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NEW-YORK, Fch. 28. |
Two Southern mails arrived
3'cflerday. Wc 00 not find in
the paper* by either oF them,
that Porcupine (as Hated in one
o r the morning prints} has been
ordered to leave the United
States.
March 5.
The mail of the Brit ifh Pac
ket was found lafl Sunday even
ing ; and the letters as appears
by Mr. Mackanefs's advertise
ment, have received but J/ttle
damage, Capt. [ones has re
timed from Philadelphia; Mr.
Ufton, we under (land, approved
of his conduct, which had been
regulated, it feems, by a pofitive
inflrutlion given to all the com
manders of Britiih packets, in
fi rn iI a r circumftances. Capt.
Jones h »s relumed his command,
and will fail on Friday.
PHILADFLPHIA, March 2.
The PrcflJent this day com
municated to ( ongrefs, a report
on the naval concerns of the
United States; from which it
appears, that fince tire 9th July,
1798, the number of drips com
milhoned amounts to 365, car
rying 66,691 60-95ths tons,
mounting 2,723 guns, and the
ciews amounting to 6,847 men -
March 7.
The Prefidcnt of the United
States has recommended Wed
nesday, the 24th of April, to
b; obfeived as a d y of falling,
humil ty and prayer.
The Retaliation, wc learn, has
been rendered up to the Ficnch
o'fcer who came here in her.
The French prisoners at Lan
cafler. are to be fent to the Weft.
Indies in the Retaliation.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,
Gentlemen 0/ the Senate ,
I TRANSMIT to you a do
cument which feems to be in-1
tended to be a compliance with'
the con lition mentioned, at the
conclufion of my mellage to
Congrefs. on the 21ft Junclaft.
Alw ys difpofed and ready to
embrace eve;y plaufib’c appear
ance of probability, of preferv
ing or refloting tianquility—l
nomina e Wi liam Vans Mur
lay, our minifter rcfident at the
Hague, to be minifter plenipo
tentiary to the French Republic.
Jf the fenate fhail advife and
confent to his appointment, ef-1
ft £lua! care (ball be taken in his 1
inflru&ions, that he fhail not
go to Fiance, without direft and
unequivocal afturances fiom the j
French government, fignified
by their minifter of rxte ior re
lations, that lie fhail be received i
in charatler. (hall enjoy the pri-'
vileges attached to his chara&er,
by the laws of nations; and that I
a minifter if equal rank, title,
and powers, fhail be appointed
to tie it with him, to difeufs and
conclude a 1 controvcrfies be
tween the two republ.es, by a
new neaty,
' JOHN ADAMS.
Luitcd States, i*eb, 18, 1700,
| [COPY.]
I Liberty. (Is.) Equality.
Exterior Relations,
3 d l)ivifion %
Pat is, 7t h Vcndcmaire of
the 7‘h year of the French
Republic, one and indi
vifiblc.
The mini/lcr of exterior relations,
to citizen Pichon, fecretary of
legation of the French Republic,
near the Batavian Republic.
I HAVE received fucceftive
ly, citizen, your letters of the
22d and 27th Fru&idor, they
afford me more and more reafon
to be pleated with the manner |
you have adopted, to detail to*
me your convcrfations with Mr.
Murray, Thefc conveifations
at frrft, merely friendly, have
required. by the
fan&ion I have given to them
by my letters, of the 1 ith Fruc
tidor* I do not regret that you
have trufted to Mr. Murray's
honor, a copy of my letter. It
was intended for you only, and
contained nothing but what is
conformable to the intentions of
government, I am thoroughly
convinced, that fhould expla
nations take place with confi
dence, between the two admi
niftrations, irritations would
ceafe, a cloud of mifreprefenta
tions would difappear, and the
ties of friendfhip would be more
ftrongly united, as each party
would difeover the hand that'
fought to difunite them.
But, 1 will not conceal from
you, that your letters of the 2d
and 3d Vendemaire juft receiv
ed, furprize me much. What
Mr. Murray is ftill dubious of,
has been explicitly declared,
even before the Prefident’s mef
lage to Congrefs, of the 3d
Meftidor laft, was known in
France. I had written to Mr.!
Gcny, namely; on the 24th
, Meftidor, and 4th Thermidor.
: 1 did not repeat it to him before
he Let out. A whole paragraph
of my letter to you of the nthi
Frudidor, of which Mr. Mur
ray has a copy, is devoted to
developc flill more the fixed de
termination of the French go
vernment, according to thefe
bales. A ou were right to affert,
that whatever plenipotentiary
the government of the U. States
might fend to France, to put an
end to the exifting differences,
between the two countries,would
j be undoubtedly received, with
I the refpeft due to the reprefen
tative of a free, powerful and
independent nation,
i 1 cannot citizen, conceive that
the American government need
any further declarations from us
j to induce (hem in order to renew
| the negociations. ro adopt Inch
| meafurcs as would be fugpc fted
to them by their defire to"bring
the differences to a peaceful end.
If milunderftjndings on both
Tides have prevented former ex
planations from reaching that
end, it is prelumable that thofe
avTundertiandings being -done
away, nothing henceforth will
bing obftacles to the reciprocal
[dfpofitions. The Prefident’s
Ittftiuftions to his envoys at
j far is, which I have only known
! ty the copy given you by Mr.
Man ay, and received by me on
ne 21 ft Mcftidor, announcing
(if they contain the whole of the
American government’s inftruc
tions) difpofitions which could
only have been added to thole
which the diredtory has always
entertained ; and notwithftand
ing the irritating and almoll
hollile meafures they have adopt
ed, the dire&ory has manifefted
jits perfeverence in the lenti
•ments which are depofited both
in my correfpandcnce with Mr.
Gerry, and in my letter to you
of the nth Fruftidor, and which
I have herein before repeated in
the moft explicit manner, Ca r
ry, therefore, citizen, to Mr.
Murray, thole politive expref-l
Gons, in order to convince him 1
of our finceiity, andprevailupon
him to tranfmit them to his go
vernment.
I prefume, citizen, that this:
letter will find you atthe Hague; !
if not, I alk that it may be lent
back to you at Paris.
Salute and fraternity,
Ch. “Mau. Talleyrand,
Gentlemen of the Senate,
The propofition of a frelh
negociation with France, in con
jfcquence cf advances made by
the Fiench government, having
j excited fo general an attention,
and fo much converfation, as to
have given occafion to many
manifeftations of the public
opinion, by which it appears to
me, that a new modification of
the embafty will give more ge
neral fatisfaftion to the nation,
and perhaps better anfwer the
purpofes we have in view,
I It is upon this fuppofition,
and with this expe£btion, I now
nominate Oliver Eifiwoth, e'q
chief jufticeof the United States,
Patrick Hen y, e!q. 1 te gover
-1 nor of Virginia, and Wm Vans
Murray, our minifter refident
at the Hague, to be envoys ex-!
traordinary and mmifters pleni
potentiary tothe French Repub
lic, with full powers to difeufs
and fettle by a treaty, all con
troverfies between the United
States and France,
It is not intended that the two
former of thele gentlemen fhall
embark for Eu ope, until they!
fhall have received from the ex- '
ecutive dire&ory, direct and un
equivocal affurances Gg iified by
their fec;ctary cf foreign rela
tions, that they {hall enjoy a 1
the prerogatives attached lo that
chara&er by the law o nations,
and th t a minifter or mini tiers
of equal power fhall be appoint
ed and comnuftioned to treat 1
with them.
JOHN ADAMS.
February 25, 1799:
PETERSBURG. March 8.
A report his been in circula-'
tion for a day or two paft, that
liham Cobbeir, editor of Por
cupine's gazelle, has been C r.
dcred to quit the country. \y
do not know what foundation
there Is for this repor*. as th*
following letter f;om rhe Ppj*
tome of the Times, printed a*
Norfolk, is all the information
we have received on this fuhjecf
Extra?! of 'a letter from PkiladcU
phia t February 24,
“ I am informed by a mern,
her of the fenate, who has thii
information from undoubted
authority, that the P evident'*
warrant for the tr. n r por/a/i 0n 0 ;
William t obbeft, pafled t he fe,
cre/ary of (lake's office, on Fri,
day laft. He has /hi r/y days
no/ice to leave /he coun/ry!”
CHARLESTON, March 16.
The arrival of csp‘ H 11, fr m Ca
di/, furnifhes but Utile ntws, K. h‘ r
of momeoi h?.d faken olacc in he Mt
-1 diterranc n, rhe t k n - o ( Minorca
by ihc B'tt fh fleet. Ma 'a had a t
1 b en attacked ; nnd l’ e accoun a f the
i aff fiina ion of Buoi apar e, were found
to be ‘ahr cations ; the Uft accoun j
from Egyp ftacd, that f» e genrrsl w« }
io q e and pcaceab’c p. ff ffi nof that
co, ntiy ; 1 hat he was employed in or
j gan zing the country ; and that his p of
| p'Cls c* hoi log po tflioD of the coua*
t:y were more prom ting than they lad
t.ecn for litre bdo c.
Chares Ru 1 dge efq late chgyt
dtt ajj’aires of the Un ; trd S ates, to he
cou icf •Vladr’d came p.*ffeugcr in the
E izi, from Cad z
Loid St. V nc ni*fi fleet had refumed
its li uit oi btfoie Cad.z, b.fore capt,
Hall Tided.
i Ma'eh 18
Yefterday arr.ved t e hrt£
Ormond,- Hnv nm, io days. Capt.
0 mon on hie p,(li;e wm b ta
ly be B t* fh fr ig at * Rrgu us, wh’cii
look fron him his boatfwa p ard two
men, one of w) ojj vre are infoimcd,
was American.
j By the air vls from the HavannaiJ,
! we learn, that accounts had t?e*o rc<
j ceivcd there frem Spain, win* h ftjted,
that an attack was to be nu>de on Cuts,
by the B ricifh, io coi.f quence of vvh ch
txerrfon wss tirkog to put the
har .or of the Havannah in a fta c of
defence ; that the duty rf 21 p r cent,
on rice hi d been taken c ff, and that
arode had i.fcn ficm three to five dol*
1 .is per hundred.
Fr -tn a gentleman who camcpaffc
gtr in ib E izr, f om Cad z, we h v:
: recc v d information, that prev ous ’3
j her departure, rwo mai f » had arrived at
j Cadiz, from M.dridi accom f« by the
hid, flawed, that the C''urt of Madr J
had refufetj to grant perm fiion to an
army of he Fiench Repubhc to pan
through Spain, to attack Pop u. T t’; l nt
the laft mad fta d that the Ficm'h
amb fiVior had dc v r d in a note, io
• hich he laid, that if the demand he had
m£QC wag cot complied with, he b*d
dircdsoca to leave Madrid; in co. ft*
j qucnc* ot this, the pcrcn.fiiou was grant*
eel. I r wag ejpc&ed ’hat gmcral Pe*
rignoo wou d tommand the army igaiuft
Portugal, ,
Several .aAirns had taken p’acc co
the frontiers of Naples, be wren the
troops of France and N pies but nothin#
of ade .ifive na ure. The RufEan arrry
had ma ’c no pro-refs toward? Germany*
! The G mao rmp rc >«ad concluded pe* cC I
with the French R pul) ic.
Y fid day faded from th *9 V.arhouff
the Fr nch cartel brig Romaio, to*
1 Gaadaoupe. In this v.ffl, ib- f’ ur
I’rtuchracn and one woman, who » cr ‘
arrclled io the Hamburgh brg M'or 1
?a, and afterwards were confined in F° rl
Pinckney, went pailengcig. From h
drcurcftance of their btirg relc kJ
ih.s manner, it jb probable that tt
papers whi h w< rr f )und concealed,
ihtir pc ff. film, did not contain s
thing of a n-tu :c io this cunß*
try.