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VoL. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE: Publifhed every Tucfday. by AMBROSE DAY Sc JAMES 11 ELY. at 3 dollars per ann, payable half yea.ly : Where Effays, Articles of Intelligence, Adveitiiements, &c. See. are thankfully received, and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neatnefs and dilpatch. FOREIGN NEWS. By the flip Maria % captain Henry, from London . intelligence is brought as late as the ?i /? of Auguf! The following is pub~ lijhed as the mofl important. State of the Negociation between France and America. PARIS, Auguft 6. The conferences opened at Paris with the envoys of the Uniter! Stales, are at prefent fulpended j and there is little hope of their being fuccefsfully relumed for fome time. It ap pears that the powers veiled in the envovs are too limited to enable them to conclude a trea ty which (hall give the fame ad vantages to the republic as thole granted to the Fnghflr by the treaty ma 7 e with Mr. Jay, France chofes rather to decline treating with the United Stares, jhan to fanftion the privileges which they have accoided to he r en^my. The queftioo in dlTpute will aopear from the following par ticulars : The United States and Eng land, by the 25th article of their treaty, mutually Pipnlare a Free enhance into their refpeFtive ports with a complete probe tion to the privateers and (hips of war of the two countries, and the prizes taken from their ene mies And they engage never to conclude a treaty extending the f, ?me favour to any nation at war with anv of the contraft ine parties. she treaty of 1779 between France and th« United States, having been annulled by the latter, and now regarded as if it never exifled, they conceive they cannot give the fame pri vileges to France without violat ing theit treaty with England. Ihe French republic does not feem dilpofed to ratify, to her own prejudice, and in favour of the Englilh, her enemies and tivds,a proceeding fo unexpeft- C( 1 on the part of the Americans, Kith fhe recently m de a common caufe againfl thofe ve ry enemies, directed to the lame for which France heifelf ls at was the attainment °f liberty and independence. It is unfoitunate that the United States fo precipitately annulled the treaty of 1778. I'bey themfelves, now repent they we e induced to take fr t ftep as it deprives them of 1 c power of giving to France or M other country, rhe fame ad jutages which they have con- J; err ed to trie Englih Their jj'plomatic agents mull have Vwn very fhort-figbted, or very THE LOUISVILiIe GAZETTE; a n Id republican trumpet. T U E S D A Y, October 28. 1800. LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO A. VO TRU TH OUR GUIDE. partial to the infrrefls of Eng land ; or their envoys mud give a wrong interpretation to their inflru&ions. and the treaty alluded to; fince it appears that France, renouncing the claims fhe may have from the priority of the treaty of 1778. row offers to treat without demanding any other advantages than thofe en joyed by the Englifh and which they have exerciled during the prefent war; and the ambaffa dors mull come with a very bad grace to negotiate a peace, if they arc not veiled with power to accede r o thofe conditions. The negociation was opened on fhe part of the French com miffioners, on the fuppofition that the treaty of 1778 was Hill in force. It was, indeed, natu ral to fuppofe that, the two na tions never having been in a flafe of war with each other, this treaty could not have been an nulled without the content of both countries; and in litis point of view it was that the French commiffroners offered an indemnification to the Ameri cans, by admitting fhe principle of compcnfation for illegal cap. trues. They even proceeded further, inflead of demanding fiom ihc Americans the indefinite gua rantee of the French colonies, fhe article of the treaty which is molt prejudicial to the former, they agree to the fubflitution of a fpecial guarantee, fuch as ap pears to be contained in the in flru&ions of the preceding am* baffadors, according to the copy of them publifhed by congrefs. But the American envoys were not authorized to renew this treaty, even after retrenchingthe article refpe&ing the guarantee of the French iflands. France, therefore, conceived herfeif ex empted from the obligation of compenff ting for the captures; the Americans themfelves hav ing, by abrogating the treaty deftroyed the bafis on which onlv their claim could have been founded. It thus appears that the nego ciation turned chiefly on three points. 1. The continuance in force, or the modifred renewal of the treaty of 1778. France waved rhis point, in confequence of the aflurancc of the American envoys that they could not rc cw it. 2. The principal of comnen fation for illegal captures This point France offered to admit: hut on conditions only that the treaty of 1778 fhould be renew ed, with the modifications dated in the inflru&ions given by Wafhington. 3. The 25th article treaty between the United States and Gre.v-liritain, relative to * the proteftion granted to the armed vcffels of that nation. France will moil probably infill upon enjoying the lame advan tage as long as it is polfcffcd to her injury by her enemies. I hcie is another principle which Franc? is anxious to rfta blifh. a* d on the adoption of j which die has flrongly infilled ; a principle which it is Hill more the intered and policy of the Americans to carry into execu tion. But the treaty of 1703 with the Englifh prevents them from acceding to this fydetn, namely, chat neutral bottoms fhall conflitute neutral property, France, however, hopes to re duce the powers of the North to edablifh this fvflern, to be excluded from the benefit of which would be highly injurious to the Amciicans. It appeals, however, thalthefe diplomatic conferences have been conducted in the mofl amicable manner, and fb as to leave only ah impreffion of re gret thatJt was imprfhble to remove th)| difficulties which had occurred The Ameiican ambafladois. during their refi dence at Paris, have been tieat ed with evety polfibJe maik of refpeft, and enjoyed all the dif tin£hons conferred on theminif ters of our allies. As it is at prefent the principle and fyftem of France to relpccl and protect the law of natirns, arid rhe rights of neutrality, it is to be hoped that the frank and equi table cohduG which flic holds, with regard to neutrd dates, will foon remove the ditlciences which have occurred cen her and the United States, and that even fhould the prefent negociation no*: terminate in a treaty., the American flag lira]!, nol-vithfla'iding, continue 10 be relpc&ed. and their vcffels treat cd as ihofe of a fticndly nation in our courts of juflice. Orders arc iflued t* the pri vateers to refpe& all neutral flags, among which the Ameri can veffels are undoubtedly the mofl numerous; and American veffels arc daily rclcafed by »h<* courts, with damages againfl rhe owners of the privateers 1 uert are now about fifty caulcs hefor* the council of prizes refpn&mg veffels taken in the Europe »n Teas, and rhofe ef the 'eflcls which really belong to Amen cans will affuredly be rioted. The f ate of fuch, how eve , a were furnlfhed with letters of marque, docs not ajone?,T to be yet determined. fr is (heught that they cannot he given up without fanftioning the rof:- dn6l of the Americans in *rm ing them, u rile Is the »eHitutiorA fhould refult from a new treaty of amity. The prececlinr particular** have been communicated by the mod rcfpeft.rhle authority. Alignjl 16. A revolution has taken place in c witzerlacd. The councils have hern abo lifhed, and a new executive council appointed. A letter from Augfburgh of the 12th Auguft frvs, 'ha m Icfs than a fortnight there will be a Congrcfs at Augfburgh Preliminaries of pe*cc have been figned between the French Republic and the Dcy of Al giers Letters from Berlin flat that negotiations arc carried on widicqud vigour at Paris Vi enna and Berlin. The king of Ptulfia, in concert with cn mark, Sweden, pain, and per haps with Ruffia, labours to elletluatc the peace of Furopc, oral lead of the continent, and to orgahife an armed neutrality if the v/ar befw' cn Fiance and England is to continue. Cou riers arrive every d,.v tr m Pa ris. Vienna and Polcifhurgh. They lay that negociations aie to be entered on at ( a>l(fbad 9 and that general Bournonville will go theic foon. From the Hcond half year of the year 8. the rentsand penfions of the Hate are to be paid tr* fpecie, through the medium of the bank ot Fr m c. BO ST N, SfpUmbc? 27. AMERICAN DRAVtRv! Ycflerday arrived here a fhip from Sf Sabaflians capf Ox foid bedonging to M(flits. Bulfy and Jnglas. On her palfago home, was taken by a Bntilh privateer, by virtue of the Bn tilh treaty. Ihe pnvrfeca put ten of her hands on board, and ordered her for an Englifh port. The biave captor, with his Ton and two negroes, »ole on the pirates, rctooK the (hip, and afterwards fell in with a *'<*lll - fhip, and put frvp of »he pirates on boarH he- We ,dfo h.ar flie h s brought mlHatches from on commfljoners in Fi-nc . A 0 1 I C E. ALL •h'Tr who mav * c in wmi ot damp p?prr cu h? (upp y anpiyit’g at Mr j me* bozeooatt'g St eve. John Poftwtck t of ihf- KewtD're. Sept, jo, [No. gi.