Newspaper Page Text
PARIS, November io~.
It is kid that the diredory demands
of the American plenipotentiaries: ift.
Whether their inftrudions allow them to
give fatisfa&ion for the outrage rfferrd
to the French government, in the speech
of the president made jnthe i6fh of May
last, at the opening of congress ? And
2dly. Whether they are authorised to re
eftabliih the refpedive pofttion in which
the States ftcod in 1778, and to annul in
the posterior treaties all the clauses inju
rious to the interests of the French re
public ?
LONDON, November 2.
HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
Lift night about half past nine the
Chancellor of the exchequer, accompani
ed by the speaker of the house of com
irons, Mr. W. Bootle, and Mr. W.
Drummond, the mover and Seconder ol
the address in the house of common', and
about 60 other members, appeared in the
cockpit, and read his m ijelly’s speech,
which is in substance as follows:
My Lords and Gentlemen,
It is a matter of great concern to me
that the earntft endeavours which I have
employed since my last meeting you in
parliament, for the restoration of peace on
f-cure and honourable terms, have unhap
pily been rendered ineffectual.
The declaration which I have caused to
be publilhed, with the other papers which
T have ordered to belaid before you, will
prove to you and to the world that every
step has been taken on my parr, which
could tend to accelerate the conclusion of
peace, and that the long and fruitlcfs de
lay which took place in the couifc of the
negotiation, is to be aferibed solely to the
evasive conduct, the unwarrantable pre
tentions, the inordinate ambition, and
above all, the inveterate animosity of the
enemy with whom I had to treat.
I have the fulled reliance on the wis
dom ofyourcounfels, and upon the mag
nanimity and courage of a free people,
exerted under Providence in drlence of
what is most elfcntial to *heir dearell in
terests, and that they will prove them
selves deserving of the distinguished blef
ftngs which they enjoy.
Compelled as we are, by neceflity, to
perfeverc in this arduous contest tor the
preservation of whatever is most dear to
us, till the enemy (hall have manifelled a
more just and pacific difpofit on, I have
the fatisfa&ion of knowing that we are
potTeffed of means and resources propor
tionate to these objects. During the pe
riod of hoftilifies, and under the predate
of the difficulties which that fir nation ne
ccffatily produced, the public revenueshave
been productive, national industry has
encreafed, and commerce has b*:enextend
ed even beyond its former limits. The
public spirit of my people has been emi
nently displayed, all deferiptions of my
troops have acquired frefh claims to the
gratitude and esteem of their country,
and the repeated successes of my Navy
over all my enemies during the present
war, have been recently crowned by the
signal and decisive victory with which
Providence has rewarded the exertions of
roy fleet under the command of admital
lord Duncan. No event could have been
mote beneficial to the public interest, at
the fame time that it furnifhes a frelh ex
ample of the numerous and heroic achieve
ments which have railed to a pitch hither
to unequalled, the naval glory of this
country.
Gentlemen oj the Houje of commons,
I have ordered the estimates of the en
faing year to be hid before you. The
(late of the war, and the consequences
of the successes recently experienced, will,
1 trust, admit of some dimunition of ex
pence, confiftcnly with the vigorous ef
forts which our situation indifpenfibly
requires. In considering what may be
the belt mode of defraying the heavy ex
pence which will ft ill be unavoidable, you
will, I am persuaded, bear in mind that
the present enfis presents every motive to
animate yon to the most tfP&ual and f, i
rited exertions; the trne value of any
temporary facrifices which you may find
necessary for this purpose, can only be
estimated by comparing them with the im
portance of supporting effedually our
poblic credit, and convincing the enemy
that, while we retain an ardent desire for
the conclusion of peace, on fate and bo
norable terms, we possess the means, as
well as the determination, to support with
vigor this arduous contcft, as long as it
may be necessary, for mainlining the
fafety, honor, and independence of these
kingdoms.
My Loris and Gentlemen ,
After the repeated proofs 1 have had of
▼our loyalty aod attachment to my per
son, and yoor zeal for the public fer
« only to recommend to you
coorfe which you
* r hjs events which
» **
every day pass before 03, demonstrate the |
bl flings of our civil aod religious ctia- [
blifhments, and impose it on you as a duty
to maintain those advantages which have
so long diftingnithed this country from
ail the other nations of Europe. These can
only be preserved by inculcating a due re
verence and obedience to the laws, by re
prefling every attempt to disturb out in
ternal tranquility, and by prefeiving in
violate that couftitution which we have
inherited from our ancestors, and upon
which the fafety and happiness of every
clafsof my fubjefts essentially depends.
November 6.
The firft confluence of rh- peace with
Austria appears to be the following order
of the executive diredlory.
executive directory.
Decree of 5 Brumaire , Ocl, 16, 6.’a year.
Art. 1. There (hall be assembled,
without delay, on the coasts of the ocear,
an army, which (hall be called the army
of England.
2. Citizen general Buonaparte is ap
pointed commander in chief of this army.
It (hall be provifiona!!y commanded by
citizen Defaix, general of division, who
for this purpose lhall instantly repair to
Rennes.
The minister at war is charged with
the execution of the prefint decree, which
(hall be inserted in the bulletin oi laws.
(Signed)
L i Reveillkr L t>aux , Prefi en:.
Another decrer—fome date
The executive directory, confident g
.that the quern of Portugal, instead of
fending a pure and fun pie ratification of
the treaty ol p ace concluded with the ex
ecutive diredory, in the name of the
French republic, on the 23d Thermidor,
year 5, within the two months allowed
by that treaty, has put her principal
strong places into the hands of the Britilh
aimy—decrees as follow*:
The treaty between the French repub
lic and the queen of Portugal, concluded
on the 23d Thermidor, year 5, and not
ratified cn the part of her said majesty,
is declared to beef no effeft. The mini
fter of foreign affairs is charged to ooti
fy to M. Aranjo D zevedo, minister
plenipotentiary of the queen of Portugal,
to quit the territory ot the republic with
out delay.
L. M. R. LtPAUx, President.
November 11.
Dtf; atches were received at the admi
ralty from admiral lord St. Vincent,
dated from the Tagus, where his lord
(hip arrived on the 19th ult. with twelve
Ihips belonging to his fleet.
Letter? received by the last L (bon mail
aflualiy (late, that the Spanish troops
were filing olf towards the frontier of
France, to prevent the French troops
from entering Spain, under a pretence of
invading Portugal,
November 14.
Advices have been received at the ad
miralty from fir John B. Warren, ot the
French meditating a defeent upon the
coast of Cornwall.
Overtures have been made from the
court of Spain to this country, for a re
newal of amity, with a view to the re
commencement of hoftiliiiy with France!
The king of Pruflia is colliding a large
army, and will soon be subsidized by
England with the fame view.
Accounts received yesterday from the
coast of France enntradid those on
authority of which it was some time since
dated that the diet at Bred was difmant
lirg; on the contrary, it is now said
great exertions arc making to fit a strong
squadron for sea, the general idea pre
vailing is, that during the winter months,
a new attempt will be made against Ire
land, which country, in France, is ccn
fidered as in a state ofadual rebellion.
November I£.
It is certain, that the last letters from
Li(bon declare in the most decided terms 3
of the Spanilh court ha ving fignified to
the Portuguefc government, that it would
not fuffer any French troops to march
through Spain to attack Portugal. It is
even intimated in some letters that the
court of Madrid was about to make a se
parate peace with this country.
The admiralty have received certain
advice that the Toulon fleet is arrived at
Bred. We have not learnt the number
of (hips that have stolen round and evaded
the vigilance of ourfl -ets; but the ru
mour is that they are fix (hips of the line.
This must be that part of their fleet,
therefore, which was left at Toulon when
the expedition was made to the Adriatic
Sea; and the (hips of that squadron are
not included in the fleet that has come
round to Bred.
This mcafure seems to indicate a serious
design of a new armament at Brest. Ac
cordingly if we may givecredit to rumour,
the (hips which had gone into the inset
I road have corns again into the outer,
where they are now lying at anchor, 17
fail in number.
In addition to the above intelligence
relative to the naval preparations making
by the French, we itate, from the belt
authority, that the Spaniards have thirty
three or thirty-four Ihios of the line at
Cadiz, equipped and ready for sea, be
sides 8 'bios of the line equally equipped,
lying in bay, near Gibraltar,
and a pretty Itrong fleet fitted at Cartha
gena.
NEW YORK, January 2.
This morning arrived brig Rosetta,
captain Tylee, 55 days from Havre de
Grace, who failed from thence on the
7th November. Captain Tylee informs,
that in cnnfequence of the alarming prof
pett of affairs in France, and the appre
hension of an immediate embargo, he
made ; reparations for failing before day
light on the day of his departure, and
made fail at 12 o’clock. He fays it is a
general belief in Havre that war will en
lue between the two countries. Our
comiuiffioners had been pretented ; but
the uemoit secrecy prevailed with refpttt
to the objed of their mifiion. It was
reported they had sent home dispatches
requesting additional inftrudions.
I he transported deputies from France,
Baithelemi, Pichegru, &c. are arrived
at Cayenne, S. A. They are lodged in
one house, and are permitted to walk a
broaj, under a guard.
January 3. A letter from a refpetta
b!e h.jufe at Havre, dated on the day of
captain Ty lee’s departure, dotes with
the following Altho’ the American
com i>iffi>ners have not yet been admitted
to the dirrdoty, we are persuaded there
will be no war between the two nations:
It is more likely that the United States
will in future be considered as a nation
having no treaty with us.”
Extra t of a letter from a gentleman : n
Hivre to a ,r.ercantik h-nijt
in this city , received ./ tit' Rojeita ,
Jrcm thence.
“Havre, Nov. 6, 1797.
“ There is now a project of an abso
lute defeent on England ! The immortal
Buonaparte is appointed commander in
chief on this expedition. There is to
be immediately aifembled 120 thousand
men between Bieff anJ Hor.fleur, as well
as another body of ten thouland men be
tween this place and Dunkirk.
“ Hanover will be immediately attack
ed ; and what will ensure our success is
a fccret article in our treaty with the
emperor, permitting the passage of our
troops.”
A gentleman who ha 9 arrived in 54
days from Havre brings the alarming in
telligence that strong evidences exilt there
of a probability of a WAR being declar
ed by France againlf America.—The vete
fel in which he came was obliged to de
part secretly and suddenly. It is ex
petted that the American vessels remain
ing in Havre, and probably in every o- „
the French port, will be detained. The
American Hotel at Havre was at the
time this gentleman came away surround
ed by guards.
Such is the information we have re
ceived. French papers are said to be in
the city, which will, without doub f ,
throw some light upon this important
fubjett.
From the fame source we learn that
our commissioners are rejetted by the
French government.
PHILADELPHIA, January 4.
la Fayette
Gen. la Fayette and his companions in
filtering did not quit the prison of Oi
mutz till the 19th of Sept. They wire
escorted by a guard of dragoons to the
Austrian frontier, after which a m jor
had direttions to accompany them as tar
as Hamburg, and to fee them to the house
of Mr. Parilh, the late American consul,
from whom he is to receive a note of their
fafe arrival.
On this occasion the Baron de Thugut
wrote a letter to the Austrian minUter at
Hamburg, in which he makes use of this
exprefiion “ Inform Mr. Parish, that it
is not st the request of the directory that
his imperial majesty has given liberty to
M. la Fayette; it wn his with to give
this maik of his good-will and friendfhip
to the United States of America, on the
application which they had made in his
favour, and to prove to them how much
he desired to comply with their wishes,
&c. &c. —This intimation was officially
communicated to Mr. Parish. I
NORFOLK, January 4.
The following paragraph concerning our
commissioners, taken from a Glasgow
paper of the 13th Nov. correfp -nds
with that under the Paris date of Nov.
10.
Letters received here from London
mention it as a current report there, that
the French had refuted to treat * • i
American comanffiuners.
would, as a preliminary, iaau| 9
1 reaty with this country ; and
commissioners having no f ac!l “ dt {
had, in contequence, been y t £?
quit Paris. 0
. c ° n 8«& have poflponed the conU n
tion or a bnl, authoriiin* the
American veffds, under certain *?,■
tions, until the firft Monday i a
SAVANNAH, January ,5,
The editors of the Columbian Mufenia k
been favored with the'fullowi„j f(i „J
mention, from the honorable fit
Butler, of South-Caroiina,
ladtlphia.
“ Philadelphia, Dec ~
“ PLEASE to communicate to ■
cultivators of COTTON in the ft -
Georgia, that ihe lafl account V
England arrived here, quote Geer
Sea Island Cotton at 3/2
pound. I have this iniounation V
a refpettable merchant.
“ P. BUTLER. ”
A letter received from Loarfun, by
gentleman in this city, dated Nov.
Bates the fo.lowing as ti,c tarn
prices of the unuei mentioned au;c
a: the above date.
Rice 20 s. dull.
Georgia Cotton is. to 2 / g rather dull
Tobacco, 6 d. to BJ. pei ib.
' Skins deer in hair, rj. to,
skin.
Fawn, 2r. to 4%
Indian dreffnd, 2,3 to 2/to i
pound.
J'v’fr'a* $&&&&'Z»§
SHERIFFS SALES.
At the court house in Franklin coun
on the firft Tuefday in March n
betwern th hours of 10 and 3 o’cla
WILL IS E SOL 0
The following property, viz.
700 acres land joins Kulli
and Graves, M. F. Broad rivr,.s
acres, 100 joins Warren and M Dann
Hudson’s river; 200 Mathews, M.
Oc >nee; i2oM‘Donnel, Hudton’sriv
287 12 Allen and Long, Clark’scru
200 Jcf ; h Pullom, D. üble bian:hr
200 James Gates, Broad river; 125 T<
Hunter, Gumlog creek; 550 Gr
Taylor, Broad liver; 550 John K
rington, Shoal creek ; 200 Pedigree.
Black Hunter’s creek ; 2coGr»£g,Hi
ter’s creek; 1000 James crifhom, 0:
nee waters; 1000 Coleman,-Oconee 1
t'rs; 100 vacant land, N. F. Ocom
287 1 2 John Johnlfon, Broad rivt
287 1 2 ditto, M. F. Broad riverjr
1-2 M‘Clare, Little's creek ; C 75 Jan
Little, Nai.'s creek ; 287 1 2 Vi;Ca!
Oconee; r 000 academy, M. F.Oeoir
287 1 2 Fn-rman, M. F. Dread rive
287 1 2 Manin and vacant;
Sruad river waters; 430 Gorhumj
F. Oconee; 460 Matterfon, 0co&
waters; 74 000 Naylor and vaca
Toogaloe a,ul Broad river; 6oco N’ T ‘
and vacant, Toogaloe and Bioad rive
55. cOO Broad river and Toogaloe; 1
12 Wm. D’en, Oconee; 287 11 ’
can», Oconee; 287 1 2 Lampit»- 5 » " ,0
river water<-; 265 Hcaden and .viJfti
Silver creek; 287 1 2 Greere coo"
line, Broad river; 287 1 2 Williami
N. F. Broad river; 230 Kent"* »
Smitten, Oconee ; 287 1- 2 PeterCu*r
Oconee; 1880 Marbnry, N.
creek; 1150 ditto; 1150 ditto; 2 -, a
Greene county ii .e, Rockey cr *
287 1-2 Manin and Pruitt, B° c ‘'
creek; 287 t 2 John Barnett, O'- 0 *
500 Ezekiel OiFut, N. F O:on-U
vacar.t land, Chandler’s c:c j k; H *
to, M. F. Oconee; 450
F. Oconee; 1000 vacant land, »
ii- er; Ico di'to; 500 ditto, Aca**
I 460 Thos. Gwen, U. F. Broad n
i 200 Wo ton and Knox, B g Shoal
j 260 vacant land, M. F. Ocoee®; *_
i Clark and Jones, Turky cree
i Gorham on two sides- Oconee; 5?
; a'.d Gilbert, Toogaloe river;
j er and Shewmake, Toogaloe;
ley, Reid creek; 300 vacant
vanoah; taken as the property 0 i
R. Whitney to faristy an cxecutipn .; 1
by John Berrien, Esq- rrea'ure-
State of Geargia, againfi the w -
R. W’hitney, collettor of taxes .ot
lin county, in the year 179-T*
age of tux due said State.
Alfa, 257 1 2 acres land
■ creek, four named D ,c * ,
Rilvey and Millty, one w agg°
horse hearts, seven cows and
ten bead of sheep ; taken as / 1 ' ; .5 j,
of James Little, tecurity ot f*'-
R. Whitney, to fatisty the afore
mand. Conditions CASH. . :
HEZEKIAH TERRELL ••
December Hi 1797*