Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-06-03

Of ~ openly declared to the party con.
m0uss' nd by which said party might, IN
ss.u ARK. be denied this eight elevenshs OF
lne . and considerable claim; no body bet
~ than you knows that the American law
: -, vested a minister, nor any otticer
n ~ ,he American constitution, with the
.;sb, Of denying any one Of the beneht OF
: srea,y. TO which, as being "the law OF
,he land," all Americans are equally entl-
lied. NJ
Jersey. have then as kind of birth right,
= be informed, whether any motive, be-
.;des the one alluded to in MIR. Madison's
Inter. has become a bar TO the full admit.
TING of their claim.
# any such exists, We solemnly engage
10 do il away also.
II there is none but the one alluded to,
tits the presidents will that the claim be
admitted.
To the above we beg leave to add, as
observed by US to his excellency the French
minister, that the claim must be either
good or bad, for the whole of it. Hence
The unavoidable consequence that the
claimants are unjustly wronged to tbs a.
mount of 100000 francs, in the first case,
and that the American treasury are wrong
ed 10 tae amount OF 500. 900 francs in the
other case.
Such precedent cannot stand upon the
recor6;s of so pure and wise an adminisuan.
on as the American one (; and we :rust you
vii! not hesitate ia granting US the following
our PRAYER, either to disclose to US the
new motives BY which you have been
guided; or, if no new motive has &C.
cured, and the opinion respecting the IN.
derwriters has been the only ground upon
which the claim has been reduced, that you
Widths groaod beingnowhappily removed,
obtain from the French minister aud CO.
yerameus, an additional allowance equal to
10 what remains due to the claimants upon
the Louisiana fund.
The personal regard which said minister
Justly eatertains for YOUR excellency, ad
ded to the responsibility which a refusal on
his part must attach to your government
and to yourself, induces us to hope that
your demand viii be readily complied
with.
Whether there are fluids su!fi Gent left
is more than it is in our power TO say.
But in case The same were wanting, we
must, after doing every effort in our pow.
er 70 support our constituents rights in
this country, trust the same to the Justice
olhelr own counJry and the authority of
The American law,
Wsmust conclude with observing freely
now sorry We have been 70 see it stated
10 your secretary's answer to Us, the case
Is terminated. We can in a few words
convince your excsllency tina, !. is not.
lst, When we have received the
soooOo francs and given our receipt &C.
cordlngy,tc which said expression must
aiude, We did 1t merely because upon our
declining 1t at first, the French minister
positively declared TO US that, should said
sum be iefased, We should have nothing at
ILL.,
~. The powers we had from the claim.
ants were intended only for a fair and full
restitution of the amount eff the claim.
Hence the inference that we hadro authori-
10 compromise or agree to SO heavy and
'Onagust sacrifice, and that, when com.
pe,lsd to do it, if we have received par
val payment only, the claimants rights
'annos, 10 the least, be impaired ty it.
Sd. A settlement Of this kind can never
oe compared with the one made between
Individuals in the usual course of judiciary
proceedings. We admit that where two
parNes being of age, after being a, law,
some 70 compromise, said compromise
."u" De bar to their respective claims,
IA every party had right to support
- peiend his claim and to abide by the
oeSsiOn of the law.
Dut the case is quite the reverse in an