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s! 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.