Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-11-14 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 48, of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1792.
[Whole No. 370.]
Foreign Affairs.
PARIS, September 7.
AT three o'clock in the afternoon of the fatal 2d of September, the sanguinary mob reached the Temple, where they were met by two of the commissioners from the National Assembly. It was with great difficulty they could be restrained from further acts of violence; they demanded the head of the Queen; the commissioners therefore to prevent a greater mischief, found it necessary to accompany them to the tower of the Temple, one of their leaders carrying on a pole the head of the princess de Lamballe.
The commissioners, attended by an officer of the National Guard, and M. Palloi, the manager of the works round the Temple, undertook to inform the King and Queen of what was transacting, and that the people insisted on their viewing the spectacle they had brought. The head of the unfortunate victim was displayed on their Majesties presenting themselves at a window. The Queen, and her daughter Madame Elizabeth, according to the report of a violent Paris print, displayed, for the first time, some sensibility; and the King, who obeyed without any hesitation, said to one of the commissioners—Sir, you are right.
[We have noticed this remark, in order to shew the base calumnies that are propagated concerning these August Personages.]
When the mob went to the prison de la Force, where the royal attendants were chiefly confined, the princess de Lamballe went down on her knees to implore a suspension of her fate for 24 hours. This was at first granted, until a second mob more ferocious than the first, forced her apartments, and decapitated her. The circumstances which attended her death were such as makes humanity shudder, and which decency forbids us to repeat: Previous to her death, the mob offered her every insult. Her thighs were cut across, and her bowels and heart torn from her, and for two days her mangled body was dragged through the streets.
When the Duke of Brunswick took possession of Verdun, he sent the following notice to the Administrators of the department of La Meuse:—We, the Deputy of the Grand Council of War of the King of Prussia, and in the name of his said Majesty, enjoin M. Goffin, President of the Department of La Meuse, to repair tomorrow, at three in the afternoon, to the Hotel de Ville of Verdun, on affairs relating to his department, and under penalty of military execution.
The order was instantly obeyed by the President and the Procureur General. The Duke of Brunswick's orders have as much weight as those of the National Assembly.
M. Roland, minister for the home department (blessing for the iniquities and massacres of his countrymen) thought fit, on Tuesday, to write the following letter to M. Santerre, dated the 4th of September, in the 4th year of liberty:
In the name of the nation, by order of the National Assembly and the Executive Power, I enjoin you, Sir, to use all the means placed in your power by the law, to secure the safety of persons and property; and you are hereby made responsible for every violence done to any Citizens whatsoever in Paris. I send you a copy of the law which ordains you to preserve that security, and keep up that attention to it which I recommend to you hereby. I have acquainted the National Assembly and the Mayor of Paris with the orders I have given you.
ROLAND.
SEPTEMBER 22.
The National Assembly finished its political career, giving place to the National Convention, which had that morning constituted itself into a body, by the appearance of the number as appointed—a deputation of the assembly waiting on them to conduct them from the audience chamber in the Thuilleries to Convention Hall, formerly the seat of the National Assembly. They first proceeded to the choice of a president, which fell on Mr. Pétion, the Mayor of Paris; and after some trifling conversation having took place, a member rose up and moved the total abolition of Monarchy in France for ever, which was universally and reiteratedly applauded from all parts of the house and immediately constituted into a law. The next was the suspension of all judicial appointments, and that the people should appoint their own judges de novo—Mr. Thomas Paine, by his interpreter M. Goupilleau, requested the Assembly to appoint a committee to bring up a report on that subject, as ignorant and vicious people may possibly introduce themselves to those employments, without precautions were taken to prevent the same. The motion, however, in its primitive state, passed.
The Convention then adjourned till 11th October.
The Duke of Brunswick's army lay before Chalons, head quarters of Gen. Dumourier.
BRUSSELS, September 11.
Intelligence has just been received here, which from the favorable nature of the accounts from the army, already published by authority there is every reason to believe authentic, that the King of Prussia took possession of Chalons the day before yesterday. The bishop of that diocese, who is here, has received orders to hold himself in readiness to set out with his clergy, on the 24th to repair thither, and re-establish himself in his charge.
The emigrants stationed near Thionville are all setting out for Verdun and the environs, and are to be replaced by 9000 Austrians, now on their way from Dandan, under the command of general Derdach. Thionville, which has not yet been vigorously attempted, is to undergo a regular siege.
Lisle is so blockaded, that no one can enter or quit it. All the large artillery have been removed from Ath to its environs, and general Beau lieu is encamped within half a league of that city. All the peasants in the environs, tender to the Austrians a voluntary offer of their services.
French Ecclesiastics are constantly arriving here: notwithstanding they are very numerous, they find every necessary succour.
The Government has just granted the sum of twenty-eight thousand livres, to form an establishment for them Ath, where they will be lodged, and will receive a daily allowance of 25 sous. They are also to be allowed 20 sous per diem, for the performance of their religious duties. In the interim, the public subscriptions provide for all their necessities.
The French ladies are employed in making shirts, which are distributed to those who arrive, the office of charitable contributions supplying the linen. Before the conclusion of the ensuing week, the Archbishop of Rheims, and the Bishop of Soissons, will, it is thought, set out for their dioceses. We have just received the intelligence, that the Prussian advance guard is at Rheims.—Another official Bulletin will make its appearance this evening.
An ordinance of the King of Prussia is about to appear here in which
all the administrative bodies are enjoined to recall their faithful priests, to drive from their territory all the intruders who have taken the oaths of the new constitution: to restore to the churches their sacred vases, silver ornaments, and titles; and all this is to be done under penalty of a confiscation of their property, and of corporal punishment. The ordinance is printed, and ready to be distributed.
VIENNA, September 8.
It is said that the Empress of Russia, on account of the distance and great expence that would attend marching her troops into France, wishes in lieu of the 30,000 men she is by treaty to furnish, to pay her quota in money.
HAGUE, September 25.
Several of the officers who accompanied M. La Fayette, have passed through this place with an intention of going to England, as they do not wish to take any share in the cause of the emigrant French princes. Five of them have just now set out for Helveotsloys.
AMSTERDAM, September 8.
Though the republic have fully determined to take no part in the war against France, at least till the progress of the French armies becomes more decisive, they however give them every possible assistance. The troops of the state are at the same time advancing towards the frontiers—Some of them yesterday set out for Breda and Maestricht. Immense magazines are forming in the latter, and large quantities of ammunition are carried up the Meuse to Namur and Dinant. Recruiting is permitted also at Bois-le-Duc, in Dutch Brabant, where many deserters arrive daily, who are sent off to the French Princes.
The state of France continues to interest, in a very sensible manner, the generality of the people here. The fortune of every individual appears as if depending on the issue the affairs of the country may have; but great uneasiness is entertained lest a total dismemberment of the kingdom take place, at least, as every thing at present gives us reason to conclude, if it should be established into a republic. Most minds are infatuated with the old prejudice that France cannot be any thing but a monarchy. This monarchical mania has infected the minds of many Frenchmen, and if the National Convention decree a republican form of government, it is much to be feared that several departments will desert the common cause. Should this happen, public credit will experience a most violent shock, which will be felt in other countries, but more in Holland than any where else.
The French minister at the Hague lives now as a plain individual. He has entered into an agreement with some rich Dutch contractors, who have engaged to supply the French armies with horses and muskets by the way of Dunkirk—This week a very large number were sent.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 1.
The Grand Signior, having appointed the Tartarian Prince Bachti Gherai, who commanded the Tartarian forces during the late war against Russia, to the Khan of the Cuban, with a considerable revenue to support his dignity, the Grand Vizier, & the rest of the Ministry, invited him to a magnificent entertainment on the 19th of last month on the Canal, at which the Grand Signior was present incognito. During the repast, the Tartarian Prince had the imprudence to talk in the most indecent
manner against the Ministers who had negotiated it. To punish him for his folly, he was immediately deprived of his dignity, and sent into exile in the island of Mytilene.
The produce of grain in the environs of Smyrna has been exceedingly scanty, and in Egypt they complain of famine.
LONDON, Sept. 27.
Vessels are provided at Dover to convey such of the French refugees to Ostend, as are inclined to go, free of expense.
The Russian squadron, lately anchored in the Road at Copenhagen, sailed on the 7th September to Cronstadt.
The Prince of Waldeck, who lost an arm at the late unsuccessful attempt on Thionville, died a few days since at Luxemburg.
A detachment of the garrison of Saar Louis entered Merzig, a town in the Electorate of Treves, on the 19th inst. and after destroying a magazine of corn belonging to the Austrians, plundered the rich abbey of Wadgassen.
M. La Fayette is to be conducted to the citadel of Wesel.
The French emigrants are now permitted to act for themselves. They form the rear guard of the combined army, and garrison the places taken by it.
The amiable Princess de Lamballe was in England about two years ago, in perfect safety; but was not able to withstand the pressing invitation of the Queen of France, who wished her to return—and assured her she was perfectly free from danger.—Who indeed could have suspected the fatal catastrophe of the 2d September? The Queen is inconsolable.
It cannot be denied, that the unhappy Monarch of France has fallen a victim to the vices of his Ministers and Minions. By weak and violent measures they disseminated the seeds of the sedition; but all the odium was thrown upon the sovereign. The best of Kings, under the management of bad ministers, loses, never to be recalled, the esteem of his subjects. Suspicion begets disgust; disgust begets contempt; and contempt fails not to express itself in the most audacious and outrageous terms. Thus Louis was precipitated from his greatness. His final destiny remains yet in the womb of time.
No advices of any kind have been received this day from France, nor were there any regular accounts yesterday.
We understand that an eminent merchant in the city had an express, stating that the city of Rouen had declared, that it was disposed to accept the conditions offered by the invading despots of Germany, in preference to continuing longer exposed to the brutal violence of the party now prevailing; and that in consequence of this, and of the fear that the example might be followed, a body of men had set off from Paris to chastise the city of Rouen.
The garrison at Thionville have been twice successful in sorties, and the Prussians will be obliged to commence the siege in form, at a considerable expence of what is most valuable to them, time. Montmedy is blockaded. The report here is, that the King of Prussia is also blockaded in Verdun, but this cannot be exactly true.
The French Generals appear to have very good intelligence of the Duke of Brunswick's preparations and movements.
The Dutch mail confirms the report of the successful sortie made by the French from Thionville. "The besieged display not only firmness, but thinking themselves out of all

danger of being taken, they insult the besiegers, and approach even so near, as particularly to direct their musquetry against the camp of the emigrant French, which is in the centre of the allies. The son of the count d'Artois was very near being killed by a cannon shot; a person was killed by his side. The artillery is played with great effect. The Austrians have chiefly exerted themselves to lay the town in ashes, instead of attacking it by a regular siege."
A letter from a French officer in the emigrant camp, to his friend, an emigrant in London, gives the following account of the fall of the prince de Hohenloe: "New batteries had been erected, from which it was intended to bombard Thionville, by the side of the gate of Metz. The besieged saw the intention, and they played their artillery with such effect as completely to demolish the works. While the Prince de Hohenloe was this day reconnoitering the direction of the fire, a cannon shot cut in two an officer by his side. The prince fell by the shock of the wind of the ball, and for three hours every art has been tried in vain to bring him to life. We fear he is killed."
The firmness of the garrison is wonderful. They chiefly direct their attacks on the French camp, apparently in a sort of insulting sport, for they might do more injury to the Austrians, who are posted nearer to the point of attack. But they do it evidently to mark to the allies their hatred of the French, and their plan has so far succeeded, that the Austrian soldiers cannot suppress evident marks of pleasure, at this conduct. "So long as they aim at one another," they mutter, "we hope every shot will tell."
This letter we give precisely as it has been handed to us. We cannot answer for its veracity.
The camp of Mons has been broke up, and the Austrian army under the Duke of Saxe Teschen, is expected daily to fall upon Lille or Valenciennes. All the roads to the former place have been intercepted, and the courier from Paris has been obliged to return. It appears that the Austrians have friends in the French quarters, and information of whatever passes there.
We are assured from Vienna, that orders have been sent to the commandant general of the Netherlands, that the French Gen. La Fayette should be well treated.
The following decree has been passed by the National Assembly, relative to the payments due to the public officers, and others, in the towns of Longwy and Verdun.
I. The sums which ought to be paid from the national treasury to the inhabitants of the towns of Longwy and Verdun, salaries of people in office, and other national purposes, shall be suspended.
II. The liquidating commissioner is forbidden to give to the inhabitants of Longwy and Verdun, any bonds, either definitive or provisional, or any orders on the National Treasury; and every public agent and paymaster is enjoined not to pay any sum on such bonds, either delivered or to be received.
III. Every receiver of the district is also forbidden to receive, in payment for national property, any such bonds or orders, under the penalty of responsibility.
Letters from Madrid, received yesterday, assert—that since that court had been informed of the events of the 10th August, at Paris, and the injudicious treatment his most Christian Majesty has received, the system of neutrality which that government had adopted, is entirely changed.
Extract of a private letter from Thionville, Sept. 8.
"I am now before Thionville, which we have summoned to surrender, and have received a gale-nade in the French way, for answer, which will draw upon the inhabitants a vengeance which must unhappily be indiscriminate."
"Montmedy is fallen into our hands. The obstinacy of the defence precluded the saving the inhabitants from pillage, which during
four hours was exercised by our troops with an unsparing rigour capable of dismaying others. The campaign wears the appearance of tedious slaughter and multiplied sieges."
A fleet is fitting out at Brest for the Mediterranean. It is composed of the following ships, under the command of Admiral Latouche: Le Languedoc, of 80 guns; L'Entreprenant, 74 guns; Le Vengeur, 74; L'Otion, 74; and Le Vigilant, 18 guns. The cap of liberty is attached to all their main-top-gallant-mast-heads. This squadron is intended to prevent the Russians from entering the Mediterranean; it is to be assisted by a division from Toulon.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Cathalan, Vice-Consul of the United States at Marseilles, to the Secretary of State, dated Marseilles, 24th August, 1792.
"I offer to your consideration a very interesting matter, explained in full in a memoire which I have presented to the municipality of Marseilles, of which I send you here enclosed a copy, dated the 19th inst. on the subject of wheat and flour, to which I beg leave to refer you. We are in the greatest apprehension of being in great need of these so necessary commodities, and of seeing prices gradually rise from £ 53 a 54 per charge of 18,290 Marseilles weight (flour the same price pr. barrel) which they would now obtain ready money, on the wharf—to £ 65 before next month of December, and £ 70 before March, on the actual course of foreign exchange and specie, rising again till next crop in July next."
"This memoire was so well received by the Municipality, that they have determined to write a letter to General George Washington, President of the United States of America, dated this day, which I have the pleasure of sending you here enclosed, begging you, sir, to present to him in the name of the town of Marseilles. I hope that the American merchants on his invitation will contribute all in their power to supply this town abundantly."
"You may assure them that brandies will be at moderate terms about £ 45 a 40 pr. gallon, gross of 90 lb. English, they will make an advantageous remittance. For my part, in the Consulate line, as well as in the commercial one, they may rely on all my endeavors to render their voyage and adventures as beneficial as possible."
"Tobacco on the contrary abounds now and can't obtain here £ 54, mark weight, no purchasers."
"I shall depart for Bordeaux in 2 hours, to see Consul Fenwick—when arrived, I shall have the honor of addressing you, and sending a copy of this and the municipality letter."
"I am, &c." (Signed) STEPHEN CATHALAN, jun."
TRANSLATION. MARSEILLES. A Resolution, in the form of a decree, of Section No. 13, of the grand Carmelites.
On this day, August 13, 1792, the 4th year of liberty, the citizens of Section, No. 13, to the amount of 375 voters, being legally assembled in the Church of the Carmelites, the President having opened the session, a citizen obtained leave to speak, and addressed the assembly as follows:
Brethren and Friends,
"The nation that has long been the victim of oppression and embarrasment, occasioned by the enemies of liberty, is now rising in all its energy to do itself justice. Its sufferings, and above all, the horrid plot to destroy our patriotic citizens, has kindled a spirit of vengeance. The dilatory procedure of courts, the impunity of those that have conspired against the nation, have alike actuated the people to take the distribution of justice into their own hands. The illegal executions, but necessary in the present disastrous circumstances of the country, seem to have produced some good effects. The aristocrat, the haughty nobleman, the imperious egotist have alike trembled, and were glad to consider themselves as on a level with those true and good citizens, who till now had stood almost alone in the contest for liberty. But, brethren and friends, fear knows neither remedy nor physician: Those men who have openly declared their anti-patriotic sentiments or have shown themselves discontented with, or even indifferent to, this our glorious Revolution, tortured with remorse, cannot endure the glances of the friends of liberty: they dread their just resentment, and to avoid it can devise no better means than flight. Notwithstanding the most active endeavors of the municipality, a multitude of citizens have quitted Marseilles. Such an emigration may be attended with the most ruinous effects during the ensuing winter. The existence of Marseilles depends upon her commerce; commerce alone feeds us, and when that is suspended the source of our subsistence is gone. Marseilles by her situation is an Emporium of trade, the magazine of Europe. If foreign countries should learn that Marseilles is torn by intestine convulsions, they will be cautious how they suffer their vessels to approach us, and will send them to other places. It is well known that the wheat harvests have been bad abroad and even now that this article is extremely dear. If unfortunately the wheat cargoes should avoid the port of Marseilles, this fine city among the first in the list of French capitals will be in the utmost danger. Now since it is inconteſtable that commerce declines in every country where peace and tranquility are not established, let us seriously endeavor to put an end to those alarms which are daily increasing, and spread-
ing with astonishing rapidity to all nations with whom we have a commercial intercourse. It will, doubtless, be a glorious thing for the citizens of Section No. 13, to show themselves among the foremost in re-establishing peace and good understanding in Marseilles, and to ensure the safety of life and property. I propose then to the Assembly to decree, first, that all citizens of this section, individually, keep a strict eye upon the enemies of their country; 2dly, that every person detected in a conspiracy against liberty, or treason against the country, be denounced by the citizens (to whom such information shall come) to the constituting powers, that the trial of such person may be had according to law. 3d, That the person so accused shall not be visited by the citizens of the section without an express permit in writing from the municipality, or the justices of the peace. 4th, As often as a private person, accused of any crime whatever, shall be arrested, either in virtue of a mandatory decree, or in consequence of public clamour, the citizens of the section shall protect him till he is conducted to prison? and they shall oppose with all their power every injury offered to his person. 5. That the minutes of the proceedings of this meeting shall be sent to all the other sections, to invite them to take similar measures, by their adherence thereto."
"The Assembly having strongly applauded the preceding address and propositions, resolved unanimously to adopt them in their full extent. They further decree, that thanks shall be rendered to the Municipality, to whom shall be deputed four commissioners, with authority to assure the first magistrate that all the citizens of the section will not cease to second their paternal views, to respect the mandates of their authority, and that the above resolutions be printed and affixed to the certificates of approbation from the other sections."
"The other 23 sections of the city and the suburbs have unanimously agreed to the above declaration, and have made similar engagements with the citizens of section No. 13."
Certified, &c. F. GALIBERT, President. ALLEMAND, Sec.
"The principal qualifications of merchants, and the foundation of their calling, have at all times consisted in foresight, a readiness in calculation and practical speculation."
"The existing state of things requires from their patriotism the most serious reflections in regard to certain articles indispensably necessary for the use of their fellow-citizens, which we are obliged to receive from abroad, and the plenty or scarcity of which either increases or diminishes the price. These things call aloud for the utmost exertion of their talents and abilities."
"By means of their extensive correspondence, the daily advices they are receiving continually from abroad, and the result of their computations on foreign prices, they may readily discover what countries will alternately have it most in their power to supply our wants in the article of corn, according to the quantity of their annual and respective crops. It is generally understood that Marseilles is the great market for whatever grain is consumed, not only in its own district, but also in the other departments of the south of France, Spain, the Duchy of Nice, and the river of Genoa.—Italy, Sicily, the Island of Sardinia, the Levant and Africa, have been hitherto our main resources, but at rates extremely dear. England, and the countries on the Baltic, have also contributed something; but unfortunately the crops are but indifferent, we may even say, bad, throughout the Mediterranean. Spain will have to import largely for herself. The Province of Languedoc, which, till 1789, rendered us large supplies, as well as to Toulon and its vicinity, has ever since been incapable of supplying its own demands: and there is no doubt but that they must import for themselves this year. Burgundy and the Franche Comté do indeed promise a large supply of beans, but their crops of wheat are poor, and will prevent them exporting any farther than Lyons."
"Advices from Naples of the 4th current (August) confirm the accounts of bad harvests in those parts, as well as in Sicily, where the exportation will not only be prohibited, but they are about to lay duties upon imported corn. Instead therefore of being supplied from that quarter, it is to be apprehended that they themselves will stand in need. In such circumstances, it is doubtless most prudent for us to procure grain from more remote countries, and our immediate duty to take the most decided measures to supply our own wants and those of our neighbour: and to this object, the House of Stephen Cathalan and Son, the latter of whom is here in quality of Vice-Consul for the United States of America, has turned its attention."
"This House has been constantly writing for a year past to its correspondents in America, during all which time the prospect has been very favorable for disposing both of corn and flour here to an advantage. They have likewise written to Bourdeaux, to several Spanish ports, particularly Cadiz, where their vessels are always ordered to stop to enquire what port in the Mediterranean affords the best markets. Notwithstanding all this, cargoes of the above-mentioned articles have not yet got farther on towards us than Barcelona; we hope, however, that from the inducements and additional encouragements that are daily held forth, a plentiful supply may yet be had. The time, however, from now till the 15th of December (the season for frost setting in) is short. Supposing advices to arrive in America, and vessels to be laden out in consequence, it will be the middle of February before they can be at sea. But the navigation not being open till March, the cargoes cannot reasonably be looked for here till the end of April or May, at which times the American flag will be exposed to the depredations of the Algerines; and it is not easy to find crews composed of freemen that will ex-
pose themselves to slavery upon any considerations whatever. It is only from the 15th of November to the 15th of March that American merchant vessels can appear with safety in the Mediterranean."
"The Sieur Cathalan, jun. who foresaw our probable wants about the beginning of this month (August) formed a design of making a journey to Bourdeaux, to confer with Mr. Fenwick, the American Consul there, on the likeliest means to engage our friends in the United States to send to this port, before the winter sets in, the greatest possible number of vessels laden with grain and flour."
"But in order to give more energy to Mr. Cathalan's conferences with the American Consul at Bourdeaux, and most of all to his letters to the government of the United States, it is left to your judgment whether it would not be proper for the Mayor and Municipality of Marseilles, to write a short letter (with triplicates) to Gen. Washington, President of the United States, by which his attention may be forcibly attracted upon our wants. Such a letter would have great weight, and might procure ready and abundant supplies."
"The United States are wholly in want of tafia, or rum, the usual drink of the Americans. Brandy, notwithstanding the high price it was at last winter, and still is, will nevertheless afford a profit, and will be at least two and an half per cent. cheaper after the vintage.—The American vessels will consequently find very profitable returns on the advantageous sales of their cargoes, and we shall eventually see them coming to this port in great numbers, and establishing a beneficial commerce between the two nations."
"The Sieur Cathalan, jun. at all times zealous for his country's welfare, submits the preceding memorial to the wisdom and good judgment of the Mayor of Marseilles."
To the PRESIDENT of the United States of America.
Marseilles, 24th August, 1792, the 4th year of Liberty.
"SIR, "FREE nations are always in alliance, and are alike interested in affording mutual aid and assistance to each other."
"A common interest has already united the inhabitants of the American States to the interests of regenerated France. Their three-colored flags are unfurled upon every sea, proclaiming that the free Americans and French are brethren. The name of Washington is as much revered here as at Philadelphia. It is to Washington that we address ourselves, in order to convey the sentiments of our fellow-citizens to a nation for whom he has done and suffered so much."
"Commerce is one of the fifties in the fraternity of mankind, and engaged as we are in the destructive trade of war, which unfortunately has become necessary in order to establish the cause of liberty, free citizens ought nevertheless to leave no possible means untried to extend their commercial intercourse, and ensure the means of subsistence."
"The time will arrive, and doubtless it is not far off, when the genius of Liberty, having crossed the ocean, and hovered over France, will kindle over the whole earth that sacred fire which now animates our breasts. The demons of discord will then be chained up forever, the sword will be rendered useless, and the great bond of nations will be confidence and brotherly affection."
"We have, therefore, to propose to our American brethren to form more extensive commercial connexions with us than heretofore. Above all, we present to their view an object of speculation, which, while it supplies our wants, offers emoluments to the adventurer by no means contemptible. The article of provisions, for which we have contracted, cannot be supplied during the present year, on account of the indifferent crops, which are disproportionate to the quantities that Marseilles annually lays up either for the use of her own citizens, or for the southern districts of France, or for a part of Spain and Italy."
"Such being our situation, we have petitioned the national assembly to grant a premium of fifty sous per quintal (mark weight) of grain that shall be imported from abroad into the southern districts of France; and we have reason to believe that our patriotic legislators will comply with our request."
"But this is not the only step we will take in favor of our American brethren. We will petition the executive council that the American flag be protected by the French cruising vessels of war; and we have every reason to believe that our solicitations on this subject will not be fruitless."
"Exert your influence then, Sir, to engage our American brethren to export to us the superfluity of their crops. Be pleased to inform them that in exchange for their produce, they will be supplied in our port with oils and wines, besides other articles and commodities which may suit their market. Inform them, Sir, that the citizens of Marseilles will do every thing in their power to encourage the American trade, and that in this instance in particular they will consider a compliance with their wishes as a proof of the fraternal friendship that exists between the two nations."
"It is worthy of your character, Sir, to cherish such sentiments—the dissemination of which will constitute the happiness of your nation. You have toiled for the liberty of your country, and by meriting the universal esteem of all nations, you have gained that, in particular, of the Mayor, Municipal Officers, and public Attorney for the community of Marseilles. (Signed)
"MOURRAILLE, Mayor." [Here follow also the signatures of the other officers of the Municipality of Marseilles.]

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SATURDAY, Nov. 10.
Mr. Hartley, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Sylvester from New-York, took their seats this day.
After referring a petition, the house went into a committee of the whole on the address in answer to the President's speech to both houses at the opening of the session.
Mr. Lawrance in the Chair.
The committee went through the discussion of the address, and agreed to several amendments, which the chairman reported to the house: these were taken into consideration and agreed to.
On motion it was resolved that the address should be presented to the President by the Speaker, attended by the members of the house.
A committee consisting of Mr. Madison, Mr. Benson and Mr. S. Bourne, was then appointed to wait on the President, to enquire at what time and place he would receive the address.
The report of the committee on the petition of the merchants of Charleston was taken into consideration and agreed to—A committee was appointed to bring in a bill pursuant thereto.
Mr. Dayton proposed a resolution to the following purport—That the Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of War be notified that on Wednesday next this house intend to take into consideration the report of the committee relative to the causes of the failure of the late expedition under the command of General St. Clair, to the end that they may attend the house to give such information as the house may see proper to require.
It was moved that the motion should be on the table agreeable to the practice of the house.
Some members urged the propriety of taking it immediately; but others objected. Mr. Dayton consented that it should lie on the table till Monday.
The galleries were again shut, on a motion to resume the reading of the confidential papers received from the President.
MONDAY, Nov. 12.
Mr. Ashe took his seat this day.
By the minutes of Saturday's proceedings read this day, it appears that the committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States, to know at what time and place it would be convenient for him to receive the address of the House, in answer to his speech to both Houses, reported that the President had appointed Monday, (this day) at 12 o'clock.
A communication was received and read from the Treasury department, containing an account of receipts and expenditures of public money to the end of the year 1791.
The memorial of Joseph Warrington, respecting a demand on the estate of the late Major General Greene, was read a second time and referred to a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Giles, Livermore, and Findley.
Mr. Giles laid the following resolution on the table.—That the Secretary of War be directed to cause to be laid before the House an account of the disbursements made by his department in the years 1790, and 1791.
At 12 o'clock the Speaker accompanied by the other members and preceded by the Sergeant at arms, waited on the President of the United States with the following address in answer to his speech.
SIR,
The house of representatives, who always feel a satisfaction in meeting you, are much concerned that the occasion for mutual felicitation afforded by the circumstances favorable to the national prosperity, should be abated by a continuance of the hostile spirit of many of the Indian tribes; and particularly that the reiterated efforts for effecting a general pacification with them should have issued in new proofs of their persevering enmity, and the barbarous sacrifice of citizens, who, as the messengers of peace, were distinguishing themselves by their zeal for the public service.
In our deliberations on this important department of our affairs, we shall be disposed to pursue every measure that may be dictated by the sincerest desire, on one hand, and of cultivating peace, and manifesting by every practicable regulation, our benevolent regard for the welfare of this guided people; and by the duty we
feel, on the other, to provide effectually for the safety and protection of our fellow-citizens.
While with regret we learn that symptoms of opposition to the law imposing duties on spirits distilled within the United States have manifested themselves, we reflect with consolation, that they are confined to a small portion of our fellow-citizens.
It is not more essential to the preservation of true liberty that a government should be always ready to listen to the representation of its constituents, and to accommodate its measures to the sentiments and wishes of every part of them, as far as will consist with the good of the whole than it is that the just authority of the laws should be steadfastly maintained.
Under this impression, every department of the government and all good citizens must approve the measures you have taken, and the purpose you have formed to execute this part of your trust, with firmness and energy; and be assured Sir, of every constitutional aid and co-operation which may become requisite on our part. And we hope that while the progress of contentment under the law in question is as obvious, as it is rational, no particular part of the community may be permitted to withdraw from the general burthens of the country by a conduct as irreconcileable to national justice as it is inconsistent with public decency.
The productive state of the public revenue, and the confirmation of the credit of the United States abroad, evinced by the loans at Antwerp, and Amsterdam, are communications the more gratifying, as they enforce the obligation to enter on systematic and effectual arrangements for discharging the public debt as fast as the conditions of it will permit; and we take pleasure in the opportunity to assure you of our entire concurrence in the opinion, that no measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to the urgent with of the community, or the intrinsic importance of promoting so happy a change in our situation.
The adoption of a constitution for the state of Kentucky is an event, in which we join in all the satisfaction you have expressed. It may be considered as particularly interesting; since, besides the immediate benefits resulting from it, it is another auspicious demonstration of the facility and success with which an enlightened people is capable of providing, by free and deliberate plans of government, for their own safety and happiness.
The operation of the law establishing the post-office, as it relates to the transmission of news-papers, will merit our particular enquiry and attention. The circulation of political intelligence through these vehicles being justly reckoned the surest means of preventing the degeneracy of a free government, as well as of recommending every salutary public measure to the confidence and co-operation of all virtuous citizens.
The several other matters which you have communicated and recommended, will in their order receive the attention due to them. And our discussions will in all cases, we trust, be guided by a proper respect for harmony and stability; in the public councils, and a desire to conciliate more and more the attachment of our constituents to the constitution, by measures accommodated to the true ends for which it was established.
To which address the President made the following Reply.
Gentlemen,
IT gives me pleasure to express to you the satisfaction which your address affords me.—I feel, as I ought, the approbation you manifest of the measures I have taken, and the purpose I have formed, to maintain, pursuant to the trust reposed in me by the constitution, the respect which is due to the laws, and the assurance which you, at the same time, give me of every constitutional aid and co-operation, that may become requisite on your part.
This is a new proof of that enlightened solicitude for the establishment and confirmation of public order, which, embracing a zealous regard for the principles of true liberty, has guided the deliberations of the House of Representatives; a perseverance in which can alone secure, under the divine blessing, the real and permanent felicity of our common country.
G. WASHINGTON.
The House being returned, the above reply was read.
The reading of the confidential papers being resumed, the galleries were cleared.
TUESDAY, Nov. 13.
Mr. Huger and Mr. Barnwell from South-Carolina, took their seats this day.
Gen. Ward presented petitions from the following persons, viz.—Rufus Blodget, Henry Bacon, and Thomas Davidson, which were read, and severally referred to the Secretary at War.
On motion of Mr. Tucker, the petition of D. Leyman was referred to the committee on the petition of Thomas Jonston—the petition of Simeon Keith, on motion of Mr. Leonard, was referred to the same committee.
The petition of Patrick Knox, on motion of Mr. W. Smith, was referred to the committee of the whole house to whom the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of lost certificates was referred.
Mr. Boudinot, of the committee on the report of the Secretary of State respecting the boundary between the state of Virginia and the Territory of the United States South of the Ohio—brought in a report, which was read.
Mr. Dayton's motion, laid on the table last Saturday, respecting the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, attending the house, to give information relative to the causes of the failure of the expedition under General St. Clair, was taken into consideration.
Mr. Williamson moved that the latter part of the resolution, which required the attendance of the two Secretaries on the house, should be struck out. This motion, after a considerable debate, was carried in the affirmative—the first part of the resolution was also disagreed to.
Mr. W. Smith then moved, that the committee of the whole on the report of the select committee, relative to the causes of the failure of the late expedition, be empowered to send for persons, papers and records. This motion was agreed to.
Mr. Giles's motion, requiring that the Secretary of the Treasury should cause to be laid before the House an account of the disbursements made by the department of War, in the years 1790 and 1791—was taken into consideration and agreed to.
Adjourned.
Philadelphia, Nov. 14.
Late accounts from South-Carolina inform, that there is no doubt the electors of that state will generally vote for Mr. Adams, as Vice-President. A weak attempt, it is said, has been made by a filler state, to create an ant federal interest in the back country in favor of Mr. Clinton, but that state is too much attached to the federal government to place in so high a station a person professedly hostile to it, and who, should he be elected, would become the head of a party to overthrow it.
On Tuesday, last week, Mr. Jones made a motion in the Senate of New-York, for the protest of the minority of the canvassers, at the late election, to be entered upon the minutes of that house, but a message coming from the Assembly at the instant prevented the consideration of the motion—and
Thursday Mr. Tillotson moved that the entry of Mr. Jones's producing a protest against the determination of the major part of the joint committee appointed to canvass and estimate the votes taken at the last election, be erased from the journals—debates arose, and Mr. President having put the question thereon, it was carried in the negative—Nays 16—Yeas 7.
In 1788 when it was moved in the Legislature of South-Carolina to call a Convention for the adoption of the federal government, a member, who had been a Virginian, proposed that South-Carolina should wait until the law which sets her elder sister, Virginia, would pursue; but this proposition was universally repudiated by the Legislature, and it was immediately resolved that as the people of South-Carolina could think and act for themselves, a Convention should be called, without regard to the measures of her elder sister. At that time a letter was received from the Governor of Virginia, proposing a kind of league of the Southern States against the new Government, but it was taken no notice of.
A correspondent says, that every patriotic citizen must be pleased at the conduct of the Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth, in regard to the unlawful combination in the western counties against the law of the United States for collecting a duty on distilled spirits—More particularly as (it is said) he has taken these decisive steps at the instance of the President of the United States.
A correspondent observes, that should Mr. Adams not have a large majority of the suffrages of the electors for Vice-President, it will confirm the truth of the ingratitude of republics. When the great, eminent, and long continued exertions and services of that virtuous statesman are remembered, can Americans requite them by a dismissal from an honorable station? Forbid it, Patriotism! Ought one vote*, on a doubtful question, to cancel a whole life of services—and blot out the remembrance of John Adams, the staunch whig, whose labor and abilities have been unremittingly devoted to his country's freedom from the commencement of the contest with Great-Britain, to the present time?
* The casting vote on the representation bill last session: the bill went up from the house of representatives with a ratio of one to every 30,000, which would have given Virginia 21 members, and more in proportion than other states; the Senate, by the casting vote of the Vice-President, altered the ratio to 33,000, as the bill now stands—for the house of representatives afterwards thought that ratio the most proper; but Virginia has only 19 members; and Mr. Adams, for having exercised his judgment on a speculative question, is to be persecuted and disgraced! That state, it is said, is enraged against him, and will never forgive him for that vote.
On Wednesday evening last, was married at Germantown, by the Rev. Doctor Blair, Mr. Isaac Roberdeau, to Miss Susan Shippen Blair.
The ship Diligence , Capt. Neill, is arrived at New-York, and brings newspapers to the 28th of September: By which it appears, that the mob had broke open the jewel-office in Paris belonging to the Crown, and stole all the jewels and regalia. Some of the thieves were taken, but others got off with an immense booty, valued at several millions sterling.
At Lyons a similar scene of massacre has been exhibited with that at Paris.
M. Dumourier's army has retired with great precipitation and loss of baggage, from that of the Austrians. This, says the Brussels account, gives the combined army the key of Paris, all the difficult passages being now forced.
It is said that the Commissioners appointed to settle the accounts between the several States, will make their report to the President early in the present session, in order that provision may be made by the Legislature for the balance due to particular States. Massachusetts and South-Carolina are the two States who are expected to have the largest balances.
The Duke of Cumberland Packet arrived at New-York last Saturday night. Accounts from London by this vessel are not later than the 8th of September.
The Chesterfield (August) Packet arrived at Falmouth the 4th of September from New-York.
We hear that the lower house of assembly of Connecticut have passed a bill for constituting a bank in New-Haven.
COMMUNICATION.
The partisans of faction have frequently committed themselves in pretending to be friends to a representative government: The purity of their sentiments on this essential principle of republicanism may well be suspected, as they are now exerting every method to vitiate this only source of legitimate authority; sensible that the people, unbiased and unprejudiced, will elect and re-elect their best men, their tried and uncorrupted patriots, this party have for a long time been indefatigable in disseminating the most pestilent poison, principles and lies among the electors; and men who stood as firm as pillars of adamant, in the darkest hours our country ever saw, have been represented as conspirators against the public liberty, because they happen to be in office through the free and unbiased choice of their fellow-citizens!
It was the necessary effect of the funding system that the public creditors should be benefited thereby; and the circumstances of every man in the country are rendered more eligible by the operation of the government of the United States; so that after all the sophistical declamation against both, the greatest grievance to their enemies is, that they enforce the principles of justice, public and private.
Public and private justice are the only basis of general confidence—and it ought to be seriously considered by the citizens of the United States, what will probably be the consequence in a very short time of throwing an odium on the measures which have wrought so favorable a change in the affairs of this country, by excluding from the administration the firmest and most independent patriots of the country.
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