3 <P For the Gazette of the UnitedStatls. To JOSEPH PRIESTLY, l. l.d. &c. Sir, A Itrmger arrived in a new country with whose opinions, habits, and manners, he has but that imperfett acquaintance which is formed by literary correfpon dtnce, v.iil be fafer by preserving a fe fj-eclfu' distance from, than by an inti mate union witbj any party who may step forward ar.d endeavor by a flattering ad driis lo prepofitfs his mind in their fa- Vir. Your anfwef to the address of the De nocratic Soeiety cf New-York, is modcft ind dec ent, it conveys ideas of peace ai;d harmony with all the World, but diffeiing fn m their expectations. They hoped to find in yon the enemy of thofc who have persecuted you—theytruf ted tbr.t you weie like themfelve* unable to forgive injuries or to forget wrongs done.ii/ or to, themselves ; that becauie you have written and preached in favor of the Unity of the Deity, you therefore, with liitm, were adverle to the principles of Chriitinnity, inculcated ill the sermon "of Jefys (brill, delivered on the Monnt tif dives, <v herein he tells US that " Blrf " fed are the reaej-makers for they fliall " be called the Children of God," Matt. v. 9. " BleiTed are ye when men (hall " revile y;u, and persecute you, and fay " all manner of Evil again 3: you falfely, for my fake; Rejoice and be glad: For great ■"is your Reward in Heaven: For so persecuted they the Prophets, which " were before you," Matt. v. 11 and 12. Your answer to them convinces a number of your friends that they were and are mistaken in their ideas of your refent mer.ts. There are few men in America, who will not be happy in the acquain- tance of a person diiiinguifhed as ypu are by your researches in philosophy and ma thematics—and the moderation of your enquiries into moral, natural, and revealed religion, and you will reap in this Wes tern World a tempoial enjoyment of a well earned reputation, if yoit preserve yourfelf from the spirit of party. But, Sir, you ?.rc in danger—a party is endeavoring to make a merit to them selves of your weight and influence—Be- ware, Sir,, of calling it into the fca'e on cither fide. In the preponderant scale, its value wiil be ijft by a sri xturc with the majority—in the lighter scale it will kick the beam with yonrafTociates and be found wanting :—Preferve it then; for rhe good of mankind, by your guarded conduct, and let us (who have only heard from a ditlance) fee that your virtues are truly Chnftian, tho' you express doubts of the Divinity of our Saviour; that you believe in the rr.efiage, tho' you doubt the cha • rafter attributed to the Meflenger, and that persecuted in one City you have fled to another, only for peace and repose. Be afflired Sir, that there is no perfe ction here against opinion?, and that however different your's may be from that of the majority, you may write, print or preach them, without danger of per secution of any kind ; and that while we are inftrufted by those parts, of your doc trines, which with freedom we imbibe, we fhnll never be angry because we cannot fublcribe to those which we reject, nor fuipeft you of being displeased for the Cxercife of our free will. Conducting yourfelf in this way, your private virtues, your indultry in the pur s iit of knowledge ufeful to mankind, will render ypur name refpefted as Franklin's —-by a contrary conduit, by coalescing with any' party whatever, you will cer tainly diminish your.fame as much as the opposite party is proportioned to that whiohi.yxSu (hall adopt, and poflibly by the merger of that party, fink the whole of your well earned reputation in a long Yours, See. Phil. June 7th, 1794, CONGRESS. HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES. "f Mr. Sedgivicl's observations, in House of R-prrfcn 'ativet, on the mo o/ Mr. Gersdbuc, for an ir.dcmr.ifica ' t the fpaliatians committed on slme- ommerce. not been his wifli, Mr. '-."ilorverj, tmt this, question '■ ' "uught forward at the preient time. As it was, however, be r ore the House, as he approved the motiies of his colleague, who made .the motion, and as he perfedtly concurred with him :n opini on on the fubjedt, he should make a few concifc observations. He believed he said that in a govern ment (nth as that of this coiintry, it was the peculiar duty of those, to whom the administration has been committed, to ex tend security and protection to all the in terelb, and redress for all the injuries of the citizens. That inexcusable and unex ampled injuries had been perpetrated, and an immense value in property unjufily spoil ed, and that the honor of our country had been insulted, without provocation, were facts admitted by all. Those whose pro pel ty had been the sport of wanton viola tion, which in many inftartces had reduced the fufferers from ease and affluence, to want and mifsry ; come forward and de mand redress and indemnification. That they were entitled to such indemnification, from the nature of our social compact he understood to be agreed by every gentle man. (Here Mr. S. was interrupted by several members, and Mr. Nicholas and Mr. Smilie declared that in their opinion, 1 there was no obligation to indemnify the fufferers, except it were done cut of a fund to be formed by the sequestration of Bri. tifh debts.) Mr. S. said he was much o bliged to the gentlemen for setting him right; till now he had believed that the right of the fufferers to indemnification was denied by none. If this however was Really a question, yet to be decided, it Was due to the fufferers, it was due to our 1 own honor to decide it without delay. It was asked, he said, by what means is the government to administer- redress; They were lirft to apply to the govern ments which had infli&ed the injuries, to state their nature, and extent, and to de mand in unequivocal terms redress. This bufincfs notwithstanding all the opposition which had been made was happily irt a proper train. He hoped, and believed the application would be effedlual. It might however fail; and in that cafe he was free to declare, that we owed it to our honor, and to our injured citizens, to at tempt redress by means of the Fall, resort. In that unhappy event, the interest of the fufferers must be involved with the general interests of the nation, and must abide the result-os war. But if fatisfaflion should not be obtain . Ed by negociation,«and should the govern j nient from any political confederation, not seek redress by force in such events, the fufferers would have a just claim on their country for indemnification. The question now immediately before the House was, to fefer the motion for indemnification to the committee of the whole on the fubjedt of sequestration. This was not fair, as refpe&ed that part of the Hojife who approved the engage ment to indemnify, and who would never consent to sequestration. It was not fair as refpe&ed the fufferers, because he be lieved there was not a gentleman in the House who supposed that the measure of sequestration would prevail. He was asto nished that any should believe that it ought to be adopted. He liimfelf with out hesitation approved of engaging to indemnify the fufferers ; but at the fame time with all his heart, he abhorred seques tration and confifcation of debts as the measures which all civilized nations had for more than a century abandoned as im moral and unjust. He would not now enter into a difcufTi on of the question of sequestration. When ever it came directly under consideration, he pledged himfelf ro undertake to prove that it was againit the law of nations, that it was immoral, unjust, and impolitic. He had been sorry to perceive that the feelings of the mover of that proposition (Mr. Dayton) were wounded, by the terms in which gentlemen had spoken of his mo tion. He himfelf, in his conscience, be lieved it to be immoral and unjust, and as such he felt himfelf bound as a man of ho nor to give it his strenuous opposition. The gentleman surely could not reasonably expect that independent men, would fa crifice opinion to politeness or to friend ship. All he could do and that he did with pleasure, was to dcclare that he be lieved the gentleman's motives were pure and upright, and that he had a perse& confidence in the correftnefs of his moral lentiments. SENEX. Viewing the fubjeft in the light he had cxprefTed, he appealed to the candor and fairnels of gentlemen, to what tended the combining of those irritative questions of [ indemnification and sequestration, hut to j wound the feelings and evade the just ap plication of the fufferers ? f he said, had charged his colleage, and those who had supported his motion, with attempting, by these means, meanly to court popularity. To refute this chargo would, in his opinion, be un necessary, because no well-informed man in America could believe it. He did not know that the opinions, which were held by his friends and himfelf, on this fubje<£t, were popular. It was fufficient that they were believed to be just. Was he, how ever, disposed to recriminate, by disclos ing motives which were not avowed, but concealed, he could tell a tale, which, he believed, would be heard with effe£k. From the commencement of the admi nirt;ration of this government, certain gen tlemen, and particularly those of the eastern states, had been charged with regulating i their political conduct by local considerati ons. That they had difregaided the inter [ eft of every part of the United States, but the particular diftri&s of the country from I which they came. The charge was now ' reversed—those diflri&s have fuffered in j finitely beyond their neighbors, by the ef i fefts of those measures of which we com ! plain; and notwithstanding all this, the re -1 prefentatives of those diftri&s all at ; once so totally changed," have become so 1 tame, so torpid, as to be regardless of the | interests and fufferings of their immediate I < onftitu nts. " Not," said he, is this all; our kindfouthern brethren have, from pure disinterested benevolencej and with a most acute sensibility, determined to procure for our conltituents that redress to which we are indifferent. It had been fair!, that the gentlemen vho wlfe in favor of indemnification, had tppofed every measure of energy. They lad indeed opposed certain measures, to which they would give a very different ap pellation. They had not only favored, but had been the authors of every measure of refpe£tab!e efficiency, as well in refpeft to force, as the means of defraying the expen ces which our (ituation had rendered it ne cessary fhotild be incurred. He need not fay who had opposed those measures, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 10. From a Corrcfp^ndint. The diforganizers of this country who pretend to be the (launch friends of liber ty, have long since forfeited all right to that diflirguifhed character. The rial friends of the equal rights of man, while they lincerely rejoice at the triumphs of freedom and justice in every quarter of the globe, regret excefles which not only tarnilh the lustre of the belt of causes, but put to hazard the eventual es tablishment of a fret government. The partizans of discord on the other hand, have uniform-y Ihouted hofannas to the triumphing faction in France, let it consist of whom it will, and have jultified the measures of men who have destroyed each other Can this be right ? Jn the General Advertiser of Friday la ft, there is however a paragraph which devi ated for a moment from this hitherto uni form line of condu&. The fate of the celebrated Danton who has fallen tinder the axe of the guillotine, through the pre valence of a competitor—is there attribu ted " to the manoeuvres of the aristocrats" —nor is this all, the exigence of rival fac tions is not only recognized, but it is also con. r e[Tcd that, instigated by the aristocrats thefc fadlions destroy each other. This was going too far—it was a concefiion in favor of truth and common sense, that lays the axe to the root of the whole system of anarchy—the next day we accordingly find in the General Advertiser another tune is introduced—the man who it is fug. gelled, has fallen a vi<3im to aristocracy, is denounced as a Traytor, an ambitious, avaricious wretch. It is now said, " his love of money directed his steps in the high road to the guillotine ," that he was "lepeatedly bribed, and in Belgia purloin ed a large sum of money that he had " risen from poverty to the possession of immense fortune, which he must have ac cumulated by malpractices —if bring ing such a man to the guillotine is aristo cratic, (and this is affcrted in the General Advertiser,) what mull the people of France think of Arillocracy ? Extra<fl as a letter from London, dated March 24th, 1794. ii 1 he political horizon of Europe begins to brightenthere are ftroneer hone, twined of the French Republic ucinl to detach the Pruflian from the coalition r 1 tyrants : his coffers are perfeflly draißed , his preoeceffor had 68,000,000 of dollars in rial specie locked up in his palace, but thev are flown. France we know has made him ad\ ".ices of money T England feat last wet V to the fame person half a million ; perhar,,' he 11 keep both and remain inactive. Till this negociation is terminated youare'nof to' eXpect any conliderable attack to be mad* by France. The loan of the minister here of ii.ooo.cco was applied for by lenders to the amount of 71 millions, they expe&ed to clear 8 or 10 per cent, but the omnium has nsver rea" l »d beyond 1 i-j so that the subscribers f«I much chagrin in their diiaopointin.'iit. Near 3000 tickets of the lottery, now drnvine were held hy the purrhallrs of the hct'Jv when the drawing commenced, by which on a fair calculation they Ihould lose 100 00a The bonus (a term made use of in Chanee Alley) in the new loan of a lottery ticket ij found to be nothing in (lead of 11 or 'ir pounds, which th-y hive been wofth'in <"ormi. er years ; they cannot vend them at more than 10 pounds. I hope vou manage the e things better in Philadelphia; as well as * rancc * Gqi. Adv. Laieji European Intelligence, Tranfiatcd from Par'u paper by the Jbip Harmony, Ci.pt. Qfmon. PARIS, April 7. For some time pall the ftrifleft Dolic» is observed here. The committees of public lafety continue to purine with indt'feti»aUe zeal all the enemies of liberty under whate ver mask they endeavor to''-j>hreaf them selves. The atidacity of public ;,qt:*:!c3 is seen no more ; and the p;r,ple, u hot- every I sentiment and with eemtrs in t!:- national convention, becomes enlightened ar.d appears armed against the intrigues which were tiif traeling them in every quarter. Every day a crowd of the emiHirieii of foreign powers is arrested, also emigrants and intriguers who were prctefled iiy the faiflion which lias been annihilated. Frequent visitS are made 111 the public places. The several theatres have been search ed. On the sth, at ,eight in the evening, the ci-devant Palais : Royale was furroimried, and it is laid that several accomplices of the last conspirators were am-lled. April u. From Toulon, April 2. The Duqupfne ?.nd the Corvettee la Fauvette arrived here yefterd j y evening, with a fleet of 20 vefltfs from Marleilles, lo ioed on the Repnblic's scc.iunt, with ammunition Bcr. of all Und* for this aTfe nal. They fell in with three enemy's vef fe's, one of which came with si gunfliot of the Duquefne, Kit the Republican v.ffcl preparing tc> receive her, {he tacked about and made off. The naval preparations proceed with an aftivitv unknown under the old government, Already we have fit ted out several vessels of fyrce, which are employed to convoy merchantmen. The state of the vefftls in the harbor follows: Firlt division armed and ready for sea The Sans Culotte ot 80 guns The Tonnant of 74 The Timoleon of 74 The Genermx of 74 The Heurenx of 74 Second division, Arming. The Languedoe of 80 The Cenfeur of 74 The Duquefne of 74 The Conquerant of "4 The Guerrier of 74 Third division, Equipping. The Ca Ira of 80 The Mercure of 74 The Alcide of 74 Tlie Souvermn of 74 The Barrat of 74 Makes five (hips of the line ready for sea, five nearly ready, and rive preparing. Add to tliefe, a vast number of frigates, corvettes and ether light veilils. April 12. On the iotli 25 persons :ppeared be fore the tribunal. The ast of accusation mentions them as the accomplices of the infamous Hebert, Clootz, and others, who have already received the punishment due to their crimes. They are accused of conspiring againit the liberty and fa fif ty of the French people, of wishing to disturb the tranquility of the republic, by a civil war, dnring which, in the mentis of Ventofe and Germina 1 , the coirfpira tors were to difTblve the National Conven tion, aflafdnate some of the members a:>d other patriots, deftrov the republican go vernment, flize the reigns of anminiftra tion and give a tyrant to France. Their names follow : P. Gafpnrt! (Anaxagoras) ChswwnfWtt aged 3 1 ; man of letters, fx-agent of the commune of Paris. *.■ * \ i &1
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