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82 s?cr tt;v CohutiUtan spttfeum. dl cor re [non lent riqdcfts, M’ffrr. Po/v-rs ‘'S Sel mom , to admit h>i their nPxt j: ‘per, the follow tugjlricl*res upon th’ “ P.xtrael ofa letterJro >* a mercantile hosfe iit Philadelphia,” tSe. which appeared in their Aj. ig- IT can hardly bo believed, that the dctntfil of that JcLtc-r, wat intend'd fur the .citizens of Cent ;i.i, tl. ■ (chcin ■ of the writer is too noto rjotu, for apprehending any impredions from it ‘u ‘iii, Hats, but at its hem’ published here o<i the loot, may the imposition a ],ioad, it will not be. asifitfs to accompany it with a lew comment*. livery feature <>f the extraft, befpenks the old Yazoo mans llrikingly, that the reader cainnot, be a *oment at a lols, for its parent, ■yet to gratify the writer's wiflie-., we will (tip potr liiui .1 mere novice, a candidate only, for the honor', and emoluments 01 the h a zoo ira ternify and as such, we cannot help pityin 3 him; tor being lo unfairly dealt with, by his Savannah correlpondents, who contrary to el tablifhed rules and policy, publilh bis orders, with a view no doubt, of fqueoziug bis pockets .more cllctfually by raising the commodity ibis is not meant however to infumate any iuf picion of positive fraud against the corrclpon firn's ; they may them felvcs bed alers in Ya/oo .lock, and ii Ip, it would be but natural for t hem to appreciate if ; betides that, Itock-job t'in< r has such unlimitted privileges, and is so myAcrious a fcieuce, that* of the Yazoo more particularly, that ihoukl I bea witaefs to tli -ir Bargains, and even lee the money a&ually paid down, I would Hill have my doubts about me. Not being initiated, I may as well drop that fubjed. But the writers authorizing hiscorref pondent here, to engage so deeply on bis ac count, in thevaperous Yazoo fund, will at bell, move his brain pan, to be lo overflocked with Yazoo caff! '* and efqtiirilh or lordly nations, I.s to exclude cool and sober reflection, and be mull be mistaken, if in preaching up to the world, lii,i implicit faith in tlie oracular opinion of the gentlemen of the la-.v at Philadelphia, concerning the non-coitftn l, be cxpedls to gain ?ny profdytes to that doflrine, or to seduce other, by his example of venturing or resting their property, a, lie pretends to do, upon fucli jury Inundation I '. In desperate cases, when t here is no alternative left, men muff iometimes relign palTivcly their properties, lo thecainclion advices and management of lawyers ; so will a man who is a drowning, attempt to favehis life by catching at a draw ; but would not he, be loo!; ‘*L upon as a fool, who unprovoked and by mere bravado, would throw himfelf into a gulpb, in order to extricate himfelf by a ft raw. {j ye h inders v: mid conclude, that such a man was tired of life—and we are convinced, that if our Yazoo candidate, were in earned, his ■ m >ney inufl have become a burthen to him, and he wiflms to be divorced from it. That the Yazoo gentlemen will let a high value, upon such learned opinions is natural— that they would wish to improve them to their .bell advantage, is evident ajfto, by their policy in procuring them and tl:civ industry in circu lating them. It only remains now to examine the merits of such-opinions —if we alk that oi the gentle men ol the bar, of the officers and judges of the federal and hue Hate courts of Georgia, we (hull undoubtedly’ get it in lavor of the porch afr, it being an offspring of their own, at. leaf! of a large majority of them; part having con trived the plan, others have been afTociated to it sot the fake of influence. How far the jefu ttical conn.*,’ ion has extended itfeli northward ly, is needless to determine ;it is however fully known, that Fliiladelphia has beer, th? nurlery of oui own {peculators—it is ln>;n there, they drew their tirll fupplics, and could we not inter from thence, that fome of thole gentlemen, who have given their opinion to >mr candidate, arccounfel in their own case but admitting even the opinions ot fome of thc;n,, to be impartial, and that part of them, . which gives the courts a cognizance over the t ran factions of the sovereign .Hate legiflatut?s ; to be candid and loUnd, can it be expected when such opinions will be found at variance with common jultice and common fenfc, that they will weigh down, the plain underftand ingof honejl juries. Or have the gentleman in ontemplation to rid themselves altogether of ji. les, in dragging the matter, bv dint of their owj: opinion before the courts of admiralty? To avoid prolixity, I mult take leave here of the mercantile house and its corrcfpondent, without noticing the decent encomiums be llowed upon the government, and the pathetic feelings and regrets for the loft credit, of this Hate, other wile, than bv expreifing iitnilar i grets lor the ruined credit of the Yazco. from the Gazette of the United States. {Have fecn a number of resolutions, entered into by the Legiflalure of Georgia, on the motion of James J.u kfon, publilhed in ilia Ar gus, of New-York, on th? >.gd inllant; in which, among other things, I am declared to have loft the confidence of that l,egi(Jnture. Supported by an integrity which has long withllood the efforts ot much enmity and malice, 1 feel tny fclf quite unaffeflcd hv a proceeding dictated by the malevolent leader of a disappointed 1 i* - tiou ; and Iboidd not think it tvcelfary to give .if the notice which I now do, but fora refpeft due to the public opinion, liable to be mill and by partial publications, she basts of this cx- Iraordinary proceeding, is a charge of my hav ing attempted to corrupt fome ot the members 't the legiilature. in the laic of the Wcliern Territory of that S ate, and which is laid to ap pear by fevcral alHdavits. These affidavits lofc their weight by the manner oftheir being taken - Not by a judicial procels, and the opportuni ty offered of across interrogation; but by a ie cret committee, of which James Jackson was chairman. The quelbons were all on one lid;, end such anfwars, or parts of anfwcrs, as were not liked, were (li icken out before they were reported But even those affidavits, taken and rcport-.l as they were, do not amount to a charge of my attempting the integrity of any m unber— they go as to what one man thought, another heard, and to what I Paid ti> one man •<! another. 1 lay ftrefa upon General Jack -1 “u s being chairman of the committee ; bccaufe his enmity to me on this ground, is well known, ft is alto well known, that, there has been a i* Georgia igr ionic time p;J>, that ke Columbian jEuCettm, had put himfelf st the head of a prevailing par ty, and iias abused th’ public confidence. A precedent has been cßablifhcd of unlimited mil chief, in the deftriitftion of the public records, the evidences of l ight and of property : andtli? judicial fyflein, the bell fecuritv in a republi can government, has been entirely deranged. It is not, however, my with to he underitood as treating the afts of the legiilature lightly. It is the government; audits voice, in general, ought to be refpc&cd : but the ambitious and uncontrouled alcendancy ol an individual, for the moment, and under circumstances of a pe culiar nature, would in this instance, receive the homage, and not the unbialfed representa tion of a free people.—And I am warranted in faying, by recent letters from that Hate that the tide of opinion is rapidly changing. An inves tigation is ordered by the legiilature, affecting a large defeription ot pedons interetled in the late purchase, in which I conhder myfell im plicated, and wiiich I shall meet with decided pica lure ; anticipating as I do, the approving rclult ol an impartial enquiry. It is with rc . luttauce and pain I trouble the public ; and my apology is the occasion. The Printers who publish the resolutions will have the justice to publilh this. J. GUNN. Philadelphia, March 25, 179 ft. jpeocrai Heginaturc* house of representatives. Friday, April 22. THE house resolved itIV If into a committee of the whole on the Hate of the Union ; when the resolution for carrying into effefit the Hritifh treaty, being under consideration, Mr. Coitand Mr. Israel Smith, spoke in favour oi the treaty ; and Mr. S. Smith, spoke on the fubjeft generally againll the treaty; but, be lieving itto have been conftitu:ionaliy formed and hading that his conftitucnts were almofi wholly in favour of it, he declared his inten tion of giving his vote for carrying it into exe cution. The following are his observations. Mr. Smith laid, the fitbjret now before the committee, appeared to him to be of impor tance, at lc aft equal to the great constitutional mteftion which had agitated the house during .tin? present feflion, and lias had, and he trulleu wouJd continue to have, the fame calm atten tion pa id to its diicuffxon ; he hoped and cx pe£ledtiat it would ultiimt ly be determiiv’d with a view to the real interest of the nation, under the exiting Jlate of things. The queltio n is, whether we shall confirm, by an af.t of tiih- house, the treaty made by the conditutcd ?uthi>iities with Great-Bvitai:i, or w’hether, (having .the declared right so to do) w n shall refufe to make the appropriations necef iary to carry the tA”aty into effect. The ap prehension left the treaty fhouid not be carried’ into clfett, lias alarmed .the public mind ; funs are seriously concerned 0/1 account of evils hit they apprehend might rtffu.’t therefrom—others affect an extraordinary co&cern, and like the elarmills of England, run ab.-vU every where, dillcminating their ill founded lvvs. He faidhis conftituen’s had tlc“n up the fub jetl. A findl part have thought it advifeable to inftrufcc him lo employ his belli endeavors to obtain the ljecelfary appropriations ; anoth er part, equally respectable and more rnmtcrous, have expressed their wish that he would exer ciie his own diicretion on the prclent great occasion, and that they will cheerfully acqoi efee (as good citizens ought to do) in whatever may hr Llm decifton of the national repreftri>- Latives, alter a tree di ten fit mol the principle? ot our government, and the interest of the na tion. In paying refpett to th? latter, ii” ffiould, ‘ peri taps, give fatisfattion to the former. Wiien the treaty was firlt published, he had read it with attention, and although lie had not lecn all thote fauns with which it has ftnee been charged, yet there was to his view h> lit tle good contained in it, anvi so much of evil to he apprehended from i.. that he had felt a hope tha. the Pr , .' , ;d'T.t would not have ratifi ed it.—llehad been disappointed.—Yet he had not a doubt, but the Preiident had given his signature after the mod mature deliberation. PoiTclfed fas he was) ot every information re- . !aava to a fuhjcdt so very important, he could b-ttei determine on t.hc policy of its adoption, than those who were lels informed.—Still th-me w'ere many articles, particularly the commercial, which every man mi ;ht judge oi from the face of the in Hr u meat. On those he did not hesi tate to give an opinion, which was, thatthey promile not one lolitary advantage, and shackle our commerce in many important points. He would not trouble the committee with going deeply into a fubje£t, that hasclreadv been so ably difcuff.ed ; lie however could not refrain from a few remarks on the right, to counter vail our extra duties on foreign tonnage, and on goods impei ‘d in foreign bottoms. He alkcd, what would this countervail b* ? could any man tell ? It was not fpecified in the ar ticle. Itv/as then diferetionary with the Bri tiib—diferetionary with a nation, whop rule of right his always been the measure oj its sower--- whose conduct has invariably bem to cramp and diftrefsthe commerce ol all o,her nations, i'o lc h a nation, could ii have been proper to trail India latitude i 1 Will she make thiscoun tervail opprchive and unjust: ? It is more than probable she will, and if five fboitld, whatvem edy have we ? None ; lor we ate forbid by the tame article to iegiflatc further on tlv* (abject. Fir {aid he would take leave to explain the lgth article, which relates to the East-India trade, a ltd whidv it has been laid, gives such solid ad vantages as to counterbalance all the evils ari ling out of the treaty, He had taken fame pains to inform himfelf on the fubjett, and he had found, that die Americans, in common with all other nations, traded to the Biitifh and other ports ol India, and were every where received with that lort oi kindnels, which grows out. ol the interest that the vender has in felling his goods for ready money, and to a great profit. That our trade is so much the intereftof the In dia company, and of all its officers and factors, as well as of the private traders rcliding there, that it was ridiculous to suppose th? India com pany would prevent it ; il thcy ftuuld, what would he the evil ? Littie or none; for there wer?other ports, belonging either to other Eu ropean dowers, or to the nations in the neigh borhood ol all ihc English ports, who would receive as with open arms, and fupp'y us. for o’J r Jih. ’} on equilj 01 nearly (o lie then Hated, that our flvips could now carry from one port in Europe to another, to China or to Eu rope ; anemoloyment that had been found very lucrative ; whereas, under the 1 reaty, they mult proceed with whatever you purchase in an English port direst to America. The article fays, his majesty consents to your trade to In dia ; and this is celled a loon. It appears to him just as ridiculous as if bis majesty had said, he conft nted to our going to Great-Britain, to ptirchali* its manufactures. To enumerate the many faults lie found in the treaty, ss well of omitTion as commiliion, would take up too mu :h of their precious time; yet he fhouid he excufcd for taking a Avon view of its leading 1 -atures. When the envoy was lent to Great-Britain, it was principally to demand restitution far the cruel depredations committed on our com merce. We find that obj it attended to so vaguely, that our bell informed men feein douhtlul whether much will ever be recovered under the treaty. They find that in every in fiance, the loser mull full pursue his remedy through their tedious and expenfivc courts. Wo find that by fair corn! ruflion w- have acknow ledged ourselves to have been the inlraCtors o the treaty of peace ; for what was the ground on wh":ii I une of the states placed legal im pediments to the recovery ol Briu'fh debts ? Why, that lord Dor heft-tr liacl 1 efufed to de liver up or pay for the negroes, which bv that treaty ought to have been reftorrd. and which (laves would ha v e ailifted their mailers by their labor to pay thole debts ; yet we fee no men tion of them in the treaty, and we find toour furprize, men, since this treaty, defending the conftrutfion lately put on the treaty of peace bv the Bi itilh, and which had never been heard if, thus acquiescing in the charge of our being the (irfl aggfelTors. But this only relates t'/’our honor, of course can be of little confequcnceto a nation, whose rule of conduft is to submit. to evrry thing, provided that on the whole ac count. there appears to be a balance of profit in its favor. After llius having formed his opinion relative tilth” treaty, his next enquiry was, is the treaty conjlitutional ? Cn that point he had held him lell opentoconviflion, and waited its difeuf- J ion. He had not Ir-ard any gentleman yet a- •'are it to be unconstitutional, except one, ’r. Page) who feem?d to give his opinion as ii iic Hill doubted, and having carefully himfelf conlidered the lubjeft, he was now of opinion, that to :re was nothing directly repugnant, to the oonfti. u ion in the instrument. He then enqui red wb.-tl r, under (he existing Hate of things the tmaA ought to be reje£led ?—Whether it ‘■onta: ted stipulations so extremely injurious to the United States, as ought to induce the house ot reprefentaives to rej es a compact made by (he other branches of the government. In the ten fir ft articles which ar: -permanent, he found ton: objections. The third article, which, like many others, cannot be well underllood, teems to fay, that, goods imported in Britillr bottoms to the ports ol the Lakes, shall pay no extra du ty. Ii this be a true conftruCtion, it will then be necessary to repeal our restraining duties, to make the treaty and law confident with the confutation, which requires that all duties shall be equal. The tenth article ties our hands againll fequellration, a power which ought not to beexercifed except on lorn? very extraordi nary occasion ; yet it was a power, which, con fidcring our relative situation to Grcat-Bri” fin, it was imprudent to part with. Still, on fair consideration, he did not find i hat th -re was fuf heient cauls on that account to i eject the treaty, in the filiation zee are now placed. The reiidue ot the treaty will expire in two or three years. He wopld fay a few words on the 18th, com monly known by the prove 1 ion article, he had not underitood as giving the Britilh a fight ;•> feizeourveffels carryingprovifions; ho: , king of Great-Britain having, after the treaty had been frned by Grenville and Jay, issued ait ord -r 1.0 thaf X'ffert, it teemed a commeni uoon, and as eftabtfftiing his conilrudlion of the article. However, .as he has withdrawn that order lines the ratification, and as it was no w under nego cialion, lit would lope that the ex .lanation would hr to our fatisfaftion. The arti cle changed the ilate of things with re(p,;£lto France. Tiierebirc the French had (not by trea ty, but under the law of nations) a right, in which wc acquiesced, to fell their prizes.—By this article they will be prevented—and fhouid a war take place between England and Spain, which is not improbable, then th: former will, under this treaty, have a right to bring their prizes into port, and under the law of nations and our ulage, to fell them, whilil all her ene mies are preyeiUed from felling. What would be the consequence ? Why, that your pons would swarm with British finips of war and privateers, on board of which your seamen would embark, in spite oi every opposition : Good policy will, thirefor -, -dictate that a law fhouid pass to prevent th? file of the prizes of all nations within oar ports. Air. Smith then Hated, that notwilliftanding the many objections he had to the treaty, vet he would give his content to carry it into eileil in a constitutional manner. Not bacaulc he thought that war would en lue in calc ofiis rejection, Not bccaufc the underwriters have refufed to write ray more, except against thefca rifle, Not because the merchants pretended they were afraid to pursue their nfiiial commerce, ’Nor because of the frivolous report that the charge dcs affaires of Great-Britain had thr-V.- ened that the polls would not be given up, un lels the appropriations were made—a report which he hoped and nenevedto be unfounded. lie added, that he could not believe that any gentleman could be in earned in the opinion that a war with Great-Britain would ensue in calc ot refuial. To what ptirpofc would they deprive themselves of their best cultomers ? Nobody can contemplate that they would in vade our territory. It is true that they might (weep the ocean of a great part of our ships, but would ti*.t be an equivalent for the lots of our trade, or the riik they would run ol losing Canada, lhe idea ol war leemed to him to be too ridiculous to be mentioned in that house, could be intended only to alarm the public inu.d, and ought to be treated with contempt. But there was good ground to fear tha; if the treaty was rejetted, the Britilh court o! ap peals, which is generally direst-d by the nuinif tcr, would confirm the decrees made againll our prop''rty in their colonial courts. And that the Bermudians and others would Ip -cuiata on tir- noflibiiity of a war, feiae our velTels every where, and that their judges would continue to condemn as heretofore, without law or justice. The merchants again pursue their bufinefi - and they, as well as the underwriters, will be ashamed of the attempt made to influence the votes of the house of reprefentativrs—for. are not those tlie very men whom we haw fecn re probating the conduft of the democratic socie ties P And will they, on mature refleftion who have reprobated .he democratic commit! tees of corr-’fpond'nce, believe that it proper to inflitute committees of corrcfpon dence to influence the merchants and traders of the union in opposition to the house of repre sentatives? He felt alfured, (from the know ledge he had of that house) that as they would not be influenced by such conduft to vote f or the mealure, neither would they be induced to vote against it, because of those just fubjeds of irritation: cur duty to our condiments taught us, that we were tha rcprcfoUativcs of their interest, and not of our owii pallions. For none of thojg reasons, he repeated, did ha give his conf-nt ; but because he did believe, ,hat k woiud tend to rellore harmony and unani mity to our public measures—a house so near ly divided against itfelf, could never thrive. Because the moll material arlichts will ex pire in two or three years; and, from the great and fieriolls opposition to them, as well amon *- the people as in this house. he did not believ* they would ever again be renewed, Because he did believe the prefider.t and fioate had conceived that they had a right to make all treaties without the concurrence of ibis house, and had, under that impreiiion, committed the faith of the nation—And, Because that he believed it to be the opinion ol a great majority of the people of Maryland* whom he had the honor to represent, that allKo* their dislike to the treaty continues, yet that less evils will grow out of its adoj’t on than mas oe apprehended from :is rejection —A realon, to’his mind, fu peri or toall other:.,and which, although lie had not been ol a limilar opinion, ought and certainly would have governed him on the pre fect great and importantqueftion. The committee rofie and had leave to fit at tain. Adj. PARIS, February 29. Meat was this day fixed at ninety (bven iivies the pound (about fourpence ltcriing.) The executive directory have at length proved that they acknowledge the dangers which we have so long de nounced, and that they feci the Anarch ies and Jacobins to be as great, enemies as the Royaiifts and. counter-revolution 's. J hey have diredled a vigorous execution of the constitution, and in a. mefiage to the legiilature have aiiQOun ced the (hutting up the clubs, which were viewed with such alarm by thc- Iriends of freedom. The following is the arret of the di rectory upon the fubjeft. Art. r. lhe society formed in tha place known by the name of ballon de* Princes and Sallon des Arts, on the iiouievard des Italiens. ‘i lie society fortned in the house of Serilly, in the Fortner Rite du Temple. The society in the Palace Egaiife, un der the name of Societe des Echees. The society in the former Convene des Cenovelatons, and known by th® name of the society of the Pantheon. The society called the society of Pa triots, in the Rue Traverfiere, No. 854, are declared illegal and contrary to pub lic tranquility. They (hall be shut up in twenty-lour hours, and the fcais pla ced on tne papers of the societies. 2. lhe theatre in the Rue Feydeau, and tne Edifice known by the name of the Church of St. Andre des Arts, shall also be fhmt up within twenty-four hours. The minister of the general Police is ordered to execute the present airet. (Signed) Letourneur, Frelident 8. Ventofe, Feb. 27. In the night of the 29 and 30 Piu voife, the town of Mayenne was attack ed by the Chouans. The/ even got poffeifion of fotne of the posts ; but they were soon by our brave volun teers. March 4. A letter received by Riou, of Finif terre, a rep refen tative of the people, from Brest, has the following intelli gence : Tire squadron of frigates, under the command of Capt. Montefonne, has just failed from this harbour upon another cruise ; it has lately taken four conside rable prizes ; and a Portugccfe of 300 tons, laden v/ith fruit and oil, is at Mor luix. A transport with 260 foluiers, on colonel, and 1 2 otlicers on board, being one ot the convoy destined by Pitt, for America, but forced by contra :y winds to return to England, The prize i* carried into Havre. Tne privateer La Renomme, of Brcfr, has taken two (hips, one laden with Fruit, and the other with Indigo, cot ton, baifarn of Peru, cochineal. Arc. She is estimated at 800,000 livres ir. specie. Another privateer of Brest, fined out by citizens Binard and Poliquen, e.itercl the port OF Morlaix, on the 16th Piuvoifc, with an Engiidn vessel of z ®o ton:, lader. entireay corn and I wine, No, al.