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HAGUE, March 28.
Our minitler at Paris made a formal
notification to the French direftory of
the opening of our national convention,
through the French miniftcr of foreign
affairs. The following are the copies
*f those
STATE PAPERS.
Liberty—Equality—Fra-
ternity.
The miniftcr plenipott ntiary of the Bata
vian Re public t to Charles Delacroix ,
mtnft-r of foreign affairs .
Citizen M,after,
THE undersigned ministers plenipo
tentiary of the Batavian republic have
the honor officially to inform the French
government, that after a number of dif
ficulties happily overcome, their nation
al convention opened its public fittings
on the firft of March, old stile, and that
from that day the states general have no
longer an exigence. The diplomatic
body are in conference not to treat on
political fobjefts, but with the new go
vernment, which that convention is a
bout to organize. This day, citizen
minister, will be accounted one of the
mod happy for the Dutch nation. His
tory will transmit ittopofterity as form
ing the second epoch of the deliverance
of that country which seems called on
for the destiny to overturn the thrones
of tyrants. William V. on imitating
Philip 11. found amongst the true Ba
tavians the fame impatience under the
yoke, and the fame eagerness to break
the chains. Why (hould the natural
foil of liberty reckon ft ill fome Haves a
mongst the number of her children ? f
Under the auspices of a great nation,
tvhich liberty has conducted for four
vears from viftory to viftory, and which
has made the proudest tyrants to trem
ble—guided by that raafs of light that
has majestically arisen at every period
of the French revolution, the Batavian
convention cannot but appear great in
its labors, and the result to the pi ole
whom it has the honor to represent an
not be otherwise than happy. It will
answer, you may rely, citizen minliler,
to the hopes of our deliverers, and will
aft upon the models which they have
furnifhed. It will never swerve from
those great principles of justice, whicjfct
the French people have (matched from
oblivion, to mark the line which they
have prdcribed to themselves.
BLAUW.
MEYER.
The min ‘ Jler of foreign affairs to the citi
zens Blau<iv and Myer, ministers pleni
potentiary of the Batavian republic , at
Baris,
I HAVE communicated, citizens,
to the directory the note which you
have transmit red to me. They have
learned with the mod lively fatisfaftion,
the opening of your national convention.
Convinced that the formation of such a
central authority can alone unite the
Batavian people—extinguish that spirit
©t fedcralifm which paralyfed its ener
gies, and its means of refilling oppres
sion—and give a vigorous government,
the foul guarantee of the rights of the
people ; the direftory have seconded, as
far as could be done without injury to
your independence, the efforts of the
true friends of liberty. This faiutary
end is accomplished. Your convention
has opened its fittings. May this tute
lar authority protect the cradle of Ba
tavian liberty ! May this new Hercules
ftifie in its nervous arms the ferpentsof
royalifin and anarchy which endeavour
to wrap it in their folds, and ‘to embar
fafs its proceedings. May it give you
a wife eonftitution, protective of liberty
and equality, a-government powerful for
g >od and weak for evil. May you at
tain the proper gaol which the French
nation are now about to reach, without
purchasing it by those long convulsions,
those. painful exercises, and those acute
agonies, which with us have aggravated
its price.
The executive direftory, faithful ro
the fricid(hip which united the two re
publics, and to the principles of good
faith which form the rule of its conduft,.
will defend your independence without
and will support your conflituted autho
rities within, with all the influence of a
friendlhip founded on a common interest.
It is plcafant for me, citizens,, to be
under such circtimftances the interpre
ter of their sentiments. I partake of
them with fineerity. 1 fliall endeavour
to realize them with zeal, and shall- re
gard as the happielt days of my life those
on*which I (hall contribute to grave on
the lilt of freedom, the name otan inter
efttng peopfo; who formerly atchieved
their own independence, and who owe
every thing to themselves, even the foil
which they inhabit, and which they
have ravished from the ocean.
Health and fraternity.
DELACROIX,
Columbian JHufeum, £&♦
CADIZ, April 7.
PROCLAMATIONS.
R 1 che ry , commander in chief of the
naval forces of the French Republic
in the Bay of Cadiz.
The mutinies which appear daily on
board pf different veflels of the fleet, and
the outrages of the law, and contempt
of the oath to be faithful to it, ought not
remain unpunilhed. It is time at least
to prove to the instigators, and to the
chiefs of the rebels, that the days of par
doning are pafled, and that those of na
tional vengence are arrived.
A grand measure is taken. The
French republic, though in a foreign
country, (hall cause its laws to be respec
ted. The Spanilh government is inter
ested in the maintenance of good order
and subordination.
In confcqueiice, orders are given to
each captain on the police to be ohferveu
on board the veflels of this division ; and
in the name of the law, all good citizens
are commanded to obey his orders, and
not to involve themselves in the i .evi
table misfortunes which mull result from
their disobedience.
(Signed,)
RICHERY, Commander.
Andfealed with thefeal of the republic.
Richery, commander in chief of the
naval forces of the F reach Republic
in the Bay of Cadiz.
In confequcncc of the information
which has been given me of the revolt
of the frigate Fnpponne, I hereby, in
the name pf the law, declare to the whole
republic, and all good citizens that the
crew of the>Fripponne is in a Hate of
revolt againfl the lav/s.
Therefore all the individuals who
compose that crew, are, from this mo
ment, proclaimed rebels.—The captain
and etat major of the said frigate are
commanded to give no fafther orders to
the crew, and to confider them no long
er 39 French republicans. But the
wretches tremble, and the national thun
der, which always punilhes the criminal,
is ready to fall on their heads.
(Signed) RICHERY.
Cadiz, 19th Ventofe, March 19.
Richery, Commander in chief of the
naval forces of the French republic in
the Bay of Cadiz.
I r >m the account which citizen Bour
reau, commander of the trigate Ffio
ponne, has rendered to me 01 the return
ro order of the crew of the said frigate,
who were declared rebels to the kvv of
the republic, by a proclamation of yes
terday, at three o'clock in the.evening.
It is ordered, that citizen Bourreau,
lieutenat of the fleet, ihad resume the
command of the Fripponne,ademble im
mediately his crew on the quarter deck,
and announce to them that they lhaii no
longer be considered as rebels, it the
principal chiefs and iniligators of the
mutiny are inilantly arretted, put into a
boat and conducted on shore, to be guard
ed in a place of security, until they ihall
be lent to France to be tried.
All the crew of the Frippone are held
responsible for any obltruftion which
may be given to the measure, which can
alone save them from the rigour of the
law.
(Signed) RICHERY.
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LONDON, April 26.
Madame Pethion, who went three
years ago to ride in the Bois de Boulon
ur, near Paris, every morning, in order
to out face the queen of France, has
lately petitioned for 1000 livres to pre
vent herfelf from Hal ving. The fame
lady got about half a million by procur
ing paflports for those persons whom
the infamies of her husband obliged to
quit France.
Spain and France have agreed that all
contifcated property in confequenee of
the war (hall be restored to the respec
tive owners. Status quoante Bellum
here’ attaches to individuals, what a
condcfcenfion in those two great nations!
Right shall take place, and a man is to
have the property that belongs to him!
Spain didnotaft on such principles with
this country in refpeft to the Mannilla
Ranfoin, To lofeher honor was noth
ing but to have her monarchy in danger
was matter of serious consideration in
deed.
May 6.
Arrangements are now making for
importing from Great Britain the whole
of the Copper tobe used in the Copper
Coinage of the United States. It is to
be completely prepared here, and only
. to receive the stroke of the dye in Ame
i rica.
May 13.
A letter from Laval, of the 26th ult.
slates the Uhouans to be in force, and
more daring than ever. A body of 4or
3000 of them lately attacked and captu
red a convoy of provifians, &c. on the
bridge of Le Corbinere ; the next day
they surrounded a body of republican
troops, of whom they killed near 00
grenadiers, and took the relf. In tne
neighbourhood of Graves they also cut
in pieces a foraging party of b 6 men.
DILLENBURG, April 20.
A message arrived here yeiterday from
Vienna, with orders from the prince of
Orange tocolleft the Dutch troops em
igrated from Holland, at NalTau to
form a regular legion of them, and to
carry on the recruiting for that purpose
with the utmoll activity. The prince
is expefted to arrive here ihortiy in per
son.
AMSTERDAM, April 28.
Letters from Smyrna, advise, that on
the 20th of March, a fire broke out
there, the consequences of which were
so dreadful, that in spite of all attempts
to extinguifn it, 4000 shops, two great
Mosques, two public baths, and all the
magazines of provisions, were reduced
toadies. The loss occasioned by this
dreadful conflagration, is eilimated at
ten millions of crowns.
PARIS, May 9.
A letter from the directory to the min
iller of the interior, confirms the report
of the re-eflabiifhment of peace in La
Vendee.
DUBLIN, April 30.
The speculations on linen, for the
Spanilh and American markets this year,
exceeds any iimilar inftaace since the com
mencement of the war.
The proprietors of the Wexford
bridge, at a late meeting, unanimously
agreed to pay Mr. Lemuel Cox (of Maf
fachufctts, America) 10001. and made
him a present of 100 guineas, and a piece
of plate, value 20 guineas.
CALCUTTA, June 10.
A:i American Ihip, commanded by
Capt. Derby, arrived from the Isle of
France at Trjiquebar, on ifc current.
The colony of the lile of France was
quiet and in good order : ahhou 41 the
cUiappointmeht in the arrival of tac pri
zes, captured fome time ago in the
Straits, one only having reached the
island, at the time of captain Derby’s
departure, had occaiioncd fome mar
mu rs.
Provisions of all forts were in abun
dance, as several American veiiels had
arrived at the island, laden with ail
ivinds of supplies. Two veflels also, un
der Italian colours, had arrived from
Bourdeaux at the isle of France, two or
three days previous to Derby's
miiing ; but He did not afeertain when
they had left Europe ; or that they had
brought any public Intelligence oi conse
quence.
MONTEGO-BAY, June 18.
Tharfiiay arrived at Falmouth, the
American lhip Augulla, Callahan, from
Charlciton and Cape Nichoia Moie,
and left the latter place lail Saturday.
An attack has been made upon Bom
bard, apparently with success by our
troops, the enemy having Lamed down
the colours and opened the gates as a sur
render ; but by the vilest treachery that
can be conceived upon the admiiiion ct
our troops, many of them were maifa
crcd, and General Churchill, is mining.
This bale perfidy it was expefted would
be amply revenged, as General Howe,
by the fall accounts, had surrounded Bom
bard with 2000 troops.
From the A U R O R A.
A Word to Truth.*
TO war which it has never been my
pursuit ; but when malevolent folfehood
alfumes the garb, ’t is an aft of justice to
detest the counterfeit. Comments on
the,meafures of government by an anony
mous writer, who declares himfeif un
known to all, and probably might have
added unnoticed, until he is uled as an
inftruinent in the Aurora, would be dig
nified by remark and lifted above that
infigniftcancc which the good sense of
even Mr. Bache's admirers would other
wise condemn it to.
But the moment he abandoned his the
• ory, and touches the reputation of a vete
ran, vvhofe life has been (pent in his
1 country's service, and whole military
name (lands as high on the roll of well
earned reputation as moil who have lived
before him ; the weak attempt, like the
: diilant murmurs of unpleasing found, is
loft in idle air. His laurels breath a
higher freftmefs (hewn by the glimmer
ings of timid calumny. I was a witness
011 the spot of general Wayne's conduft,
whilst he commanded the weflern armv.
‘ ‘
and pronounce the reprefen tationTLb
lifhed by this counterfeit Truth to I*l
set of abominable lalfehoods, and* th# au
thor a poltroon. |
BENJ. STROTHERJ
Lieut, of the 4th Sub-LegiJ^
From the Gazette of the United St/ates
Mr. Fen no,
I fend you the substance of a fetter
from a man in public office under the.
I rench Republic at the Cape, to anoth
er frenchman in this country, which
was read by a confidential friend of his
and the particulars from memory com
municated to me. It is very material
that our merchants (hould be general! v>
apprized of the plan, and as I have if
doubt ol the authenticity of the inteli?
gence, I think it my duty to publish ii
thro’ the channel of the preis. The
manner in which it come: to me, dees
not permit me to disclose the fourc**—
but you who know your a aihor will not
I am fore, scruple to vouciifor the ?cod
nefs of the authority.
‘ A CITIZEN.
. His determined to feme and bring
mall American veflels laden withpr J
viflons which shall be met with bound
to any English port, These will un
dergo a severe examination, and when
the property appears to be Brittle, it
wili be conlifcared • where it is clearly
and without fufpiclon American it will
be detained, but paid for, according as
the means in our power furnifh. For
this conduft we have several motives
to keep the supplies from our enemies,
to obtain them ourfeives. The embar
raflhd Hate of the finances of the repub
lic has much narrowed the means of pav
ing for what is wanted from abroad,
and after what has happened, we cannot
expeft much future iuccour from cur
credit with the American merchants.
Besides we have feme political reasons.
It is well ti e merchants who have so
zealot'.l/ supported the treaty with
Greal-Britain should fee that there are
Iwo sides to the queftioa, and that by
temporizing with our enemy, they wili
not enjoy that foil exemption from the
inconveniences of war which they have
promiied themselves. It is also eflen
ttai that we should support our friends
in America, by fulfilling their predic
tions of evil from the treaty. Perhaps
you may ftiortly fee a French fleet ca
your coast.
But do not imagine that there wili be
war with America. This will not hap
pen The republic has no diipofitioa
to a final rupture with that country, and
we have no fears that it will come to an
open breach with us. Notwithstanding
the coalition between Pitt Sc Wash
in g to n, we are well aflured by our
confidential friends that the attachment
of the American people to the French
nation will oblige the government tobe
palfive, and that if its folly should
prompt it to a rupture with us, there
will be more to put on the tri-coloured
cockade, that to join die ftandaid ol the
hypocritical Walhington.”
PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.)June 11.
Capt. James S harley, ofChcf
ter, (N.H.) departed this life on the
29th of May lalt. And as fome singu
lar circurnftances refpefting him have
excited the curiosity of many, it may not
be unacceptable to give the public agene
rallketch of his char after. He origina
ted from Ireland, and arrived in this
country at an early period of life. At
that age, he is laid to have difeovereda
remarkable gravity in his countenance
and manner of behaviour.
In the course of his life he manifeflei
an unusual firmnefsand deliberation, con
nefted with a degree of checrfulncfs and
vivacity of mind ; which together with
his uniform temperance, and regular cx
ercife, united with a strong bodily con
stitution, served to protraft his life by
the best information, to the term of about:
ninpty-feven years.
What rendered him more particular,
was, the circumstance of his being a sev
enth son, in a direst line of fucceilion ;
which gave occasion to his firft attempt
ing, and afterwards pursuing the practice
of what is termed the king’s evil.
His praftice extended to this com
plaint in particular, in diftinftion from
every other bodily humour, or cutaneous
eruption whatsoever. The operation
itfelf was simple, and he was ready t!>
mention every part of it himfeif, when
desired, u-pon any occasion. His custom
was to stroke the patient’s diforJer wi
his hand, at evening, and then early ou
the morning following, t requefttng,
each time, the divine bieijing on the u
of the means.
However infufEcieqH the ope rati *
may appear in itfelf, the faiutary conic*
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