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PARIS, January \.
PROCLAMATION.
Consuls of the Republic to th e inhabit anti
of the 'departmentt of the IVeft.
>Uh Xivo/i’, (?.<) December 1799 J %th year
of the Republic one and indivisible.
I An impious war threatens to embrace,
L second time the department of the Weft.
■The duty of the Chief Magiftfate of the
feepublic, is to flop its progress and to cx
tinguifh it in its birth; but they wish not
ito apply force till after having cxhaufted
■the milder meansof purfuafion andjuftice.
The promoters of thele troubles are the
gfenlelefs partisans of tvro men, who nei
■ flier know how to honor their rank, by
■ virtue, nor their misfortunes by exploits.
|Thev are despised by those foreigners
m whole hatred they have armed, without
■ having inspired them with an interest of
W their cause.
M They are also traitors fold to the English,
1 and the instruments of their fury, or brig
■ an4s who only seek in civil difeord the
C. maintenance and impunity of their crimes.
| To such men the Government owes no
■ ■account of its attions, no declarations of
I: its principles.
It But there are citizens dear to the coun
try who have been seduced by their artifi-
K ccs. It is to those citizens information
ft] and truth are due.
■ Uujuft laws have]heen promulgated and
8 executed, arbitrary a<fts have alarmed the
|[ fccu/ity of the citizens and the liberty of
8 conltyence. Every where inscriptions iu-
I difcriminately placed on the (ift of Emi-
Jj grants have attached to citizens who never
W abandoned their country or even their
■ homes. In fliort, the great principles of
1 social order have been violated.
|V It is to repair this injustice and these er
|| rors that a Government, founded on the
I sacred basts of liberty and equality, and a
|l JK.eprefentative fvftcm, has been proclaim-
I «d and acknowledged by the nation. Its
! iconftnnt will, like the interest and glory of
. the Chief Magistrates it has chosen, will
be to heal all the wounds of France.—
Already an aflurance has been given by
1 the afts which have emanated from them.
I Thus the disastrous law of the forced
I loan, and the still more disastrous law of
I hostages, have been revoked. The indi
-1 viduals transported without a previous tri-
I a I are restored 10 their country and to
their families. Every day is and (hall be
marked by a<fts of justice; and the council
of State will neceftarily labour for the re
formation of bad laws, and a more happy
The consuls declare, that the liberty
of worship, is guaranteed by the Consti
tution ; that no rnagiftrate shall in any
refpeft violate it; that no man shall fay
to another, “ You shall exercise such a
mode of worship, you (hall only exer
cise it on such a day.’*
The law of the itth Prairial, 3d year,
which leaves to the citizens the use of
the edifices destined fb religious worship,
Hull be executed.
All the departments fliould be equally
submitted to the empire of the general
laws; but the Chief Magistrates will al
ways evince the tnoft marked attention
to agriculture, manufactures, and com
merce, in those which have experienced
the greatest calamities.
The Government will pardon—it will
shew mercy to repentance, indulgence
shall be entire 'and absolute; but it will
pnrfue whoever after this declaration shall
dare to refill the national fovercignty.
Frenchmen ! Inhabitants of the De
partments of the Weft! rally round a
Conftitutinn, which gives to the Magis
trates it has created the power as well as
the duty of protecting the Citizens ;
which equally guarantees them from the
in liability and intemperance of the laws.
May those who wish for the happiness
of France separate thcmfelves from the
men who persist in misleading them, in
order to iVivcr them up to the sword of
tyranny, or dominion of foreigners.
May the good inhabitants of the fields
return to their homes, and resume their
I ufoal labours—May they defend them
selves from the infiuuatiuns of those who
wiih to .ead them back to feudal fervi
tu.le.
If, notwithftandmg all the measures
which Government has taken, there yet
remain iven who dare provoke civil war,
there will only remain to the Chief Ma
gistrates a melancholy but neceffarv duty
to itrifil—that of fobjugating them by
torce—but, no—every one will be actu
ated by the fame lentiment, the love of
the country. The ministers of the God
of leice will be the firft movers of re
conciliation and concord. May they ad
drefc to their hearts that language they
learned of their master. May they re
nun to thole temples which are again
opened tor them, and offer with their fei-
low-citizens that facrifice which will ex
piate the crimes of war and the blood
that it has shed.
The First Consul (Signed)
BUONAPARTE.
By the First Consul.
The Secretary of'State, H. B. MARET,
The Minister of Justice (Signed)
ABIAL.
Decree of the 1 3 th Nivoje.
The Consuls of the republic decree as
follows:
The general embargo in the ports of
the republic upon neutral (hips is taken
off without reftriClion.
LETTER from the Burgam.ifters of the free and
imperial City of Hamaurgh, totlie Conl'uU of the
French Republic.
CITIZENS CONSULS, „
WHATEVER maybe the prejudices you enter
tain againit the Magistrates of the city of Hamburgh,
they, however, cannot avoid congratulating you on
the late events which have taken place at Paris. In
beholding the whole nation entitled to the faireft and
molt conlblatory hopes, we mayatleaft be allowed to
Ihare in them, and offer up our vows for their accom
plilhmenr.
You are too enlightened and too just not to be con
vinced of the sincerity of out sentiments in this ref
pett, or to doubt for a moment, that we are ever ith
preffed with the moll l'cnfible interest in what relates
to the prolperity of the French nation.
The unfortunate event ol the arreftand delivery up
of four lriihmcn, the fatal lourceofa variety of mif
underltandings and unjust perlecutions, l'eemed to
have irritated the Diredory to such a degree, that it
would not even perceive how irreproachable has been
the condud we have adopted, and how charadenie.;
by the most scrupulous regard and delerence for the
Government of the Republic.
A fatal concatenation of circumstances does not, ir
is true, permit us fatisfadorily to account for what
we have done ; but still every one of those circum
stances proves that it was in lpite of our efforts to the
contrary; and that if, during a leries Oi years, we
have given the strongest proofs of attachment to the
Republic, it is at lcaft not an unpardonable fault in
having, in a critical and difficult case, reposed our
confidence in its generosity and moderation.
However, to the minds of just and equitable men,
fads alone ihould ipeak ; it is in order .that you mi)
make them known we take the liberty of tranlmu
ting to you the moltcxad details upon the fubjed.
Among the four men, namen Napper Tandy,
Blackwell, Morris, and Peters, there are only the two
former who can merit your attention. Morris and
Peters were constantly regarded by the Legation of
the Republic as the undoubted fubjed* of Great-
Britain.
In no ad whatever, or by any declaration official
or not official, has it been laid that the two perions
named Morris and Peters were in the lervice of the
Republic, or belonged to it either in civil or military
capacities. The Minister has not even demanded
their liberty, either nominally or individually. Ah
the ads and ministerial notes are confined to demand
ing explicitly the liberty of the two individuals nam
ed Napper Tandy, and Blackwell.
Hiltory offers no example of a belligerent powers
being autliorifed to proted, in u neutral ft- te, the
avowed fubjedsof its enemy. To confer on luch a
r hi -..f ****»*{Tarfh-tli *lv# iw4ivKi*
ual mould belong to iqfhbeligerent power either in a
civil or militaiy capacity.
You are too just, Citizens Consuls, and, we are af
luted, incapable of imputing it tousas a crime that
we have delivered up two men who inconteftibly be
“ tang to another nation, and were ablolutely foreign
ers to the Republic.
It is only as to the fads which regard the arrest of
Napper Tandy and Blackwell, that we need to apply
ourfelvcs.
Allow us, in this place, to reterto the precautions
which the wisdom of Ctiuen Grouvelle, Minister of
Republic at the Court of Copenhagen, judged ne
cessary, with regard to them a precaution which, had
it been adopted by the French Legation here, would
hive lpared us all the troubles and all the evils which
paffioti, error and prejudice, have excited against us
on their account. That enlightened Minister who
doubt'efs too highly refpeded the Government of
Copenhagen to apprehend the leall violence, thought
it neceffdry to their l'afety, precariously fuuated cs
they were, and to avoid the well-founded and legiti
mate demands of the Britilh Government, and to
withdraw them from the learch and requisition oT the
Minister of that Court, to afford them an asylum in
his own house.
They arrived here, and by the most inconceivable
fpecics of folly, made use of a fti atagem, by which
they mall have been fenfib’e they were lure to expose
then feives. They knew, they perceived that all
French Republicans enjoyed not only the most per
fect fafety in our city, but that they were even dif
ringuifhed and treated with the most marked friend-
Ihip ; they were, however, rtgaidlefs of what they
owed to themselves, to their f afety, to their fuuation,
and to their honor, and ikuiked into our city lecretly,
and, like malefactors, under falfe names, and falfe
characters. Napper Tandy took the name of Jones,
and called himfelf a merchant of Philadelphia;
Blackwell affirmed that of ßarthkmy Black
tar st, and also deferibed hrmfelf as an American
merchant.
1 he Britanic Minister offieialy demanded the ar
rest and delivering up of the two men, 1 übjeds to the
King of Great-Britain, and named Jones and Bar
thelemy.
It is prety generally known, thar in Germany
they do not eaiily refufe the Ministerial demands of
Foreign courts, requiring the fubjetts of their na
tion. Citizen Reinhard, Minister of the Republic,
would have experienced the fame acquicfence on our
part.
The Officer of the Police firft presented himfelf
at the houle of the pcrlbn named Jones, and de
manded his name; he laid his name was Jones.
Upon this acknowledgment, his arrest, as a iubjeCft
of the king of Great-Britain, upon the requilition
of the Englith Minister, was announced to him. He
not even then declared himfelf, but still preserving
hisdifguiie, fubmited without a murmur, and with
out any explanation or protest whatsoever, to there
quifition of the Britifb Government.
His sword with the arms of Ireland, was found
upon his per foil.
How could we doubt, after that, of the truth of
the aliertirns of the Britilh Government ? How
could we suppose that an Officer in the lervice of
the Republic woald wire a sword with 'the Briffh
* arms engraved upon it.
It is thus that this man, hy his own confeffion nam
ed Jones, by hisownconteffion a merchant, and by
incontem de fatts a fubjeft of the King of Great-
Britain, deliveiiflghimielfup, upon the requisition
of the minister of that sovereign, and remained his
pri loner.
The arrsft was announced in the fame manner,
and with the fame precaution to the petlou named
Barthelemy Blackfurtt.
It was not till after the arrest had been anuounpedf
and when he was in fail the prifonerof the minister
demanding him, that he (lowly took off the ma(k and
wiihed on a sudden to pal’s for a French officer, with
out offering the lead proof that he was so.
It is almolt useless to observe that if, by explana
tions so tardy and infufficient, men may cl'cape arrest
by changing their names and qualities, they may at
any time avoid those arrests which are of the moltjult
and legitimate natuie.
The French Legation immediately claimed them
as breveted officers of the Republic. The Minister
never thought proper to iutruft us with the brevets
theml'elves, but only gave us copies of them. It
would however, have been of the greatest utility to
have turnilheius with the means of afeertaining and
verifying to the Brit.fh Government their aftualfitua
tion withrei’pedt to the French Republic. Perhaps
the minister regarded it as a parog.tive of hispoft of
power to Claim implicit belief of his official affirma
tions; but if he did so, he ought to recoiled! that he
justified the fame pretensions On the part of the Britilh
Minister.
The latter had officially declared them to befub
jefts of the King of Great-Britain. He not only
declared foin the firft instance, but afterwards prov
ed it. He had officially pointed them out by the
names under which they iubmitted to be arefted.
On Jones was found a sword with the British arms.
Could we have been juihhed, after circumstances
of so strong a nature, in refufing our entire belief to
the official declarations of the British Minister, and
ot denying it to those of the Minister of the Republic ?
The Minister of England, iWormed of theoppofi
tio.i of that of the Republic, demanded their being
deiivere i up with great vehemence, and joining to his
demand the moil violent menaces, gave us every
reason to apprehend the utmbft rel'entment on the
part of hi* Government.
Diplomatic characters of the highest refpeiff and
elleem maintained that all these fa£ts, and many ex
amples in hiftory strongly militated in favour of the
emands of the British Government.
Among the examples which were cited, they chief
ly relied upon the arrest of the famous Trenck, who,
although in ths service of Russia, was arretted at
Dar.tzic at the delire of Prussian Minister, and lent
to that Power as a Prussian fubjedt.
Regardless at the fame time of the manaces of
England,and the force of theie plaufibie arguments,
we thought we could not conduit outfelves in a more
l’atisfadtory manner, then byentrufting the decision
of »his delicate affair to a Prince, who, united to
the Republic by a treaty of peace and allience, had,..,
as well as ourselves, a powerful intrelt in observing
and maintaining the principles of a ftridt neutrality.
Thele motives Induced us to refer the affair to the
King of Prussia, in his quality of firft Prince Direc
tor of the Circle of Lower Saxony, and Guarantee of
the neutrality of the North of Germany, and to the
Prince Co-D.redtor ®f the Circle.
It does not belong 10 us to anelyfe the motives
which preven’ed the King from deciding. You,
know, that notwithftandingour pressing felicitations
tue King remained always undetermined.
The Emperor of Russia at last interfered ; he did
not confine himl'elf to vair menaces. During many
monetas, in wbieti our ufelcf, refinancecontinued, we
were obliged to support the weight of the molt severe
hollility on the part of Russia. His squadrons com
manded the North leas, and blocking up the mouth
of the Elbe, took pofleflion of our Ihips. From in
formation as alarming as well founded, we appre
hended, if not an effedtive occupation on the part of
the Ruffian troops, at least their certain debarkation
in our environs, and their appearance before our
gates as enemies.
In the mean time, in the midftof these inquietudes,
which made us regard our refiitance as absolutely
useless; and apprehending that by exposing ourselves
we Ihould not lucceed in saving the priloners, we
did all in our power to fatisfy the French "Govern
ment,- and nothing was omitted for obtaining the
privilege of detaining the prifeners till peace. We
implored the intervention of almolt every power;
but all our efforts were in vain.
The King of Prussia at lad declared that he would
not decide on so important an affair. The unexpec
ted retufal of l'o great and powerful a Government,
after so long and profound a silence, and atfuch a
period too, was fufficient to augment and juftify our
alarms, and open our eyes to the danger of a longer
refift-mce.
The Emperor, the Chief of the Empire', at the
fame time joined his demand to those of his allies,
and did notdilfe;nble, that he expected our refiitance
would no longer continue, unlel's we wilhei to be
forced to yield in the name of the Constitutional laws
of the Empire.
Notwithftandiqgall these threatening insinuations,
we, however, referted to a last attempt, and offered
to l'olicit the Government of the Republic that the
priloners Ihould be exchanged for feme other prison
ers of rank taken from the CoMefced Powers; but
this had no better luccefs than any of our former en
deavours. ,
We, however, at that time made, and have since
renewed, our molt pressing felicitations to the Britilh
Government, to mitigate the fate of the piiioners.
Such are the real fadts of this unfortunate event.
If, Citizens Consuls, you confider without prejudice,
and refiedt equitable upon the line of condudt which
our delicate and greatly exposed situation obliged us
to adopt, you will be easily convinced that it was ab
felutely impossible, after a year’s fruitlefs efforts, for
us to perfilt in any longer refiitance.
Our ruin, and entire annihilation, would have
been the inevitable conl'equence, and even without
anlwering any purpose, as we have lliewn. The on
ly means we had of preserving ourselves was that of
trusting to the gene roll ty of the French. We dare
Hatter ourselves, Citizens Confuls,that you will julti
fy, by the return of your friendlhip and benevolence,
that confidence which the unmerited leverityof the
Directory has not entirely effaced fiomour fouls; and
we trust, that, after having by your wil'dom weighed
every circumstance, you will not hesitate in putting
a stop to the severe measures which the Directory has
taker., and decreed against this city.
the fame time, the homage of our pro
found refpedt. ,
Given under the common seal of our city, this 1 6th
of December, 1799.
By die Burgomasters and Senate of the free and
imperial city of Hamburgh.
F. A. WAGNER,
, licentiate ana firft Prefidcat- 1
Buonaparte, firjl amful of the
to the Burgcmafiers and senate of ike f
and imperial city of Hamburgh.
Pat is, Qth Xivofe, Bth year, 30/// Dec. V.
SIRS, *
.We have received your letter, it dv
not juliifv vour conduct.
Courage and virtue preserve
cowardice and vice destroy them.
You have violated the laws of hofni
tality.—Such an event could not havj
happened among the molt Barbaric
hordes of the defart. Your fellow-citizcni
mart forever reproach you.
The two unfortunate men whom you
have delivered up will die illustrious; but
their blood (half work more evil 0 n tb*
heads of their persecutors a whole arl
my could have done.
(Signed)
BUONAPARTE.
Hughes Bernard Maret
The Secretary c f State.
GREAT BARGaTnsTT"
Robert Peddie,
At Jiis STORE next Joor to Mr. Co l l i n R,
HAS RECEIVED,
An additional Supply of the following
European GOODS,
And IVeJI-India Produce ,
Which he is determined to fell off at very
Reduced Prices, VIZ.
SUPERFINE broad & narrow' Cloths,
Ditto Calfimeres,
Ditto Swanfdown for Jacket Patterns
Coatings and Plains,
Blankets, Rose and Duffil,
Flannels,
Womens Scarlet and Drab Cloaks,
Corduroys, Thicksets & Velveteens,
Hats, Affbrted,
Linens 4-4 and 7-8 wide,
Platillas and Britanias,
Linen Checks and Ticklenburgh,
Ofnaburghs and Cotton Bagging,
Sheetings 7-8 and 9-8 wide,
’ Printed Callicoes & Mullins, 7
Ditto Shawls do. j Cheap.
Ginghams,
Dimities and Muflinet,
Pullicats, Common, Madrafs & French,
Pocket Handkerchiefs,
Jaconet & Book Mullin do.
Coi’d. bordered with sewed corners,
Jackonet and Book Mullin,
Tambored ditto.
Lappet ditto.
Clouded Mullin,
Humhums 9-8 and 7-8 uu'de,
Barcelona silk Handkerchiefs,
White and colored Luteftrings,
Sattinet for Jacket patterns,
An alTortment of Hosiery,
Nuns and colored Threads,
AlTortment of Ribbons,
Britilh Shoes, Boots and Bootees,
Saddles with patent llirrup springs,
Do. with burnilhed and plated furniture,
Fafiiionable Nelson Bridles,
Do. Burnilhed and plated furniture,
Chair and Riding Whips.'
A General Affo'tment of
Hardware & Ironmongery.
A L S O,
Rum, Brandy, Wines,
Loaf and Mufcovado Sugar,
Hyfon Tea,
Suchong do.
Coffee,
“* Chocolate,
Box Currants,
Box Raisins, &c. &c.
• As R. P. intends embarkingfor Emit
early in the Spring , the above mentioned articlel'
will be fold at a very low advance by IVholefalt
and Retailfor Calh and Produce.
February 26. (ts. ss•)
* THE SUBSCRIBER,
Has jufl Received from Savannah,
A FRESH SUPPLY OF
GROCERIES,
Which he is determined to fell at the most
reduced prices, for Cajh or Tobacco, at
his store, the South-Eafi: corner of
Broad & Washington-Streets.
Confi/ting of the following Articles.
BEST Cogniac Brandy by the Pipfy
Jamaica Sugar, by the Bbl.
Sherry Wine by the Quarter Calk,
Belt Jersey Cider by the Bbl.
And A'jo by Retail ,
Old Jamaica Spirits,
Weft-India and Northward Rum,
Cogniac Brandy,
Peach and Apple ditto,
MolalTes, Mufcovado Sugar,
Raisins, Almonds,
Pepper, Spice, Ginger,
Gunpowder and Shot,
Bar Lead, CsY. fAc.
BLACHE-