
PORTSMOUTH MARCH, 13.
We are happy in communicating to the public the result of the town-meeting held here on Monday for the choice of State officers. It will entirely retrieve the reputation of this town from the odious stigma of Jacobinism, under which it has too long suffered. The meeting was fuller and better attended than we have heretofore observed for a number of years.—For Governor 314 votes were given in for His Excellency J. T. GILMAN—For JOHN LANGDON (who was set up by the opposition) only the pitiful number of 65.—For Councillor 298 for JAMES SHEAFE, Esq.—For Gen. Cillay 48 only.—Senator for first District, 311 for JAMES SHEAFE, Esq.—39 for General LEAVITT.—To support WOODBURY LANGDON, WILLIAM GARDNER, the ex-Commissioner of Loans, and SAMUEL DROWNE, the democratic candidates for Representatives in the State Legislature, every possible exertion was made by their friends without effect.—The federal candidates NATH'L A. HAVEN, Esq. Col. N. WHITE, and Col. E. LADD, were chosen by a majority of more than 100 votes each. Mr. HAVEN having 275 votes, and Mr. LANGDON the leader of the legion only 158.
This change of men is conclusive evidence of the rapid change of the political opinions of the inhabitants of this town, which will soon become still more general. Indeed this town never has been so much under the influence of Jacobin revolutionary principles, as has been generally supposed. That the wily arts of a few factious men have deceived and misled many honest and well disposed citizens cannot be denied. But the period of this delusion is nearly past.—These men by their outrageous and unqualified abuse of all the measures of our own government, and their constant attempts to justify and defend the corrupt and wicked conduct of the French government have rendered themselves suspected of acting from improper motives, and have lost much of their former influence. Many honest men of good natural understandings and upright intentions, employed in the industrious pursuit to their own business, without leisure to notice of critically consider all the mea-
suces of government have suffered themselves to be deceived and misled by these factious demagogues. Brought by the critical state of our public affairs, these honest men have now assumed the right of thinking for themselves. And in the end they will think, judge and act rightly.—The number of obdurate vicious and corrupt is small, there are not at the present time more than six or eight full-blooded, thorough-faced Jacobins in this town. These we cannot expect ever to reclaim or reform.—They are possessed of a wicked spirit, which cannot be compelled to come out even "by fasting and prayer"—These cannot be cured; but they may be prevented from spreading their poisonous contagion. Altho' their present influence appears to be small and on the decline, yet their busy and persevering exertions in the cause of mischief render them dangerous.—A faction tho' small will always be dangerous, when headed by a Senator of the United States, who tho' weak and contemptible in himself, can by the abuse of his right of franking disseminate sedition among the people, at a cheap rate, by over loading every mail with false inflammatory writings against the Government. And these factious men will always retain some influence with the lower class, while they can without injury to their own characters, clime into all sorts and creep into hucksters' stalls and there for hours declaim to an idle rabble against the Government which protects them. The conduct of these men cannot be accounted for on common and ordinary motives.—It is probable that the explanation of "the new tale of the two" will soon disclose the true motives of their conduct, in such a manner as to gain the belief of the most incredulous.
At the Annual Town-Meeting held at Exeter, the votes were as follows, FOR GOVERNOR. His Excellency J. T. GILMAN, Esq. 129
COUNSELLOR, JAMES SHEAFE, Esq. 121 HON. J. CILLEY. 4
SENATOR, HON. J. FOGG, Esq. 107
RECORDER OF DEEDS, SAMUEL BROOKS, Esq. 130
COUNTY TREASURER, HON. O. PEABODY, Esq. 110
BENJAMIN CONNER, Esq. was chosen Representative.
CONGRESS. By a report communicated to both Houses of Congress March 2, it appears, that the following private armed merchantmen have been fitted out since the 9th July '98.
Vessels, 365 Tons, 66,091 Guns, 2,783 Men, 6,847
SUNDAY, March 3. Mr. Macon made the following usual motion:
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with a Committee that may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to notify the President of the United States, that Congress are ready to adjourn, without day, unless he may have any further communication to make to them.
Messrs. Otis, Macon and Brooks, were appointed. Before the close of the sitting, Mr. Otis reported, That the Committee had attended to that duty, and that the President had directed them to inform the House, that he had no farther communication to make to them, except to express his wishes for their health and happiness, and a pleasant journey to their families and friends.
The usual resolution to inform the Senate that the House were about to adjourn was passed, and the Speaker adjourned the House sine die.
ENTRIES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE. March 7, Sch'r Franklin , Roundy, Turk's-Island.
CLEARED. March 2, Brig Polly , Furness, Martinico. 9, Brig Polly , Moore, Martinico.
Herring Nett Twine FOR SALE.
Edward Parry Has just received a quantity of HERRING NETT TWINE, And an additional assortment of Fashionable best Superfine Broad Cloths; Chintzes and Muslins, &c. &c. March 11.
TO BE LET, By the subscriber—a large and CONVENIENT Store, situate on Spring-Hill in Portsmouth, and opposite the Store of Mr. Peter Coffin, it is very suitable for a wholesale and retail English Goods Store, and will be fitted up in a mode that shall be approved of by the person to whom it may be leased. J. WHIPPLE.
THE subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of WILLIAM PLUMMER, late of Portsmouth, in said county, merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that they will attend on that business, on the last Monday of this and the five following months, from 4 to 6 o'clock, P. M. at the store of Messrs. Prout and Parsons in Newbury-Port. ABRAHAM WHEELWRIGHT, SAMUEL CUTLER, THEO: BRADBURY, jun. Newbury-Port, March 1, 1799.

State of New-Hampshire. County of Grafton. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, That whereas an ACT was passed by the General Court on the 24th day of December, A. D. 1798, granting a tax of three cents per acre on each acre of land in Landaff, in said county of Grafton, (public rights excepted) for the term of one year, to be applied to the laying out, making and repairing a road or roads through said town—And whereas in said act it is provided, that the proprietors and owners of land in said town shall have liberty to pay their proportion of said assessment in labour, to be done on said roads at any time between the 1st day of June and the last day of September, 1799. And whereas the subscribers were appointed a committee to see said labour performed, and to notify said proprietors and owners of the time in which said labour is to be done; this is to give notice to said proprietors and owners, that they may appear any time between the said first day of June and the last day of September next, and pay their respective proportion of said tax in labour on said roads. JOHN COGSWELL, RICH'D CLEMENT, } Committee. PETER CARLTON, Landaff, Feb. 1, 1799.
THE proprietors of the township formerly called Newbritton, now Andover, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire, are hereby notified to meet at the house of Charles Hilton, innholder in said town, on Thursday the 28th day of March next, at one of the clock, P.M. 1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To see if the proprietors will pass a vote to sell a certain gore of land between the lots and amendments so called, near the upper end of said town, or dispose of the same or any part thereof in any way or manner for the proprietors benefit, as shall be agreed on at said meeting. 4th. To see if the proprietors will pass a vote to sell twenty acres of land at the South-end of the lot No. 53, in the third range in said town, which was formerly laid out for a mill privilege. 5th. To choose a committee to view said gore and mill privilege, and to run out said gore and draw a plan of the same if agreed on at said meeting, and to transact all business that shall be voted for them, or that shall be for said proprietors benefit, and to call the next proprietors meeting. JONATHAN WEARE, } Committee. JOSEPH BROWN, jr. } Andover, Feb. 12, 1799.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Epsom, who have not paid their tax for the year 1791, that unless they pay the same to the subscriber on or before the first day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Maj. James H. M'Clay in said town, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on said day. Theodore Atkinson, 125 4 120 4 JOSEPH SHERBURN, Collector. Epsom, Feb. 15, 1799.
WE the subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, to receive, examine, and adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of MARK HAM, late of Portsmouth, Cabinet-maker, deceased, represented insolvent—hereby give notice, that we will attend at the town clerk's office on said business, on the 2d Wednesday of March, and the five following months, from three o'clock till six in the evening on said days. GEORGE GAINS, NATH'L MARSHALL, } Commissioners. SAM'L HUTCHINGS, } Portsmouth, Feb. 24, 1799.
ORANGE. NOTICE is hereby given that so much of each original proprietors right of land in the town of Orange, and in the county of Grafton, viz. the rights of Joseph Eaton, Ephraim Spalding, jr. Jacob Fellows, Robert Washburn, Joseph Spalding, Ephraim Jones, Simon Fober, Richard Smith, Ebenezer Brown, Theophilus Clark, John Bartholomew, Silas Boswell, Curtis Spalding, and Hezekiah Spalding; will be exposed for sale at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Nathan Waldo, Esq. in said Orange, on Tuesday the 26th day of March next,—at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as will raise the sum of two dollars on each right with all legal costs, unless prevented by previous payment; said tax was voted at a meeting of the proprietors of said town on the 18th day of June, 1795, was duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and I have advertised for payment as the law directs. NATHAN WALDO, jr. Prop's Collector. Orange, Feb. 12, 1799.
ROCKINGHAM, ss. TO BE SOLD At Public Vendue, By virtue of an order from the Hon. Sam'l Tenney, Esq. Judge of Probate, of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham aforesaid, at the house of Mr. James Peavey, innholder in Newington, on Thursday the 14th of March next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. THAT valuable tract of corn land, now in good order to produce a crop in said Newington, called Downing's plain, said to be 100 acres, be the same more or less, to be sold whole or in quarter lots, as will best suit the purchasers. Nine months credit to be given with good security for a part of the money. Further conditions to be made known at the time and place above mentioned. BARTHOLOMEW DOWNING. RICHARD D. HART. Newington, Feb. 25, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ss. WHEREAS a tax bill for highway taxes for the year 1798, of which the following is a true copy of what yet is unpaid, is committed to me collect by the Selectmen of Bath, with a warrant to collect the same, which tax is assessed upon the lots as numbered in their respective ranges, agreeable to a plan and charter of said town bearing date March 29th, 1769, and the same having been notified by the receiver of non-resident taxes as the law directs. This is therefore to notify all the non-resident and other owners of unimproved lands in said town of Bath, that unless the taxes annexed to each lot as herein set forth shall be paid to me the subscriber, at my dwelling house in said Bath, on or before Tuesday the 21st day of May next, said lots or so much of each lot as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Doctor Isaac Mooer in Bath, on said day, at ten of the clock in the forenoon. No. D. G. 1st range, 100 acre lots, west side Ammonusuck river, 1 59 2d range do. 2 59 3d range do. 3 59 1st range, west division, 14 59 2d range do. 11 59 3d range do. 16 59 4th range do. 17 59 5th range do. 18 59 6th range do. 23 59 7th range do. 24 59 8th range do. 25 59 9th range do. 26 59 10th range do. 28 59 11th range do. 29 59 12th range do. 30 59 13th range do. 31 59 14th range do. 40 59 15th range do. 41 59 16th range do. 42 59 17th range do. 43 59 18th range do. 44 59 19th range do. 45 59 20th range do. 54 59 21st range do. 56 59 60 acre lots belonging to the 4th range of 100 acre lots, West division, 1 36 1st range 60 acre lots, West division, 2 36 2d range do. 3 36 3d range do. 6 36 4th range do. 7 36 5th range do. 8 36 6th range do. 10 36 7th range do. 11 36 8th range do. 12 36 9th range do. 13 36 10th range do. 14 36 11th range do. 15 36 12th range do. 16 36 13th range do. 17 36 14th range do. 18 36 15th range do. 19 36 16th range do. 20 36 17th range do. 21 36 18th range do. 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