Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-11-03

but Z % not re why you Mould make to de
pend upon aA affair that concerns only you and
tbs Porte, tie letting at lbertv Of $50 Englh
men, fhiPwTec 81 At Cape Bruos. I expect
from your caador and your ji.tice- that &C
eord'ng to the regulations agreed upon between
our TWO nations for the reciprocal exchange OF
Dur prilon,rs, for which end we are authorized
. at, that you will permit the return OF Capt.
f1:aI, bis oaic,rs, and crew.
Tie PfomiC-s you have made me, ii the hope
Of recinrOcity on my part, cannot be aPplica.
be TO offer you re1ipfocally the promile Of my
good Offices IN favor of a Perlon, who finds
himG1lt ia a enforceable iiruation, which | ny
feif have experienced. an Perluided the
Grand Vizier will pat The feal Of his generous
and high appreciation to all the civities we
have ihewn to each other. The Grztagems Of
war are alike unknown to you and to US and
beGdes that l ihall continue to comport myfelf
towards you With the fame franknels and the
fame kindnefs that have hitherto done / lhall
hrong'y employ all my efforts, that no one
over whom | have any influence fhall condud
himelf contrary 10 thee principles. Be afur
Cd, that the hottie difpoGtons, which have been
announced by former expeditions, and which
have acquitted extenGon AID publicity, will be
RANGES will furnilh to both parties to correipond
and TO underlt md reciProcally, and that at lat
we lhall be united BY the ties Of a lncere friend
ihp In the mean time we fhall continue the
war againt you with the means we have hith
ertO employed, and lhofe we Gill have it in our
power 10 procure and we hal endeavour to
zen. er ouT1elyes worthy the elteem Of your
brave troops.
The hoaities which you have committed,
without waiting for the anlwer Of Lord Keith,
who was ignorant of the convention concluded
for evacu. ing EgyP5, have ierved as the rule
for cur conduit. have rot demanded its rat
ihcaticn from my court have fought but to
remove every unforelsen difficulty which had
been oppofei u the return OF The FIench troops
TO then own country.
General Kleber,in the lat Preiminarics which
had been sgt ed upon, nct having underfood
thar the uea y which was TO follow wanted the
"a ihcation OF The CoDluls who now governed
France, this conIyion, which you have in your
prelimjnaTies ieems 10 he refulal to evacuate
Egypt, and he Grand Vizer has charged me
70 demand of you a clear and piecif- anfwer on
this ub & you def {, as well as myielf, that
an end lhould be put to the which delolates
the univerle.
Ii i, in your power 10 remove one IF the OBJ
je6iens which opPoles peace, by evacuetng
Egypl, according to the conditions agreed up
on with General Kleber and if you refufe it,,
We lhall employ all our means, and thofe Of our
allies, to force you to conditions which may
not be 70 advantageous TO you. | cannot dir.
femble with you how much it may colt me to
fulfil this duty; but the evacuation Of Egypt
beiog point + interelling to the good of hu-
mainly, the means Of conferences and oorreG
pondences TO make the diiPohtions neceaary to
this end are always open.
AS the Admiral, under whole orders | az,
is at a great daance f.om me, am authorized
TO fubGcfibe to fIch arrangements as the ne
celty Of circumstances may dictate and al
though, from tie nature Of events, am not
in the lituaton to make you any new propoi,
tions yet | am ready and difpolej to hear all
that you would with to make TO me. / can
declare to you officially, that fall employ all
my efforts, and all my means, to hinder every
incorfdera'e ftp, and TO oPpole myfelf to all
vex4tious oPpO6Iion on the PaII Of every one
elle.
l h4ll literally fuIGl the inRruaons Of my
Court recognize IT'S principles, founded on
the moi fria equity and the mott Perfea 6del-
itY. MY conduit fhall be comfortable TO thof4
principles, and all ny efforts lhall tend to fulfil
my dn.y by ferving its intereRs.
As it is nor yet certain to what point am to
go pray you to fend me your anfwer in two
dnpatches. You will addrers one to Alexan-
driA the other to JaF4, at the camp Of the
Grand Vizier.
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