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MUSES’ RETREAT.
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A SONG.
THE tVAT TO KEEP HIM.
\Vlicn once the maid is chang’d to wife,
And wedlock fix’d her lot for life,
’ Sweet days of ctiurtfhip over;
With all your foft attractive graces,
Dimpled fmilcs and pretty faces,
I , ”1 is hard to fix your lover,
Or find the way to keep him.
So odd the sex, so flrange the mode,
’Till not enough you’re wife and good,
Now other charms muff noose him ;
A wife that’s ovrr wife they fliun,
from her that’s over fond they run,
If thus your merits loose hint,
How fmd the way to keep him ?
Adopt Ilia plan of social joys,
Hear with his ears, fee with his eyc3,
Nor scold if he turns rover ;
For peace and plcafure men oft roam,
But if they find those joys at home,
Your lnifband is your lover,
And that’s the way to keep him.
■. 1 1 igr, **.■
N EW, - YORK, November 21.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Copy of a letter from mr. Genet, mins
ter plenipotentiary from the republic of
France , to mr. feffefn, secretary of
fate.
New Fork, Nov. 14, 1793,
2 and year of the French republic.
Sir,
I believe I ought to communicate
to you the copy of a letter which I
have just wiitten to the attorney ge
neral of the United States, to demand
of him, that rnclfrs. Jay and King, the
one chief justice, and the other a sena
tor of the United States, who have
puhlifhcd in the newfpapcrs a libel
against me, Ihoukl be prosecuted at the
federal court. I have to this moment
emitted nothing to afeertain the fallity
of the perfidious impofiure to which
thefegentlemen have not been ashamed
to add their names. It was with this
view’ I ventured to write to the presi
dent of the United States ; it is with
this view, that my friends have called
in many papers upon mr. Jay and mr.
King, to produce the proofs of their
aliertion ; but the answer which von
were charged to make me, fir, being as
indeciftve as the silence of these gentle
men was profound, a judicial enquiry
alone remains for me to confound those
who have traduced me, both as dele
gate of the French people, and as an
individual. This fatisfadlion will be
the moft agreeable 1 C4ll obtain, for 1
have only v, idled for the esteem of a
free and virtuous people, of whatsoever
Country they might be ; it is doubtless
grievous to fee at this day calumny
bent upon pursuing me, and the bene
volence of a people whom I revere,
surprised from me, as well as that of
their firft magiftratc. But w hat will
be my fatistaOlion, when truth alone
fnall force those, who now mifeonflrue
both my attentions and my principles,
to do justice to my courage, my un
fliaken patriotism, and the purity of my
conduit. Accept my refpeits.
GIiNET.
Mr. fefferfon, secretary offate.
Copy of a letter from the m infer plenipo
tentiary of -the French republic, to mr.
Edmund Randolph, attorney-general
of the United States.
New York, the 14 th Nov- 1793,
2 d year of the French republic.
Sir,
More preftingavocat ions have liither
„ to prevented my applying to you on the
fubjoit of a public insult to my nation
and to myfelf, which I undeftand from
gentlemen of the law here you are the
person official! v tube made acquainted
. ifh. I enclose you, fir, a newspaper,
printed in New York, in which the
chief justice of the-United Slates, mr.
” Jay, and a senator of the United Slates,
rnr. King, have certified to the public,
r.r u declaration of mine, w'hat is utter
• anu totally faife. To you, fir, vlu>
are doubtless acquainted with the con
temptible aits praitifed by party to hurt
the characters supposed to obftruit
their views, it is needlefsto enlarge up
on the injury this certificate has done
the cause of my country in the opinion
of this, or the perfonai dilemma into
which it has, or was intended, plunged
myfelf. The lie having effected its
purpose, I can, unfortunately for jui
tice, but too slowly follow it with de
teition. It is, however, a duty I owe
my own official character, to procure
a public prosecution of a calumny,
which nothing but their public fixa
tion, w'ho are the authors of it, induce
me to think more of, than the rest of
low new’fpaper abuse to which I have
been so much accustomed.
As you are, as I am informed, from
your official fixation, the prosecutor of
outrages committed by citizens of the
United States, either against foreign
nations or their representatives to the
United States,’ I am fatisfied that it is
fuffieient for me to acquaint you of the
scandalous faifity of the charge against
me, to induce you to take such steps at
the ensuing federal court, as the honour
of yourovvn country, as well as of mine,
exail upon such an occasion. I shall
attend you for this purpose, at any time
and p'ace you point out, and desire to
)e favoured with your answer, when
auJ where that must be.
Accept my refpeils.
GENE T.
Edmund Ran lolph , attorney-general
of the United States.
Answer of mr. Randolph, attorney-gene
ral of the United States, tomr. Genet,
miniftcr plenipotentiary of the French
republic. 1
Germantown , Nov. 19, 1793.
Sir,
I this moment received the letter
which you did me the honour of writ
ing to me on the 14th instant. Un
derstanding that you purpose to return
t o Philadelphia shortly, and conceiving
from this circumstance, it will be the
moft convenient place for yourfelf, I
shall be ready to have a perfonai inter
view with you there on the fubjedh of
the letter, whenever you may think
proper to fignify to me the time which
will best suit y Oil.
I have the honour, Uc.
EDM UN D RAN DO LPH.
The printers throughout the
United States, who have pub!dried
mr. Jay’s and mr. King’s certificate,
are requested to do the fame for the
above communications.
DECEMBER 3.
For the (New -York) Daily Adva lifer.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Although well constituted free go
vernments only, can give and preserve
to men the enjoyment of rational liber
ty, yet no government can liberate in
dividuals tiom the impulse and domi
nation of their pafiions. Hence it is
that the excesses of these pafiions so
frequently produce parties in all com
munities, and that perfonai motives are
so often found tube mafkedby patriotic
profeftions.
While the people continue enlighten
ed and watchful, they may experience
inconveniences from such parties ; but
moft alarming are the mifehiefs they
cause whenever they become seduced,
infe&ed and inflamed by foreign in
fluence. .
T lie history of mankind has in all
ages declared and proved, that foreign
influence is the moft subtle and fatal
poison that can be communicated to a
nation ; for numerous and melancholy
are the instances of great and powerful,
and once happy states, who, under its
operation, have either expired in violent
convulsions, or been reduced to a de
plorable slate of debility and iufignifi
cance.
When at Philadelphia, in July, we
frequently Beard that mr. Genet, the
French minister, hadton a certain cc
cafion said, “ T hat Tie would appeal
from the president to the people.” ‘An
appeal by a foreign minister from the
president to the people, appeared to us
to be a ferrous and alarming meafiire :
that a foreign minister finding it im
possible to bend the government to his
purposes, Ihould turn from it with dis
dain, to the citizens at large, and be
fore them impeach the wildom or vir
tue of the administration, would be a
proceeding unprecedented and unper
mitted in every well policed date ; it
would be a proceeding evidently and
necessarily productive of parties, prac
tices and intrigues, highly detrimental
to the peace and independence of the
country ; and in a variety of refpeds,
offenfive to the dignity and sovereignty
of the nation, as well as humiliating
and injurious to its constituted au
thorities.
We left that city well convinced that
mr. Genet had made such a declara
tion. On our return to New York,
we found a report of that declaration
had preceded us, and that it hid made
the fame impretiron upon others that
it had made upon us. We were asked
whether it was true? Weanfwered
that it was. To many, a declaration
so extraordinary did not appear proba
ble, and cur having aliened it to be
true was questioned. We were called
upon in the public papers to admit or
deny that we had made such an after
tion. That call merited attention, and
we thereupon made the following pub
lication :
e ‘ For the Diary.
“ MefTrs. Printers,
“ Certain late publications render it
proper for us to authorize you to in
form the public, that a report having
reached this city from Philadelphia,
that mr. Genet, the French minister,
said that he would appeal to the people
from certain deciftons of the president,
we were asked on our return from that
place, whether he had made such a de
claration ; weanfwered that he had; and
we also mentioned it to others, au
thcrizmg them to f2y that we hid so
informed them.
JOHN JAY,
RUFUS KING.”
New-York, August X 2, 1793.
Os the time, place, occalion, and
other circumstances relative to the
tranfadion, we emitted to give any ac
count ; although we found it neceilary,
.for the reasons before mentioned, to
allow our having mentioned that de
claraticn as having really been made,
yet we had no cklire or intention to
come forward as the prosecutors of the
French minister. before the tribunal of
the public.
In common with other free citizens
of a sovereign and independent nation,
we fpokeour fentimeirts ; but we were
mindful, that to the government, and
not to us, belonged the taflc of taking
such mejalures, relative to that minister
and h:s condud, as the interest and
honour of the nation might require.
Nor did we deem, it neceilary to detail
ami explain the evidence on which we
rested our ailcrtion : for while that as
sertion remained undenied and uncon
tradided by the minister, such a llep
could neither berequifite nor proper ;
to anonymous writers on the fubjtd,
in the public papers, vve paid no atten
tion, nor shall we in future pay any.
On the singular letter written by the
minister to the prefidenf, and the anfwet
ihrcughthefecretaryofftate, we restrain
ourselves to this remark, .that it only
denies his having made such a declara
tion to the preftdent; and that it leaves
the question whether he liad made it
at all entirely out of fight. It seems
mat tins did not escape the clifcern
ment of the president; for he veryjuft
ly observed, “ that whether the decla
ration was made to him, or others, was
perhaps immaterial to whom the
decoration was made was a question
foreign to the enquiry ; the true, and
omy question being, whether he had
made such a declaration to any body r
1 o this question the minister gave no
answer, and thereby left the credit of
our aflcrtion not only unimpeaehed,
but also strengthened by his ftlcnce, and
by his endeavors to elude the force o*
it, by his letter to the president.
He now den es having made such a
declaration ; In what light this denial
is to be viewed, will appear from th e
following flaterr.ent of the evidence ard
circumstances relative to the transaction
in question.
The president having given instruc
tions to the governors of the fcveral
dates relative to tl,c fitting out 0 f
armed vessels in our ports, by any of
the bellige'rant powers, on Saturday
the 6th of July last, the warden of 1 im
port of Philadelphia, reported to go.-
vernor Mifflin, that the brig Little
Sarah, ftnee called the Petit Demo
crat, (an English merchant vessel,
mounting from two to four guns,
taken oft our coast, and carried int 6
that port by the French frigate ih;
Ambuscade) had materially augmented
her military equipments; having th.n
fourteen iron cannon and fix swivels
mounted ; and it being understood that
her crew w'as to consist (including
officers, men and boys) of one hundred
and twenty.
Governor Mifflin, in confequenceof
this information, font mr. secretary
Dallas to mr. Genet, to endeavour to
prevail upon him to enter into an ar
rangement for detaining the vessel in
port, without the neceftity of employ
ing military force for that purpose.
Mr. Dallas reported to governor
Mifflin, that mr. Genet had abfolutcly
refilled to do what had been requeftid
of him ; that he had been angry and
intemperate ; tha*. he had complained
of ill-treatment from the governtm nt,
and had declared, “ that he would ap
peal from the president to the people;”
and that he had also said, that he would
not advise an attempt to trike pofiHiica
of the vessel, as it would be refilled.
The re'ufal was so .peremptory tint
governor Mifflin, in confequer.cc of it,
ordered out 120 men for the purpose
of taki ;g poiTeftion of the veil'd.
Mr. Dallas likev\ ife communicated
to mr. Jofferfon, that mr. Genet hod
said, “ that he would appeal from the
president to the people.’.’
On Sunday, the 7th Julv, mr Jeff.r-
Tor went t O/ mr. Gen t. to endeavour t.
prevail upon him to detain the Petit
Democrat, till the president (who was
then absent) fticuld return and decide
upon tire case ; but he refufed to give
a pro in ife, faying only that fli.e would
not probably be ready to depart before
the lucceeding Wednefeay/rhe dev of
the president’s expeded return. This
was considered by mr. jefferftn as an
intimation that (he would retrain : the
Petit Democrat, instead of remaining
as mr. Jefferfonhad exped and, fell down
to Chester previous to the Wednesday
referred to ; and fliortly after failed cut
of the Delaware.
for tire truth and accuracy of ibis
ftateinent, we refer to mr. fecn tary
Hamilton and mr. secretary K ox,
from whom we derived the informa
tion, on which wc relied, rcfpecii.g
the fads contained in it.
Vve forbear enlarging this publica
tion by any ftiidurcs or remarks on
this minister’s condud ; we will only
add, that we sincerely wifli all the
blellings of peace, liberty and good
government to h ; s country ; and'that
we ft]all always deprecate and oppose
•the interference of foreign powers or
foreign agents, in the politics and
affairs of cur own.
JOHN JAY,
v RUFUS KING.
Nevv-Ymk, Nov 26.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29, r -03.
We the fublcribc;?, certify, that vve
ok. feveraliy communicate to the above
mentioned John Jay and Rufus King,
the particulars contained in the forego
ii g fiatement. J hat such of them as
are therein mentioned to have been
reported to governor Mifflin by mr.
D.iuar, were communicated by the
governor to each oi us, ar huvingbceit
received by him from mr. Dallas.
1 hat fticn of them as refpedt mr. Jcf
lerlon, including the information to
Km fre m mr. Dallas of rnr. Genet’s
having laid “ that he would appeal /rail
i • pr jident to the people,” were com
municated to us by mr. J ffl rfon.
HAMILTONi
HENRY KNOX.