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TUESDAY, July 3, 1798.
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Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MONDAY, JUNE 18.
The following message in writing was received by both houses, from the President of the United States:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I NOW transmit to Congress the dispatch number 8, from our Envoys Extraordinary to the French Republic, which was received at the Secretary of State's office on Thursday the fourteenth day of this month.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, June 18th, 1798.
No. 8. PARIS, APRIL 3d, 1798.
Dear Sir,
WE herewith transmit to you the copy of a letter written to us by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, dated the 28th Ventose (18th of March) and purporting to be an answer to our memorial of the 17th of January.
We also send you in this inclosure a copy of our reply, which has been presented this morning. As soon as we certainly know what steps the French Government mean to pursue in consequence of this reply, you shall be informed of them. We remain with great respect and esteem, your most obedient servants.
CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY J. MARSHALL, E. GERRY.
Col. Pickering, Secretary of the United States.
TALLEYRAND
TO THE AMERICAN ENVOYS.
Paris, 28th Ventose, 6th year, (18th March, 1798.)
THE undersigned minister of the French Republic for Foreign Affairs has laid before the Executive Directory the memorial which he has received from the commissioners and envoys extraordinary of the United States of America, dated the 28th of Nivole 1st.—The Directory, desirous of convincing the United States of the real dispositions with which it is animated in regard to them has directed the undersigned to communicate to the commissioners and envoys extraordinary the following observations:
The first thing with which the mind is necessarily struck in the memorial of the commissioners and envoys extraordinary is the method which they have thought proper to pursue in the statement of the points that are in the controversy between the two states. The Executive Directory, animated with the most conciliatory dispositions, impressed with a sense of the interests that ought to draw the two nations towards each other, and eager to concur in the well known with of the people of both countries, to maintain a perfect intimacy between them, had reason to expect that the envoys would have come forward with similar dispositions on the part of their government, with minds actuated with the same views and impressed with the same wishes. How great, after such an expectation must have been the surprise of the Executive Directory, when the undersigned communicated to them a memorial, in which the commissioners and envoys extraordinary, reverting the known order of facts, have studiously passed over, as it were, in silence the just motives of complaint of the French Government and disguised the real cause of the misunderstanding, which is prolonging itself between the two Republics, so that it should appear from that partial and incorrect statement, that the French Republic has no real grievances to complain of, no just reparations to require, while the United States should have a right to complain, alone be entitled to demand satisfaction.
The motives which have induced the preference given to this mode of proceeding have not escaped the Directory. Actuated by proper sense of the dignity of the Republic, whose interests it is entrusted with, and wishing eventually to guard against the views that might have pointed out such a conduct, it has given it in charge to the undersigned to dispel those delusive appearances, which indeed must vanish before a candid statement of facts, and as soon as the real intentions of the Directory shall have been solemnly made appear in opposition to those views which could only be unjustly attributed to them by taking advantage of their silence.
It is an incontestible truth, which is entirely kept out of view in the memorial of the commissioners and envoys extraordinary, that France is entitled to a priority of complaints and of grievances, that those complaints and grievances were real as well as numerous long before the United States had the least foundation for either, and consequently before any of the facts which the envoys have so elaborately and minutely discussed had taken place.
It is a no less incontestible truth, that all the grievances exhibited by the commissioners and envoys extraordinary, with some exceptions which the undersigned was ready to discuss are a necessary consequence of the measures which the prior conduct of the United States had rendered justifiable on the part of the French Republic, and which her treaties with the United States authorised in certain cases which it depended upon the
general government of the Union to bring or not into existence.
It is foreign to my purpose to enumerate the complaints which the French Government had reason to make against the Federal Government since the commencement of the war excited against the French Republic by a power jealous of its prosperity and of its regeneration. Those details are contained in the numerous official communications made at Philadelphia by the ministers of the Republic; they have been recapitulated by the predecessor of the undersigned, in a note dated 19th Ventose, 4th year, addressed to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris, and particularly detailed in the official note of citizen Adet, dated at Philadelphia, the 25th Brumaire, 5th year. Complaint was made in the above note of the non-execution of the only clauses of the treaties concluded in 1778, in which France had stipulated some advantages in return for the efforts which she had engaged to make for the common utility, and of insults which had been offered to the dignity of the French Republic.
In fact, from the commencement of the war, the American tribunals claimed the right of taking cognizance of the validity of prizes carried by French cruisers into the ports of the United States. It resulted from this pretension, contrary to the letter of the treaty of Commerce of 1778, that the property of the citizens of the Republic was unjustly detained; that the French were entirely discouraged from cruising in the American Seas against an enemy who was reviving the most barbarous laws of that mode of warfare, in order to insult and annihilate the American commerce, even before the eyes of the Federal government.
Nor was that government satisfied with favouring the enemies of the French Republic, in a point of so much importance, a point indeed, out of which some abuses might have arisen, but which the French government shewed itself disposed to prevent,—they went so far as to grant to the ships of the enemy, contrary to the plain letter of the above mentioned treaty, an asylum in the ports of the United States, after having captured property or vessels belonging to French citizens. Soon after a national sloop of war, at anchor in the port of Philadelphia, was seized and her commander arrested by order of the government. In like manner the person of the Ex. Governor of Guadalupe was arrested by process from the American tribunals, to answer a complaint founded upon facts relative to his administration, and the Executive Directory were obliged to threaten making use of reprisals before that affair could take the course which was assigned to it by the law of nations. During the whole space of the time of which a review has just now been taken, the French government endeavoured in vain to determine the government of the United States to procure to the agents of the French Republic the legal means of carrying into execution the articles of the consular convention of 1788, which granted privileges to our commerce and navigation, the principles of which was established by the treaties of 1778, and nothing could be obtained in this respect, but fruitless references to the tribunals. In general, all matters which, with a truly conciliatory disposition, might have been settled in the way of negotiation were habitually referred to the judicial authorities, who, whether they were or not under a secret influence, did in the end, either deprive the Republic of rights founded upon Treaties, or modified the exercise thereof as suited the system adopted by the Executive.
Such was the true state of things in the month of August 1795, when the ratification of a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, signed at London in November preceding, between the United States and Great Britain, filled the measure of the grievances of the Republic.
What had been till that period the conduct of the French government towards the United States? The undersigned in order to contrast it with the federal government, needs only recall to mind certain facts which surely cannot have been forgotten:
Engaged in Europe by the most pressing concerns, the Republic had not directed her attention to the United States unless it was to give them fresh proofs of the most sincere attachment and friendship; she left it to her agents amicably to discuss, with the federal government, the controversies, a sketch of which has just now been given, and which if they had been met on both sides with a real spirit of conciliation could not have altered, to the present degree, the good understanding of the parties.—Scarcely was the Republic constituted when she sent a minister to Philadelphia, whose first step was to declare to the United States, that they should not be urged to carry into execution the defensive clauses of the treaty of alliance, altho' the existing circumstances were in the most unequivocal manner within the Casus foederis .—Far from viewing this conduct in its proper light, the American government considered it as the acknowledgement of a right, and in the same spirit the commissioners and envoys extraordinary have met this question in the beginning of their memorial. The minister of the Republic at Philadelphia, having given uneasiness to the American government, was recalled with readines and his recall was attended with circumstances of extreme severity. His successor carried to the United States all the reparations that could be wished for, accompanied with the sincerest and most friendly declarations. Nothing can equal the spirit of concilia-
tion, or rather condescension, in which his instructions were drawn up in relation to every point that had occasioned any uneasiness to the federal government. Citizen Adet, in the name of the convention, corroborated those expressions of good will, and that assembly itself received with the effusions of an unbounded confidence and sincerity, the new minister which the President of the United States sent to them, with the apparent intention of corresponding sincerely with the dispositions which the Republic had never ceased to evince.
Yet it will hardly be believed, that the French Republic and her alliance were actually sacrificed, at the very moment when he was thus giving to her ally increased proofs of her attention and regard, and that the corresponding demonstrations of the federal Executive had no other view but to lull her and her government into a deceitful security. It is nevertheless well known, at this day, that it was at that period that Mr. Jay, who had been sent to London, only, it was then said, in order to negotiate arrangements, respecting the depredations which were committed by the British cruisers on the American trade, was signing a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce, the negotiation and signature of which had been kept a most profound secret at Paris and at Philadelphia. That treaty was not avowed to our minister plenipotentiary until the last extremity, and it was communicated to him only for form's sake, after it had been sanctioned by the ratification of the Senate. When the agents of the Republic complained of that mysterious conduct they were answered by an appeal to the independence of the United States, solemnly established by the treaties of 1778; a strange mode of defence against a complaint which the disimulation which was used proves to have been but too well grounded; an insidious subterfuge, which to the real point of the question substitutes a principle which the Republic could not be suspected, to controvert or deny, and which by means of a sophism destroys that intimate confidence which ought to subsist between two allies, and particularly between the French Republic and the United States.
If it is difficult to discover in this conduct that which ought to be looked for from a friend, what shall we think of the treaty itself and of its provisions? That treaty is at this day known to all Europe; and the small majorities which gave it sanction in both houses, as well as the strong and numerous expressions of the opinion of the people against it, are so many honorable testimonials in support of the view which the French government has taken of it. The undersigned will not repeat the observations made by his predecessor on this treaty, in his note of the 19th Ventose before mentioned, and in that of the 19th Messidor following; neither will he repeat what the Minister Plenipotentiary of the republic at Philadelphia set forth much at large in his official note of the 25th Brumaire. He will confine himself to observing summarily, that every thing having been calculated in that treaty to make the neutrality of the United States operate to the disadvantage of the French Republic and to the advantage of England; that the federal government having, in that instrument, made to Great Britain concessions, the most unheard of, the most incapable with the interests of the United States, the most derogatory to the alliance which subsisted between the said States and the French republic,—the latter has been perfectly free, in order to avoid the inconveniences of the treaty of London, to avail itself of the means of self preservation which the laws of nations and prior treaties offered.
Such are the motives which have prompted the arrears of the Directory of which the United States complain, as well as the conduct of its agents in the West Indies. All those measures are founded on the Article II of the treaty of 1798; which provides, that as to navigation and commerce France shall always stand in relation to the United States on the footing of the most favoured nation. The Executive Directory cannot be blamed, if the execution of this essential clause has produced some inconveniences to the American flag. As to abuses, which may have arisen under the operation of that principle, the undersigned again repeats—that he was ready to discuss them in the most amicable manner.
From this faithful exposition of the facts which have progressively led to the present existing misunderstanding between the two Republics, it is evident as the undersigned observed in the beginning of this answer, that the French Republic were first aggrieved, and that such of her measures as may have given rise to the complaints of the United States are, with a few exceptions, the natural consequence of a state of things which it was in their power to produce or to avoid.
If the undersigned in setting forth the complaints of the Republic should confine himself to the treaty of London, he would but partially fulfil his duty, which directs his attention to further objects.
From the moment when that treaty was put into execution, the government of the United States appeared to think itself released from the necessity of saving appearances towards the Republic. Notwithstanding the reiterated assurance which had been given to its ministers, that this treaty should make no change in the pre-existing state of the neutrality of the United States, the French cruisers were notified in the course of the year 1796, that they could no longer, as had been heretofore practiced, be ad-
mitted to sell their prizes in the ports of the United States. This decision was made by the federal court of justice, and grounded on the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain.
The newspapers known to be under the indirect control of the cabinet, have, since that treaty, been doubly active in their ineffective and calumnious against the Republic, and against her principles, her representatives, and agents; libelous publications openly paid for by the minister of Great Britain, have brought to view under every shape, those insults and those calumnies and such a scandalous state of things never excited the attention of the government, who might have repressed it. On the contrary it was countenanced by the public acts of the government itself. The executive directory has seen itself denounced in a speech delivered by the President in the course of the month of May (O. S.) as endeavouring to spread anarchy and divisions in the United States. The new allies which the republic has acquired, and who are the same who concurred in asserting the independence of the Americans, have also been insulted in official correspondences which have been made public, and in the newspapers. Indeed it is impossible not to discover in the tenor of the speeches, and in that of the publications which have been alluded to, a latent enmity, which only awaits a favorable moment to break out.
Facts being thus placed in their true light, it is disagreeable to be compelled to think that the instructions on which the commissioners have acted have not been drawn up with the sincere intention to produce a pacific result; since far from grounding their memorial on some acknowledged principles, or uncontroverted facts, they have invented and confounded one and the other; so as to be enabled to impute to the republic all the misfortunes of a rupture, which it appears to be intended to produce by such a line of conduct. It is evident, that the intention unequivocally expressed of maintaining, at every hazard, the treaty of London, which is the principal grievance of the Republic; of adhering to the spirit which has produced that treaty and directed its execution, and of refusing to allow to the Republic any of the modes of reparation which she has proposed through the undersigned, have dictated those instructions. It is equally evident, that there is no hesitation in sacrificing to these foreign feelings, those which the treaties of 1778 and the recollection of the circumstances in the midst of which they were concluded, ought to inspire.
The remote consequences of such a conduct have not escaped the attention of the Directory. It is wished, while nothing is omitted which can prolong the misunderstanding, and even encrase it, to throw on the Republic, in the view of America and Europe, all the odium of such a rupture:
It is endeavoured, to justify by delusive appearances, the prejudices which are disseminated at pleasure against the Republic, and the system of exasperation and alienation which is pursued in respect to her, with the most unaccountable perseverance: It is intended, finally, to seize the first favourable opportunity of consummating an intimate union with a power, towards which a devotion and partiality are shewn, which has long been the basis of the conduct of Federal government.
The intentions which the undersigned attributes to the government of the United States are so little disguised, that nothing seems to have been neglected at Philadelphia, to render them evident to every eye. It was probably with this view, that it was thought proper to send to the French Republic, persons whose opinions and connections are too well known to expect from them dispositions sincerely conciliatory. It is painful to the undersigned to be obliged to contrast this conduct with that which has been held towards the cabinet of St. James in analogous circumstances. The American executive was anxious to send to London ministers well known to possess sentiments suitable to the object of their mission. The republic might have expected, it would seem, a similar deference: and if the same degree of propriety has not been observed with respect to them, it is but too probable, that it must be attributed to the views above pointed out by the undersigned.
It is impossible to foresee whether such dispositions may lead.—The undersigned hesitates not to believe, that the American, like the French nation, beholds with regret such a state of things, and is sorrowfully affected with the idea of its consequences. He thinks the Americans will form a correct opinion, with regard to the prejudices against an allied people which endeavours have been made to instil into them; and also with regard to the engagements which it seems to be the object to prevail upon them to contract to the injury of an alliance which has so powerfully contributed to place and maintain them in the rank of nations, and that they will discover in those new combinations the only dangers to which their prosperity and national importance can be exposed.
Impressed with the truth of these observations, and the consequences which flow from them, the Executive Directory have authorized the undersigned to express himself with all the frankness that becomes the French nation. It was indispensable that he should, in the name of the Executive Directory, dispel the mist of illusions with which the complaints of the ministers of the French Republic have for five years past been surrounded with a view to weaken, misrepresent or disguise them. He was
absolutely bound, by declaring their sentiments in an unequivocal manner, to clear up every doubt and every false interpretation to which they might have been subjected.
It is therefore, solely with a view "to smooth the way to discussion," that the undersigned has entered upon the preceding explanations. It is with the same view that he declares to the Commissioners and Envoys extraordinary, that notwithstanding the kind of prejudice which may have been entertained with respect to them, the Executive Directory are disposed to treat with that one of the three Commissioners whose opinions presumed to be more impartial, promise in the course of explanations a greater share of that mutual confidence which is indispensably required. The undersigned flatters himself, that this overture will meet with no serious opposition on the part of the Commissioners and Envoys extraordinary; it is the more natural to expect it, as by the tenor of their powers the said commissioners and envoys extraordinary are authorized to negotiate jointly or separately; so that nothing but the desire of precluding all accommodation could raise any objection against that measure, which moreover, is merely pointed out to the commissioners themselves, in order that nothing may on this occasion have an unfavorable appearance, and which evidently has no other object than to secure a happy issue to the negotiation by removing at the first outset every thing that might in the course of that negotiation, awaken feelings that might eventually commit it.
The undersigned hopes the commissioners and envoys extraordinary will soon enable him to inform the executive directory of their determination. Whatever this determination may be, the undersigned flatters himself, that the explanation he has given will have placed the subject in its true light, and may eventually serve to remove, in the eyes of all impartial men, the unfavorable impression, which might be endeavoured to be made respecting the intentions of the French Republic and her government.
He concludes by renewing to the commissioners and envoys extraordinary the assurance of his consideration. (Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
The Ministers Plenipotentiary and Envoys Extraordinary from the United States of America to the French Republic, to the Minister of Exterior Relations.
CITIZEN MINISTER, YOUR letter of the 28th Ventose (18th March) in answer to a memorial of the undersigned, dated 17th January, was received the day after its date, and has been considered with the most respectful attention.
In that memorial the undersigned, without furnishing cause for reproach, might have limited themselves to a statement of the numerous and well founded complaints of the nation they represent. They have been induced to extend their observations to other subjects, by that sincere desire to re-establish harmony and mutual confidence between the two republics, which the government of the U. S. has never ceased to feel and to express. Supposing that those misrepresentations to which human actions and human sentiments must ever continue to be exposed, might have impressed on the mind of the French government, occupied with the great and interesting events of Europe, the unfounded suspicion of partiality on the part of America, for the enemies of France, the undersigned cherished the hope that a complete review of the conduct of their government, accompanied with a candid and thorough investigation of the real principles on which that conduct was founded, by removing prejudices, might restore sentiments which the U. S. have ever sought and still seek to preserve.
In taking this review, it was obvious that a minute discussion of every particular fact might incombure the examination with details which previous explanations had rendered unnecessary, and therefore it was confined to those leading measures of which the particular cases were the necessary result. The undersigned however declared, and they still declare, that if the government of the U. S. has given just cause of complaint to that of France, in any case, they are ready to consider and to compensate the injury; that negotiation, the opening of which they have for nearly six months unceasingly solicited, and patiently attended, would, if entered upon, demonstrate the sincerity of this declaration.
Still animated by the same spirit which has dictated all their efforts to approach the republic, still searching to remove unfavourable impressions by a candid display of truths, and a frank manifestation of the principles which have really governed the U. S. and still endeavouring thereby to facilitate the restoration of harmony between two nations which ought to be the friends of each other; the undersigned will lay before you the result of their reflections on your letter of the 28th Ventose.
Whatever force you may please to allow to their observations, the relative situation of the two republics, it is hoped, will not fail to convince you that they proceed from the most perfect conviction of their justice.—You contend, Citizen Minister, that the priority of complaint is on the side of France, and that those measures which have so injured and oppressed the people of the U. S. have been produced by the previous conduct of their government.
To this the undersigned will now only observe, that if France can justly complain

of any act of the government of the U. S. whether that act be prior or subsequent to the wrongs received by that government, a disposition and a wish to do in the case what justice and friendship may require, is openly avowed, and will continue to be manifested.
Your complaints against the U. S. may be stated under three heads:
1st. The inexecution of their treaties with France.
2dly. The treaty of amity, commerce and navigation formed with G. Britain.
3dly. The conduct of their government since that treaty.
If the undersigned shall be disappointed in their hope to convince you, that on no one of these points can their government be justly inculpated, yet they persuade themselves that the demonstration of the good faith and upright intention with which it has ever acted, will be complete and satisfactory. This being proved, and a tender of compensation for any unintentional wrong being made, a base for accommodation is offered which we must yet hope will be acceptable to France.
1st. The inexecution of the treaties between the U. S. and France.
Under this head you complain, first—that from the commencement of the war, the American tribunals have in effect pretended to the right of taking cognizance of the validity of prizes brought into the ports of the U. S.
2dly. That against the textual sense of the treaty, the government has permitted the ships of the enemy to come into their ports, after having captured property or vessels belonging to French citizens.
3dly. That it has ordered the arrest of a national corvette anchored in the port of Philadelphia, and that the arrestation has extended to the Captain Commandant.
4thly. The refusal to provide the means to execute the Consular Convention.
These complaints shall be considered in the order in which they are made.
1st. From the commencement of the war, the American tribunals have in effect pretended to the right of taking cognizance of the validity of prizes brought into the ports of the U. S. by French cruisers.
You have not been pleased to state a case in which this right has been asserted, and the undersigned are persuaded that no such case exists.
Far from asserting it, the government of America has expressly disclaimed it. Mr. Jefferson, the then Secretary of State, in his letter to Mr. Morris of the 15th Aug. '93, which letter was laid before the French government, declares, "that the U. S. do not pretend any right to try the validity of captures made on the high seas by France, or any other nation, on its enemies."
These questions belong, of common usage, to the sovereign of the captor; and whenever it is necessary to determine them, resort must be had to his courts. This is the case provided for in the 17th article of the treaty, which says, that such prizes shall not be arrested, nor cognizance taken of the validity thereof; a stipulation much insisted on by Mr. Genet and the consuls, and which we never thought of infringing or questioning."
Mr. Randolph, the successor of Mr. Jefferson, in his letter to Mr. Fauchet of the 29th May, 1795, says, "as to prizes made by legal cruisers on the high seas, it never was the intention of the President to interfere, he having abstained (as the 17th article of our treaty of commerce imports) from examining into their lawfulness."
Mr. Monroe, in his letter to your predecessor of the 15th March, 1796, says, "You will observe I admit the principle, if a prize was taken upon the high seas, and by a privateer fitted out within the Republic or its dominions, that in such case our courts have no right to take cognizance of its validity. But is any case of this kind alleged? I presume none is or can be shewn."
But the United States have deemed it an indispensable duty to prevent, so far as they could prevent, the practice of hostility against nations with whom they were at peace, within their own limits, or by privateers fitted out in their own ports.
For the reasoning of their government in support of this decision, the undersigned will again refer to the letter of Mr. Jefferson already quoted.
"Another doctrine advanced by Mr. Genet is, that our courts can take no cognizance of questions, whether vessels held by them as prizes are lawful prizes or not: that this jurisdiction belongs exclusively to their Consulates here, which have been lately erected by the national assembly into complete courts of admiralty."
"Let us consider first, what is the extent of the jurisdiction which the Consulates of France may rightfully exercise here. Every nation has, of natural right, entirely and exclusively, all the jurisdiction which may be rightfully exercised in the territory it occupies. If it cedes any portion of that jurisdiction to judges appointed by another nation, the limits of their power must depend upon the instrument of cession. The United States and France have by their Consular Convention given mutually to their Consuls jurisdiction in certain cases especially enumerated. But that Convention gives to neither the power of establishing complete courts of admiralty, within the territory of the other, nor even of deciding the particular question of prize or not prize. The Consulates of France then, cannot take judicial cognizance of those questions here."
"Of this opinion Mr. Genet was when he wrote his letter of May 27th, wherein he promises to correct the error of the Consul at Charleston, as shown in my letter of the 15th. I had complained as arrogating to himself that jurisdiction; though in his subsequent letters he has thought proper to embark in the errors of his Consuls."
"The real question is, whether the United States have not a right to protect vessels within their waters and on their coasts? The Grange was taken within the Delaware, between the shores of the Jerseys and of this State, and several miles above its mouth. The seizing her was a flagrant violation of the jurisdiction of the United States. Mr. Genet, however, instead of apologizing takes great merit, in his letters, for giving her up. The William is laid to have been taken within two miles of the shores of the United States: when the admiralty declined cognizance of the case, she was delivered to the French Consul, according to my letter of June 25th, 10. He
kept until the Executive of the United States should examine into the case; and Mr. Genet was desired, by my letter of June 29th, to have them furnished with the evidence on behalf of the captors, as to the place of capture; yet to this day it has never been done. The brig Fanny was alleged to be taken within five miles from our shore. The Catherine within two miles and an half. It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace and punish acts in breach of it, and restore property taken by force within its limits. Were the armed vessels of any nation to cut away one of our own vessels from the wharves of Philadelphia, and to refuse to call it a prize, would this exclude us from the right of redressing the wrong? Were it the vessel of any other nation, are we not equally bound to protect it while within our limits? Were it seized in any other waters or on the shores of the United States, the right of redressing it is still the same, and humble indeed would be our condition were we obliged to depend for that on the will of a foreign consul, or on any negotiation with Diplomatic Agents. Accordingly this right of protection within its waters, and to a reasonable distance on its coasts, has been acknowledged by every nation and denied by none; and if the property seized be yet within their power, it is their right and duty to redress the wrong themselves."
"France herself had asserted the right in herself, and recognized it in us, in the 6th article of our treaty, where we mutually stipulate, that we will by all the means in our power (not by negotiation) protect and defend each others vessels and effects in our ports or roads, or on the seas near our countries, and recover and restore the same to the right owners. The United Netherlands, Prussia and Sweden, have recognized it also in treaties with us; and indeed it is a standing formula inserted in almost all the treaties of all nations, and proving the principle to be acknowledged by all nations."
In the letter of Mr. Randolph to Mr. Fauchet already cited, that gentleman resumes this subject; and Mr. Fauchet in answer to him says, "The Admiralty courts have always ceded to the intreaties of our enemies for their intervention in prize causes, in truth frequently and almost constantly, by using the double plea of which you spoke to me, that is to say, by arguing either of seizure within the jurisdictional lines of the United States, or of armament or argumentation of armament of the capturing vessels, in their ports. On this subject Sir you request me to specify a circumstance where a prize was arrested, which did not come under that denomination, and you take the trouble to establish, that they have a right to intervene in every case that can be brought under those heads. In the first place, Sir, I never have, at least to my recollection, contested the right of your Courts or of the government, to interfere in matters of the nature of those you mention."
(To be continued.)
Foreign Articles,
[By the most recent arrivals.]
TOULON, April 8.
General Buonaparte is expected here; accompanied by Tallien. The expedition fitting out under Perrie, assumes great activity. Great quantities of cannon and naval stores have been received from Venice. [This expedition is said to have Algiers for its object, and that there it is the French expect to find l'Argent to carry on their plans of universal domination. It is certain they have some great point in view.]
PARIS, April 18.
Geneva is now an integral part of this Republic. Its re-union was officially announced the day before yesterday.
The tribunal of Rome, at its first session has abolished the inquisition, the tribunals, and all ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
AUGSBURY, April 6.
The Emperor will not remain an idle spectator of the attack of the French on Naples: and this is the probable cause of the movement of the Austrian troops in Italy.
BOSTON, June 27.
Highly Important!
IN CONGRESS, June 21, A MESSAGE was received from THE PRESIDENT of the United States.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
"While I congratulate you on the arrival of Gen. Marshall, one of our late Envoys Extraordinary to the French Republic, at a place of safety, where he is justly held in honor, I think it my duty to communicate to you a letter received by him from Mr. Gerry, the only one of the three who has not received, conge. This letter, together with another from the Minister of Foreign Relations to him, of the 3d of April, and his answer of the 4th, will shew the situation in which he remains, his intentions and prospects."
"I presume that before this time he has received fresh instructions (a copy of which accompanies this message) to consent to no loan, and therefore the negotiation may be considered as at an end."
"I will never send another Minister to France, without assurances that he
will be received, respected and honored, as the Representative of a great, free, powerful and independent nation."
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, June 21, 1798.
PARIS, 16th April, 1798.
MY DEAR SIR,
THIS I expect you will receive by my colleague, Gen. Marshall, who carries with him the last letter of Mr. Tallyrand, to the American Envoys, and their answer. On the day when we sent the answer, I received a letter from the Minister, a copy of which, and my answer, is inclosed. I have not sent these to the Secretary of State, because I have not time to prepare a letter to accompany them. Indeed, I expected my passport with my colleagues; but am informed the Directory will not consent to my leaving France: and to bring on an immediate rupture, by adopting this measure contrary to their wishes, would be, in my mind, unwarrantable. The object of Mr. Tallyrand, you will perceive, was to resume our reciprocal communications, and again to discuss the subject of a loan. I thought it best in my answer not merely to object to this, but to every measure that could have a tendency to draw me into a negotiation.
I accepted of this mission, my dear Sir, to support your administration, and I have brought myself into a predicament,* which you must assist me to extricate myself from, by appointing some others to supply the places of myself and colleagues, if a further progress in this business should be found practicable.
I have only a moment to add my best respects to your lady, and my assurances of the most sincere and respectful attachment,
My dear Sir,
Of yours sincerely, E. GERRY.
The President of the } United States. }
*I allude to my painful residence here, as a political cypher.
TRANSLATIONS.
Paris 14 Germinal, 6th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible, [3d April 1798.]
The Minister of Foreign relations to Mr. Gerry, Envoy Extraordinary of the United States of America, to the French Republic.
I SUPPOSE, Sir, that Messrs. Pinckney and Marshall have thought it useful and proper, in consequence of the intimations given in the end of my note, on the 28th of Ventose last, and the obstacles which their known opinions have interposed to the desired reconciliation, to quit the territory of the Republic. On this supposition I have the honor to point out to you the 5th or the 7th of this Decade, to resume our reciprocal communications upon the interests of the French Republic and the United States of America. Receive, I pray you, the assurances of my respect and consideration.
CH. MAU. TALLYRAND.
Paris, 4th April, 1798, (Germinal 15, an. 6.)
I had the honor, Citizen Minister, of receiving your letter of the 14th Germinal, the 3d instant) and Mr. Deutremont who delivered it, informed me, that it was intended to be shewn to Gen. Pinckney and Gen. Marshall.
Whilst my colleagues and myself, to whom the government of the United States have entrusted the affairs of the embassy had a joint agency therein, I have carefully imparted to them all the propositions which you have requested, and the relative conferences; and to yourself our decisions thereon, regretting at the same time the unfortunate embarrassing circumstances which imposed on me this disagreeable task. But as by the tenor of your letter it is now expected, that they will quit the territory of the French Republic, it will be impossible for me to be the medium of, or to take any measures which will be painful to my colleagues, or not to afford them all the assistance in my power; and it would be moreover inconsistent with the line of conduct, which you well know, Citizen Minister, I have uniformly observed for removing the unfavourable impressions which existed on the part of the government against them; indeed in our last letter there is a conditional application for passports, which, it appears to me, supercedes the necessity of a hint to them on this subject; and Gen. Marshall is waiting impatiently for an answer to that part of it which respects a letter of safe-conduct for the vessel, in which he and his suite may take passage for the United States, to determine whether he shall embark from France or Great-Britain; but the unfortunate situation of Gen. Pinckney, with respect to the critical state of his daughter's health renders it utterly impossible for him to depart under existing circumstances.
You have proposed Citizen Minister, the 5th or 7th of this Decade for
me to resume (reprenne) our reciprocal communications upon the interests of the French Republic and of the United States. The reciprocal communications, which we had, were such only as I have alluded to in the beginning of this letter, unless your propositions accompanied with an injunction of secrecy, for me to treat separately, is considered in this light. To resume this subject will be unavailable, because the measure, for the reasons which I then urged, is utterly impracticable. I can only then confer informally and unaccredited on any subject respecting our mission 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. Nevertheless every measure in my power, and in conformity with the duty I owe my country shall be zealously pursued to restore harmony and a cordial friendship, between the two republics. I had the honour of calling on you last evening for the purpose of making this communication verbally, but as you were absent, to prevent misconceptions I have thought it best to reduce it to writing.
Accept, I pray you, Citizen Minister, the assurances of my perfect esteem and respect.
E. GERRY.
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, Esqrs. Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, to the French Republic.
GENTLEMEN,
On the 4th instant, came to hand your first Dispatches, since your arrival at Paris; these were your numbers, 1, 4 and 5—and on the 6th inst. your numbers 2 and 3 were received. On the 5th, your number 5, dated the 8th of January, and a translation of the message of January 4th, from the Directory to the Council of Five Hundred, were laid before Congress. In this letter you "repeat, that there exists no hope of your being officially received by that government, or that the objects of your mission will be in any way accomplished."—This opinion is sanctioned by the whole tenor of your communications; and we trust that soon after the date of your number 5, you closed your mission by demanding passports to leave the territories of the French Republic.
An official copy of your letters of credence having been delivered to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by him laid before the Directory, they were sufficiently informed of the great objects of your mission; and considering that you were an Extraordinary Delegation from an independent nation, you had a right to expect a prompt and respectful reception. The fair and honorable views of the American government, which dictated your appointment and your powers, entitled you to expect the early appointment of a commission by the French government with equal powers, to negotiate on all the matters in controversy between them. Had the French government been influenced by similar views, the objects of your mission would long since have been accomplished, to the advantage and peace of both nations. But, instead of coming forward on such equal and proper ground, they have treated you, and through your country, with extreme neglect.
Under these circumstances, the President presumes that you have long since quitted Paris and the French dominions; yet actuated as you were with an ardent desire to preserve peace, which you know would be so grateful to your country; and having for this object manifested unexampled patience, and submitted to a series of mortifications; as you also proposed to make one more direct attempt, subsequent to the date of your last letter, to draw the French government to an open negotiation—there is a bare possibility that this last effort may have succeeded;—the President therefore thinks it proper to direct:
1. That if you are in treaty with persons duly authorized by the Directory, on the subjects of your mission, then you are to remain and expedite the completion of the treaty, if it should not have been concluded. Before this letter gets to hand you will have ascertained whether the negotiation is or is not conducted with candour on the part of the French government; and if you shall have discovered a clear design to protractinate, you are to break off the negotiation, demand your passports, and return.—For you will consider that suspense is ruinous to the essential interests of your country.
2. That if on the receipt of this letter you shall not have been received, or, whether received or not, if you shall not be in treaty with persons duly authorized by the Directory, with full and equal powers, you are to demand your passports and return.
3. In no event is a treaty to be purchased with money by loan or otherwise. There can be no safety in a treaty so obtained. A loan to the Republic would violate our neutrality; and a douceur to the men now in power, might by their successors be urged as a reason for annulling the treaty, or as a precedent for further and repeated demands.
It is proper to apprize you that a motion has been made in the Senate, and will doubtless be repeated in the House of Representatives, to desire the President to lay before them your communications; and he will probably be under the necessity of doing it; only withholding the two names which you promised should in no event be made public. I have the honor to be with great respect, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
TIMOTHY PICKERING.
The Members of Congress are to give a dinner to Gen. Marshall, at Eller's hotel.
The Alien Bill has passed in the House of Representatives.
The Governor and Adjutant-General of Connecticut, have visited the fortresses of that State, which are now repairing.
At Baltimore 100,000 dollars have been subscribed for the purpose of building ships of war, to be loaned to government.
Contracts for supplying rations to such troops as may be stationed at New-London, are advertised for.
The mortars, shells, cannon, &c. for the forts at Norfolk, and 70 men to defend them, reached that city, June 12.
PORTLAND, June 25. Marine Intelligence.
Tuesday arrived Schooner Rosebud, Capt. Purves, 21 days from Jacquemel. Left there a brig belonging to Philadelphia, and a brig and schooner belonging to Baltimore, to sail in 4 days. Capt. Ropes, in a schooner from Salem, failed the same day with Capt. P. bound into the bite. On the 3d inst. was boarded by a British 74 and a frigate, 10 days out on a cruise, who informed that they had taken 8 American vessels bound to French blockaded ports; their crews were on board.
Thursday arrived Schooner Hero, Capt. Alexander Alkins, of Wilcassett, 17 days from Antigua.—The brig Delaware, James Dunphy, master, from Philadelphia, was taken on the 8th May by the French privateer brig Independence, of 12 guns, Petit Pierre, master, from Guadalupe, in lat. 30. long. 70. and retaken by an English privateer from Antigua, the 27th May, and carried there the same inst.—Sailed in company with Capt. Diton in a snow, and Capt. Campton in a brig for Boston; Schooner Mary, Douglass, for New-London. They were all captured by the French, and retaken by the English.—Lat. 41. 40. long. 65. 30. spoke the sloop Dispatch of Boston, 4 days out, for Surinam, all well.—Lat. 40. 49. long. 66. spoke an 18 gun ship from Halifax to Antigua. On his outward bound passage, Capt. A. was captured by a French pirate, and plundered of every thing but his lumber. Even his provisions were taken from him; when he begged that they would not leave him to starve, they threw back three pieces of pork and made off—Markets dull at Antigua except lumber.
Same day, Schooner Jeremiah, Capt. Girdler of Marblehead, 45 days from Bilboa. He informs that the French are taking all neutral vessels, of whatever nation: That the report was that the nations of Europe in general, such as Turks, Austrians, Danes and Swedes were arming in defence of their commerce against French depredations. There was no peace between France and Portugal; and that the expectation of Spain was that there would be a war between America and France. Capt. G. was boarded by two French privateers, who treated him with the utmost politeness.
Portsmouth Aqueduct,
THE directors of Portsmouth Aqueduct proprietors have voted a third assessment of ten dollars, on each proprietor share, and have directed their Treasurer to collect the same, on or before the first day of July next—the several proprietors are therefore requested to pay the same to him agreeably thereto; at his house in Portsmouth. By mistake the matter was passed over until this time, but the agreement made with the contractor renders absolutely necessary that the money be collected at the time now mentioned; otherwise the proprietors will suffer injury from a delay.
THO: MARTIN, TREASURER. Portsmouth, June 25, 1798.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Thomas Peirce, late of Portsmouth, county of Rockingham, gentleman, deceased, are desired to exhibit them; and those who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
EDWARD J. PEIRCE, Attorney to THOMAS PEIRCE, Administrator. Portsmouth, June 22, 1798.
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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, June 18.
THE Alien Bill underwent a discussion, but no question was taken on it.
The message from the President, covering the Dispatches from our Envoys, was received. [ On motion for printing it, after some conversation, on the circumstance of Bache's having published it, before the President could communicate it to Congress, 10,000 copies of all the Dispatches received from our Envoys were ordered, that the public universally may be put in possession of them. ]
Tuesday, June 19.
The discussion of the Alien Bill occupied the principal part of the day. A motion of Mr. Gallatin, to give the bill a go-by, was negatived 46 to 36.
Wednesday, June 20.
The Alien Bill underwent another full discussion, was amended, and ordered for a third reading.
The privilege of franking letters was extended, by an act, to the Secretary of the Navy.
[A message from the Senate announced, that that body had passed, The additional Provisional army bill, The bill authorizing arming merchant vessels, (with amendments) and the Armed galleys bill.]
The new regiment of Artillerists appropriation bill, passed to be engrossed.
A bill providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States was taken up in a Committee of the Whole, progress made, and leave given to sit again.
HALIFAX, June 14.
Loft of the Two-Friends.
We are extremely sorry to mention, that the Schooner Two Friends, Capt. Tufton, on her passage from Boston to this place, struck on a rock, called the Devil's limb, about 2 miles to the Westward of the Seal Islands, and that the vessel and the principal part of the cargo are entirely lost. This unfortunate accident happened about 2 o'clock in the morning of the 21st ult. Supposing themselves from the course they had steered to be to the southward of the Cape, they found at 12 o'clock, when they had 33 fathoms water, which is about the depth of water off of the Cape—but determined to run no risque, Capt. Tufton changed his course S. S. E. intending to keep off this land till morning;—but about 2 o'clock was suddenly surprised with the appearance of rocks, and immediately attempted to go about, but the vessel missing stays, went immediately on the rocks, and instantly bilged—it was at this time extremely dark—As the tide abated, the vessel providentially heeled towards the rock, which as soon as daylight appeared, enabled the passengers to get on top of the rock, with the principal part of their baggage, &c. At six o'clock a Schooner belonging to Portland, hove in sight, and observing their signals of distress came down towards them.—By the assistance of the Schooner's boat, and of their own boat, which they hauled across the rock, all the passengers were in a short time conveyed on board this vessel and safely landed at Yarmouth, from which place they arrived here on Sunday last.
IMPORTANT.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23.
Capt. Monteah, who arrived at the fort, informs that on or about the 28th ult. arrived at La Guira, the crew of a French privateer, direct from Cadiz, ran ashore on the island of Fortuga Selada, to windward of La Guira, who had since her arrival among the islands, taken an American schr. belonging to the northward, but fell in with an English ship of 16 guns, who ran her ashore. Capt. Monteah saw the Capt. of the privateer's instructions signifying that he had full power to capture EVERY AMERICAN VESSEL, HE FELL IN WITH, WITHOUT ANY DISCRIMINATION.
NEW-YORK, June 20.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Baltimore, to his friend here, dated 17th June.
"Yesterday at a meeting of our merchants, which was by no means extensive 40,300 dollars were subscribed for the purchase of two armed vessels to be loaned to government, the highest subscription was 1500 dollars, and the lowest 500, and I will venture to say that before to-morrow evening, the amount will be nearly as much more. So far for the patriotic spirit of the doubtful city of Baltimore. I admit that a most extraordinary change has taken place amongst us, many who were reckoned in the first rank of Jacobins are among the highest subscribers."
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Martinique, dated May 28, to his correspondent in this city.
"I shall be happy in employing a sum between this and your port soon as appearances afford the least encouragement. It lays wholly with the Americans to make their flag respected—At present their vessels are shamefully captured indiscriminately, bound either to a neutral or a French port, at the discretion of every piratical armed boat which meets them at sea; I cannot think they will submit to it long. Seven American vessels with valuable cargoes, were taken last week near St. Bartholomew's. St. Martin's has now 3,400,000 dol. of American property, selling off at one eighth its value."
GALLANT NAVAL ACTION.
Capt. Thomas, of the English Schooner Letter of Marque Chance, from Martinique, who sailed from thence the 3d. inst. has favoured us with the following particulars.
An English packet arrived at Martinique on the first of June, which brought an official account that a French 80 gun ship was lying at anchor within reach of the guns of Brest fort, which being discovered by Capt. Wood, of the Mars, English 74, he daringly bore down close upon her and a desperate action ensued, which lasted two hours, when the French ship struck. She was conveyed in triumph to Falmouth. The brave Capt. Wood was unfortunately killed the first broadside.
Another account stated that Admiral Duncan had taken 8 Dutch ships of war, one of 64 and the other of 50 guns. Improbable
Capt. Thomas took under convoy three American vessels; and being off St. Thomas's, 5th inst. was chased by three different privateers, who attempted to cut off the convoy; they must inevitably have been taken, but for the protection afforded by Capt. Thomas.
BOSTON, June 30.
THE NERVE.
A number of the citizens of Boston met at Taylor's on Wednesday last, for the purpose of opening a patriotic, voluntary subscription in aid of government. Last evening the sum subscribed amounted to 115,250 Dollars; and as subscription paper still continues open, we have not the least doubt that Boston will outdo every city in the Union in this demonstration of federal patriotism.—We will not omit mentioning, that the Hon. William Phillips added 10,000 dollars to this free-willing offering. GOD bless him for it.
It is worthy high notice that 48,000 dollars have been subscribed by only fourteen citizens of this town.
At Baltimore 76,100— at Philadelphia 100,000—New-York 55,000!
The citizens of New-York are volunteering their services, to work on the fortifications.
Gen. Marshall has been sumptuously entertained at Philad. 120 members of Congress, and other public characters have given him a dinner. The toasts were appropriate, and in the true spirit of the times. He has also received several spirited addresses.
Capt. Grozier arrived here yesterday from the West-Indies, having had his vessel and cargo condemned by the French at St. Domingo.—She had all her papers complete, and was cleared for a French port; but as she did not come under any modern decrees, the Frenchman condemned her for the use of the Republic, as she had a valuable cargo on board. The New-Jersey Indiaman is condemned on the same pretence. She was estimated at 250,000 dollars; was carried in Porto-Rico and condemned at St. Domingo! by a court composed of two solitary individuals—a kind of a Judge and his clerk.
The capture of Pensacola, by the British is contradicted.
Talleyrand it seems, attempted to lay Mr. Gerry under an injunction of secrecy!—Why, if he intended a fair and honorable negotiation, should he do this?—The French declare that Republics should have no secrets!! But T. knew his deeds would not bear the light.
The French have really succeeded in part of their designs against America; that of exciting divisions; but they are divisions of soldiers, who swear to live free or die in the field.
One of Talleyrand's money pleas, is—"The means which France possesses in this country." What are those means? If they exist, ought they not to be ferreted from their lurking holes? Certainly they ought, and will be.—No wonder our infamous Frenchified Faction tremble at a Sedition bill.—Shays and Day trembled when Massachusetts passed Sedition bills but the rebellion was instantly annihilated after they passed.
An old correspondent, who has lately had occasion to travel through a great part of the country, affirms, that there are not now in our country so many Jacobins, as there were torics in 1775.
We are happy to hear, that at a very brilliant ball given at Concord, on the 26th inst. the black cockade dignified the elegance and simplicity of the American dress in both sexes; and that "Adams & Liberty" marked the spirit of the company.
"Adams and Liberty" it is expected, will be sung on the approaching Jubilee of Federalism.
Marine Intelligence.
June 28.—Arrived brig George, Wait, Havannah, 12 days. Left there Capt. Preble, in a Boston vessel, taken by an uncommissioned French privateer with twivels. She will be condemned, if any English produce or manufactures can be found on board. About 6 French privateers were in the Havannah, and 2 or 3 cruising off there. A great many vessels have been recently carried in there.—and about 20 sail lately condemned.— Trading. Concord, of Salem; Gen. Washington, of Newport; Carolina, of Charleston, with several others. Sailed in co. 7 Americans, among them, brig Almira, Stone, of Newbury-Port, or New-York. June 26, spoke a fishing Schooner the skipper of which informed, that he saw a French privateer of 18 or 20 guns, capture two brigs off Chatham—it being in the night could get no further particulars.
Same day, Sch. Weazel, Stearns, Halifax, 7 days.
June 29.—Arrived sch. Olive, Hill, from Gonaiyes, 23 days.—Left there the Fanny, of Newbury-Port, expected to be condemned. Just after leaving port, Capt. H. was brought too by 2 French brigand boats, and plundered of property to a considerable amount—was also brought too by a British Cutter, who detained him all night, and took two men and his log-book from him. June 8, lat. 30. 48. long. 74. 40. spoke sch. Olive, Alcott, 15 days from New-York, bound to the Havannah, all well.
The United States, and Constellation frigates, and the Delaware sloop of war, have put to sea.
The ship Martha, Capt. John Prince, from the Isle of France, has arrived at Salem, having performed the voyage in 7 months and 12 days. The Martha failed from the Isle of France the 1st April, and left there the ship President Adams, Miller, to sail in 10 days for Batavia; ship Huron, Brown, just arrived from Bourdeaux; sloop Juliet, Shearman, to sail in 4 days for Batavia; ship America, Newell, failed for Hamburg, 28th March. June 25, lat. 40. 35. long. 64. spoke sch. Franklin, 4 days from Boston, for Currao.
The ship Friendship, Williams, of Salem, from Batavia, is in at Portland, in 105 days.
The St. Tamany, from Liverpool, for Baltimore, was boarded off Cape Henlopen, June 10, and plundered by a French privateer Schooner of 14 guns.
PORTSMOUTH, July 3.
Yesterday by law commenced the operation of the Stamp Act.
LAST NIGHT'S MAIL.
CONGRESS. The bill declaring the Treaties between the U. States, and France to be null and void, has passed the Senate. Yeas 13, Nays 5.—In the House of Representatives, a resolution to adjourn the 9th July, passed, Yeas 62.—A bill entitled, "An act to provide an additional armament for the further protection of the trade of the United States," passed to be engrossed. [ By this bill the President is empowered to accept and equip vessels of war, offered by any persons, for the use of the United States, and to allow an interest therefor, not exceeding 6 per cent. A bill for more effectually protecting commerce and the sea coasts, also passed to be engrossed. The Sedition bill was re-committed.
Government, it is said, are in possession of several intercepted letters from France, to our patriots. Many precious confessions will doubtless be discovered.
Proposals are issued by Government for purchasing 40,000 stand of arms. Government, we learn, has purchased the ship Montezuma, at Baltimore; she is capable of mounting 20 nines.
The Secretary of the Navy has entered on the duties of his office.
During the reign of one of the kings of France, his son the dauphin frequently urged his royal father to attempt the invasion of England, urging that in comparison of the mighty kingdom of France, it was but a garden. "True, my son," replied the king, "but whoever attempts to rob that garden, will find a great deal of arse-smart in it."
As Mr. Gerry, our present Envoy Extraordinary to the Republic of France, remains at Paris, at the request of Mons. Talleyrand, in behalf of the Directory, and as many may be doubtful of his firmness, the following quotation from a letter he wrote to his friend, when in Congress, at New-York, in 1789, will set his political principles in their true light.—"I shall ever cheerfully submit to any form of Government which my fellow-citizens may choose, reserving always a right to remove from opposition, should it ever prevail in my native country (which I pray to God may never be the case) but at the same time, I shall always exercise the natural right of withholding my assent to any system, which I may think dangerous, whilst its adoption is a question of political discussion."
With principles like these, we may challenge all the artifices of Mons. Talleyrand and the whole Directory of France, to obtain from him concessions derogatory to his country, and if he had been sent there alone, he would have been received, and a reconciliation long before now have taken place, but for obvious reasons the other two gentlemen have been treated with unprecedented contumely and open affrontery. Mr. Gerry's situation is now truly critical; his private letter to the President has been made public, by which it appears he is now honored with the confidence of the Direction , who would negotiate, but he dares not hold himself adequate to the important duties required in a negotiation, which he foresees would embarrass him, and perhaps make him obnoxious to some, and therefore wishes to be recalled; it is thought that the publication of his private letter will injure his future usefulness at the Republic of France; but as the wisdom of the Executive thought it best, whatever may be the consequence of the measure, Mr. Gerry is possessed of such firmness that machiavel himself, with all his intriguing abilities, would not tempt him to swerve from his duty, or the love of his country, which 18 years faithful attendance as a member of Congress (until his health was so impaired that he was obliged to solicit his constituents not to give him their suffrages) proved to the world his unshaken fidelity, his strict integrity, and sterling honesty. SENEX.
Marine News.
Arrived here on Tuesday last, the sch'r Hiram, Capt. Wm Appleton, in 19 days from St. Martin's—left there about 40 sail of Americans, condemned and waiting for trial—and some Danes and Swedes—knew of no American vessels being cleared while he was there—Among the vessels left there, were the following: brig Adeona, Capt. Prefcot, of this port, waiting trial; brig William, of Philadelphia, Capt. Cole; sch'r Phebe of Newburn, Capt. Terry; ship Glasgow of Philadelphia, Capt. Allcorn, sloop Betsey, do. Capt. Moffatt; brig Juno of Portland, Capt. Titcomb; sloop Packet of Cape-Ann, Capt. Smith, this vessel was (while in the hands of the French) chased into St. Bartholomews, by the English Lapwing Frigate, which got on shore coming into St. Bartholomews, and while Capt. Smith went on shore to demand protection of the Governor of that place, the sloop was got under way by the privateersmen and carried down to St. Martin's.—Also, sloop Two-Friends of Milford, Capt. Ponce; brig Eleeta of N. York, Capt. Minor; brig Lucy of do. Capt. Living; brig Dove of Boston, Capt. M'Neil Watts; every American vessel which is met by a French cruiser, is brought in for trial, (the Danes, Swedes and Hamburgers, are nearly in the same predicament) many of the Masters of American vessels there, are in a very disagreeable situation, being in general plundered of almost every thing, even charts and quadrants, and not able to live on board their own vessels before they are condemned, because after the provisions are expended which were opened for use when the vessels are brought in—the prize-master will allow no more to be opened.
Sunday arrived the Schooner Three Friends, Capt. Trefethern, 19 days from St. Bartholomews.
MARINE LIST, for June, 1798. June 3d, arrived brig Fufiler, Chafe, Martinico. 4th, do sloop Driver, Clarke, Pafamaquoddy. 6th, do sch. Industry, Oram, Tobago. do do ship Murdock, Treadwell, Calcutta. do do brig Nancies, Tibbetts, Demarara. do do sch. Tho's Damerell, N. York. do do sch. Wm & Mary, Briard, Antigua. 9th, do brig Centaur, Cutts, Demarara. do failed ship Eliza, Chauncey, S. Carolina. do do brig Abigail Smith, N. York. do do sch. Hope, Moore, Surinam.
do arrived brig Rising-Sun, Noble, Tobago. 12th, do brig Blossom, Moore, Savannah. do, failed sloop Driver, Clarke, Pafamaquoddy. 14th do brig Union, Kennard, W. I. do do brig Two-Friends, Phillips, do. do do ship Randolph, Hilton, Havana. do do brig Ranger, Shaw, W. Indies. 18th, do sch. Franklin, Burrows, Currao. do do sch. Amity, Shapley, Savannah. 19th, arrived sloop Amity, Woodward, N. York. 24th do brig Olive, Stoodly, Dominico. 27th do Schooner Hiram, Appleton, St. Martins. 30th, failed brig Alotta, Wainright, St. Croix. do do sch. Wm & Mary, Barlow, W. Indies.
MARRIED]—At Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Rev. Nathaniel Shaw, of Kensington, to Miss Polly Crafts. At Hingham, Massachusetts, Mr. Alexander Young, one of the Editors of the Mercury, to Miss Polly Loring, of Hingham.
DIED]—At Boston, Nathaniel Appleton, Esq. Commissioner of loans, Aet. 66.
At Atkinson, Mrs. Sarah White, relict of the late Col. James White, Aet. 80.
At Concord, Maj. Daniel Livermore, Aet. 40.
In this town, Mrs. Mehitable Wells, Aet. 92.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. District of PORTSMOUTH, N. H. ENTERED FROM Sch'r Hiram, Appleton, St. Martins. CLEARED FOR Brig Alotta, Wainright, St. Croix. Sch. Wm. & Mary, Hilton, Martinico. Brig Sally, Blunt, Currao. Brig Rebecca, Moulton, ditto.
NOTICE. The Supervisor's Office will be removed from this town to Newmarket the 18th inst. NATHAN ROGERS, Supervisor. Portsmouth, July 2, 1798.
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Just received and for sale at William Stanwood's Shop, opposite the Mason's arms, Buck-Street.
FRENCH superfine scented Hair Powder, plain do; hard and soft Pomatum; Windsor and vegetable Soaps; marble and plain Wash Balls; Face powder; Tooth powder; Lip Salve; Court Plaster; Essences in small bottles; Lavender Water; Smelling bottles. —ALSO—
Powder Bags; Down Puffs; shaving Boxes, Razors; high priced Penknives; Ivory Combs, do very fine; Ladies and Gentlemen's Tortoise shell poll Combs, dressing and braid do, horn do of almost every kind; floor, cloth, pocket, flesh, comb, and tooth Brushes; Tooth-Picks and Cakes; men's Cawl Night Caps; patent Blacking Cakes, &c. &c. WANTED,
An Apprentice to the Hair Dressing business, apply as above. June 28, 1798.
FOR SALE On board the sloop Jay, CORN, Rye, Beans, and Pork, just arrived from Connecticut, the above articles will be sold cheap for cash, for terms apply to the master on board the sloop lying at Portsmouth Pier. July 2, 1798.

A NEW SONG. Tune, "Rule Britannia." AMERICAN UNION. WHEN Britain with despotic sway, Would at her feet our freedom lay, Would at, &c. We rais'd our standard—to arms, to arms, we cried: Our patriots fought—they bled, they died. CHORUS. Independent, Columbians, we would be, Resolved to perish or be free. Great Washington did then command, He led the bold heroic band, He led, &c. We fought and conquered, Columbia's sons were free, Resolved on death or liberty. CHORUS. Independent, Columbians we would be, Resolved to perish or be free. When France her struggles first began For liberty—the rights of man, For liberty, &c. Glowing with ardour, with ardour in her cause, We scorn'd that kings should give her laws. CHORUS. "Independent, may Gallia still be free They sought like us for liberty." But France you now forget your friend, Our amity is at an end. Our amity, &c. Your robber commerce, insult us on our coast, Divide and conquer on our coast; CHORUS. Know, proud Frenchmen, united we will be, Resolved on death or liberty. Shall we to France a tribute pay, Or at her feet our freedom lay? Or at her feet, &c. Forbid it Heaven Columbia's freemen cry, We will be free, or nobly die. CHORUS. Know, proud Frenchmen, united we will be, Resolved on death or liberty. United then with heart and hand, Our constitution firm shall stand, Our constitution, &c. Then raise the standard, let this our motto be, Our fathers fought, and so will we. CHORUS. Then rouse Columbians, united let us be, Like them we'll conquer and be free.
To the Hon. Otis Baker, Esquire, one of the Justices to keep the peace in and for the county of Strafford, in the State of New-Hampshire. THE undersigned, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Maynesborough, other- wise called Maynesborough, in the coun- ty of Grafton, in said State, request that you notify and warn the prop- rietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling-house of Jacob Gale, in Gilmantown, in the county of Strafford, on Tuesday the 21st day of August next, at two of the clock in the afternoon, to vote and act on the following particulars, to wit: 1st. To choose a moderator, pro- prietor's clerk, a treasurer, assessors, and a collector. 2d. To see what method the pro- prietors will take relative to peram- bulating the lines of said town, and to divide the same into lots. 3d. To see what encouragement the proprietors will give in land or money towards getting on settlers, and to adopt some mode to bring about so necessary a purpose. 4th. To see what method the pro- prietors will adopt relative to cutting and clearing a road or roads in and through said town. 5th. To see if the proprietors will sever and divide the land in said town among the proprietors or owners, or dispose of all or part of the land in such way and manner as they shall think fit. 6th. To see what method the pro- prietors will adopt relative to the tax or taxes laid on said land by the Gen- eral Court, for cutting a road through said town, and for State and county taxes. 7th. To see what sums of money the proprietors will raise. THOMAS COGSWELL. W. K. ATKINSON. Dover, June 19, 1798. State of New-Hampshire. Strafford ss. Pursuant to the foregoing application the proprietors of Maynesborough, alias Maynesborough, for the purposes afore- said, to meet at the time and place afore- said, I do hereby notify and warn. OTIS BAKER, Justice Peace. Dover, June 19, 1798.
WHEREAS PARLOUR, wife of me the subscriber has behaved in a very unbecoming manner, by squandering my property and running me in debt.—This is to forbid all per- sons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts which the may contract after this date. his JACK BRAIDY. mark. Portsmouth, June 26, 1798.
India Cottons, Cheap. Received and for sale at Bayley's Variety Store, Sign of the Spinning wheel, A QUANTITY of India Cottons, which will be sold very low for ready money. A fresh supply of Beverly Cotton Bed- Ticks, warranted not to shed feathers. Portsmouth, May 25, 1798. To John Bradley, Esq. clerk of the pro- prietors of Philip's Grant. THE subscribers, owners of one fifth part or more of said grant, request that you would call a meet- ing of said proprietors to be holden at Concord, on Thursday the 6th day of September next, at the house of Benjamin Hanaford, innholder in said Concord, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, to act on the following ar- ticles, viz. 1st. To choose a moderator to go- vern said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk. 3d. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to perambulate the lines of said grant, and make such monuments as they shall think proper. 4th. To see if the proprietors will lot out all or part of said land. 5th. To see if the proprietors will admit any new proprietors to the num- ber already concerned in whole or part. 6th. To see if the proprietors will sever and divide the land, the whole or part, or sell and dispose of the same, or part as they may think proper. 7th. To choose an agent or agents to transact any business for said pro- prietors. 8th. To see what sums of money the proprietors will raise. 9th. To choose assessors, collector, or any other officer that shall be tho't necessary. Pursuant to the above request to me directed, I hereby notify the proprietors of Philip's Grant, to meet at the time & place, and for the purposes set forth in said request. Given under my hand at Concord this 18th day of June, 1798. JOHN BRADLEY, Prop'r's Clerk.
S T R A T F O R D. State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Stratford, who have not paid their tax of four cents on each acre of land in said township, agreeable to an act of the General Court, passed December, 1795, that so much of their lands as will pay said tax together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Capt. Nathan Barlow in said town, on Monday the 13th day of August next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment. ORIGINAL NAMES. 1st division. 2d division. 3d division. 4th division. No. ac's dols. No. ac's dols. No. ac's dols. No. ac's dols. John Wendell, Esq. 106 200 8 186 200 8 160 200 8 Wm. Sam'l Johnson, 43 50 2 144 200 8 127 200 8 75 200 8 Ezraiah Whitmore, 29 50 2 147 200 8 113 200 8 24 200 8 Agur Thomlinson, Esq. 4 50 2 143 200 8 73 200 8 19 200 8 Col. Ben. Hinman, 28 50 2 146 200 8 70 200 8 168 200 8 Wm. Agur Tomlinson 25 50 2 118 200 8 42 200 8 124 200 8 Elijah Hinman, 14 50 2 120 200 8 92 200 8 156 200 8 Capt. Tru'n Hinman, 21 50 2 199 200 8 37 200 8 28 200 8 Aaron Hinman, 15 50 2 140 200 8 128 200 8 74 200 8 Samuel Averell, 53 50 2 205 200 8 207 200 8 Samuel Averell, jr. 50 2 85 200 8 131 200 8 123 200 8 Agur Judson, 6 50 2 142 200 8 3 200 8 151 200 8 Agur Judson, jr. 7 50 2 32 200 8 100 200 8 David Judson, 42 50 2 66 200 8 157 200 8 53 200 8 Elisha Mills, 5 50 2 141 200 8 40 200 8 155 200 8 Abner Judson, 8 50 2 90 200 8 71 200 8 78 200 8 Isaiah Brown, 13 50 2 173 200 8 163 200 8 2 200 8 Daniel Judson, 22 50 2 148 200 8 201 200 8 163 200 8 Stiles Judson, 32 50 2 88 200 8 89 200 8 50 200 8 Nehemiah Curtis, 23 50 2 31 200 8 182 200 8 125 200 8 Capt. Samuel Beers, 1 50 2 1 200 8 191 200 8 154 200 8 Josiah Willard, 11 50 2 62 200 8 80 200 8 105 200 8 Joseph Holbrook, jr. 50 2 178 200 8 188 200 8 Samuel Sherburne, 36 50 2 51 200 8 180 200 8 38 200 8 Daniel Fowle, Esq. 51 50 2 183 200 8 130 200 8 34 200 8 Richard Hart, 52 50 2 202 200 8 96 200 8 133 200 8 Wm. King, 48 50 2 181 200 8 32 200 8 55 200 8 George Boyd, Esq. 37 50 2 52 200 8 65 200 8 195 200 8 George Craige, 38 50 2 110 200 8 57 200 8 49 200 8 Daniel Judson, jr. 9 50 2 122 200 8 15 200 8 162 200 8 Benjamin Parker, 49 50 2 54 200 8 46 200 8 Jacob Sheafe, jr. 12 50 2 174 200 8 167 200 8 20 200 8 William Tomson, 3 50 2 171 200 8 16 200 8 Samuel Curtis, 44 50 2 121 200 8 132 200 8 208 200 8 Thomas Woolster, jr. 57 50 2 12 200 8 71 200 8 Ebenezer Woolster, 65 50 2 63 200 8 35 200 8 17 200 8 Joseph Woolster, 2d, 41 50 2 98 200 8 64 200 8 177 200 8 Moses Wilton, 33 50 2 112 200 8 189 200 8 6 200 8 David Mum, 19 50 2 79 200 8 10 200 8 193 200 8 Stephen Tomlinson, 36 50 2 139 200 8 87 200 8 164 200 8 Capt. Beach Tomlinson 30 50 2 87 200 8 179 200 8 72 200 8 Joseph Barlow, 20 50 2 158 200 8 177 200 8 11 200 8 George Luis, 83 200 8 29 200 8 126 200 8 Stephen Curtis, 12 50 2 170 200 8 114 200 8 5 200 8 Joseph Wells, 31 50 2 197 200 8 115 100 4 152 100 4 Jabez Baldwin, 18 50 2 199 200 8 192 200 8 105 200 8 Heth Baldwin, 47 50 2 206 200 8 39 200 8 153 200 8 Arthur Woolster, 46 50 2 122 200 8 76 200 8 167 200 8 Stephen Sherman, 45 50 2 204 200 8 102 200 8 25 200 8 Remnold Marvin, 34 50 2 200 8 13 200 8 129 200 8 George Marthal, 66 50 2 99 200 8 45 200 8 22 200 8 William Barker, 64 50 2 121 200 8 41 200 8 17 200 8 Nathan Wells, 67 50 2 67 200 8 98 200 8 21 200 8 Judah Kellog, 50 2 84 200 8 44 200 8 134 200 8 Hezekiah Tomlinson, 24 50 2 69 200 8 91 200 8 4 200 8 The undivided land of the foregoing original names, is taxed two dollars each, (except Joseph Wells and Thomas Woolster, jr. which is taxed one dollar each) and ten acres of the rights of Aaron Hinman and Elijah Hinman, is taxed forty cents each.—One hundred acres of the right of Capt. Moses Little is taxed four dollars, and four acres of the Governor's corner, as sold for a building lot to the Mose farm in Northumberland, is taxed sixteen cents. Stratford, May 31, 1798. JOSEPH DYER, Collector.
Wanted, a quantity of OLD COPPER, For which cash and the highest price will be given. Inquire of Ward Gilman, in Buck-Street, Portsmouth. TO BE SOLD, A HOUSE 2 stories high, 42 feet by 30, with a good cellar, pleasantly situated at Durham landing on the north side of the river, nearly opposite the meeting house, with 3 1/2 acres of excellent LAND ad- joining said house, and running 9 1/2 rods on the river, and well calculated for ship building. For particulars ap- ply to Jonathan Woodman, living near said premises. Durham, June 25, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given to the pro- prietors of the township of New- Grantham, county of Cheshire, and State of New-Hampshire, that at a meeting of said proprietors, held in said town, on the 4th day of July, 1797, a tax of 75 cents was voted and assessed on all the second hundred acre lots in said town, and 25 cents on each after division, public lands excepted; this is therefore to notify said proprietors that unless said tax is paid to the subscriber, at his dwelling house in said New-Grantham, on or before the 1st day of August next, said lands will be advertised for sale. ROBERT DUNCAN, Prop'r's Collector. New-Grantham, June 28, 1798. ROCKINGHAM, ss. NOTICE is hereby given that Nathaniel Ward, of Kensington, in said county, yeoman, has petitioned the Judge of Pro- bate for said county, representing that he is tenant in common, with others unknown, of about one hundred and sixty acres of land, in the parish of Deerfield, in the township of Nottingham, in said county; being the lot numbered ten in the third range, in the third division of lots in said township, that he owns one quarter of said lot, and seventy-five acres more of the same, and praying for partition thereof, and that his said part may be divided and set off to him from the rest. Whereupon it is ordered, that he be heard at the probate office in Exeter, on the 30th day of July next, at 11 of the clock before noon, when the par- ties interested may have opportunity to make their objections to the granting such order. By order of the Judge. WILLIAM PARKER, Register. June 26, 1798.
   John Dutton, John Chamberlain, Benjamin Hoar, Thomas Read, Josiah Willard, Mary Parker, Robert Wilson, Oliver Parker, Peter Hunt, James Dunn, Nathan Cummings, Samuel Moore's heirs, Abel Tarble, Matthew Thornton, East End Joseph Blanchard's heirs Rolland Cotten, Joseph Read, Reuben Kidder's heirs, Samuel Stevens, Daniel Hunt, Seth Wheeler, Hugh Wilson, Aaron Barden, Henry Forgeson, Blood & Searles, Joseph Crosbey's heirs, Stephen Curtes, Steal & Draper, Jonathan Blood, John Weston, James Wilson, Maj. Mynot, Samuel Perham, John Heley, DANIEL FOSTER, Collector.     24 24 5 21 17 23 9 15 10 22 6 23 26 27 14 27 23 26 8 9 23 2 4 21 13 24 9 23 24 14 15 14 6 10 20 28   6 5 13 6 15 6 3 16 5 4 14 13 13 9 8 3 10 4 14 11 3 14 5 4 3 8 14 2 2 13 15 2 7 9 10 10   80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80   20 30 30 30 15 30 25 20 25 30 10 80 40 40 30 40 20 40 20 10 40 3 30 20 40 40 30 40 40 40 48 40 40 30 5  
Lang, Brierley & Co. Have received an assortment of Spring Goods which will be sold low for cash or approved credit. Portsmouth, June 1, 1798. SCYTHES, Of a superior quality, Manufactured by BARTLETT, FOR SALE BY J. & J. Goddard. Portsmouth, June 23, 1798. State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Antrim, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1797, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Thomas Nichols, innholder in Antrim, on Thursday the 13th day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, unless pre- vented by previous payment. Acres. Dols. Cts. John M'Keen, west end of the Moffatt right, } 888 2 49 Margaret Green, } 200 0 56 N o . 10, 11, and 13, } Dea. Rob't Moore's heirs, 310 0 87 Samuel Torrill, 50 0 14 THOMAS NICHOLS, Collector. Antrim, June 13, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given to all the non-resident owners of land in the town of Stoddard, that have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1797, that so much of their land will be sold at public auction on the 3d day of September next, at 10 o'clock forenoon, at the dwelling house of Nathaniel Emeron, Esq. innholder in said town, as will pay their taxes with incidental charges, if not prevented by previous payment. No. R. ac's Cts Col. Stoddard's heirs, 24 6 80 20 28 5 80 20 3 3 80 20 24 7 80 20 9 16 80 20 10 16 80 20 25 2 70 25 13 5 80 20 25 4 80 20 21 5 80 20 22 5 80 20 12 5 80 20 19 7 80 20 12 15 40 20 Afa Evans, } Esq. Varnum's heirs, } 19 14 80 20 20 7 80 20 19 16 50 15 18 15 80 20 16 15 80 20 16 14 80 20 19 13 80 20 18 13 80 20 4 13 80 20 24 8 80 20 13 6 80 20 7 3 80 20 11 7 80 20 19 15 80 20 12 6 80 20 24 5 61 30 5 13 80 30 21 6 60 30 31 2 65 20 17 15 30 15 23 6 80 30 11 3 80 30 21 2 15 8 9 3 80 25 15 16 40 20 10 5 80 25 11 5 80 25 22 4 80 30 6 14 22 10 23 13 80 26 13 80 40 27 9 80 40 27 5 80 30 27 7 80 30 2 13 80 40 26 5 80 40 23 2 21 14 8 40 30 27 3 80 40 24 14 80 40 12 7 80 15 25 6 80 25 26 3 80 25 23 10 40 20 1 3 80 40 26 4 80 40 8 14 40 20 9 11 20 10 23 3 80 40 2 14 6 3 4 5 80 30 21 4 40 20 13 3 80 40 24 8 80 40 9 14 80 30 23 2 40 40 24 2 80 40 14 13 40 47 15 15 40 48 14 2 80 40 6 7 80 40 10 9 80 30 20 9 13 5 28 10 20 10
Grand Bargains. TO BE SOLD AT Public Vendue, On Thursday the 12th day of July next, at the house of John Greenleaf, Esq. Innholder in Portsmouth, at 10 o'clock, A. M. the following valuable Lots and Rights of Land, viz. LOT No. 21, 11th Range; 22, 12th Range; 19, 2d Range; 19, 8th Range; 4, 5th Range; 10, 8th Range; 19, 3d Range; 8, 8th Range; 21, 10th Range; 3, 4th Range; 4, 7th Range; 6, 6th Range; 17, 7th Range; 10, 3d Range; 20, 1st Range; 1, 9th Range; 11, 4th Range; 3, 7th Range; 7, 5th Range; 22, 9th Range; 7, 4th Range; 20, 10th Range; 15, 4th Range; 5, 10th Range. The foregoing Lots contain 100 acres each, more or less, situate in Peeling, county of Grafton. Five whole rights or proprietor's shares of land, in the township of Lincoln, in said county of Grafton, and four whole rights or proprietor's shares of land in the township of Coventry, in said county, and, also, one lot of land in Wakefield, in the county of Straf- ford.—Conditions of sale to be made known at time and place. EDWARD HART, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, June 21, 1798.
India Goods. Just Received by PETER COFFIN, Per the ship Murdock, from India, A large supply of India Goods: Consisting of INDIA Cottons of the following descriptions, by the bale, Pools Coffes, 20 yds long 1 1/2 wide Marras Gungce, 15 do 1 1/2 Jallepore Mamedy, 20 1 1/2 Marras Sannas, 12 1 1/2 Burbun Gurrabs, 18 1 1/2 Tandah Coffes, 20 1 1/2 Mamedy do 20 1 1/2 Ode Mamedy, 20 1 1/2 Sutry Guzars, 20 1 1/2 Emery, 15 1 1/2 —ALSO— Santipore, } Tangil Jungle, } Mullmull, } Chundermore, } MUSLINS. Tambour'd } Corded and check'd Dureers. Belliflore and Bahar muslin Handkfs. Fine Bandannoes. Sootry Romals. Taffeties. Portsmouth, June 15, 1798.
TRECOTHICK. State of New-Hampshire. APPLICATION having been made to me by the owners of more than one fifteenth part of the township of Trecothick, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, to call a meeting of said proprietors at the house of Mr. Jacob Walden, at the New-Hampshire Hotel, on Wednes- day the 25th day of July next ensuing, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for the following purposes, viz. 1st. To choose a moderator of said meeting. 2d. To see what consideration in land or money, that the proprietors will give to Col. Alexander Craige for laying the sixty acre lots in the first division. 3d. To vote a confirmation to said Craige and his assigns, of such lots as he has pitched upon agreeable to any votes of this propriety. 4th. To appoint a committee to apply to the General Court, on what may be thought advisable and neces- sary for ascertaining the boundaries of said township, which are infringed upon by the adjoining towns and o- ther matters. 5th. To receive, hear and deter- mine upon any memorials of any per- sons who may apply and present the same to the proprietors at said meet- ing, respecting their claims to any lands in said town by vote or other- ways. 6th. To appoint an agent or agents to prosecute any trespasser on any land located or undivided in said town, and to defend any actions which may be brought against this proprietary on any account. 7th. To consult on any other pru- dential concerns of said proprietary at said meeting. In compliance with the foregoing ap- plication, I do hereby warn a meeting of said proprietors of Trecothick, at the time and place aforementioned, and for the purposes aforesaid. JOHN WENDELL, Prop'r's Clerk. Portsmouth, June 27, 1798. Books, Blanks and Stationary for sale at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market-Street, Portsmouth.