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Gunpowder, in loolb. Calks,
FOR SAL E,
Confidcrably lower than any of the late prices,
By Gairdners Mitchd.
December -27. U-85
Received on Conli^ninent,
ret the Schooner ANDRLW from Philadelphia :
ANTIGUA. Rum iu Hhds.
Holland Gin, in Pipes.
Puller in Keggs.
Londonand Philadelphia bottled Porter.
Wool and Cotton Cards.
Checks.
One Bab- Rose Blankets, ailarted.
4-4ths Irifti Linens.
Brown Holland.
A few Packages assorted Hardware.
Superfine Broad Cloth and Callimcr.
Second Cloth.
One Trunk f.ifhionable Ribbons, alToi ted.
One Box fine and coarse Hats.
One Trunk Holiery, aflbrted.
Black Pepper, in Keggs.
Superfine Philadelphia Hour.
Cun Powder.
A few Ilhds. fine Salt* &c. See.
The above Articles will be dXpofcd of by
the Piece or Package, for Cafli or Produce, at
Wayne’s Wharf, by capi. Samuel Cation, or
COSHMAN POLACK.
Dec. 27. 85-ts
Hunter, Preftman & Cos.
rer the SHIB Swift Packet, from Baltimore :
SUPER LINE FLOUR.
PILOT and SHIP BREAD.
Madeira WINE, in Pipes and Quarter Cafiis,
warrantee] genuine
Sherry, do in Q*-. casks, of fiiperior quality.
L O S T.
ON Friday the 53d of December Instant,
a BANK BILL of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS—it was wrapped in a fmaJl piece
of paper, on which were calculations of Intcr
*ll, See.. and supposed to be loti in going from
Mr. Norton’s to Mr. Gibbons’s. Any person
finding laid Bill and leaving it with the Prin
ters hereof, (hall receive TEN DOLLARS
Reward. Dec. 27th. 85.
Union Society.
THE Members of the Union Society, are
desired to attend at the Houfc of Mr.
]ohn H amilton, on Monday evening, the 2d
<uy of January next, prccilely at tunlet, being
a Quarterly Meeting.
By order of the Preftdent ,
PETER S. LAFITTEj Secretary.
Savannah, Dec. and. 85-31
‘rvv el \ ty Do 1 ! arsßc w a rd.
BROKE Goal from Sunbury, on the nh
Odober last palt, STEPHEN BAKER,
charged with Felony. Any person or perfon*.
.-melting and delivenng him to the iubibriber
shall receive the above Reward.
D. STUART, S. C. L.
Newport, Dec. 15. 85-1 it
Taken .Up,
r T~ v .VO Negroes, viz : 808, an elderly Fel-
X low. who fays he belongs to Edmund
Bellinger, of South Carolina, near Afhapoo.—
The other Fellow fays his name is DICK, and
that he belongs to Mrs. Hannah Gibbons, near
Savannah. Dick is about twenty years of age,
five feet three or four incites high. Whoever
own laid Negroes, is rcquefl-d to apply to the
fubferiber, pay charges, &c. and take them
a wav
'R. GIRARDEAU, Confiahle.
Liberty County, Dec. 19. 85-iit
Sheriffs Sales.
Will be Sold by Public Outcry, at the C-ayrt-
House in Sunbury, on the full Tuesday in
February nexc, between the hours as fpeci
fied by law :
Four valuable Negroes, to wit :
Abraham, lien, Prints and Champ, feiz.cd
and taken under Execution, as the property
ol William Weft ; also, a Negro man, named
September, seized as the property of Wilmarfh
Baker
All that Lot of LAND, in
the town of Sunbury, known by the number
Seventeen, together with the building* thereon,
occupied at present by George Mitzker. seized
and taken under and by virtue of a Writ of
Venditioni Exponas, as late the property of
— Miller.—Conditions Caih.
D. STUART, S. C. L.
Newport, (L. C.) Dec. 20, 1796. 85-1 it
Sheriffs Sales,
To be Sold at the Court-House in the Townot
St. Marys, in the county of Camden, on the
firft 1 uelday in January next —the follow
ing Property, viz :
1000 Acres of LAND, lv
ing in said county, on the south fide of the
Great Sittilla River, bounded south, by land
of col. William MTntolh North by land of
John Hardie’s, North-East by laid River, and
on all other tides by land vacant. —Also,
1850 Acres Land, with a
good Saw-Mill on, bounded Weft by land of
John l'errir, called Black Point, East by land
vacant at th* time of lurvey, Nortlif-Eaft and
East by the Mill Creek, and the fait marshes of
Cumberland t iver, seized under execution, as
the property of Samuel Smith, at the luit of
William Johnston, Elq.—Conditions Cash.
c m R. M'GILLIS, S. C. C. •
JU Marys, Dec. rS, 1796. 85-ts
Five or fix fmgle Gentle
men, may be accommodat and with Boarding,
apt) %to EAH MINIS, Broughton-ftreet, op
posite to Mr. Decheueaux.
December 23. fit *
Columbian Ji'ltifcum,
AUTHENTIC.
Translation of a note from the Minis
ter of the French Republic, to the
Secretary of State of the United
States. •
L “galis.? cf Philadelphia.
(Continued from our lajl.)
Certainly it would have been more
conformable to the designs of France, to
her principles, to fee the American flag,
floating without interruption upon the
leas, to fee the commerce of the United
States enjoy that liberty, that freedom,
which should belong to neutral nations :
but in order todo that it was neceliary that
the American government should know
how to maintain that neutrality ; it was
necessary that it preferred it free from
violation by G rcat- Britain ; and if now
the execution of the measures which the
directory is obliged to adopt give rife
to complaints in the United States, it is
notagainft France they ihould be.direc
ted, but against those men, who, by ne
gociations contrary to the intcreit of
their country, have brought the French,
government to ulc the prerogatives
granted to the Englith.
When, after having fufFered to be vio
lated the treaties which unite it to France!
the government of die United States
has alfociated itfelf with England, and
has rendered its neutrality as uiefui to
that power as it is now injurious to its
ancient ally ; could the republic be li
lent ? Her outraged generosity, her
wounded honor prevented her ; her li
lencc were weakness; and flrong in her
principles as in her proceedings, she
Ihould demand her unacknowledged or
forgotten rights.
Thus therefore as it results from the
llatement which the uadcrfigned minuter
plenipotentiary has juit given.
ill. That the 17 th article of the trea
ty of 1778 has ben viola ted ; that m
contempt of this article, the American
tribunals hate been permited to taKe
cognizance of the validity of prizes
made by French lhips of war and priva
teers, under pretext of original arma
ment or augmentation of armament in
the United States, or of capture within
the jurii'didionai line of the Unitea
oitates :
z. That the said article 17 has been
equally violated by the admiiiion or
Engiifh veifels in the ports of the Uni
ted States, which had made prizes on
Frenchmen, and by the admiiiion of
their prizes :
The underlined minister plenipoten
tiary, in the name, and by me orders oi
the executive diredfory, protetts againu
the violation of the 17th arc. above cited,
in contempt of which the American tri
bunals have taken cognizance of the * a
lidity of prizes made by French fnipsci
war, or privateers, under pretext or ori
ginal armament, or augmentation of ar
mament in the United States, or ofcao
ture within the jurifdi&ionline ; claims
the replevy of all ieizurcs, and the re
peal of ail other judicial afts cxerciied
on those prizes ; and proteifs, moreover,
again ft all op polk ion to the sale of the
said prizes.
Further, tiie undersigned minister
plenipotentiary protests againll the vio
lation of the 17th article of the treaty
of 1778, in contempt of which Engiifh
vellcls, which had madeprize on French
men, have been admitted into the ports
of the United States; and declares that
the executive directory cannot regard as
a jull confirmation of the treaty, the dif
tindion which Mr. Randolph, secretary
of Rate, has cllablifhed in his letter of
29th May, 1 in which he admits
only the cxciufion of the Engiifh veil'd:,
which bring in their prizes, and withes
to except from the prohibitory measure,
the veflels which after having made pris
es, enter the ports of the United States.
The undersigned minister plenipoten
tiary moreover declares, that the exe
cutive dirc&ory regards the treaty oi
commerce concluded with Great-Bri
tain, as a violation of the treaty made
wfitli France, in 1778, and equivalent to
a treaty of alliance with Great-Britain,
■ and that justly oliencdcd at the conduit
which the American government has
held in this case, they have given him
orders to suspend from this moment hfc
minittcrial functions with the federal go
vernment.
‘i he famecaufe which for a long time
prevented the executive directory from
allowing their just resentment to break
forth, has also tempered its effects.
Neither barred, nor the desire of ven
geance, rapidly succeed to friendihip in
the heart of a Frenchman ; the name of
America fiill excites sweet emotions in
it, notwithilanding the wrongs of its go
vernment; and the executive directory
wish not to break with a people whom
they love to salute with the appellation
f friend,
The undersigned miniftcr plenipoten
tiary therefore announces, that the go
vernment of the United States, and the
American people, are not to regard the
suspension of his functions as a rupture
between France and the United States,
but as a mark of just difeontent, which
is to lalt until the government of the
United States, returns to sentiments
and to measures more conformable to the
iatcrerts of the alliance and the fvvorn
triendfmp between the two nations.
This alliance was always dear to
Frenchmen—they havedoneevery thftig
to tighten its bands—the government
of the United States, on the contrary
has fought to break them. Scarcely had
the war broken out between France and
England when America was alone in
vited to the commerce of the aiuiiles.
All the colonial ports were opened to
her. Her vcffUs- entered the ports of
France without being fubjeCied to high
er duties than French veileis. When
the Engiifh violated the freedom of the
neutral flag, the convention was obligee!
to use reprdals. They ordered tnat
neutral veileis ihould be. seized by the
lhips of the republic ;,Jhe excepted the
Americans from this measure ; forced
against her inclination to make it bear on
them, alio, ihe waited with impatience
for the moment when she might return
to a eonduft more conformable to her
sentiments for the United States, boon
Ine revoked her law relative to the ar
rest of their veileis. Soon also the com
mittee of public fafety gave orders ro
refpeit the American flag. In every
circumilance France fought the means of
proving to the United States, the finee
rity oi her friendihip. When the fed
eral government complained of the con
duct of one ot the predeceiTora of the
undersigned ; the French government
saw only the complaints of the govern
ment oi the United States, and imrnedi
ateiy gave the moil linking reparation.
Let the anr.als of the French revolu
tion be opened, let the minutes of that
august fitting be ieen, in which the na
tional convention received the minister
oi tiie United States in its bosom; the
addrefies were net studied; they sprang
bom hearts fall of affettion for an allied
people ; they breathed the sentiments
which dictated them > and the Ameri
can minister mutad himfeif in the mid 11
ot Ids iriencis. What joy did not the
American fi,<.g inspire when it waved un
furled in tiie French senate ? Tender
tears trickled from each eye ; every one
looked at it with amazement. T here,
.atd they, is the fymboi of the indepen
dence oi our American brethren—be
loki there the pledge oi their liberty !
May victory always attend it—May it
iead to glory none but a free and happy
people !—Thefe words which escaped
• torn a thousand mouths, were the cx
preition of the sentiments of the whole
lation.—Was not an American to each
FrcnchrsMtn, another Frenchman ?—he
was more—he was a friend; and that
acred name amidll civil diffentions, was
equally respected by all.
What then was done by the govern
nenti It put in question w'hether it
ihould execute the treaties, or receive
she agents of the rebel and proferibed
princes (No. 6;) It made a proclama
tion of insidious neutrality ; by its chi
caneries it abandoned French privateers
to its courts of justice ; it eluded the
amicable mediation of the republic for
breaking the chains of its citizens at
Algiers (No. 7.) Notwithilanding
treaty stipulations, it allowed to be ar
reited, veflels of the state ; it foftered
England, by infnlting its neutrality, to
interrupt its commerce with France ;
notwithilanding the faith oi treaties, it
gave an asylum to these fame Englilh,
who after having insulted her flag pil
laged her citizens, came also to brave
the American people in its ports, and to
take a station whence to cruize, on a fa
vorable opportunity, against the French:
It might be said that it applauded their
audacity ; all submission to their will,
it allowed the French colonies to be de
clared in a Hate of blockade, and its citi
zens interdicted the right of trading to
them, (No. 8.) It eluded all the ad
vances made by the republic tor renew
u ing the treaties of commerce, upon a
more favorable footing to both nations;
(No. 9.) It excused itfelf, on the
tnoll frivilous pretexts—whillt it anti
cipated Great-Britain, by folieiting a
treaty, in which, prostituting its neu
trality, it facriiiced France to her ene
mies, or rather looking upon her as ob
literated from the Chart of the World,
it forgot the services that she had ren
dered it, and threw away the duty of
gratitude, as if ingratitude was a go
vernmental duty.
Alas! Time has not yet demoliftred
the fortifications with which the Eng
lilh roughened this country—nor those
the Americans raised for their
the;r lialf rounded summits still -
m every quarter, amidst plains, </u Ht
tops of mountains ‘i h e Jravelle?
need not fcarch for the ditch which forf
Scattered ruins of houses laid waste
Witich the fire had partly refpetfed in
order to leave monuments of British f P
ry, are fliil to be found—Men still
who can fay, here a ferocious EneliftV*
man slaughtered my father ; there mv
wtie tore her bleeding daughter from
the hands of an unbridled Enohfw,,,
Alas ! The foldliers who fell under the
ivvojo of the Britons are not yet reduced
to dull ; the labourer in turning up hi s
held, lull draws from the bosom ot the
earth their whitened bones; while the
ploughman, with tears of tenderness and
gratitude, fliil recollefts that his fields
now covered with rich harvests, have
been rnoillened with French blood—
while every thing around the inhabi
tants of this country, animates them to
speak of the tyranny of Great-Eritain
<Md oi the generality ot Frenchmen - -
when England has declared a war of death
to that nation, to avenge herfeif for its
having cemented with its blood ti ein
dependence of the United States. j t
was at tnis moment their government
made a treaty of amity witii their an
cient tyrant, the implacable enemy
of their ancient ally. Q \ Ameri
cans covered wrth noble fears ! () ; , 0u
who have so often flown to death and to
vidory with French fddiers! You who
know those generous sentiments which
dillinguifli tire true warrior ! Whose
hearts have always vibrated with those
of your companions in arms! Consult
them today to,-know what they experi
enced ; recoiled at the fame time, that
it magnanimous fouls with iivelinefs re
sent an atl'roat, they also know how to
forget one. ( Let your government re
turn to itfel/r, and you will still find in
Frenchmen faithful friends and generous
allies.
Done at Philadelphia, the 25th Bru
maire, sth year of the French Re
public one and indivisible (irch
Nor. 1796, 0.5.)
P. A. ADET.
(Tie notes referred to and infupport of
thejoregoing , •will appear tn oar tuxt.J
NASSAU, (n. ?.) Dec. 6.
This day arrived here the brig Polly, k
M’ B ride, from London. She left Po rtf-#
mouth on the 25th Odober, and brings ;
intelligence from London to the 220.
Po and Maimfbury, the British Am
bailador to the French government, had
arrived at Calais, and let out from thence
for Paris, where lie wasexpeded to ar -
rive on the evening of Odober 21-
His lordship’s negopiation, it was fup
poied, would be soon brought toiflue* ;
and, under the increafing.emDarrafknents
of the Prench, it was thought more than
probable that the diredory would not
hazard refilling any longer the general
wifli ot the people of F ranee.
A number of valuable Spanish veiTels
had been conduded into Eritilh and I
rilh ports, where they remained waiting
the adjustment of matters between the
two courts*
A Spanish Squadron was at Minorca,
and, lhouldit venture out of port, there
was little doubt of its being well accoun
ted for by fir J ohn Jervis.
The Austrian armies were every
wherefuccefsful. In Italy the French,
were defeated, with the loss of three
generals and many thousand soldiers;
Manrua was relieved, and a large Aus
trian reinforcement was arrived within
three days march of that city. 011 the
Her, the army of the Rhine and Moselle
was defeated, and the liege cf Jngolt
iladt raised. Moreau attempted to make
a stand again!! the Auitrians at Bern
llingand Oberdorff, in the end of Sep
tember ; he was there attacked by the
Imperial Generals Frolick, Wolf and
Lobkowitz ; and after a conflict, which
lasted 22 hours, was compleatly routed,
with the loss of 15,000 men. Th rem
nant of the army of the Sainbre and the
Meule hadgotacrofs the Rhine, of ta
ken refuge within the ltrpng lines of
DufleldorlF. On the Ift October, the
Archduke flormed and carried the im
portant post ot’ Nicuwied, taking the
whole ot the French, 6000 in number,
who defended it, prisoners. Bournon
ville, with about 6000 men, drawn from
Holland, had got to Cologne, and as
sumed the command in that quartet.
Jourdan was at Paris.
NEW-YORK, November 28.
Five or fix Britilh men of war have
left Martinique to lave their crews from
pefttlence which rages there in an alarm
ing degree. Admirals Christian and
\ Pole failed *%ora that port on the jdo-
No. 85.