.permit mt without i crimp to dtaw
thit inference.
Sevcithelels certain pcifoni, a&uated by
riewt which time will develops despairing to
fittack my principles, have descended to perfon
lal abufe—ln hopes ot withdrawing iiom'me
that cfteeoi which the public feel and avow lor
(he representative of the French lepubhc. The)
pubhlh wuh great warmth that 1 have uifulied
you and thai 1 bave threatened you with an
peal to the- people, as if you would permit any
one with impunity to treat you with diliefpcfl,
or as if the slightest hint of an appeal, which,
a magistrate deleaving of his high othce, lhould
ardently desire, w« to you the greatest olieiiec
I could offer.
It is become necessary, Sir, tpdidlpate these
dark calumnies by traith, and publicity I
dare therefore to expert from your candor
and probity an explicit declaration, that •« I
have never intimated to you an intention of
appealing to the people ; that it is itot true
that a difference ill political sentiments has
ever betrayed me to forget what was due to
your character or to the exalted reputation
you had acquired by humbling a tyrant a
gainst whom you fought in the cause of li
berty." 1
A publication of your jnfwcr will be the on
ly t-Cply, which lhall be given to those party
men, w ho never fail to cbnfound the individual
with affairs of ilatc, which they too olten make
ule of as a pretext tor real and a rcafou IcjV
dastardly appearing under anommoits lijjrtatures.
As tof Jnyiffcftj 1 have always opeuly dedai
ed what I thought, and figiied what I bad
written, and if others have supposed they
could advance my views, by riewfpaper publi
cations and paragraphs tliey art much deceiv
ed—A good caule needs 110 advocate—Time
and Truth will make it triumph in spite of
its implacable enemies, and the prefcnt cold
indifference at' some who were it* ancient
friends. 1 have the honor, &;c-
sfi.i >->-■ v, : >-
Philadelphia, Angull 16,1793.
SIR,
THE President of the United States, has
received the letter which you addressed to
hitti from New-York, oil the 13th inllant, and
I am delired to observe to you, that it is not
tile eltabliihcd course tor the diplomatic cha
racters residing here, to have any direct cor
reipoiidence with him—The Secretary of
State, is the organ through whfch tlieir com
munications (huuld pal's.
The President dots not conceive it to he
within the line of propriety or duty for him
to bear evidenceagainlt a declaration which,
whether made to him or others, is perhaps im
material,lie tlisrelore, declines interfering in
the cafe. .
, J have (he lipnor to be with great respect,
Sir, .
itri* Vojirmot obedient,
. Aod must humble <erv»nt*v
TM: JEFFERSON.
T6» Mlnlfter Weiiipotemiary ?
The brig Cheltham of Dublin, which
arrived heie lail Saturday, a prize to the
French privateer Caramagnole, is seized
by order of his excellency , the governor,
and a company of soldier* put on board
'■«Ftimibr BtARY.
Gentlemen,
AMONG the various fubje&s which
at present occupy the attention of
the public, the conduit of the company
the Jupiter feeins to be none ot the
lealt interelling ; the ipeculative mind of
the public is held in suspense, and not
knowing the motives on which they have
a£led cannot form a proper judgment of
their conduit.
The following atldreffes, therefore, as
tbey tend considerably to elucidate this
l'ubje£t, cannot fail of being acceptable.
1 The iit.ft which was sent to Citizen Ge
net requires little explanation. The com
pany of the Jupiter, anxious to investi
gate the causes and to discover the auth
ors of the late enormities committed at
Cape Francois, in which they weie influ
cncc'd to bear a part, and of which we
may every moment witneis the miserable
conftqutnces, have on just grounds of
suspicion arretted their commander, admi
ral Cambis, whom they are determined
to condu&. with general Galbaud, to the
national convention, to answer for their
refpeftive conduct before that anguft tri
bunal, and in cider the better to efle&
this purpose they are determined to lail,
as soon as pofiible for France.
The ir.inilter on the other hand, felici
tous for the. iafety of admiral Cambis,
and perhaps with a view towards tht re.ef
tabliihwent of order aiid union in the
fleet, held a council of war, at his lodg
ings on Friday evening last ; when among
other matteis, no doubt of equal impor
tance, it was detei mined that the prifon
erc should be liberated, and that the Ju
piter, with some other vessel of the fleet,
lhotild be sent on a ciuife.
The rtfult of" these deliberations were
yerbally communicated to the company
of the Jupiter, who finding tliem diaine
nically opposite to their intentions, there
upon tent the following additCs to the arn
bafiidoi'.
I he French Republican* of every deno
mination, on board die vi'ifct of the
republic thi Jupiter
To Citizen Genet, mimjler from the Reput)-
tiCs to the oniteel Slates of America,
Citizen,
THE ictlon of deception is palled
there is not a French citizen who is un
acquainted with his own rights'or yours
—We have penetrated through the ob
icurity of the council of war held yester
day at your hoofc, we were too much in
terested in the event not toiucceed in our
investigation. Myltery was well fuitt'd
to file old government, but. it is used to
little purpose tftwards patriotic citizens, i
-We know »H, we are no longcnto be de
ceived, neither will we be engaged in any
fcQti&ion. We are acctifed of beingjhe
authors of those very crimes wbtc-invvv
have endeavoured to pro vent. The uation
al convention alone can be our judge, Mid
we will no longer remain here under the
pieffure of the mod gi ievo«* aeoufsit ions
however great the glory, or however bril
liant the laurels which you'prorßife. We
have no confidence but in the nation, arid' ;
we declare to you, that being determin
ed to go and demand at her tribunal Jaf
tice and Vengtauce, neither you nor any
other (hall detain us longer in the Ameri
can seas.
Galbaud, that citizen whom you, no
doubt are unacquainted wtth, fijjce we
know that you y out felt' calumniate'h iin,
fliall jro wiih us to the convention, '
Cambis, although tie withes to avoid if
fliall go there also, the Ton of Polyerel
&.le Blanc whom you wifli to escape from
on board the L'Eole, we will in like
manner condud to that dtead Couven-
tioa.
Galbaud, and ourselves, as .we are
conscious of our innocence, arc not a-
fraid to appear before that juil,tribunal.
Citizen minister, attend then to the
consequences. You contider us as culpa
ble, and before we hare jullified our
selves to- the national convention, you
fay that you will here makc.ua few the.
republic—She fliould have t>o fervaott, no
defenders but fnch as are worthy of he r<
and when we (hall have ptoved to herthat
we are tier true children ; then, when we
I (hall be w.orthy to combat her enemies,
we will eocouncer them.
It i« then to do purpose that you era
ploy against us and the other republicans
of our fleet, those arts and machinations
of the old policy, which though t&ey
might indeed be suitable to the Cabinet
of * Versailles that receptacle of lies and
tyianny, are not agreeable to the priuei
pies of Republicans.
Yon ate the Representative of there
public, be worthy of your office, and do
not keep us any longer at a diltance from
our country r for in spite of your efforts
we will go to her, and (he (hall then give
her judgement of that ast, which you
will not fail to fully with the name of dis
order and want of fuboidictation, but
which we call an ast of republicanifnj, be
cause we hold if the firtland moll sacred
of our duties, to vindicate out innocence
before the national convention. •'
On board the Jupiter, the of
August 1763, the zd year of the l
French Republic.
Signed by the head officer of each de-"
part meat.'
* M. Genet was formerly secretary at
Verfatlles.
The condudt of the company of the
Jupiter having been reprcfented to their
brethren of the Ainbufcade, the follow
ing address is a general jultihcation of
fheir proceedings, together with a decla
ration of their patriotism, and inviolable
attachment to the cause which they have
undertaken to defend ; the firft paragraph
will oe unintelligible to those who do not
know that the company of the Ambus
cade, were to have been sent on board
the Jupiter to disarm the vessel ; on this
occaiion an address was sent to the people
of the Ambuscade, to which this para
graph has reference.
Brothert and Friends,
THE moment t>fyour arrival, convin
ces us that you have not received a letter
which we had the honor to address toyoa
this morning ; we doubt not that your
commanders have acquainted you with it,
as it was addtcfTed to the ctcw —neither
do we doubt the pattiotifm of Captain
Bompard or his officers.
Remember we are ail children of one
common mother, our countiy.
Remember that wc all defend the fame
cause. The oath which we have taken
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to defend Liberty anil equality, is furtly
irrevocable.
We have been painted to you in the
blacked colours, and who can prove that
wc nave acfted contrary to true patriotism
Ah ! brethren how great, how nume
ious are our common enemies ; traverse
every part of the world, and you will
•find in each of them beings, who under
the specious mafic of patriotism devise the
blacked plots against the defenders of so
ber.cficent a Republic ; no foouer is one
projett discovered, than they contrive o
thera which, in their turn are dictated—-
d.O. they, what is their last resource?
jl'Rey low the feeds of difcotd between
thv companies of i!r' vcfiels of that repub
lic, which we have all of us sworn to
matn|ain, and we now swear that we are
ready to spend our lad breath in her ds
'fence. >
Citizens, if we were culpable the ene
, mie« of the canfe which we have bravely
and Irmly defended, would readily have
made us return to France, to undergo the
•punilhment which the laws inflicts on all
Frenchmen, who are traitors to their coun-
Can there te any doubt of our pa
triotism, after having combated the opi
'nrf>n4 of the tr&itdif Blanchelande, the
flagitious La Volquiirt and many others
whom we shaH not forget to name to the
national tonyealioti.
Hear fhfc language of reason, we who
aadrefs yoti are Frenchmen, we are your
broilfm—We'fwear to continue so, being
{ '^ at wllkn we (hall have ap
peared before the tribunal of jultice, you
Will an hundred times repeat, 14 where
are our brothers the company of the Ju
- pitei ."
Would you nqt be surprised citizens,
(liould we tell you that within 2 years we
j have loft £Q, 000 men fighting to eitablifh
order, in a colony, which the mother
couutiy had entrufttd to out care and to
our arms.
But how have they died, have they
j been killed bravely ? No, 'tis not the
fwordalane, but Jire and poison* has de
llroyed .thera ; if you seek far jnjlice you
: will find it in prisons aod under the weight
of irons ; such are the arbiiraty proceed
ings us fhofe, who are entrusted with the
; rcins.of government^
8 At prefeut it is imp»ffible for us to in
form.yau of the wlmlf. truth, of .the affair
dn#until we shall have appeared before
that auglrft national conventton, it nevfcr
' can be known. For tliis reason citizens,
we wi(hto let'urn to France ; that we may
make known (he language of truth,
(Signed)
The Company of the "Jupiter.
* Perhaps it is not known to every one
that numbers of these brave patiiots fell
a facrifice to poison mixed in their wine
and victuals ; it is of some consequence,
that the perpetrators of such villany
should be detected.
I " ' • y.
Philadelphia, Aug. 24.
Last Sunday evening an affray took place in
New-Yoik, between (ome French and Eftgliih
. Cation'; in-which foine of both nations got fe-
S wonpdcd. The peace was slot restored
without the of the
who committed feveial of them to jail. There
arc reponiln circulation, that (onie of the pet.
son& concerned in the above riot, have died of
their wounds,
Thurfdav arrived at New-Cattle, the fhrp
Ann & Susan, Capt. fruplex, with 405 p a fle ti
ger*, ffom L'O.ndondei ry. She was taken pof-
IrfHou of by the Democrat tc Caramagnole, for
having British properly and paftcngers on boatd,
and efcoited to New-Castle by the privateers,
the Captains of both, we hear, aie ai rived in
Capt. Duplex failed from Derry on the 12th
of June, and the land the 22d, but brings papers
no later than the 1 ith.
The letters and paper* brought by Captain
Duplex, are in the poffdHon ot ihc cotnmau
dci a at the privateers.
An liiiH paper of the 7th June, fays—We
have feidom on any former occaiion seen a more
general illumination, than that of Tuesday lad,
irt this town (Belfail) in honor of his Majeily's
birth. Several irautparencres appeared in the
%nidnws, and the uigiit concluded with every
(oniiiiday of joy.
Several defoerate engagements have taken
place in Ireland, betwren the military ana the
people, on account of the militia a&.
The American Gazette, of the 14th inft. pub
lKhed at Norfolk, has the following article : —
On Saturday last the fljop Hope, of Antigua,
Capt. Richardson, was captured by the privateer
Citizen Genet, about ten leagues off the land,
and lent into Philadelphia. Capt. Richardfoti
received every polileiicfs from the Captain ot
the Genet.
fey a gentleman who came paflenger in the
above sloop we team, that a fixtecn (hip
had arrived at St. Kill's in 26 days from Liven
pool, with the intelligence that Peace was <.flab
l.lhcd between fiautc and England.
The; Proda+LUtUm oi the P:ciid#:it of th«-
United States,. ucclanng their Neutrality, is .
ptfbfifhvd in an Inih paper of the 7th June,
f kxtijjtii of a U:t<r from the wejlern part oj, AljJcu
I,'iujettiy dotted ig.
"It is fearrti in this quarter, thdt the c6ndn&
o£ <omf of your dcfpemdots\ or Jacobins, will
have a tendency tw involve this country i utiie
European contest. ; Cuch a meature would beat
tended with the inevitable distress of trade, the
oporeffion of the farmer, and the ruin of tftocu
lands. Should this be the result of the machi
nations of the caballers among you, it the sen
timent which is prevalent among the people
here, peivades the northern States 111 general,
and which I firmly believe to be Urc laet,.ibc
enemies of our country will c«;r ry 1 heir point,
and lever the Union—»n eveiv which every
friend 6t man must deprecate.—A great noise la
made about the tnfults some of a# vei&'ls
receved from a lew rafrally privateeis—{['the
plundering picaroons of New-Piovideiice, Ac; J
— this fame class who are thus deafening the
public ear with their complaints again# iiritifSi
info! en re, would ifoop to the m >lt degrading
intuits from Frenchman—nav, from the lattei,
they would receive a Oajiinadoing % and lingua ira
under the operation.
** At'the commencement of a war, the vcfTels
of any neutral nation mutt e*prft totoe subjeCted
to Tome-inconveniences* rcfuUing either, from
the caution of principled men, m di(charge of
their duty, or from the temerity of the unprin.
ciplfd, in search of plunder—but the crimcs of
the latter, cannot with propriety be laid,to the
charge of authority, unless indubitable proof of
faii£l)oii to such conduit is rendered luamfcft.
" We have had some conhifed accounts of
riots in New-York and Philadelphia—God
grant that there may be fufhcient energy in the
executive, and inclination in the majority of ih«
people, to oppose a barrier of mi»ht to the evil
designs of those who would Sacrifice the dearest
concerns and intrrefts ot our couutry, to tnotivc'4
the most base and
TiM t eo» tntonoxiir
!t is an arduous talk for a government to pre.
fei»e thr p'ace, liberty and fecuritv of . the pri
pie committed to its luperintcndjince. No
greater tulogiain an be paid to the administra
tion of the government of the United States,
thin the a£tual fiiuaiioii of iu public affairs
and it it undoubtedly the of every real
patri-it, AUy peace ttwtinue to reign in our borders,
and profpenty in our luhitjtiani.
fcvery dav's experience shews the importance
of the United States keeping detached, and
(tending aloof from the vortex of Euiopeau po
litics. The people of this country have parted
thro" the fiery trial of diforgarti jarion. May
Heaven prefcrve us from a fimilai limation—and
tho' Chanty, which begins at home, flaould not
end there, vet the molt benevolent condutl
which the United States can poffihty observe
towards those who are (offering from a dilfolu
tion of the bands of focieiv, *iirbe to exhibit
an example of the luperior bleflinga. derived
Iroin pcace, order and good^govcjonicni.
Oled #t ffr».-¥wr*,-Mrr. Si.
i>er, the amiable cnufon of the Kev.'Dr. B»n.
ja m i n Foster, of lhat city.
To JONATHAN PhVJOAk,
Poet Laurent to the National Gazette.
1 'n fpiteof all your puffers fay,
Your Odes forth' reading do ndtcomjieiifatri
The paper, ink, and time, ar<r thrown away,
The pastry-cooks will fearcearrefttbeir fate.
Yoijr boa (I of kindred to th' immortal bard,
Who. Jafhes folly in cardial note,
May to the jack-daw's lirutting be compared,
Cfoath d iu the bird of Juuo's golden coat.
The elfence of ten thoitf.nd thou fan; dozen,
Such spurious Pindarr, if condens'd in one,
Would never make his hundred lhou(aud<h
cmifro,
There's neither flifti nor spirit, blood nor
bone. q
SHIF NEWS-
v- • ;
AR RIVED at the PORT o/PHILADELPtf la.
Ship Ann&Sufan, Duplex, Londonderry
Biig Hannah, Coiincf, N. Providence
Sulaunah, Moiy, St. K,iu
Prelude, Mease, Jacomel
Scbr. Commerce, Foulk, N. Providence
Hetty, Duiiant, Virginia
Citizen Genet, Fort Mifilia
Sloop Philad. Packet, Hawkes, Guadaloupe
Polly, Smith, Martinique
Bob & Henry, Cox, Vii^inia
Two Brothers, Brown, do.
Thomas & Sally, Mitchell, do.
Sally, Griffin, St. Martin*'
Atlas, Jones, JacoroeJ
The Jane, Capt. Morgan-, and the Ann, Ca.pt.
George, that lay some tune tnibe Bay, bound to
Jamaica, are goue out to sea.
hew.Bedford. Augujl 9. Capt. Howlaod, »f.
rived herefrom Cape-Francois, was brought too
leven times on his pafTagc, by different priva
teers j five Englilh, one Spainfli, V one French
ordeicd 011 hoard the Spanish and Fretxh; the
others boarded him in their own boats All.
treated him with great aivjlity.
Brig Dunkirk, of Dunkiik, Benjamin Haws,
matter, from > Brazil whale ciuife, has arrived
here—4o© barrels whale oil. Capt, Haws had
completed his cruifeafter whale, left the ground
and fleered his cnurfe for Dunkiik—reached
soundings—spoke with an American, who gave
him the firtt intelligence of a war between
France and Great-Britain. A Buii(h private,r
in fight at the fame time, caused him to put
away for America ; aftei 40 days pafiage. with,
out once foeaking a cruiser of any kind, lu ar
rived here.—7/Sij is mnmng the gauntlet without
a witnefl ! . '
Arrived at Nantucket, (hip Marv-Anp, Trif.
tram Folger, from the coail of Brazil—lloa
barrels whale oil.
C~3" Prut vf Sltnh at in car laji.