their duty to approach the Congrefa of
the United States with a refjjtftful re
prefenUtion of certain evils,—the unau
thorised a£ls of a few, but injurious to
the intereil and icputatiou of all.
America, dignified by being the firll
in modern times, to afTert and defend
the equal rights of man, futfers her fame
to be tarmfned, and her example to be
weakened, by a cruel commerce, canied
on from some of her ports, for the fup
p!v of foreign nations with African
slaves
To enumerate the horrois incident to
t'iis uihuman traffic, i.t which all the
worll pa£Qons of mankind f rm the ptin
cipa! materials, would be unneteffary when
we offer to prove its exilic nee
is it reqnilire to cot.fume much
of your valuable time in the endeavour
to prove it a national injury.
While it exposes the lives ar.d the mo
ra's of our seamen to peculiar danger, it
renders all complamts of retaliation uu
juii ; for those who deprive others of
their liberty, for the benefit of foreign
countries, cannot rcafonably murmur, if
by other foreign nations, they are depii
ved of their own.
True it is, that the captivity at Al
giers is not without a hope, and that the
fluveiy of the Well-Indies tominates on-
ly with exiflcilce ; but, in proportion as
that to which we are aCcessary is more
ftfvere, the- of defining from it be-
come? more urgent,
Ycsur memorial:lU<obferve, and men
tion with plea fit rr,'that this venal cruelty
is at prcfent confined to a few pons, and
a few ptrfons. Htnce it becomes more
<;»ly to dctlioy a degrading exception
from the »>encial dignity of our com-
merce* anri to rettwre our citizens to U»t
fam<: t of utefcning
freedom to the delations of mtrrcft,
An additional reason for the legilla
tive interference, now requeued, acifes
from the natural confcqucnce of the facts
already fuggelled.
Foreigners, fed need by the example,
anjl believing that they may commit
without Reproach, what American cki
ztns,'Commit with impunity, avail them
fclves oi our porta to fit out llicit vnTeis
for the fame traffic. Thus we become
toe accomplices of their offenccs, and
partake of the guilt without the miicra-
Llc confutation of fharingits profits.
Your memorialids therefore, trutting,
thai; a compliance with theii request,
will not exceed the constitutional pow
ers of Congress, nor injure the irtteretts
ordi-lurb the tranquility of any pa ft of
the Union, refpcftfuUy pray, that a law
may be palled, prohibiting the tiaifiic
earned on by citizen? of the United
Slates for the supply of Haves to foreign
nations, and preventing from,
lifting out vtflVls fv»r the (lave trade in
the ports of the United States.
By order of the Convention,
Joseph Bloom field, Prifuient.
John M'Cree, Sec'ry*
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
Extracts from French Fafirrs, brought by
the French Corvette, the Brutus, from
Ftrtfl, arid the Jhip Fdtoivmack Planter,
Capt. Dcrfzf, from Bourdcaux, arrived
al Norfvik.
PARIS, November r
The Revolutionary Tribunal finifhed
the f-rand process, which attracted the at
tention of France and Europe. Brifiot,
Vergriiaud, Genfonnc, Duprat, Valaze,
Lehardy, Ducos, Bover, Fonjrede, Boi
leau, Gardieu, Mainvelle, Antiboul,Vigie,
and Lecaze, have been convi&ed of having
been in coufpiracy the unity and
imlivifibility of the Republic, against the
liberty and fafety of the French people.
They were condemned to death. This
judgment, which ought to lpread terror,
and make tyrants and slaves tremble, was
executed this day upon La Place de la
Revolution. Valaze stabbed himfelf after
hearing hisfentence ; his body was sent
privately in a cart to the place of exccu
l.on, and bu.ied with the others.
Tius ceremony took place at I o'clock
the fame day, and the grtattft part lliewca
L :ee quarters of an hour.
rmvn..-<
1...'. .; ;
Ail the frc.m London in
t'leii accounts of a general fermentation
in England ; they can pnblilh nothing
but tinder rellriftio: s; tlicir mantifaflories
are flopped, no person pays, nor is paid ;
at the fir.c time the body of idle n.ei ha-
,o rrr*afcS * : ,,|J <-jiill •cr
n"~-
exercised with unheard
does not appease the T
-i'o cairn the minds <
£ o\-: :u-.:ent o'i.rhi
ceis; but they ha
and lofles to tell. G
duke of York beaten—lord He
with the odium of unneceflary c
Pitt, accused of all crimes, denounc
J lift ice and the National Convent
the whole univerfe—Grenvilleouitc a (ham
Ed of having fuffered the dismemberment
of Poland ; of having alienated the Ame-
ricans, and left forever the trade with
France—Dundas, the Engiilh Lcvriltiere,
is tired of signing Lettrcs de Cachet. With
what countenance shall this group of foxes
and tygersj when taken by snare, appe
before the English people: And notwith
standing a demand of 12 millions Iterling
is about to be made for the continuance of
lhfse:cvcr:;!d
lee; d- ■! to a n!'
tole nation to the afi:
ntv ; an.-'i u:i:i:int>i'\v r.v.'ll iiicui
bull flvvs K s tt-..:' 1 ;
nion.'Ht Jf.M.
appears that thefc reflexions have ftrtlck
the mininers them [elves ; now many of
them, dreading the tcmpeft that is riiing,
to gain a shelter.— Richmo
-Grenville a:
tired—
themfelvcs for
difmilfion; but Pitt, in acting the J
and King George in exclaiming 11
What! What / \£c, vSfr. are approaching
with an irrefutable current, to the last
m£nt of tfic people, and to the Revo
"■•"'llotiite.
it'onary (»
Nov en
vefterda-y
Gondier, Nicholas Laroque, Jean Lepage,
Anne, Pierre Costard, and Louis Philippe
Egalite, ci-devant Duke of Orleans. The
1v I j) : iit ci'
enme
author and accomplice of a conspiracy
against the unity and indivisibility of the
Republic, the liberty and security of tlie
French people* Philip d'Orleans was
condemned between two and three o'clock
in the afternoon, and was taken from the
Concergerie, with four others, and placed
in a cart at half.pall four, to be transported
to tl\e place of execution. The populace
as they went along, shouted in plaudits
" ptr 'ljh traitors and tyrants, live the Repub
lic /" At forty minutes past five, the cart
arrived at the Place de Is Revolution, and
the head of Philippe fell the firft.
Edmund Burke is raised to the rank of
an Irifli Peer, under the title of Lord
Connought.
UNITED STATES.
FREDERICKSBURG, Jan. 30.
Copy of a letter from a mercantile house
in Liverpool, to their correspondent in
this town, dated Nov. 17, 1793.
" We advifeyou that the new Ameri
can {hip Nabby, James Kennedy, matter,
owned by Mr. Peter Bryfon, of Wifcaflet,
Maflachufetts, sprung a leak on the 25th
of O&ober, in lat. £5. long. 16. bound to
Rappahannock, for your address, and im
mediately funk. The crcw (all but one
man saved) 20 in number.
" There is no telling what (hips to
fend to your country ; they are giving 12
per cent premium on American (hips from
London to the States.
RICHMOND, Jan. 31
IJjjiday the 24th inft. arrived at Nor
folk, the frigate Le Normande, of 22
twenty-four pounders, belonging to the
Republic of France; on her arrival (he
saluted the Old Fort with a discharge of
15 guns: soon after the artillery company
of .this town turned out with two brafg
pieccs, and marched to Maxwell's point,
where they returned the salute with the
addition of three huzzas, which was an
swered by the frigate : From the point
they marched to the house of Mr. Otter,
Vice-Consul for the French Republic, and
saluted him with a discharge of cannon,
from thence they proceeded to the Eagle
Tavern, and, in company of a few French
Republicans partook of some refrefhment
and after wilhitig every joy on the occasion,
retired to their respective homes.
By a gentleman arrived in town from
Norfolk, we are informed that the Am
buicade was lying in Hampton roads on
Sunday last, in good order, and that the
men were in high fpi; its.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 4.
SUABILITY
Every sovereign state is a corporation
and a mural ptrjin, r.s capable of right am!
wrong as any individual of mankind. There
be ail
ir, if oppofitioft is not d
arouse
;'t nu; ! t
of its mino-
c the
. It
id is re-
•c preparing
mnefty, by an appropos
suit,
hat!
7. The criminals condemned
t five in number, viz. Pierre
of STATES.
is this difference however between them,
that bodies politic have less confc'totifnefs of
£uilt ior violating the moral Jaw than na
tural persons. The rcafon is obvious ; a
Hate is composed of numbers, and where
ver an injury is done by a multitude, the
responsibility is divided. Every man really
deserves aihare of blame ; yet every man
can fhift off a great portion of it upon
others. Hence a puliic body never feels
guilty though every individual will sepa
rately disapprove of the measure which
does the injury. This circumstance strong
ly enforces the ncceflity of some provilion
for compelling jufhee from such public bo
dies. An individual has confcience 9 honor,
reputation to spur him to fulfil his duties ;
a Hate has very little of either ; and in
proportion as the influence of these prin
ciples is less in a body poliiic, than in natu
ral it becomes necefiarv to substi
tute a compulsory process. The law is
lade tor the good; were every man
at all times influenced by pure motives,
law would ceafc to be necefiary. Just so
of public bodies. Were motives of JlriQ
justice always to influence public public
bodies, more efficient provision would ne
ver be necefiary to procure from them
perse& right. But admit the poflibility
that, in a legiflaturc, just claims may be
frittered away, or rejeftcd, and the neces
sity and propriety of compulsory provisi
on for obtaining justice, must also be ad-
mirt-.c 1 ,
Besides, these fame moral persons, or
states, all cla:m and cxercife the right of
compelling individuals to render jullice.
Why (hould not the right be mutual? Is
that man legally free, who can be forced
to pay the last penny he owes to a state ;
while the state may owe him a fortune,
and ltc cannot compel the payment of a
fl;i!!ing r Is it not recognized unequivo
cally as a general principle of common
law, that right and remedy zre reciprocal—
and that wherever there exists a right, the
law famifhes a remedy ;* But is not the
d(i£trine//'a/ suits cannot be fujlained againjl
Jlates, a direst and flagrant violation of this
excellent maxim of common law and com
mutative justice ! And is not a discretion
ary power to do justice or not at pleasure,
more particularly dangerous in large popu
lar bodies, where responsibility is divided
and reduced to nothing ! Let calm reason,
conscience and the religion of christians
determine these important questions.
* See the doSrlne in Salield's reports.
The ■writer not having t/ie looks before him,
cannot refer to the Cafe.
PHILADELPHIA,
FEBRUARY 7.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
New-England to his friend in this city.
" Some time has elapsed since 1 had
the pleasure of hearing from you ; I am
much pieafed with the memorial of the
Friends' Society and the address of the
worthy Clergy of your City to the Legis
lature of your State, on the fubjeft of re
vising the la-.vs for the fupreffion of vice
and immorality, and for enforcing a due
obfervancc of the Lord's Day. It was
certainly exhibiting a very feaionfable tes
timony against the prevailing irreligious
spirit of the times—" a Land of Levity"
fays an excellent writer, "is a Land of
Gu'.lt." What, alaj then, is a Land a
bounding in Profanenefs and Impiety—
and at the very instant when the Supreme
Ruler of the World is withdrawing his
chastening rod, contending for Theatrical
and other amusements, which are evident
ly calculated to please a corrupt and vi
tiated mind, and are emphatically charac
teristic of those who are " Lovers of
Pleasure, more than Lovers of God."—
I mod heartily wish success to the lauda
ble efforts of those who nobly appear to
fvem the torrent of fafhionable vices, more
dangerous to morals, because less fufpeft
ed than flagrant crimes, tho' history and
observation concur to evince that the lat
ter are frequently the offspring of the
former,
" Before you receive this, I expect
that an important and united exertion
will be made by petitioning Congress to
effect afi Abolition of that dTgrace to our
country —the African Slave Trade. If
it were not for those Jlrangc extremes
which often meet in the fame character, I
flionld suppose that the reccwt informa
tion refpefting the Piratical Coifairs of
Algiers, would, entirely fupercede the ne
cessity of any reasoning to demonstrate
the worse than abominable iniquity of
enslaving our fcHbw-ir.cn. I hope that
the Legi(l aturc of the Union will not be
b&ckwaid in explicitly enabling such laws
as will effe&ually check the system of ra
pine, fraud, robbery, devaluation and mur
der which constitute the trade Do, my
dear fir, acquaint me of appeaianccs and
prolpects—l am certain no pains will be
declined to elFe& the object: I eonfider
it as a grand appeal in winch all theftrength
of our Societies will be conjointly appli
ed.—O ! that the cause of Justice and
Humanity may prevail and triumph !"
1 lie Algerine bufiuefs was again under
confederation in the House of Rcprefenta
tives this day—but no decision took place*
The Cafe which has been depending for
several days before the Supreme Court of
the United States, in which the State of
Georgia was petitioner in Chancery, and
and others Respondents, was this
day, decided by a Special Jury in favor
of the Respondents.
FROM THE AMERICAN STAR.
A Fii'uch paper, wubuilu-u in lh:scu>
PARIS,
Nov. 5. The female citizen Mirabeau,
mother of the two famous brothers of the
fame name, was arretted the day before
yesterday, and committed to pvifon.
The female citizen Olympia Gourgea,
lias been guillotined, notwithstanding her
pleading pregnancy.
The bloody fpe&acle of the guillotine
seems to enrage the people. Oil the fame
day when Valaze (tabbed himfelf, a nation
al light-horseman, condemned to die, flung
himfelf over the balluftrades of the revo
lutionary tribunal, and would infallibly
have stabbed the judge, had he not been
disarmed.
The mulattoe Raymond, chief agent
of Biiflot in the deflrudtion of the whites
of St. Domingo, has been guillotined in
Paris, at the Place de la Revolution.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-
r -YORK, Feb. 6.
Letters by the (hip Liberty, from Ma
deira, inform us of the arrival, at that
island, of a very large Britifli fleet, com
manded by Sir John Jervis, I'. B. con fill
ing of 8 line of battle ships, a number of
frigates, transports, and ftorcihips ; on
board of which were embarked 13,000
land forces, to be employed undtr Gen.
Sir Charles Grey,K. B. against the French
islands in the Weft Indies. The whole
fleet failed from Madeira, on the £2d of
Dec. their destination supposed la be Bar
badoes, which is the appointed rendez
vous.
r l his fqu&dron and convoy had avoided
falling in with one from Brefl, consisting
of eight French line of battle-fliips, and 6
frigates, sent from that port for the pur
pose of intercepting the British, and l'ub
vertiag the important obje& of an arma
ment much superior to any that has acted
in the Well India seas during the present
war.— The abovcmentioned French fleet
had fallen in with the British of 22 fail of
the line, under Lord Howe, 90 leagues
from the land : a rapid chace immediately
commenced—One 40 gun frigate and 3
French vefTels of inferior size had been
already captured by the British.
Lord Rawdon, with 13,000 British
troops had failed for France, to join the
Royalists in she department of La Vendee,
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED.
Ship Fame, Klriiidge, Ftrlol, 52 davs
Suffcx, Aikir.s. H«:vre dc Gr* c
Morning b ai. C mphcM, Oft. ml. qo
Brig Dolphin, Nukclls, Havanna 30
Mana, Weeks, Boftim £5
Sch'r Friend ship, Glover, Martinique 30
Sioop Hannah, Culver, Ha\rede Grace 72
Lively, Moore, Madeira 7 1
Sally, ll'Pwn, Porto Riro ofj
A fl.'op from New York, is arrived at Mar
cus Hook.
The ftup Fam»", Capt. EWtidce, failed f»om
Ferrro', on ihe 2*(t Nov. to rompan\ wmh f!«e
ship Allan ic ot Bainmorr r Capt. Will'nn, who
airived at Furol »iic 13 h Oftobrr.
'I he lh-p Dilig-nee, Capt. o'N<il,from New-
York, arrived there the 27th, after a of
51 fiavi.
The fnnw Harriet, Cap'. Holland, amvrd
the 4«h Nov. in yjg days fr«:n Ph:t»o« Iphi*.
I be l>ri£ liKUitti y of S.ilc it, a: n, cr. the U
Oil. Imm liaiuni' if, »a> 10 h.-il.ill m
1 l»e ilt Mov. • o !jil iw a day <,1 i Wt , ahvi, {.»r
ib«- W li--' n lil ►.
Ct;>f. E'dn<we. on 5* h nf fn'nnry, in
lat. 2$ i 2. J.>!>>:. 6J, !p<i' K t. si f :din ICr B«t
---fe>, L'uUl, f kui NVw-Pmx ;derue, hftrtnt
to N;vi'.Yo''k. i 'Ji /,5 davs. Thi* ve.fl'l h::«l
been d-ivci fV ni t!;c o\;ft r!i»ec 'inies, I
»VIS Jill v .Q.. 1 }): (H iin.m, a oi'wli
hey 1 c.o'vi a 1 r«t;vr. E,|di 1