Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-01-07
From, the Mesv-7ork Evsning Post.
D1pIoxAcr IN fRAscE.

WE lay aside our ScsSbs's - 1850, - !,
series on Neural Rights, 70 give the iol
lowing article 90 the public the first niomen
6 ere are put in possession of the documents
Irwin repay our readers, especially mer
camille gentlemen, for the trouble OF psfns
ing il.
II ,he year t7ss, the ship Nssv. F erses
,ured bv Nickiin and Grifishs. respectable
,rsrehan,s Of Philadelphia,. was taken on
return voyage, richly laden, from Ganfon
-, ~. of The numerous Frenchprivateers
( wb;ch Al that period infested the seas. ana
depredased on American commerce. al
appeal from the decree OF Vice Admiralty
having been duly entered, the case came al
>glenesh before the American commissioner
s.nnder the treaty ofsiSoS; who decided IN
favour Of restitution, s gavea certihcate 10
behalf Of the claimants for upwards OF two
bondred.thousand dollars. In this stage o.
The business Ambassador armstrong re-
ceiyed. a letter from the Minister Oh tue
Treasury of the French government, tel
f;no him thar he suspected, or had been
,nformed. that Nicklin and Griffith were
Al Enolish house, or that they were agents
= LlsL,
for an English house, aud that the cargo
wac loaded. from the English factories az
>canton, and asking his advice what should
be done. In answerto this DIR. Armstrong
,eus Monsieu, Marbois, that although ne
knows nothing from any document, IN his
possession, yet that be had received some
verbal information, conhrmatery OF Mon
.;enr Marbois's suspicious. which ne very
ohl;g;nvlv details TO Monsieur aMarbois,
though in doing. sosa as we saalibye and bye
see. be relates certain things fer tact which
we're not such. Having done his best to
shaw the property to be English and the
owners English owners ne then informs
Mons;eur Marbois, that even II he should
he mistaken in all this, there is another
ground sobe taken which will answer eve
~ purpose precisely as well-nameiy
thar he has no sort of doubt that this ship
,vas insnred. and that the claimants prose.
cured for the Insurers only, giving tor
rsssoa because large ships on long voyages
are generally insured. The reader is by
,t5s lime disposed to doubt if we are cor.
rect. Take then certified copy OF Mr.,
ambassadors own letter.
Paris, Dec. 1904.
The undersigned minister OF the United
States, 60 the minister 7ot the public
treasury
SIR, 80.
1etter on. the subject of the ciaim made
bv Messrs. NickIin and Griffith, OF FIJI.
ladelphia. 49,,
ledge, viz.
s That this is an English house, doing
business, only for English merchants: that
the shin New Iersy was losdedsfrom the
English factories at Canton, s that she be-
longedto English merchants" S'ao7o no.
thny from qny document in ay possession
The only written evidence applying to this
case within my reaeh,is the record report
of,he American commission 10 which you
alinde. and which is directly adverse TO the
ASSOCIATION YOU have made; tor had that
,he Commissioners united in admitting
the Nezu sfferseu TO hare been American
property; and that the protest of one Of
The members of that board against the sol
innate decision Of the others, was founded
no, on the fact of her being English proper,
tv. hut on thar of the claimants not having
pursued their remedy against the caPeors,to
Il, proper consequence, VIZ. 20 an assurance
that they were unable to pay.
On the other hand, though as have al
ready stated, no written document, I have
had uchverbal information which furnish
es strong presumptivs evidence of two
facts--lst, that the Nssu- Jersey was parti
ally or altogether English property; and
edly, that, whether American or English
she was insured, and that no loss was sus
tanned by the ostensible claimants.
The circumstances which render the frs
a Il a - Al.