Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1805-01-14
FROM THE CENTINEL.

Wbere goes sar Isey -.Itfreduently has been
mentioned in the gazettes, that the Britiih frigate
La Revolutionaire was waiting at Norfolk, to
take off fome bu.IysdJ of tbonIands of dollars, in
fpecie ) being part of nearly three millions of
dollars (6oo,oo ol. fterling) due by the Onited
States to Great Britain his debt it is true,
has frequen " been alluded to in sthe reports Of
M. Gallatin and by the American Chancellor
OF the exchequer Mr.. Randolph ; but they both
have ledulouly concealed the origin Of the debt
1t may at this moment, be expedient to remind
the public Of few facts ;-If, that in trca-
", made III 1879, g n tie name Of the Nof Ho-
y and mdividsa Trinity" and fgncd By" John
Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay" is
the following article -" It is agreed, that the
6 cfeditors on either fde fall meet with no law
6 full In yedimcnts to the recovery of the full
"value, in ferlng money, of all bona fde debts
&c heretofore contracted I'D. That all the
nates, excett Virginia, did remove all ;mpedi
ments to the collection of thofe debts.-3d.
That he S2na fds debts due by Vi'gnians to
Eng ilh creditors, amounted to fomewhere near
$50 go dollars.-4th. That the fate of Viz
gina conEfcated the Britifh debts and allow
ed the debtor to cancel the fame in the treafury
of Virginia. actually placing an" hmpea-
tmeat" by Aqe, to the recovery Of the bona tSde
debts of Englifh creditors. mors, on the
9Th May, 1894, MIR. Munroe moved, in the
Senate of the United States, for leave to bring
in BILL "to jnpend THE 4tb article Of THE treaty Of
peaee qvits Great Britax or, in other words,
for a law Of the United States, to protect Vir
ginis in her refufal to comply with the treaty of
peace, 70 far as it compelled her to pay bo.u fde
debts contracted 59tore The 4uar. The FACTS are
undeniablc. What have been the confequen-
ces ? Virginia would not provide for the pay
rncnt of her iuf debts and Great. Britain
would not make reititution for the illegal cap
cures made BY her cruizers in 1893, (amounting
to nearly fix miHions of dollars) unlcls proviGon
was made for the payment of thofe debts.-The
consequence, was, that to preferve peace and
friendly communication, and to obtain remune-
ration for our merchants, the United States, by
the treaty of 1874, 4Damed the payment of the
debts Of Virginia amounting to nearly three
millions of dollars; and which Virginia ought
70 have been compelled TO pay hcrief. The debt
thus affirmed is now in the courfe of payment,
by nitaimcnts, at the Treafury of the United
States. 1t is admitted, that by the treaty of
1894, by which the United States became pay
elefsrs for Virginia, that the American mer-
chants have received, or will receive, nearly fix
millions Of dollars from the Britiih treafury
But no thanks TO Virginia.
When it is again inquired, how the money
which the Britih frigates are carrying away from
the United States, became due to Great-Brit-
ain Let it be remembered that it is, becaufe
Virginia would not comply with the 4th article
OF the treaty of peace though that treaty was
fan6tioned by the authority of the United States
IN Congrefs ahembled and the " mott holy and
undivided Trinity" appealed to for Its faithful
execution
Or C.ant,y.-Itis confoling fact, thai not