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MUSES’ RETREAT.
THE CHARMS OF NATURE.
(being a solution or
THEC, Ha ! R. M. fofna TURE,‘
ri’BUSHED IN OUR LAST.)
, *
I.
The cheek enros’d with crimson die,
The blufli of maiden hue,
The ip ark that wantons in flic eye,
And lip of pearly dew :
If.
•To man these native charms appear
More elegant than art;
The painted fiufh—the fnareful leer—-
Ne’er penetrate the heart,
111.
What boots the bloom that pencil lay?,
Each morn upbn the face ?
Can that which ere the eve decays,
Be justly deem’d a grace ? •
IV.
The nymph who trusts to nature’s aid/
Comes neared to her end ;
For nature ne’er a face hath made,
For human llcill to mend.
■ 1 &GS Se-<Sro s>
THE CORRESPONDENCE
Between citizen GENET, mimfter of
tlie French republic to the United
States of North America, and the
OI'HCERS of the FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT.
[Continnedfrom our /<//?. J
Ext raft from a supplement to the inf auc
tions given to citizm Genet, minjier
pi. nipotentiary of the French republic
ts ‘he United Stales of America.
I he executive council wilh that a
new treaty, found'd upon a basis more
liberal and more fraternal than that of
1778, nay be concluded as soon as
poliible. As, however, they cannot
Conceal that in the a&nal (fate of Eu
rope, a negotiation of this kind may be
liibjeß to many impediments, whether
brought about by secret manoeuvres of
the English minister and his partizans
at Philadelphia, by the timidity of cer
tain members of the feder.d govern
ment, who, notwiihft&nding their
known pafriotifm, have always shewn
the flrongeft aversion to every ttieafure
which might be unpleasing to England,
they think it right, for the prefect, that
citizen Genet th iu!d draw every ad
vantage which the proviftons of the
fubfilting treaty feenre to the republics
until anew compad has more clearly
and fully defined and enlarged th- in.
In th is view, which existing circum
stances render particularly important,
citizen Genet is expressly enjoined to
make himfelf thoroughly master of the
fenfeof the treaty of 1778, and to be
watchful in the execution of the arti
cles which are favourable to the com
merce and navigation of the French re
public, and lie will endeavour to fatis
fy the Americans, that the engage
ments which may appear burdenfeme
to them, are thejft price of that inde
pendence which the French nation
contributed to ac quire for them.
In the probable case of a maritime
war, citizen Genet will employ all the
means in his power to procure a reli
gious observance of the 17th, 21st, and
22d articles of the treaty of commerce,
by which the contracting parties en
gage freely to admit the prizes made
by either of the parties from its enemies,
and have renounced the right of permit
ting their citizens to serve under the
flag of a foreigner again!! the vessels of
their refpe&ive nations, or even to ad
mit into- their ports the prizes of
foreigners, or permit the arming or
supp 1 ying foreign privateers.
These articles are the more impor
tant in the now situation, as the great
■iiftance of the English privateers from
their ports, and the difficulty of sup-
Aing them, will render their cruifcs
N-’-tb ■’ **expenftvc, and the return and
Ae of ihitr \ -rizes the more precari
ous; while our veiTels, availing them
selves of their right, will have at their
disposal all the ports of the United
States and the provisions with which
they abound. It would be moreover
to be feared that the fitting out in Arne
rican ports English armaments, or such
as were pretended to be so, would in
duce a number of individuals of the
northern Hates, remarkable for their
boldness and aftivity, to accept of
English com mi (lions and distress and
injure our commerce. Without doubt
neither the congress or the executive
power of the United States would ap
prove a conduct so little conformable
to the ties of friendfliip and good un
derflanding which subsist between the
two nations; but the great extent of
the Engl sh commerce in America,
now become free; the prodigious num
ber of its factors, and’ of the etniffaries
of George the 111. the means of cor
ruption, which their situation and their
local acquaintance give thetr, would
render these expeditions the mote fre
quent, a-it would befoeafy to deceive
tite vigilance of government by con
cealed equipment . Cititen Genet is
therefore particularlyenjoinedto watch,
by the confu's and commercial agent?,
the conduct of the English in the dif
ferent ports, to inftft rigorously upon
the execution of the 17th, 2ift, and
22ft articles of thetreatyof 1778. an !
to prevent in the American ports all
equipments, unless noon account of the
French nation, and the admijjion of any
prize except those which (hail have been
made by the Vefels of the republic. He
will take care to expl .in himfelf upon
this objeit with ‘he dignify and energy
of the representative ot a great people,
who in faithfully fuff liog their engage
ments know how to make their rights
rcjpefitd.
As soon as circiimflances permit,
efficaci >us negotiations concerning a
new treaty of commerce, citizen Genet
will not lose fight of flipulating posi
tively and without re serve, for a reci
procal exemption from the duty on
tonnage, avoided, tinder different pre
tences, for many years pait by the Ame
rican government, though expressly
granted by the s'h article of the pre
sent treaty.
The mutual naturalizati nos French
and American citizens in commercial
refpedts, proposed by mr. J’ flerfon,ai and
approved of by the executive council,
will render this exempti >n from the du
ty of tonnage kfs offer.five for the
powers claiming a participation of the
fame favotir by virtue of their treaties,
for the enjus fetieris, will be entirely
charged wi'h refpedt to them.
The reciprocal guarantee of the
pqfielfions of the two nations ftipulatcd
in the 11th article of the treaty of
1778, can be eftablilhed upon generous
principles which have been already 1
pointed out, and iltall equally be an
essential clause in tb.e new treaty j
which will be ptopofed. The execu
tive council, in consequence, lecotn
fnend especially to citizen Genet to
found early the disposition of the Ame
rican governrfient and to make it a con
dition, fine qua non, of their free com
merce with the Weft-Indies, so es
sential to the United States. It nearly
concerns the peace and prosperity of
the French nation, that a people,
whose resources encreafe bejond all
calculation, and whom nature hath
placed so near our rii h colonies,
ihould become interested, by their
own engagtments, in the preservation
of these iilands. Citizen Genet will
find the kfs difficulty in making this
propolition relished in the United
S ates, as the great trade which will
be the reward of it, will indemnify
them, ultimately, lor the Sacrifices
which they may make at the outlet ;
and the Americans cannot be ignorant
of the great cifproportion between
their resources and those of the French
republic, and that for a .long pciiod,
the guarantee asked of them will be
little else than nominal for them, while
that on our part will be real, and vu
immediately put ourselves in a
(late to fulfil it, in fending to the Ame
rican ports a fufficient force to put
them beyond insult, and to facilitate
their communication with the iilands
and with France, bully toenfure the
success of these negotiations, and to
render nugatory, in the United States,
those scandalous infmuations so clan
destinely fprt ad through Europe by the
enemies of the republic, the executive
council specially dirc£t citizen Genet
to adhere to the forms tflablifhed for
official communications with the Uni
ted States, between the government
and foreign agents, and not to permit
himfelf to take any step, or make any
overture, which can give umbrage to
the Americans in regard to the confii
tution which they have chosen, and
which differs in many points from the
principles eflablifhed in branee.
The emiflaries and partizans of
George 111. the emigrants, and the
Hispaniola refugees, who are found in
great numbers in the principal cities of
the United States,, and who have al
ready infc£ted them with their falfe
hoods, will not fail *0 watch the mi
nifler of the republic, and to give all
his meafuies the moft malicious con
ftrti&ion. An open and patriotic con
duct can alone put him beyond the
reach of calumny and mifconftru&ion.
The executive council relics in this
refpeft with an entire confidence upon
the prudence and know n motleraticnof
citizen Genet.
In order ‘lnt nothing mav delay the
conclufton of the negotiations of ci'i
7.en Genet with the Americans, and
that he may have in his own power all
the means which can assist the pains he
will take in the cause of liberty, the
executive council has given him the
full powers annexed. The minister
of the marine department will tranf
tnit to him a certain number of blank
letters of marque, whidli he will deliver
to such French or American owners as
(hall apply for the fame.
Tiie minister at war shall likewise
deliver to citizen Genet, officer’* com
missions in blank for several grades in
the army.
D me and agreed upon in executive
council the seventeenth day of January,
of the year 1793. and of the French
republic ‘he fecund.
(Signed)
MONGE, prefiuent.
LF. BRUN, minister for
foreign affairs.
Copy of a tetter from the. ni infer of the
marine, to citizen Gaunt, minister of
the French republic to the United States. ’
February Bih, 1793. j
You will find enclosed, citizen, 300
letters of marque, which you will dtl
tribute to the Americans who may fit
out and try their chance again!! the
English, Dutch, Ruffians, Fruflians
and Austrians.
The means taken in France to re
giller them in the office of classes, will
be supplied ty that ot registering them
in the chancery office of the cenfulutes
of France, situate in the ports where
the armed vessels may be fitted out, or
in the nearest ports to them. You will ;
take care to number and sign these, to
keep an exadt regiftor, and to give me,
an account of the difpufal of them by !
every velfel bound from the ports of
t he United States to those of the repub
lic.
I add to this enclosure, 20 copies of
each of the laws of 31st January and
2d February last.
‘l iie laws relative to the encourage
ments granted to prizes and to their
distribution, will be soon parted for
France ; I (hall transmit than to you
as soon as I receive them.
Foreign built vessels, the entry of
which had been prohibited in 1791,
may, for the present, be armed in
France, and partake of all the advan
tages granted to those built in the docks
ot the republic.
This regulation is of too much mo
ment not to hasten you in communicat
ing it to all those who, knowing the
law of 13th May, 1791, may think
them Rives deprived ot the power of
introducing their vessels into France.
You will doubtlcfs think it right to
regulate your measures and your cor,,
duct by the prudence and difcietion
which your character requires, i n th;
existing circumstances, to contribute as
much as in your power to the good 0 f
ihe republic, the success of its arma
ments, and the destruction of its
enemies commerce.
(Signed)
MONGE.
Copy of a fectnd Utter from the mi n : fier cf
the navy to citizm Genet, ambassador
of the French 1 (public t* the United
States of America .
Paris, May 28, 1793 ; 2.1 year of
the republic.
You will find hereunto annexed,
citizen, commifiions for the conduc
tors of prizes, which you will continue
to distribute to the captains, with the
letters of marque, according to the
numbers of captures they ftuli think
they mav be able to make at sea ; you
will inferibe them under the fame num
ber on each of the commissions de
livered to each captain ; it has been
thought necefliry to adopt this uniform
method in all the maritime diftridb,
and I give notice of it to the different
ordonnatt urs
(Signed)
DALBARADE.
Copy of the credentials given to citizen
Genet.
In the name of the French republic,
by virtue of the law of the io h
August last, which confers on lie
executive council, provisionally, all
the funßions of the executive pow
er, and of the decree of the nation
al convention of the 21st September
following, which continues the pub
lic authorities in force at the last
period :
We, the citizens forming the pro
visional executive council, to the re
public of the United States of North
America.
Very dear, greatfriends and allies,
Having refolvcd to appoint a suc
cessor, to citi7.“n Tprnans, minister
plenipotentiary of the French rcputiXc, ’
residing with you, we have chof n
citizen Genet, adjutant-general and
colonel in the service of the republic,
to replace him in the fame character.
The proofs of zeal and pa.riotifm whi h
he has hitherto given, persuade us that
! he will condu£! himfelf in a manner to
render his person agreeable,
j We pray vou, very dea • great fri nds
and allies, to give-full credit to al he
j (hall be charged to fay to you on the
parr of the republic, efpeciaily wh n
he allures you of our disposition to
promote the interests and profperily of
the-United States. We do not doubt
he will give all his attention, to con
ivince you of the desire of the French
nation to bind more and more the ties
of friendship and fraternity which
ought to unite two free people formed
mutually to esteem each other, and to
eftablith between them the molt perfect
harmony.
J Written at Paris, the 30th Decem
ber, 1792 ; the firit year of the repub
lic.
The citizens forming the provifi >nal
executive council of the French repub
lic. LE BRUN,
CL A VI ERE,
GAR AT,
ROLAND,
PACHE,
MONGE.
By the provisional executive council.
GROUVELLE, secretary of the
council.
\To be continued .J
ANECDOTE.
When the court of judiciary of
Scotland paired sentence of fourteen
years banishment on mr. Muir, a
number of per Tons in the galleries be
gan to hit's. Fiie lord justice Clerk*
in great wrath turned round to the tip*
utaff, v. ho (toed behind him, and or*
;dered him to take the persons tha f were
‘hilling into cudody. The tipilaff with
the greased naivette, answered, ‘ M'j
lord, they are all b;J/m^. r