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Spanish and American Treaty.
TREATY, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY. HIS Catholic Majesty and the United States of America desiring to consolidate on a permanent basis, the friendship and good correspondence which happily prevails between the two parties, have determined to establish by a Convention, several points, the settlement whereof will be productive of general advantage and reciprocal utility to both nations.
With this intention his Catholic Majesty has appointed the most excellent Lord don Manuel de Godoy, and Alvarez de Faria, Rios, Sanchez, Zazosa, Prince de Paz, Duke del Alcutia, Lord of the Rio de Roma, & of the state of Albalá, grandee of Spain of the first class, perpetual Regidor of the city of Santiago Knight of the illustrious order of the Golden Fleece and Great Cross of the Royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles III. Commander of Valencia, del Vento, Rivera, and Acenhal in that of Santiago: Knight and Great Cross of the religious order of St. John Councillor of State: First Secretary of State and Dispatch Secretary to the Queen: Superintendent General of the Posts and Highways: Professor of the Royal Academy of the Noble Arts, and of the Royal Societies of Natural History, Botany, Chemistry and Astronomy: Gentleman of the Bed Chamber in employment: Captain General of his armies: Inspector and Major of the Royal Corps of Body Guards, &c. &c. &c. And the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of their Senate, has appointed Thomas Pinckney, a citizen of the United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary to his Catholic Majesty. And the said Plenipotentiaries have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles.
Art. I. There shall be a firm and inviolable peace and sincere friendship between his Catholic Majesty, his successors and subjects and the United States, and their citizens, without exception of persons or places.
Art. II. To prevent all dispute on the subject of the boundaries which separate the territories of the two high contracting parties, it is hereby declared and agreed as follows, to wit, The southern boundary of the United States which divides their territory from the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the river Mississippi at the northernmost part of the thirty first degree of latitude north of the equator, which from thence shall be drawn due east to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahuche, thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint, then straight to the head of St. Mary's river, and thence down the middle thereof to the Atlantic Ocean. And it is agreed that if there should be any troops, garrisons, or settlements of either party, on the territory of the other according to the above mentioned boundaries, they shall be withdrawn from the said territory within the term of six months after the ratification of this Treaty, or sooner if it be possible and that they shall be permitted to take with them all the goods & effects which they possess.
Art. III. In order to carry the preceding article into effect, one commissioner and one surveyor shall be appointed by each of the contracting parties, who shall meet at the Natches on the left side of the river Mississippi before the expiration of the six months from the ratification of this Convention, and they shall proceed to run and make this boundary according to the stipulations of the said article. They shall make plats and keep journals of their proceedings, which shall be considered as part of this Convention, and shall have the same force as if this were inserted therein. And if on any account it should be found necessary, that the said commissioners and surveyors should be accompanied by guards, they shall be furnished in equal proportion by the commanding officer of his Majesty's troops in the two Floridas, and the commanding officer of the troops of the United States in the fourth western Territory, who shall act by common consent and amicably as well with respect to this point, as to the furnishing of provisions and instruments, and making every other arrangement which may be necessary or useful for the execution of this article.
Art. IV. It is likewise agreed that the western boundary of the U. States which separate them from the Spanish colony of Louisiana, is in the middle of the channel or bed of the river Mississippi from the northern boundary of the said states, to the completion of the thirty-first degree of latitude north of the equator. And his Catholic Majesty has likewise agreed, that the navigation of the said river from its source to the ocean, shall be free only to his subjects and the citizens of the United States, unless he should extend this privilege to the subjects of other powers by a special convention.
Art. V. The two high contracting par-
ties shall by all means in their power maintain peace and harmony amongst the several Indian nations who inhabit the country adjacent to the lines and rivers which, by the preceding Article, form the boundaries of the two Floridas, and the better to attain this effect, both parties oblige themselves expressly to refrain by force, all hostilities on the part of the Indian nations living within their boundary: So that Spain will not suffer their Indians inhabiting their territory, nor will the United States permit their last mentioned Indians to commence hostilities against his Catholic Majesty, or his Indians, in any manner whatsoever.
And whereas several treaties of friendship exist between the two contracting parties and the said nations of Indians it is hereby agreed that in future no treaty of Alliance or other whatsoever (except Treaties of Peace) shall be made by either party with the Indians living within the boundary of the other, but both parties will endeavour to make the advantages of the Indian trade common and mutually beneficial to their respective subjects and citizens observing in all things the most complete reciprocity, so that both parties may obtain the advantages arising from a good understanding with the said nations without being subject to the expense which they have hitherto occasioned.
Art. VI. Each party shall endeavour by all the means in their power to protect and defend all vessels and other effects belonging to the citizens or subjects of the other, which shall be within the extent of their jurisdiction by sea or by land, and shall use all their efforts to recover and cause to be recovered to the right owners, their vessels and effects which may have been taken from them within the extent of their said jurisdiction, whether they are at war or not: with the subjects who have taken possession of the said effects.
Art. VII. And it is agreed that the subjects or citizens of each of the said contracting parties, their vessels or effects shall not be liable to any embargo or detention on the part of the other for any military expedition or other public or private purpose whatsoever. And in all cases of seizure, detention, or arrest for debts contracted, or offences committed by any citizen or subject of the one party within the jurisdiction of the other, the same shall be made and prosecuted by order and authority of law only, and according to the regular course of proceedings usual in such cases. The citizens and subjects of both parties shall be allowed such advocates, solicitors, notaries, agents, and factors, as they judge proper in all their affairs, and in all their trials at law, in which they may be concerned before the tribunal of the other party, and such agents shall have free access to be present at the proceedings in such causes, and at the taking of examinations and evidence which may be exhibited in the said trials.
Art. VIII. In case the subjects and inhabitants of either party, with their shipping, whether public and of war, or private and of merchants, be forced, through stress of weather, pursuit of pirates or enemies, or any other urgent necessity, for taking shelter and harbour, to retreat and enter into any of the rivers, bays, roads, or ports belonging to the other party, they shall be received and treated with all humanity, and enjoy all favour, protection, and help, and they shall be permitted to provide themselves, at reasonable rates, with victuals, and all things needful for the sustenance of their persons, or reparation of their ships and prosecution of their voyages; and they shall no ways be hindered from returning out of the said ports or roads, but may remove and depart when and whithersoever they please, without any let or hindrance.
Art. IX. All ships and merchandise, of whatever nature soever, which shall be seized out of the hands of any pirates or robbers on the high seas, shall be brought into some port of either state, and shall be delivered to the custody of the officers of that port, in order to be taken care of and restored to the true proprietor, as soon as due and sufficient proof shall be made concerning the property thereof.
Art. X. When any vessel of either party shall be wrecked, foundered, or otherwise damaged on the coasts, or within the dominion of the other, their respective subjects and citizens, shall receive, as well for themselves as for their vessels and effects, the same assistance which would be due to the inhabitants of the country where the damage happens, and shall pay the same charges and dues only as the said inhabitants would be subject to pay in a like case: and if the operation of repairs would require that the whole, or any part of the cargo be unladen, they shall pay no duties, charges or fees, on the part which shall be reladed or carry away.
Art. XI. The citizens and subjects of each party shall have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other by testament, donation, or otherwise, and their representatives being subjects or citizens of the other party, shall succeed to their said personal goods whether by testament or ab intestato, and they
may take possession thereof either by themselves or others acting for them, and dispose, of the same at their will, paying the duties only, as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are, or shall be subject to pay in like cases. And in case of the absence of the representative, such care shall be taken of the said goods as of a native in like case, until the lawful owner may take measures for receiving them. And if questions should arise among several claimants to which of them the goods belong, the same shall be decided by the laws and judges of the land wherein the said goods are. And where, on the death of any person holding real estate within the territories of the one party, such real estate would, by the law of the land, descend on a citizen or subject of the other, were he not disqualified by being an alien, such subject shall be allowed a reasonable time to sell the same and to withdraw the proceeds without molestation, and exempt from all right of detraction on the part of the government of the respective states.
Art. XII. The merchant ships of either parties which shall be making into ports or into a port belonging to the enemy of the other party, and concerning whose voyage, and the species of goods on board her, there shall be just grounds of suspicion, shall be obliged to exhibit as well upon the high seas as in the ports and havens, not only her passport, but likewise certificates, expressly shewing that her goods are not of the number of those which have been prohibited as contraband.
Art. XIII. For the better promoting of commerce on both sides, it is agreed, that if a war shall break out between the two said nations one year after the proclamation of war shall be allowed to the merchants in the cities and towns where they shall live for collecting and transporting their goods and merchandise; and if any thing be taken from them, or any injury be done them, within that term, by either party, or the people or subjects of either, full satisfaction shall be made by the government.
Art. XIV. No subject of his Catholic Majesty shall apply for, or take any commission or letters of marque, for arming any ship or ships to act as privateers against the United States or against the citizens, people or inhabitants of the said United States, or against the property of any of the inhabitants of any of them, from any prince or State with which the United States shall be at war. Nor shall any citizen, subject or inhabitant of the said United States, apply for, or take any commission or letters of marque, for arming any ship or ships, to act as privateers against the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, or the property of any of them, from any prince or state with which the said king shall be at war. And if any person of either nation shall take such commission or letters of marque, he shall be punished as a pirate.
Art. XV. It shall be lawful for all and singular, the subjects of his Catholic Majesty and the citizens, people and inhabitants of the United States to sail with their ships, with all manner of liberty and security, no distrust being made, who are the proprietors of the merchandise laden therein, from any port to the places of those who now are, or hereafter shall be at enmity with his Catholic Majesty or the United States. It shall be likewise lawful for the subjects and inhabitants aforesaid, to sail with the ships and merchandise aforesaid, to sail with the ships and merchandise aforesaid, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports or havens of those who are enemies of both or either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, not only from places of the enemy aforesaid to neutral places, but also from one place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of the same prince, or under several; and it is hereby stipulated that free ships shall also give freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed free and exempt which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the contracting parties, although the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either: contraband goods being always excepted. It is also agreed, that the same liberty be granted to persons who are on board a free ship, to that although they be enemies to either party, they shall not be made prisoners or taken out of that free ship, unless they are soldiers and in actual service of the enemies.
Art. XVI. This liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all kinds of merchandise, excepting those only which are distinguished by the name of contraband. And under this name of contraband or prohibited goods shall be comprehended arms, great-guns, bombs, with their fuses, and other things belonging to them, cannon balls, gun-powder, match, pikes, swords, lances, spears, halberds, mortars, petards, grenades, salt-petre, musket refts, belts, horses with their furniture, and other warlike instruments whatever. These merchandise which follow shall not be reckoned among contraband or prohibited goods: That is to say, all sort of cloths, and all other Manufactures woven
of any wool, flax, silk, cotton, or any other materials whatever, all kinds of wearing apparel, together with all species whereof they are used to be made: Gold and Silver, as well coined as uncoined, Tin, Iron, Latten, Brass, Copper, Coals; as also, Wheat, Barley, and Oats, and any other kind of Corn, and pulpe; tobacco, and likewise all manner of spices, salted and smoked flesh, salted fish, cheese and butter, beer, oils, wines, sugar, and all sorts of salt: And in general, all provisions which serve for the subsistence of life: Furthermore, all kinds of cotton, hemp, flax, tar, pitch, ropes, cables, fails, sail cloths, anchors, or any part of anchors, also ship's masts, planks, and wood of all kind, and all things proper either for building or repairing ships, and all other goods whatever which have not been worked into the form of any instrument prepared for war by land or by sea shall not be reputed contraband, much less such as have been already wrought and made up for any other use; all which shall be wholly reckoned among free goods: As likewise all other merchandise and things which are not comprehended, and particularly mentioned in the foregoing enumeration of contraband goods: So that they may be transported and carried in the freest manner by the subjects of both parties, even to places belonging to an enemy, such towns or places being only excepted as are at that time besieged, blocked up, or invested. And except the cases in which any ship of war or squadron shall, in consequence of storms, or other accidents at sea, be under the necessity of taking the cargo of any trading vessel or vessels in which case they may stop the said vessel or vessels, and furnish themselves with necessaries, giving a receipt in order that the power to whom the said ship of war belongs, may pay for the article so taken, according to the price thereof at the port to which they may appear to have destined by the ships papers: And the two contracting parties engage that the vessels shall not be detained longer than may be absolutely necessary for the said ships to supply themselves with necessaries: That they will immediately pay the value of the receipts, and indemnify the proprietor for all losses which he may have sustained in consequence of such transaction.
Art. XVII. To the end that all manner of dissensions and quarrels may be avoided and prevented on one side and on the other, it is agreed, that in case either of the parties hereto should be engaged in a war, the ships and vessels belonging to the subjects or people of the other party must be furnished with sea letters or passports, expressing the name, property and bulk of the ship, as also the name and place of habitation of the master or commander of the said ship, that it may appear thereby that the ship really and truly belongs to the subjects of one of the parties, which passport shall be made out and granted according to the form annexed to this treaty. That they shall likewise be recalled every year, that is, if the ship happens to return home within the space of a year.
It is likewise agreed that such ships being laden, are to be provided not only with passports as above mentioned, but also with certificates, containing the several particulars of the cargo, the place where the ship failed, that so it may be known whether any forbidden or contraband goods be on board the same: Which certificates shall be made out by the officers of the place whence the ship failed in the accustomed form; and if any one shall think it fit or advisable to express in the said certificates the person to whom the goods on board belong, he may do so: Without which requisite they may be sent to one of the ports of the other contracting party, and adjudged by the competent tribunal according to what is above set forth, that all the circumstances of this omission having been well examined, they shall be adjudged to be legal prizes, unless they shall give legal satisfaction of their property by testimony entirely equivalent.
Art. XVIII. If the ships of the said subjects, people, or inhabitants of either of the parties shall be met with either sailing along the coasts, or on the high seas, by any ships of war, of the other, or by any privateer for avoiding any disorder shall remain out of cannon shot, and may send their boats on board the merchant ship which they shall so meet with, and may enter her, to the number of two or three men only, to whom the master or commander of such ship or vessel shall exhibit his passports concerning the property of the ship made out according to the form inserted in this present treaty and the ship when she shall have shown such passport shall be free and at liberty to pursue her voyage, so as it shall not be lawful to molest or give her chase in any manner, or force her to quit her intended course.
Art. XIX. Consuls shall be reciprocally established with the privileges and power which those of the most favoured nations enjoy in the ports where their consuls reside, or are permitted to be.
Art. XX. It is also agreed that the inhabitants of the territories of each party shall respectively have free access to the
courts of justice of the other, and they shall be permitted to prosecute suits for the recovery of their property, the payment of their debts, and for obtaining satisfaction for the damages which they may have sustained, whether the persons whom they may sue, be subjects or citizens of the country in which they may be found, or any other persons whatever who may have taken refuge therein; and the proceedings and sentences of the said courts shall be the same as if the contending parties had been subjects or citizens of the said country.
Art. XXI. In order to terminate all differences on account of the losses sustained by the citizens of the United States, in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty during the late war between Spain and France, it is agreed that all such cases shall be referred to the final decision of commissioners to be appointed in the following manner. His Catholic Majesty shall appoint one commissioner, and the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint another, and the said two commissioners shall agree on the choice of a third, or if they cannot agree so, they shall each propose one person, and of the persons so proposed, one shall be drawn by lot in the presence of the two original commissioners; and the person whose name shall be drawn shall be the third commissioner; and the three commissioners so appointed shall be sworn impartially to examine and decide the claims in question according to the merit of the several cases, and to justice equity, and the laws of nations. The said commissioners shall meet and sit at Philadelphia; and in case of the death, sickness or necessary absence of any such commissioner his place shall be supplied in the same manner as he was first appointed, and the new commissioner shall take the same oaths, and do the same duties. They shall receive all complaints and applications authorized by this article during eighteen months from the day on which they shall assemble. They shall have power to examine all such persons as come before them on oath or affirmation touching the complaints in question, and also receive in evidence all written testimony authenticated in such a manner as they shall think proper to require or admit. The award of the said commissioners or any two of them shall be final and conclusive, both as to the justice of the claim and the amount of the sum to be paid to the claimants; and his Catholic Majesty undertakes to cause the same to be paid in specie, without deduction, at such time and places, and under such conditions as shall be awarded by the said commissioners.
Art. XXII. The two high contracting parties hoping that the good correspondence and friendship which happily reigns between them will be further increased by this treaty and that it will contribute to augment their prosperity and opulence, will in future give to their mutual commerce all the extension and favor which the advantages of both countries may require.
And in consequence of the stipulations contained in the fourth article, his Catholic Majesty will permit the citizens of the United States for the space of three years from this time, to deposit the merchandise and effects in the port of New Orleans, & to export them from thence without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the stores, and his Majesty promises either to continue this permission if he finds during that time that it is not prejudicial to the interest of Spain, or if he should not agree to continue, he will assign to them on another part of the banks of the Mississippi an equivalent establishment.
Art. XXIII. The present treaty shall not be in force until ratified by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time or sooner if possible.
In Witness whereof we the underwritten plenipotentiaries of his Catholic Majesty and of the United States of America, have signed this present treaty of friendship limits and navigation, and have hereunto affixed our seals respectively.
Done at San Lorenzo el Real this seven and twentieth day of October, 1795. THOMAS PINCKNEY, (t. s.) PRINCE DE LA PAZ, (t. s.)
ANECDOTE.
A FELLOW fell into company where they were drinking brandy and cyder, till it tripped up most of their heels—"What do you call this kind of stuff," said he—"Sampson," replied one—"You might as well call it Pbaraab," said he, "for it will not let the people go."
TAKEN up a drift
in Broad Cove, a BUOY, the owner may have it by applying to the subscribers and paying cost.
WILLIAM DREW, JOSEPH ADAMS. Newington, April 7.

CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29. Sundry petitions against the treaty lately concluded with Great-Britain, were presented from the State of New-York, and referred to the Committee of the whole House on the state of the Union.
A message was received from the President, inclosing the treaty lately concluded with Spain.
The order of the day was called for upon the report of the Committee of Elections, on the petition of sundry inhabitants of the second middle district of Massachusetts,—asking for instructions with respect to receiving evidence in that case, and the House having formed itself into a Committee of the Whole, Mr. Page in the chair, entered upon a discussion of the resolution of Mr. Sedgwick, for recommending the report and directing the Committee to point out a proper mode of receiving evidence in the case, a long debate took place, which not being concluded, the Committee had leave to sit again.
Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30. Chief of the sitting was employed on the subject of Mr. Varnum's concurred election.
The following resolutions were finally agreed to:
Resolved , That the allegation of Aaron Brown, agent to the petitioners to 55 votes given by proxy, is sufficiently certain.
Resolved , That the allegation of the said Aaron Brown, as to persons not qualified to vote, is not sufficiently certain; and that the names of the persons objected to, for want of sufficient qualifications, ought to be set forth prior to the taking of the testimony.
Important Message.
The following is a copy of the MESSAGE from the PRESIDENT, which was on Wednesday read in the House of Representatives of the United States.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
"With the utmost attention I have considered your resolution of the 24th inst. requesting me to lay before your House a copy of the instructions to the Minister of the United States, who negotiated the treaty with the King of Great-Britain, together with the correspondence and other documents relative to that treaty, excepting such of the said papers as may, in my opinion, be rendered improper to be disclosed.
"In deliberating on this subject, it was impossible for me to lose sight of the principle which some have avowed in its discussion, or to avoid extending my views to the consequences which must flow from the admission of that principle.
"I trust that no part of my conduct has ever indicated a disposition to withhold any information which the Constitution has enjoined upon the President as a duty to give, or which could be required of him by either House of Congress as a right; and with truth I affirm, that it has been, as it will continue to be, while I have the honour to preside in the Government, my constant endeavour to harmonize with the other branches thereof, so far as the trust delegated to me by the people of the United States, and my sense of the obligation it imposes, to "preserve—protect, and defend the Constitution" will permit.
"The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution; and their success must often depend upon secrecy, and even when brought to a conclusion, a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or eventual concessions which may have been proposed or contemplated, would be extremely impolitic; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences; perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers. The necessity of such caution and secrecy, was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate; the principle on which that body was formed, confining it to a small number of members. To admit then, a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have, as a matter of course, all the papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent.
"It does not occur, that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under the cognizance of the House of Representatives, except that of an impeachment, which the resolution has not expressed. I repeat, that I have no disposition to withhold any information which the duty of my station will permit, or the public good shall require, to be disclosed; and in fact, all the papers affecting the negotiation with Great-Britain, were laid before the Senate, when the treaty itself was communicated for their consideration and advice.
"The course which the debate has taken, on the resolution of the House, leads to some observations on the mode of making treaties under the constitution of the United States.
"Having been a member of the General Convention, and knowing the principles on which the constitution was formed, I have ever entertained but one opinion on this subject; and from the first establishment of the government to this moment, my conduct has exemplified that opinion, that the power of making treaties is exclusively vested in the President, by and with the advice of the Senate, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur, and that every treaty so made, and promulgated, thence forward became the law of the land. It is thus that the treaty making power has been understood by foreign nations; and
in all treaties made with them, we have declared, and they have believed, that when ratified by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, they became obligatory. In this construction of the constitution, every House of Representatives has heretofore acquiesced; and until the present time, not a doubt or suspicion has appeared to my knowledge, that this construction was not the true one. Nay, they have more than acquiesced; for until now, without controverting the obligation of such treaties, they have made all the requisite provisions for carrying them into effect.
"There is also reason to believe that this construction agrees, with the opinions entertained by the State Conventions, when they were deliberating on the constitution; especially by those who objected to it, because there was not required in commercial treaties, the consent of two thirds of the whole number of the Senate, instead of two thirds of the Senators present; and because in treaties respecting territorial and certain other rights and claims, the concurrence of three fourths of the whole number of the members of both houses respectively was not made necessary.
"It is a fact declared by the general convention, and universally understood, that the constitution of the United States was the result of a spirit of amity and mutual concession. And it is well known that under this influence, the smaller states were admitted to an equal representation in the Senate, with the larger States; and that this branch of the government was invested with great powers, for on the equal participation of those powers the sovereignty and political safety of the smaller States were deemed essentially to depend.
"If other proofs than these, and the plain letter of the constitution itself, be necessary to ascertain the point under consideration, they may be found in the journals of the general convention which I have deposited in the office of the department of State. In those journals it will appear, that a proposition was made, "that no treaty should be binding on the United States which was not ratified by a law;" and that the proposition was explicitly rejected.
"As, therefore, it is perfectly clear of my understanding, that the assent of the House of Representatives is not necessary to the validity of a treaty, as the treaty with Great-Britain exhibits in itself, all the objects requiring legislative provision; and on these the papers called for can throw no light; and as it is essential to the due administration of the government, that the boundaries fixed by the constitution, between the different departments should be preserved—a just regard to the constitution, and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request."
Geo. Washington. United States, March 30, 1796.
MARCH 31. After some debate the Federal City bill passed—Ayes 72, Nays 21.
Mr. Blount moved, to refer the message received yesterday from the President, in answer to the call for papers, to a Committee of the Whole.
It was supported chiefly on the ground that it would be proper, as the President had accompanied his refusal with his reasons, that the House should enter their reasons for the call, on the journal.
It was objected, that such a step would lead to a controversy, which would irritate without ministering to the public good.
The reference was agreed to. The yeas and nays on this question stood as follows:
YEAS. Messrs. Baily, Baird, Baldwin, Benton, Blount, Bryan, Burgess, Cabell, Christie, Claiborne, Clopton, Coles, Crab, Dearborn, Earl, Findley, Franklin, Gallatin, Gillespie, Giles, Gregg, Greenup, Grove, Hampton, Hancock, Harrison, Hathorn, Heath, Havens, Holland, Jackson, Kirkeby, Locke, Maclay, Macon, Madison, Milledge, Moore, Muhlenberg, New, Nicholas, Orr, Page, Parker, Patten, Preston, Rutherford, Israel Smith, Sam. Smith, Sprigg, Swanwick, Tatom, Van Cortlandt, Varnum, Venable. 55.
NAYS. Messrs. Bourne, Bradbury, Buck, Coit, Cooper, Dent, D. Foster, J. Foster, Gilman, Gilbert, Glen, Goodhue, Goodrich, Griswold, Harper, Hartley, Hillhouse, Hindman, Kittera, Lyman, Malbone, Murray, Reed, Sedgwick, Sigourney, J. Smith, N. Smith, Isaac Smith, William Smith, Swift, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Tracey, Van Allen, Wadsworth, Williams. 37.
This business was made the order of the day for Wednesday next. An earlier day was proposed, but Wednesday was carried by the Speaker's casting vote.
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1. Mr. Freeman asked leave of absence for two months.
President's Message.
Mr. Kinchell said, as it appeared from the message of the President, lately communicated to that house, that he had concurred the majority of that house, who passed the resolution to which that message was an answer, had entertained opinions, which he himself, as one of that majority wished to disavow. He proposed to submit two resolutions to the consideration of the House, which contained his sentiments upon the occasion, and which he should wish to be referred to the committee of the whole to whom was referred the said message. They were to the following effect:
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House that the Constitution has vested the power of making treaties exclusively in the President and Senate, and that the
House of Representatives do not claim any agency in making treaties, or in ratifying them when made."
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House, that when a treaty is made, which requires a law or laws for carrying it into effect, that in such case this House have a constitutional right to deliberate upon and to determine the propriety or impropriety of enacting such law or laws, and to act thereon as the public good shall require."
The house then went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair, on the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the state of the receipts and expenditures of the United States; when, after considerable debate, the first resolution was agreed to, with some amendments, and, by general consent, the consideration of the fifth resolution was proceeded upon, as of the most pressing nature; but no conclusion being come to, the Committee rose, and had leave to sit again.
The Speaker informed the House, that he had in his hand, a confidential communication from The President—and the house and galleries were accordingly cleared.
In the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 17th inst. the Committee of Ways and Means reported, as the result of their deliberations, on the important subject of Finance.
1st. That the Secretary of the treasury be directed to prepare and report to the House of Representatives, at the next session, a plan for raising the sum of two million of dollars by apportionment, among the several states, agreeably to the rule prescribed by the constitution; adapting the same to such objects of direct taxation, and such modes of collection as may appear by the laws and practice of the states respectively to be most eligible in each.
2d. That a duty of two per centum ad valorem ought to be imposed on all testamentary dispositions and successions to the estates of intestates, excepting those to parents, husbands, wives, or lineal descendants.
3d. That the following duties to be imposed by means of stamps, viz.
   On letters patent. 200 Cents.     Exemplification thereof, 100   Awards, 20   Bottomry and Respondenti bonds, 50   Indentures of Apprenticeship, 20   Debentures for drawback, 27   Bills of lading coast wise, except from one district to another in the same State. 10   Other bills of lading, 40   On bonds, bills or notes for the security of money, according to the following scale:—   Above 50, and not exceeding 100 dollars, 10 Cents.   100 and do. 500 20   500 and do. 1000 30   1000 50  
Provided, That if any bonds or notes shall be payable at, or within 60 days, such bonds or notes shall be subject only to one fourth part of the duty aforesaid.
On Notarial acts,
On letters of attorney, except for invalid pensions,
On Policies of insurance, viz.
From one district to another in the United States,
To and from the U. S. to a foreign port, from 500 to 1000 dollars,
1000 to 2000
2000 and above,
On deeds for conveyances of lands,
On other specialties
4th. That an addition of 50 per cent. be added to the tax on Carriages.
5th. That five millions be borrowed at six per cent. irredeemable for years.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) March 21.
Major Pinckney, the American minister, had gone from Spain for England; he left Charles Rutledge, Esq. charge des affaires, at the Spanish court. The King and Queen of Spain, were expected at Cadiz, when Capt. M'Neil left it; they were on a visit to Seville, to fulfil a vow the King had made. All the foreign ministers at the court of Spain, attended their Majesties on this pious occasion.
BALTIMORE, March 25.
Last Wednesday evening arrived the brig Fanny, Capt. Hopkins, from Cape Francois, which place she left the 2d inst. By this arrival we are enabled to contradict the account of Cape Francois being declared in a state of blockade by the British.
Through the same channel we learn, that admiral Parker, about the latter part of February, summoned Fort Dauphin to surrender, as that place was by the treaty of peace between France and Great-Britain, ceded to his majesty. The Spanish commandant replied, that he knew of no such treaty, and if admiral Parker approached the place, he would be fired upon. Most of the troops had gone to the Mole.
When the Fanny came into the Capes there was a British frigate of about 32 guns a stern of her, standing in; and a brig from St. Ubes went up the Potomac.
MARCH 29.
Yesterday arrived brig Harriot, Capt. Dogherty, from Cape Francois, 13 days. Capt. D. informs, that on the 1st March, a French frigate from France, with dispatches, was chased on the rocks near the Cape, by an English frigate and entirely lost. The frigate brought two new commissaries, who were taken by boats from the English frigate. The French Captain and some of the sailors, escaped, and got safe ashore with part of the dispatches: The remainder were taken possession of by the English.
About the same time, eight sail of the line appeared off the Cape, where they re-
mained four days, and then went to Cape Nicholas Mole, where about 8000 English arrived—They were making great preparations to attack Cape Francois immediately; but from the appearance which that place had when Captain D. left there, nothing was to be apprehended from them. Every kind of stores, arms and ammunition, were in abundance, and the store-houses filled with provision, &c. 30,000 troops and negroes aware of their intentions, and well prepared to receive them.
On the 2d Feb. seven ships of the line, one frigate, and two sloops of war, were lying in Isabella bay.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.
Captain M c Lhorion, of the sloop Dolphin, from Port-au-Prince, has obligingly handed the Editor the following intelligence:
Feb. 16th, 12 sail of transports and a frigate of 36 guns, with 2000 troops on board, to go against Leogane, arrived at Port-au-Prince, from Cape Nicholas Mole, in company with some Americans; ten of these transports failed for Leogane, with 1000 men.
On the 27th and 28th, severe engagements took place in several parts near to Port-au-Prince, and on the Sunday following, about day break, a very smart engagement commenced between the British troops, aided by the people of color, and the brigands on the part of the French between Port-au-Prince & Bukey-town-Fort; the action lasted eight hours and a half, but at length terminated in favor of the British, they having taken possession of the brigand camps, with the loss of one hundred men killed and 47 wounded; the defeat of the brigands made them more and more furious and desperate. After the engagement took place, three of the British soldiers had strayed from the camp at Bukey-town-Fort, to the distance of about two or three hundred yards, which all of a sudden five or six of the brigands, who were concealed in thickets, rushed forth, seized two, and instantly put them to death, the third made his escape. They have erected three forts opposite to Bukey-town, and it was the general opinion of the officers, that the brigands could muster about 20,000 men in a few days; they were supplied with provisions, ammunition, &c. and had the advantage of the mountains. March 3d, the brigands made a most desperate attack on the camp which the British had taken from them a few days before, the particulars of which had not transpired when Captain M c Lhorion failed, although it was feared they would prove victorious.
Capt. M c Lhorion was a spectator to the above engagements, he lying contiguous to the British fort, taking in ballast.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated the 7th February to an American gentleman in this town.
"The diplomatic officers from France, resident in the United States, are confirmed in their places, by the new government, and the oath under the new Constitution, is demanded of them."
NEW-YORK, April 4.
Last Thursday, the President of the United States nominated to the Senate, the following gentlemen, as commissioners, being those contemplated in the treaty with Great-Britain, viz.—
Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, to settle the Eastern boundary of the United States. Thomas Fitzsimons, of Philadelphia, and James Innes, of Virginia, on the subject of British debts.
Christopher Gore, of Massachusetts, and William Pinckney, of Maryland, of British spoliation.
We have a variety of accounts from the West-Indies, stating continued impressions of our seamen—outrages that must rouse the indignation of every man of feeling. We trust the guardians of our public prosperity will take decided measures to repress these insults.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Baltimore, to a merchant in this city, dated March 27.
"Our schooner Nancy, that went in quest of Admiral Parker, in order to obtain letters from him that might determine Judge Green, of Bermuda, what decree to pass on the American vessels that had been carried in there by privateers, and liberated under the interlocutory decree; the brig Philip, which we were interested in, was one of the number in this predicament.
"The schooner has arrived this evening, Admiral Parker writes us, that the island of Hispaniola, was never considered by the commanders of her Majesty's ships of war, as blockaded nor would any vessel be taken or carried in by any of them from that island, unless good reason to suspect French property on board:—He has also wrote a letter to Judge Green to this purport: we shall send it off to Bermuda tomorrow or next day: This is the proof the Judge has insisted on having, he will now have what we expect will remove any scruples of conscience that gentlemen may have, and by that means liberate those vessels. We take the earliest opportunity of communicating this to you; it may be a satisfaction to the gentlemen interested in your place."
BOSTON, April 8.
Mr. Robbins, 24 days from Antigua, informs us, that 15000 troops, together with Admiral Christian and General Abercrombie, had reached Barbadoes, from England. At St. Martins he saw a British transport, numbered 83, which had been taken and brought in there by a French cruiser, she had about 300 troops on board, and a considerable quantity military stores. Several other transports were reported to have been taken. Markets low at Antigua.
Capt. Melcher, from Martinique, men-
tions markets there to be tolerable for lumber, miserable for provisions, and exorbitant for W. India produce. He favored us with a few papers, from which we collate.
MARTINIQUE, Feb. 16. We have News that 54 transports, with military Stores, and 7 or 8000 troops on board, are at Barbadoes.
There has been an arrival at New-York, from England, whose Papers were two days later than those received here. They contain little News; but mention, That on Feb. 13, a motion obtained in the British Parliament for the total abolition of the slave trade, 93 to 67; that on the same day two fervent Petitions for Peace were delivered to the King, from Kent and Margate: That an Embargo was laid in France, on all vessels cleared for England; That 87,000 Russian troops have marched against Persia, and that an attack on the Turks by the Russians is also expected.
A bill supplementary to the Naval Armament act, has gone through several readings in Congress.
A bill for protecting Seamen, has passed, It appropriates 15,000 dollars for paying Agents—allows a fee of 25 cents for Protections—and binds Captains in 400 dollars for neglect of aid.
A French frigate of 32 guns, called the Jamaica, is reported to be taken, in the West-Indies.
A British West-India transport has been taken and sent into France.
Some Progress has been made in indemnifying sufferers by British W. India rapacity. Several awards favorable to America, have lately passed the British High Court of Appeals.
By Proclamation, the importation of provisions into Canada, from the U. States, is allowed.
J. Barney, an Ex-American, Capt. of a French privateer, has cleared 100,000. by prizes taken in the North seas.
Capital punishment for any crimes except murder and treason, is abolished in New-York.
The Drawing of Harvard College Lottery is postponed to September. The reasons offered by the Managers for this postponement, are convulsive and honorable.
On Wednesday West Boston Bridge was discovered to be on fire; but was soon extinguished. This fire is yet unaccounted for.
Seven Stubborn Falls!
1st. It is fact, That the Treaty Papers, called for by Mr. Livingston's motion, were laid before the Senate, by the President, as the constitutional body before whom they ought to be laid.—2d. It is fact, that those papers are on the files of the Senate.—3d. It is fact, that those files always remain accessible.—4th. It is fact, that it is the custom of the House to request papers of the Senate.—5th. It is fact, that the Members of the House knew those papers were then in the building they occupied, during the whole debate on the subject.—6th. It is fact, that in the debate, a Member declared he had seen those papers ten or twelve weeks before.—And 7th. It is fact, that all the essentials of those papers were promulgated in Randolph's much talked of defence?—These being FACTS, what can the manly and independent FREEMEN of the United States, think of Men, who can waltz ten or twelve days, in inventing plausible reasons for demanding, what they could with the utmost ease attain (either by asking them of the Senate, or examining their files) merely to betray into a breach of confidence and a diversion from duty, a MAN, whose services, integrity and patriotism, have been experienced in the New, and who is the point of eulogium of an Erskine, a Fox, a Sheridan, and ALL the champions of Liberty in the Old World.—Let the people of America consider these things.
A PLAIN CASE!
Either the Constituted Authorities of the Union, as established by the Constitution of the People, must be supported entire, or anarchy must ensue! The Friends of the Constitution know this, and they will unite their efforts to support it, should it be failed; but their Anchor of Hope is in the long tried firmness of the Man who has ever resisted oppression, and who has sworn to defend that Constitution.
SHIP NEWS.
AT LIVERPOOL, Feb. 22.—The Africa, Tinkham, Massachusetts; Atlantic, Robins, New-Hampshire, to sail early in March; Wilcasset, Sifton, Wilcasset, do. for Boston—The Columbia, Chandler, was to have failed Feb. 20.
AT HAVRE, Feb. 24.—Brig Friendship, Weeks, from Hamburg, just arrived; Schooner Friendship, Atkins, &c.—Feb. 14—arrived at Havre, ship Polly and Nancy, Smith, from Liverpool, with salt. Ship America, Swain, failed for Hamburg, Feb. 15.
AT HAMBURG, Feb. 26.—The Harriot, Norman, bound to Philadelphia; Good Friends, Smith, do. Harriot and Eliza, Moore, for Baltimore; ship Fair America, Treadwell, from New-York; ship America, Ewing, from Philadelphia; Polly, Johnson, from Charleston.
The Ganges, Whippo, of New-York, was spoke on her passage from Bourdeaux to Hamburg.
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CIRCULAR.
Department of State, March 25, 1796.
SIR, The news papers frequently give accounts of impression of American seamen, and other outrages committed upon our citizens by British ships of war. But however well founded these relations may be, yet other documents will be required whenever reparations for these wrongs shall be demanded. I am, therefore, directed by the President of the United States, to endeavour to obtain correct information on this subject, verified by the oaths of informants. Such of these as shall enter the port of Newbury-Port, will fall under your notice; and I must request you to have their depositions taken, at the public expence, in the most fair and impartial manner before a Notary-Public, and transmitted from time to time to this office.
I am respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, TIMOTHY PICKERING. To the Collector of the Port of Boston.
Important Translations,
From Paris papers,
[The following is translated from a Paris paper. It deserves publication here as peculiarly applicable to the present state of things.]
The Constitution provides, (title 12th, articles 331 and 333,) that "the Executive Directory shall conclude, sign or cause to be signed with foreign powers, treaties of peace, of alliance, of truce, of neutrality, of commerce, and other conventions which they shall judge necessary for the good of the state. Such treaties shall not be binding till after having been examined and ratified by the legislative body; nevertheless the secret conditions may "provisionally" receive their execution, from the instant they shall have been agreed to by the Directory.
In giving to the Executive Directory, the right of making negotiations, of contracting and signing treaties of peace and alliance with foreign powers, the convention has delegated one of the greatest powers of the nation. From the importance of this power, arises a proportionate necessity of finding limits to it, and of preventing its becoming dangerous to liberty. An authority without bounds, soon becomes absolute, and such is the nature of this part of power which the Directory may exercise out of the nation, that it is much more difficult to limit it, than that which is exercised within and such would have been the consequences of the system proposed for foreign affairs, and if an ambitious Directory could ever conceive the design of establishing a tyrannical power, it would be by political foreign negotiations.
It was when the last king fell all his means frustrated in the interior, and wanted to re-establish his despotism that he had recourse to secret negotiations abroad. The conspiracy which he conducted in that manner against the Legislative assembly, was of all others that which gave it most trouble to defeat. It is necessary to leave nothing vague in a Constitution.
Diplomacy has been too often used to carry on intrigues, and the ambition of courts and ministers. Treaties have too often been the game of political cunning. They have drawn too many misfortunes on the heads of the people, to have left undetermined the precise point to which the Executive Directory might go in foreign negotiations. The principles of a true Republican Government ought to be clear, and the conduct of Executive power as open as its principles. The example which we have received of an allied nation has opened the eyes of our Legislature. The treaty concluded between her and his Britannic Majesty, by the will of the Executive power and the sanction of 20 Senators, puts her in an absolute dependence on the ancient mother country. Her numerous agents have long since been watching an opportunity of subjecting her to her powers, and of restraining her commercial and maritime relations. This misfortune would not have happened to our allies if their constitution had literally sanctioned this true principle in their Constitution, a principle that guarantees Republican liberty; that no treaty made by the President of the United States shall be valid, until it shall have been examined and ratified by the legislative body.
The French Constitution has foreseen all cases and has pronounced an invariable principle. In fact, the right and future prosperity of a great people are too important to be abandoned to arbitrary ideas, even to the good conscience of executive power. It is best, that its ambition should never find in the inexplicitness of a Constitution—a means to overturn liberty, or to prepare dangers for it.
REMARKS.
[By the above we find, that the dangers of placing the treaty making power, in all cases, in the Executive, without a check from the Legislature, has been clearly apprehended in France; hence the explicitness of their constitution on that head.
Notwithstanding the construction given to this part of the constitution by a decision of the House of Representatives, the very efforts of those who contended for a contrary construction, shew that there is danger in the inexplicitness of that instrument, and makes in favour of one of the amendments lately proposed by Virginia.]
PARIS, Jan. 26.
United States of America.
It has already been noticed that the conclusion of the Treaty of Commerce
and amity between the United States and Great-Britain has given rise to a great discontent among the numerous class of Citizens, who are friends to the French Republic and who wished the states should rather have drawn closer the ties which united them to France. Washington by ratifying this treaty has lost a great deal of his popularity. However he has yet a great many and very zealous partizans who endeavour by all means to stop the torrent of opposition, against which it is believed, he will not long successfully struggle.
GRENOBLE, Jan. 28.
The Republican Armies have entered their winter quarters. There is only a momentary suspension of hostilities till they are provided with necessary horses and mules, the want of which prevented our army from earning all the advantages of their victories and then our army will push into the heart of Italy, the passes of which are already in our hands.
The position of the army of the Alps under Kellerman extends from the town of Susa along the mountains to Aosta. That of the Piedmontese under Prince Thomas, occupies the line from Ivrea across Foresta to Zacony.
Our army of Italy occupies the towns of Sallazze, Ormea, and Savonna, the advanced guard is quartered beyond the Alps in the villages between Acqui and Genoa. The head quarters of the Austrians are at Pavia. The wreck of the Piedmontese army is still blocked up at Ceva.
From this it will appear that our troops are not only masters of Savoy and Nizen, which are united with France but they have also conquered the Duchy of Aosta the Marquisates of Suza Saluzzo and a considerable portion of Montferrat. It is said, the old guardian of the Alps, intends now seriously to make a separate peace, if he does not, his kingdom of Sardinia will soon be of no greater value to him than his kingdom of Jerusalem.
BOSTON, April 9.
With unfeigned regret we announce to the public the death of that truly good and honorable man, THOMAS RUSSELL, Esq. which took place yesterday morning, in the 56th year of his age. It may be needless to pass any encomiums on the character of this gentleman, to those who knew him. The fair, honorable merchant; the genuine, disinterested patriot; the humane, benevolent, charitable man; the generous, public spirited citizen; the easy and accomplished gentleman; and above all, the serious, devout christian those with distinguished lustre in his whole conduct. In his family and among his friends he displayed the milder but not less estimable virtues.—The world and his friends did him justice and loved and esteemed him. The numerous societies with which he was connected took pleasure in placing him at their head, where he always appeared with ease and dignity. At the time of his death, he was president of the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others in North-America; of the humane society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; of the agricultural society; of the Boston chamber of commerce; and of the society for the information and advice of emigrants. He also presided in the branch bank of the United States established in this town. From these honorable and useful stations, and from the arms of a family and connections whose ornament and delight he was, a short but violent illness hurried him away to a better world. While we revere his memory, let us imitate his virtues, and then we too shall leave behind us "the good name which is as precious ointment."
APRIL 13.
The ship Galen, 45 days from London, arrived in Nantasket road yesterday. It is supposed she has brought papers some few days later than before received. No boats have as yet come from her.
Arrivals at Marblehead, from the West Indies confirm the intelligence, that the British armament from Europe had arrived at Barbadoes; and that their military operations would instantly commence. Other accounts say, that Victor Hughes is able, and willing as able, to meet all the force Abercrombie can bring against him. One of the transports, with camp equipage, has been taken by the French.
BALTIMORE, April 1.
Wednesday arrived the ship George & Patty Washington, Capt. Parker from Liverpool.
On the 25th of Feb. in lat. 24, 44, N. long. 29, W. spoke the brig Benjamin and Nancy, of Haverhill, Capt. Farley, from St. Ubes, bound to Newbury-Port, 14 days out, all well. Capt. F. informed him, that one half of Cadiz was sunk by an earthquake, and several other towns had shared the same fate. Capt. F. felt the shock lying in St. Ubes. He likewise informed Capt. Parker that the King of Spain had fled into Portugal, but what for he could not tell; he expected it owing to an insurrection.
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.
Extract of a letter from Samuel Bayard, Esq. Agent of the United States in London, to a gentleman in this city, dated Jan. 17, 1796.
"As soon as Ministry learn the line of conduct which the House of Representatives mean to pursue, I am persuaded their conduct, as it regards us, will be less fluctuating. Should the House coincide with the President and Senate, every thing here will go well; Should obstacles on the other hand, be thrown in the way by the popular branch of government, I doubt whether the Western Posts will be surrendered, or restitution made of our captured property. However, I trust that every man who has any regard to the honor, the
faith, or interest of his country, will see the necessity of carrying the treaty fully into effect, so far as regards the United States."
NEWBURYPORT, April 12.
CAPTURE
Of Brig Columbia, Stephen Holland, Master, and Schooner Unity, Ebenezer Hoyt, Master, both of this port.
Said brig and schooner failed from Port-Louis on 7th March, at about 8 o'clock, A. M. bound for Newburyport, laden principally with molasses and sugars, being the neat proceeds of their outward bound cargoes from Newburyport. About 10 o'clock, P. M. Antigua bearing N. N. E. about 3 leagues, we were brought too by the ship Ganges, a British 74, commanded by Francis Leforey, and a schooner called the Virginia, of Antigua, an attendant to the ship: This schooner is one of the fifteen pilot boats built in Virginia not long since, which are all employed as attendants to the British men of war.
We were ordered on board of the Ganges with our papers, and after Capt. Leforey had examined them, he sent for us in his cabin, where he informed us that as to our vessels, in his opinion, they were really and truly American property, but as to our cargoes, under the documents produced to him, he supposed were fictitious, and, in his opinion, conceived it to be all French property, and that under such suspicion, he should send us into some English port for adjudication, and immediately ordered a lieutenant, a petty officer, and eight men on board each vessel, and to lay by him until next morning. March 8th, we were ordered for St. John's in Antigua, but the wind being northerly, we were ordered for Montserrat, with the before-mentioned schooner as our convoy. At three, P. M. we came to anchor in Plymouth bay, Montserrat, and there kept on board, a guard walking the decks day and night. March 9, we were sent for to come on shore, but as soon as we landed, we were met by one of the lieutenants of the Ganges, who had charge of both vessels, he ordered us on board under the guard of a petty officer of the Ganges. At two, P. M. Capt. Holland was sent for again, and commenced his examination before the king's proctor and the judge of the admiralty; we then obtained liberty to visit each other's vessel and to converse together, which before we had been deprived of. From the 10th of March to the 13th, we were examined, together with our mates and one man from each vessel—and on the 14th we were acquitted, paying cost as follows, viz.
  Judge's fees, £15 0 0   Proctor for the Crown, 21 16 4   Register's fees, 5 1 8   Marshal's fees, 2 11 6   Protest, 2 2 0   Judge's seal, 1 10 4   Bonds that we should not carry any person off the island, 16 6   Clearance at the custom house, 0 6 6   Total, £49 4 10   The charges of the Columbia was about £6 more than the Unity.
Unity's Release.
Montserrat, } The KING, against } The schooner Unity. } (Seal.) UPON reading the examination and papers of the schooner Unity, whereof Ebenezer Hoyt is master, it is considered that the said schooner and her cargo be released, upon the payment of costs; and it is hereby ordered that the said schooner and her cargo, together with the papers of said schooner be restored to the master thereof, upon the prayer of William Daniels, Esq. Proctor for the crown. Signed, THOMAS HARCUM, Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty. March 14, 1796.
The above was kindly handed us by one of the above Captains, for insertion.
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Verses occasioned by reading the answer of the President of the United States, to the House of Representatives, requesting certain papers relative to the Treaty with Great-Britain.
COLUMBIA exult! thy deliverer still reigns! That hero who freed thee from servitude's chains! He reigns in the heart of each Patriot-son, And justice, and judgment, establish his throne, No clouds of detraction such glory can screen, Like the sun in the heav'ns, bright, constant serene. Tho' they roll in huge volumes, to darken his rays, They dissolve into air, and are lost in the blaze. How splendid his glory! how deathless his praise, Whom virtue's foes hate for pursuing her ways! To the Man of the People this honor is giv'n, His foes are the foes of mankind, and of heav'n; And hence will be seen (spite of each false device) The rooted aversion 'twixt VIRTUE & VICE, While folly can blunder, ambition aspire, While envy can blacken, or jealousy fire. Ye miscreants! who now the whole state would unhinge, Scarce a year has revolv'd, since with bow, fawn, and cringe Ye servilely worshipp'd whom now ye revile In impudence Randolph's-Scarlets in guile; Who courts the mob's grace is unwise in extreme; 'Tis lighter than vapour, more vain than a dream, Far nobler incentives have WASHINGTON sway'd, A conscience approving, a crown that can't fade. Thou demon Ingratitude! first born of hell! How durst thou obtrude where the virtues should dwell! And you brave Columbians! in one honest breast, How could you admit so infernal a guest? To blast with reproaches so sacred a name, And pollute with her breath those bright laurels of fame? Oh! cast out the fury, such madness refrain, And scourge the black monster to hell back again! Say, did we not hail him, in council and field, Our oracle, champion, bulwark and shield? Sent down like an angel by heav'ns direct fire, To protect, to avenge us, encourage and fire. Like Israel's, our camp was illum'd by his light, By day a thick cloud, a bright pillar by night, Between both the hosts stood this greater than Mars, A sun to our legions—a terror to theirs. Did not (when abandon'd and left by his train, By the States, and by Congress) He singly sustain Columbia's vast weight, by true patriotism fir'd? As Alcides the heav'ns, when strong Atlas grew tir'd? Like Samson the Danite, beleaguer'd by foes, Unappall'd, undiscourag'd, victorious he rose, Pluckt the laurels which Britain had gather'd in vain, And gave us fair freedom, and safety again. To recount all the plans by his wisdom contriv'd, Or the deeds by his conduct, and valour achiev'd, Were to number the gems that heav'ns concave adorn, The sands on the shore, or the dew-drops of morn. 'Till success all his labours abundantly crown'd, And the Olive succeeded the trumpet's shrill sound. Then with glory replete, honour'd, lov'd, and admir'd, His sword he resign'd, and in silence retir'd. Call'd again by his country, from Vernon's sweet shade, To preside o'er her councils, he cheerful obey'd; In framing our present wise government, shone, The wonder of nations, and boast of our own! Over which both by duty, and interest led, With one voice the whole people elected him head. And still heav'n lends him to watch o'er the state, An example of all that is wise, good, and great! His wisdom, unaw'd by intestine jar, More than once has averted the horrors of war. Under his able conduct, we now rest in peace, Manufactures and trade, arts, and science encrease, Crops luxuriant our fields and our pastures enrobe, Our commerce is bounded alone by the globe. While beneath our own fig-tree and vine, we obtain And enjoy all the fruit of our labour and pain. What madness then, citizens, prompts you to range, Or to wish for such bliss, so uncertain a change? The treaty with Britain can be but pretence, On its side rests the weight of skill, numbers and sense. Besides, be the treaty or censur'd or prais'd, We made it ourselves when the fabric we rais'd. How dare then our SERVANTS, for faction or gain, Infringe that wise system they've sworn to maintain. Tho' GENET's hopeful pupils the TREATY deride, Town-meetings reject it, and ADAMS takes side With Jacobin-clubs, who all order contemn, Tho' fools who can't read it, most sagely condemn; Of you LEGISLATORS! we hop'd better things, Or we ne'er had put trust in the shade of your wings. We'll remember howe'er when we make the next choice, Ev'ry member who gave for the PAPERS his voice. And could you expect, by such slimy pretence, To stir from its center our rock of defence? That NUMBERS would awe him, his steadfastness shake, Or the dread of IMPEACHMENT make Washington quake. You try'd it, and found with confusion of face, The attempt cloath'd your party, not him with disgrace. Superior, undaunted, yet gentle and mild, The Sire of his country, repuls'd you, and smil'd. So the high-tow'ring Andes, majestic, sublime, Capacious, and ample, embracing each clime Tho' round its broad base, the hoarse torrent may roar, The loud surges dash, and huge cataracts pour; On its sides, as in league, tho' fierce lightnings may form, Its strength still derides the bolt, billow, and storm; On its sky-helmed front, not a cloud can be seen, But all is calm sun-shine, mild, pure, and serene!
Pollock Fish.
A Quantity of POLLOCK FISH FOR SALE, Apply to J. and J. GODDARD, Market-Street. Portsmouth, April 11, 1796.
TO BE SOLD BY Samuel Hill,
At his Store on Spring Hill, at the lowest Cash price, CLOVER & Herd's Grass Seed, warranted to be the last year's growth. Pitch, Tar and Turpentine, Philadelphia, Swedes and Russia Bar Iron, flat and square bars well assorted, Spike Rods, German and English Steel. 18 & 15 thread Cod Lines, Sein, Herring and Sewing Twine, Herring Nets of all sizes. English & West-India GOODS AS USUAL. Portsmouth, April 11, 1796.
French Language.
MR. Maurice being very politely requested by a number of gentlemen of the town of Portsmouth to teach the French Language, he is now very happy in informing them he will undertake to teach the language on Thursday and Saturday mornings, from 8 to 12 o'clock, if a number of scholars sufficient to defray the expense should offer. Price five dollars per quarter. School to be opened as soon as twenty subscribers appear. Subscription paper lodged at Mr. Melcher's Printing-Office, where those who are desirous of encouraging the school will please to call and leave their names.
  ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE, District of PORTSMOUTH, N. H.   ENTERED FROM   Schooner Thomas, Fernald, N. Carolina.   Brig Joseph, Clark, St. Thomas.   Sch'r Three Friends, Trefethen, Virginia.   Sloop Nancy, Woodward, Philadelphia.   Brig Blossom, Blunt, Demarara.   CLEARED FOR   Sch'r Polly & Betsey, Blunt, New-York.   Brig Sukey, Paul, Surinam.   Brig Polly, Watts, West-Indies. 

Fairbanks & Sparhawk Have constantly for sale A general assortment of West India Goods AND GROCERIES Wholesale and retail, On the lowest terms for cash, viz. WEST India and
N. E. Rum. French and Spanish Brandy. Hollands Gin; Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga and Red Port Wines. Hyson and Bohea Teas. Coffee; Chocolate; Pepper; Pi- mento; Cinnamon. Fresh Raisins; Loaf and Brown Sugars; Powder and Shot. French and Spanish Indigo; Brim- stone; Cotton; Copperas; Alum; Chalk; Redwood; Logwood and Fustic. Candles; Pails; Scives; Crown Soap; Pipes; Smoking and Chew- ing Tobacco; old Pollock Fish; Rock Salt; square Bar Iron; Ger- man Steel; 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d and 20d Nails.
—ALSO— A few hundred wt. excellent Cheese. Portsmouth, April 14, 1796.
TO BE SOLD, A small Farm in Epping , Situate on the great road from Portsmouth to Nottingham, CONTAINING between 40 and 50 acres of good LAND, with a good orchard, house, barn, shoe- maker's shop, tanner's house, yard, &c. well situated for a trader, tavern- er or tradesman. Credit will be given for a part. SAMUEL PLUMER, jr. Epping, April 2, 1796.
New-Hampshire Bank. THE Stockholders in the New- Hampshire Bank, are hereby notified that the annual meeting for the choice of Directors, will be held at the Bank on Wednesday the 27th Inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M. JOHN PEIRCE, Cashier. April 14, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given that the inhabitants of the town- ship of Colebrook, have petitioned the General Court, representing that there are about thirty rateable polls in said township, that they suffer many inconveniences on account of their unincorporated State, and pray- ing said Court to incorporate them, and vest them with all that power and authority which other towns in said State do by law exercise and en- joy.
Whereupon it is ordered that the petitioners be heard on their said pe- tition before the General Court on the first Tuesday of the next session, and that they cause in the mean time, that the substance of said pe- tition and Order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, also posted up in some pub- lic place in said town of Colebrook, three weeks successively, six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, NATHL PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Dec. 31, 1795.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given that a petition hath been pre- sented to the General Court of said State, in behalf of the inhabitants of Kezar's Gore, setting forth that they labor under many disadvantages on account of the badness of their roads and bridges, and praying that an act may be passed to enable them to raise a tax of three cents pr. acre on all the lands in said Kezar's Gore, for the sole purpose of repairing the roads and bridges in said Gore.
Upon which petition it is ordered that the petitioners be heard before the General Court on the first Tues- day of the next session, and that they cause in the mean time that the substance of the petition and Order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, NATHL PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Dec. 23, 1795.
India Muslins & Cottons. Just received and for sale by Peter Coffin, A QUANTITY of India Muslins, and India Cottons, some of which are very fine. April 9, 1796.
Grocery Store JUST OPENED BY William Leverett, In Jeffrey's Row, No. 2, lately oc- cupied by Mr. Clement Jackson, where may be had A general assortment of West-India Goods, Among which are the following articles, viz.
WEST-INDIA and N. E. Rum; Brandy; Gin; Cherry Rum; Lisbon, Sherry and Malaga Wines; Molasses; Brown Sugar; Powder'd Sugars; Loaf Sugars; Hyson and Souchong Teas of a superior quality; Bohea ditto; Coffee; Chocolate; Rice; Pepper; Allspice; Ginger; Raisins; Cheeses; Fresh Florence Oil in flasks; Cin- namon; Currants; Cloves; Mus- tard; Indigo; Starch; Dip'd and mould Candles; Soap; Spanish Segars; Cotton Wool; English Gun-Powder; Brimstone; Carpet Brooms; Mats; 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d Inspected Nails; 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass, with a variety of other articles, all of which will be sold at a moderate advance.
N. B. Constant attendance given and the smallest favors received with thanks.
Real Estate.
On the 11th day of May next, WILL BE SOLD At Public Auction, (If not before disposed of at Private Sale) FOURTEEN Hun- dred acres of LAND in Effing- ham , in the State of New-Hampshire. This Land lies on a branch of the Saco, called the Great Ossipee River — it is divided into Lots from 50 to 200 acres each, and may be sold either separately or all together, as most convenient to the purchasers. Several of these lots are well situated for Iron Works, which have been car- ried on to great advantage in Effing- ham .
The payment must be one third in Cash, and the remain- der on such terms as may be agreed upon by the parties.
The sale will begin at 11 o'clock in the forenoon at the house of Capt. DAVID HOBBS in Parsonsfield, adjoining Effingham.
Private application at any time before the Sale will be at- tended to by DUDLEY A. TYNG.
Also to be sold, A LOT OF LAND in the town of Parsonsfield , in the province of Maine , commonly called Tracy's Gore , containing about two thousand five hundred acres, and ly- ing on the Great Ossipee river together with nine scattered lots in the same town, of 100 acres each.
The Lands from their quality and situation are well calcu- lated for any present settlers; and from the increasing cultivation in the neighborhood, they afford a good prospect to any monied man who wishes to vest some of his property in real estate.
The terms will be made known by an agent who will be at Capt. Hobbes' at the time of the above sale—or at any time be- fore, by applying to Capt. Hobbes on the premises, or to Mr. Samuel Cutler in Newburyport.
Capt. Hobbes will al- so attend to any one who wishes to examine the lands, and give such in- formation as may be further neces- sary. Newburyport, March 25, 1796.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, a Mulatto servant man, named Prince, about 17 years of age, about five feet ten inches high, of rather a stout stature, had on when he ran- away a pair of reddish homespun o- veralls and coat; all persons are cau- tioned against harbouring or employ- ing said runaway as they will be made to answer the same as the law directs. JAMES WHIDDEN. Greenland, April 4, 1796.
FOR SALE BY John P. Williams, HERDS Grass Seed of best quality; one or two tons of good Butter, in shipping or- der; a few barrels Pork; a few bar- rels of Beef; White Beans; Peas; Flour; Wheat and Rye.
—ALSO— A few bushels of FLAX-SEED, suitable for sowing. West-India Goods, and others as usual.
Dancing School opened At the Assembly-Room. MR. MAURICE respectfully in- forms the ladies and gentle- men of the town of Portsmouth, that he has opened his Dancing School at the Assembly Room, and will be very happy to receive their children for tuition on Thursday and Saturday afternoons, from 2 to 6 o'clock.— Price five dollars & half pr. quarter, two dollars of which to be paid at entrance. Portsmouth, April 8, 1796.
FOUND BY the subscriber a few days ago, a pair of Silver Shoe-Buckles; the owner may have them again by proving the property, and paying reasonable expenses. EDMUND DAVIS. Portsmouth, April 8, 1796.
William Greenough Informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth, and its vicinity, that he improves the Store lately occupied by Messrs. Fair- banks and Sparhawk, where he has for sale on the lowest terms for CASH, By wholesale or retail,
WEST-INDIA Rum. New-England, do. Brandy. Gin. Molasses. Loaf and Brown Sugars. Souchong Tea. Coffee; Choco- late. Fresh Raisins and Figs. Candles. Crown Soap. Brown do.
Pepper. Ginger. Allspice. Copperas. Pollock Fish. Cotton Wool. 7 by 9 Window- Glass. 10d Nails. Powder & Shot. Hair Powder. Linseed Oil, boil'd Paints ground in oil, of all kinds. Dry Spanish Brown, &c. &c.
—ALSO— An assortment of Crockery Ware. Portsmouth, March 15, 1796.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY WILLIAM FITZ, A FEW elegant Mi- niature Chains, Lockets, new Silver Watches, &c. &c. Heart and Club German Steel; Iron, flat and square bars; Spike, Deck, and Sheathing Nail Rods; Russia Duck; Time Glasses; N. E. Rum pr. barrel; Candles pr. box; Loaf and Brown Sugars; Bo- hea Tea; Flannels, red, white and green, cheap by the piece.
—ALSO— Cotton, Flax, & Clover SEED.
Dartmouth College Lottery. Class First. THE MANAGERS of the Lottery granted by the Legislature of New-Hampshire, for the benefit of Dartmouth College , Dec. 31, 1795, present to the public the following SCHEME.
   Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.     1 of 3000 3000   2 of 1000 2000   3 of 500 1500   2 last drawn blanks 400 800   10 of 100 1000   20 of 50 1000   40 of 20 800   90 of 10 900   1500 of 6 9000   1668 Prizes. 20,000   3332 Blanks.  
5000 Tickets at 4 Dollars is 20,000 Not Two Blanks to a Prize. Sub- ject to a deduction of twelve and an half per Cent.
This Class will commence drawing at the Assembly-Room , in EXETER, on the 7th day of June next, and continue until the whole shall be completed. A list of the fortunate numbers will be immediately pub- lished in the New-Hampshire Gazette , and the prizes paid on demand. JONA. FREEMAN, } Managers. BENJ. CONNER, } Wm A. KENT. } February 25, 1796.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Eaton, in said State, that are delinquent in paying their tax assessed thereon, for the year 1795, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, on or before the 16th day of May next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue as will pay said taxes with incidental charges at my dwell- ing-house in Eaton, at 10 of the clock, A. M. on said day.
   No. Cents.    Jonathan Moulton, Esq. 14  Walter Briant, Esq. 14  Capt. Jeremiah Folsom, 14  Jeremiah Gilman, 7  Capt. Israel Gilman, jr. 14  Thomas Tash, Esq. 7  John Tash, 14  Benjamin Chapman, 14  Samuel Chapman, 14  Jeremiah Folsom, jr. 3  John Folsom, jr. 7  John Briant, 14  Edward Smith, 14  John Folsom, 14  Bartholomew Smart, 14  Josiah Folsom, 14  David Davis, 3  James Burley, 7  Nathaniel Folsom, 7  Edward Hilton, 3  Thomas York, 3  Samuel Gilman, 14  David Gilman, 14  Joseph Center, 7  John M'Duffy, 14  Joseph Young, 7  John Smith, 7  John Folsom, 14  Samuel Livermore, Esq. 14  Joshua Brackett, 14  John Harford, 14  Nicholas Harford, 3  Josiah York, 7  David Hicks, 7  John Mead, 14  Benjamin Mead, 7  John Mead, 14  George Dutch, 7  Arthur Bennett, 14  Thomas Bennett, 14  Joshua Frost, 7  Walter Briant, jr. Esq. 7  John Burley, 14  Caleb Bennett, 14  Benjamin Smith, Esq. 14  Paul March, Esq. 7  Col. Atkinson, 14  David Folsom, 14  Stephen Mason, 7  John Sullivan, 7  Jacob Blafdell, Esq. 92  Jacob Blafdell, Esq. 124  Jacob Blafdell, Esq. 26  Jacob Blafdell, Esq. 27  Capt. Samuel Hall, 119  Moses Drown, 17  Joseph Smart, 49  Joseph Smart, jr. 14  James Martin, 120  James Smith, 62  John J. Blafdell, 26 & 87  John J. Blafdell, 12  John J. Blafdell, 122  Thomas Clouman, 118  Capt. Samuel Hall, 30  John J. Blafdell, 12  T. Sherman, East of lot No. 7 & 2, 7  John J. Blafdell, 63  John J. Blafdell, 17 & 18  John J. Blafdell, 96, 62 & 52  B. Weeks, Esq. joining Barton line, 7  Samuel Quail, 82 & 61  Stephen Mason, E. of F. Kennison, 7  Benjamin Mead, 50 acres, 7  JOHN BANFILL, Collector.  Eaton, April 11, 1796.  
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons whom it may concern, that upon a certain decree of the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, made the 14th day of December last past, upon the pe- tition of Edward Hart and others, as heirs of John Hart, Esquire, late of Portsmouth, in said county of Rock- ingham, deceased, praying for par- tition of certain Real Estate formerly the property of the said John Hart; the subscriber hath within the time prescribed by law claimed an appeal therefrom, to the Superior Court of Judicature next to be holden at Portsmouth, within & for said coun- ty, on the fourth Tuesday of April current, and hath given bonds as the law directs for prosecuting said ap- peal.
GEORGE HART. Portsmouth, April 4, 1796.
THE inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth are hereby notified to exhibit to the se- lectmen, a just and true account of their polls & estates, rateable by law, on or before the 30th Inst. and that the Selectmen will attend that busi- ness at their room in the Brick School House every Thursday evening, from 6 to 8 o'clock, 'till that time is ex- pired. Portsmouth, April 2, 1796.
TO BE SOLD At Public Auction, By Virtue of a Licence from the honorable Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, on Wednesday the 27th Inst. at 11 o'clock, A. M. on the premises.
THAT valuable estate of Capt. GEORGE JANVRIN, late of Portsmouth, deceased, situated on the East side of Water-Street, and the East end of Pitt-Street, between Long-Wharf and Portsmouth Pier, having a large dwelling-house and a Wharf 40 feet wide and a large dock, adjoining a town privilege, being a beautiful situation for trade, and as capable of large improvements as any place in town; such a chance is sel- dom to be met with, as it must be positively sold. JACOB WALDEN, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, April 1, 1796.
A small Farm Wanted.
Wanted to purchase A SMALL farm within about 20 or 30 miles of the town of Portsmouth, of from thirty to forty acres of good land, well wooded, with a house and barn on the same; for further particulars apply to the Prin- ter hereof. Portsmouth, March 30, 1796.
Dartmouth College LOTTERY TICKETS For sale at J. MELCHER's Printing Office and Book Store.
Neil M'Intire HAS FOR SALE At his Store in Cross-Street, Portsmouth, Cheap for cash or short credit.
TWELVE Hogf- heads choice old James river Tobacco, of an excellent quality; genuine old Cashie Soap pr. box; Cotton pr. bag or pocket; number boxes of Chocolate and Candles; Beef; Pork; Tar; Pitch.
—ALSO— A few hundred weight of PIGTAIL TOBACCO of the very best kind.
Hawfers of different dimensions, suitable for fishermen.
William Neil Has removed into the store next door to Mr. Jacob Sheafe's, facing the upper end of Washington Street, where he has opened for sale, A large assortment of Crockery & Glass Ware by wholesale and retail. His Store is well supplied with CANVASS, LINENS, Checks, Dowlass, Window- L Glass, Mustard, &c. &c. all which he will sell cheap for cash or approved credit. The greatest encouragement given to country dealers, and the smallest orders thankfully executed. Portsmouth, April 14, 1796.
New Wholesale STORE.
Lang, Brierly, & Co. Inform their friends and the public, that they have removed to the westerly apartment of the
New Brick Store, in Ladd-Street, where they have just re- ceived, and are now opening in addi- tion to their former stock, A large quantity of fresh GOODS, Suitable for the season; The whole forming an extensive assortment of WOOLENS, Stuffs, Linens; plain and printed Cottons; Checks; Hosiery; Cut- lery; Hardware, &c. &c.—which they will dispose of at a low advance for cash or approved credit.
—ALSO— A few Pipes of choice Lon- don Market Madeira Wine.
ALL persons are hereby caution- ed against trading with LEVI DEARBORN, of Hampton, yeoman, he being adjudged to be noncompos mentis. EPHRAIM FELLOWS, his guardian. Hampton, March 21, 1796.
Harvard College Lottery, A few Tickets remaining for sale at the Store of White & Long.
WANTED A middle aged Wo- man, of a good character, to cook, and do the work of a small family; Inquire of the Printer.