MteßssrniG corrZSPOS'DSS'CS, RELATIVE TO TBI AFFAIRS Or FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES. 7be foHovn -g eomfpondtnct, eamprjfthg tbe majl i mportant of the dicuments contained in the Prrjident'i m/ffage to Congrejt of 19 lb January last, if ftrrufed with candor and attention, mujl fatisfy every independent A merican of thefine ere, aSive and unccafing efforts of our government to maintain invio Tate the rights of France, refultingfrom the duties of neutrality, the latu of nationt and cxijling treaties, anJmoft completely vindicates our nation from the vnjufl veproachct and complaints of the French Dlrettory and its agents. " A government which required only a know * ledje of the troth to juftify itimeaftres, colild " not but he anxious to have this fully and frankly * difplaycd." ' 1 president's MESSAGE, JAN. 19, '9;. Mr. Horrifon, Diflria Attorney oj New-Tori, to Mr. Pieiering, Secretary of State. New-Tori, nth December, Sir, Mr. Adet's long and extraordinary note of the 15th ultimo, could not fail of exciting both furpiifg and attention. The variety of ill founded charge* which it contained against thjr molt revered and tefpeaable charaSertin our country, and its general drain of censure upon the wife and impartial measure* of go vernment, had a natural tendency to make the reproaches it contained upon inferior in dividual* be considered rather as marlci of honourable diftin&ion, than as infliftive of dilgrace. Under these imprrfHons, and con scious that ai far a« I was implicated in his censures, they were wholly unmerited, I had balanced with myfelf whether it could be pro per to add any further statement ta .those communications refpe&ing the cafe of La Vengeance, whieh had already been tranf mittcd to the principal officersof government. Left, however, any thing Ihould be warning to a complete vindication of the courts and officers, as far as 1 was personally concern ed, and in deference to the contained in your letter of the 10th inft. I (hall briefly recapitulate the eircumftances attending the several suits against the privateer, with the particular reasons that influenced my condud as profecator for the public< I trust that the detail will fully confirm not only the pu rity of those motives by which 1 was aduated but also the propriety of the mcafures which I thoyght it right to pursue. About the latter end of June, ot begin* ningofjuly, 179J, the piivateer JL,a Ven geance irrived with a valuable prize, in the harbour of New-York, at a time when 1 was absent from tbe state, upon a tour to tbe east ward for the recovery of my health. Upon the ad of July, if I am rightly informed, a fifit was commenced on the admiralty fide of tbe ijiftrift court, by the Spanish consul on behalf of thtoiiginal owner of the prize, u pon an allegation that the privateer bad been fitted out in the United States. This cause was commenced in my absence, by the advice of colonel Hamilton and Mr. Troup. 1 had Mo participation in the business, nor any knowledge of it ;<t-though if I had been ap plied to, I should not have thought it incom patible with my station to have been original ly concerned for the libellant; as the free ex ercise of profeflion in all cause* where the ' United States are not parties, the diftrift attornie*. Before my return to New York, the caU(« had already made some pro gress ; the libel was filed, the prize arretted, and a claim, I think, instituted by capt. Be rard on behalf of one Jacques Rouge, whom he aliegcd to be the owner of the privateer. Mr. Adet's insinuation, therefore, that the prize tuat arrcfled in confejuenee of any cxer srtionor appearance of mine, i* totally unfound ed, and to be clafled with the other ground lef« reproaches by which his note it dilia* guiflted. U,»>n my return the Consul of the King of Spain at New-York* complained to me in my official capacity, of a violation of law on the part of the privateer, in consequence of which a Spanish subject had been injured. Thi* complaint was entitled to attention, both from its own nature and the situation of the complainant. I could be under no improper bias from any connexion with the prize cause even >if I "»as capable of being so biafled ; because, a .hat time, 1 had no concern in it ; and > erefore Mr. Adet'* observation that 1 aftti. " without laying aside my of fice of attorney for the captured', it equally unfounded with the one above noticed. Upon making tbe enquiries which 1 sup posed requisite, 1 found at lead a probability that the complaint refpefling the privateer was true. This probability arose from what I confideredas affording the certainty of ma terial proof; and therefore, in conformity with my doty, I commenced a prosecution grounded upon the statute, prohibiting the < arming of piivateers in our ports. In the course of proceeding against the privateer, it was cianifeft, that the cause of the United 1 States and that against the prize were sub- ; ftantially the famt, and it was agreed that i the evidence taken io the one cafe should be 1 vfed irt both. After some time, col. Hamil- ] ton's numtrou* engagement* rendered it itn- I prafticafcle for him to attend constantly to ( the examination of witnefTet, and at qneftion* 1 ferofe with .refpeft to the caefe against the 1 prize, wLv.-h did not emtrge in that ot the 1 privateer, 1 waa engaged to aflift at connfrl in the prize cause, continuing alone at 10 e very thing that rcfpe&cd the public prosecu tion. This I may aver to have been carried I on with the utmost faiineft on the part ofth# 1 United States, and no methodt whatever 1 were employed to delay the dccifion, which, < however wit necefTarily retarded, in part by 1 the time consumed in examining the .numerous witnefcj produced on behalf of the claimantt, and in part, by the calamitous situation of < New-York at tbat period. Perhaps too, < there never were caufea in which more con 1 tradi£lory-and irreconcileable evidence was of- I fcred, and in which the mindt of the auditors < were more divided at to the real (tale of fall* The judge of the diftrift tusk a conb'Jctablc I 1 time to examine the evidence and foim his opinion, and tho' hi* decilion was in favor of 'he claimant!, yet he expressly declaied that tf.ere wat probable cause for the leizure, which hat ever been considered at fufficient to juftify a prosecution on the part of the I public, and 1 believe that whoever will exa mine the mast of jarring evidence that was taken upon this occasion, will accord in that opinion, tho'he may think that under all the circumftancet, the fadlt were too doubtful to warrant a condemnation. To the judge'* sentence upon this prosecution, I thoughr it reasonable to submit on the part of the public, and as one of the courftl in the prize'raufe I united with my alTociate in re commending the like fubmiflion in that cause j alf i. These are all the obf-rvations which I think it can be pr per to make with refpeft to the firft cause commenced against the pri vateer. (To be continued.J GAZETTE MARINE LIST. PokT of Philadelphia. arrived. ' , Ship Warren, Church, Briflol, 48 : Sluop Peggy, Berry Alexandria, 18 r la the Warren came 9 paflenger*. NEw York, Mat if. 1 _ ARRIVE 0. .DATS. Ship Commerce. Ham, Havanna 18 . Brig Succeft, Bethburn, do. 19 Biam, Fairchild, Guadaloupe 19 Nancy, Ellifon, Cowes 40 £but brings no news Schr. Fanny, Norton, Gonaives 16 Sloop Mary, L'Homtnedieu, Philadelphia 5 Tbe (hip Maria, Ferris, maften, from De marara to this port, taken by a French pri vateer, had been re-taken by the Matilda frigate, and carried into Antigua, on the 23d of April ; her trial for salvage was expedl ed to comeoll in time for her to fail under coovoy a? far a* the lat. 0(33,0, with the European fleet and several Americans. ©apt. Dodfwoath, from Port-au-Prince, May 12, spoke the brig Pjlly, Rose, from Baltimore to Port de Paix, out 3 day*,'all well. By the brig Diana; captain Fairchild, 19 day* from BafTaterre, Guadaloupe, brings the following account of veffelsleft there— viz. Andrew Simpfon, brig Eliza, N. York, veflel and cargo condemned. John Millet, Salem, cargo condemned. Abel Bunker, brig Lucy, to fail in four days for New.York. r Samuel M'Lellan, brig William, to Port land, from Barbadoes, bound for New-York taken and sent unknown where. Schr. Polly, Willis, Alexandria, cleared to fsil in 6 day*. Brig Nancy, Nimmo, Alexandria, veflel and cargo condmned. Ship ——, Bo ft 00, eapf Billings, wait ing forjtrial Brooks, fehr. Milton, New York, veflel and cargo condemned. Schr. Polly, capt. James Bonticon, of Philadelphia, arrived from Martinico after being in pofleffion ot theEsglilh for f month*, to {til in 5 day* for St. Thomas. hamlet fairchild. Brig Naaey, Ellifon, 40 days trom Cowes, on tbe 18th April spoke a Philadelphia (hip from Norfolk bound to Hamburgh, out 24. day*, lat. 45, 36, long. 25, 00- Maya, spoke the brig Arethufa, of Providence, R. I. fiom Savannah to Copenhagen, lat. 4 43, long 49, 30. May to, spoke brig Hiram, John Hamblin, Mailer, from Bal timore bound t* Br«meo,out 4 day*, lat. 38, 14, long. (/$, May 13, spoke a sloop from New London, bound to Surinam, out J day*, lat. 38, id, long. 55, 50. May 16,fpoke spoke a brig from New London to Guada loupe, out t days, lat. 39, 50, long, jq. By this day's Mail. NEW YORK, May 19. [From' Gazette Francaife, printed in th'u city, May 17.] " Our reader* should be cautious how they give credit to every nautical and mercantile report that is flying about, and not even to impose too implicit confidence in official ac count*. The following faflt will prove that the caution we gave wa* not gnfeafonable One Captain ha* ktn with hia own eyes the Englilh fleet cannonading the town and port of Porto Rico. Another since reports that it was not Porto Sico they attacked but Gua doloupe, and that they bad already disem barked Sqoo men at Grandterre. A third, Capt. Miner arrived on Sunday last from St. Croix, allures at that Admiral Hervey and Gen. Abererombie, with 6 iiip* of the line, with 6000 troop* and 1500 negroes are arri ved at Porto Rico, have disembarked, aad had entrenched within 6 mile* of tbe town •f St. John'*. By official account* from Gen. Touflaiut Louvtrture, and jdoubtltfs authentic, at ibcy arepuhßfbed al the Capt, there can be no lon ger any 'gatjiion that thi* brave General has taken five or fix brigand camp*, faught five or fix bloody battles, cut to piece* Deflou rie* arid Mentalembert* legion*, took Mira btlais, Grand-Boil, Voiettet, besieged Ar cahayt, and wat marching for St. Mark'tand Port au Prince. It appear*, however, from letter* by the Fox, from Port au Prince, re ceived last Saturday, that all these migbty ac tion* are reduced to a fimplc evacuation of Mirbalait only, owing to a panic, or rather forae trifling plot, which it it probable ha* been already dcte&ed and punished. It i* certain there wat not even a mule or an aft killed at Mirbalait, altho' there were hun dred* in tbe place, in the full powert of htalth and vigoar." By arrival* at thi# from Jeremie and Aux Caye* ( Hifpar iola) we learn, tbat Gen. Rigaud, after attacking all the ports of Jeremie, had met with a repnlfe, and a loft of 500 men, beside* one of hia Gen erals, and bimfelf badly wounded. In bit I attack* on Iroit, it i* said, he wa* at the head of do left than 9000 Brigands. 1 BOSTON, May tj. FREEBOOTERS AT HAND. Gentlemen from Salem and Marblchead r head inform us, that a coasting schooner put mio the former place yesterday, which had been plundered by a fixteen-gun French privteer btig from Porto-Rico, about eight leagues from Cape Ann, of a hogfheadof rum, and other property ; and that the Cap tain of the privateer threatened very hard to burn the schooner. Fraternity this with a ivitnefs. From MARTINIQUE. We learn, that the inhabitant* of that island were under fearful apprehensions of a visit from Viftor Hugns, the Don Quixotte ol the Well Indies—(hould the BritilH force . pass Guadoloupe to attack any of the lewaid possessions of the French. Mt. Russell—l read with aftoniltiment the ttaflaiion of a letter said to have been written by Mr. Jefferfon,to a person in Eu rope ; and, after what Mr. Jefferfon has lately said in bis inauguration speech, I mult fufpeft it to be a forgery.—Were it not, in any other country but this, its treasonable . Sentiments would bring the head of the writer to the block. An AMERICAN. On the 16th April, an Englilh fleet of between 80 and 90 fail, went through Sail Rock Passage, bound to leeward. From tht Columbian Centinel. FRENCH INFLUENCE. No. 111. : MR RVSSEL, That we may be enabled the more justly to form aa ellitnate of the degree and extent of the French influence in this country, it will be proper to pause here a moment and refled upon the nature of public opinion, how it is to be colle&ed, aud in what manner if may be excited, created or directed. In every civil society the majority unless roused by some appeal to their paffio.is or interelt, are quiescent and inactive. In a republican government like ours, the great body of the people are perfeftly easy, and re pose with confidence on the rulers whom they have freely elefted and whom they know to be equally interested with themselves in the promotion of the public welfare and bappi nefs. But in every society however happy the general (late of it may be, there will be per- j sons of some one of the following descripti ons: Relllefs, uneasy spirits impatient of ref tiaint—four, morose malevolent heart*—dis posed to view the fair objects of nature and art, the beautiful fyllem of law*, order and public happiness, with jaundiced eyes—de pressed, defpeate, profligate abandoned wret ches, possessed of a gambling spirit, desirous of change, or vain ambitious mind 9, purse proud men, but of dull and feeble talents, who think that their merit* are overlooked, and who wilh an overturn for the fake of gratify ing their rage for diftindioH. These varioua descriptions abound snore or less in different countries—ln England Mr. Butke compute* them at one fifth of those who think at all, ! but supposes that unless carefully watched, they are fufficiently numerous to overthrow the government. In this country, Ido not believe that more one tenth of those who are capable of forming any opinion for them, fclves are of any of the foregoing descripti ons, but though fa defpjoable in number* and chara&ers, yet they are so subtle, a&ive, persevering, indefatigable and organized, that we have seen them effeft in a few weeks an almost total change in the opinions of their fellow citizens.—Assume the language and authority of the people, and threaten the ve ry exillencc of government.—Taught this truth, partly by theii experience in their own country and partly by observation of the A merican chara&er, the emissaries of France early learned how to acquire an influence, and had almost discovered how to obtain a domi nion over the opinion* and conduft of the o pen and unfufpe&ing Americans—From the peace of 1783 until the period when the Ja coLin fa&ion had ercfted a new despotism in Fiance, upon the ruins of the old, no parti cular oceafion* exilled to call forth the intri guing spirit of the French government—.we do not therefore find any particular exercise of this their darling propensity. They contented themselves with filling up the full quota of diplomatic and con! fular agents, who were w.ell employed in watch ing every interesting movement of our go vernment, and who were ready mailhalled to commence effective operations as event* or oceafion* might require. Such an oceafion unfortunately for'this until now happy couafy too feon presented itfelf. The hrft Hep* towards liberty which the French na tion adopted, having for thcobjeft, (imply a dimunition of the royal prerogatives, and an amelioration of the condition of the common alty and peasantry were received in this coun- , try with universal and uufcigned pleasure. , Our public paper* teemed with congratula tion* on the aufpiciou* event.—When there fore the mild, humane, and philofophi: War ville, and hi* accomplices, of the Cirondill fafiion, aimed the sanguinary steel against ' the head of their unfortunate monarch, (to j whom, if to any of the French nation, we were under obligation)— When they perceived that all Enrope flood aghast at the horrid fpedaele, and that incensed humanity was urging combined nations to vindicate her rights, it was to be expefted that they (houid turn tbeir views to America, as their only friend. Selefting then one of their most dar. ling and intriguing spirits, a man who has I already proved his abilitie* against the dev»- 1 ted head* of the unhappy Genevan*, and re- ] calling firem this sountry a minister wbo had 1 too much honcfty and too great friendfhip 1 for nt to be trusted, they sent out thi* emif- i fary to draw ilofcr the bonds of fraterniy, I which untied the ltu» republics. Every art. ! ful device, every ingenious scheme, every < plausible, every fafcinating sentiment was to 1 be suggested to cntnrp os. To pleale our . vanity we were to be told, that the French . revolution was but 20 emanation of our own. | That a spark from America had lighted the I holy Same—to gratify resentments yet warm r| —to rekindle jealousies hardly txtinguifhed, ; j to rcfufcitate injuries not yet healed, we were I reminded of British tyrannv—Britifh treache ry, and Britilh cruelty. But above all, to the idle andihe desperate, who have : ever since been the warmed friends of French ' principles, they preached the mild, persuasive 1 and irrefible dudlrint i oWiiserty and equality. 1 Mysterious terms! What wonders you have wrought ! Equality of properly ! Agrarian laws ! Liberty to aft as our whims, pufliohs or inter*!! diflate 1 How fsfcinating to the dissolute 1 How captivating, ro the lazy and 1 i™pp_veri(hed Sansculotte ! This hopeful fun of sedition begat by anarchy, (the descrip tion renders it fuperflnous to call him Genet) with a dozen choice fpiriis, in the consular character, to aft as aids, were cantoned out at proper ditlances, in the different parts of the union. The happy effedls of their ex ertions and talents have been widely felt and lorely tealized, but cannot be justly described, without devoting to them a separate number. LEONIDAS. Csa3 tttt. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY EVENTNG, MAY «o. 1 ' ■ n ii ■ i i.i. COMMUNICATION. THE speech of the President of the United States has excited the lrvelieft approbation of all real Americans. It may be justly called a true ■American/fetch. It breathes in every line gen uine patriatifm. It came from the heart of a tried patriot, and was addreiled/e the heart of patriots alone. There was nothiag wavering in it j no little trick to catch a transitory appro bation from the discontented, or to soothe the faflious. It was the explicit language of the firft magiftrite of the nation, difciofing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his ■ heart, expreffmg with a proper feeling and sen sibility, the wrongs done to his injured country,- and his determination to attempt to obtain re dress j while at the fame tjme it manifefted.hu mane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiation. In tracing the a trocious attempt to separate the people from their government, it glowed with that patriotic fire, which animated JOHN ADAMS in 17,% and in 1)54, when another nation wi(h«l to deprive 11s of our liberties. The old patriot a gain (hone forth in all his youthful ardor, and with the fame spirit which had animated him to refill the efforts of one nation to reduce us to an odious vassalage, he pledged himfclf to his* j fellow citizens to refill every other, which might repeat the daring attempt. When the national legiilature (hall have reciprocated these American sentiments, as there can be no doubt they will, then (hall we fee an end to the expir ing and contemptible efforts of domestic and foreign fa&ionstotrample on our independence. Then {ball we fee an end to the degrading com plaints of a Monro?, and the inlulting speech of a Barr as, then (hall we rally as otc fami ly, united, free, and happy, around our oiun government, and the enlightened adminiftra. tion of a long tried patriot, who has devoted his iifc toferve his country and maintain its INDEPENDENCE. PEPP ERPOTI Bache and his clan toprofecute their fchemrs;. I Tickled thetafie .vith Flummery and Creams ; Their nostrums loath'd, and deep contempt their lot, Now swear the Dose fliould have been " Pef p erpot." For the Gazette of the United States. MR. rZNNO, THE following scrap was publilhedin Eng-' land in 1778 —your readers will make such ap plication of it to the present times, as may be thought proper : POLITICAL QUADRILLE ; OR, THE NATIONAL CARD-PLAYERS. America- I believe I (hall play alone ; no, 1 will call a king. I cannot lose the game ; I have three matadorcj in my hand King of France. You did well to call me, for I am strong in every suite ; besides, I know how to fwejje the earth, and value myfelf upon playing all the game. Holland. I wifli I had not played that double game, I have not got a trump more, yet I (huffled well. Oh ! lam a beajl 1 I wi(h I had not been forc ed to flay ; I (hall Itffe all my fijh. King of Spaix. What did you call me for ! I (han't get a trick, you know how the laji game went with me. Ireland. I exfk leave. Do you give ? I (hall flay a lone, if you force me. Scotland. I itch to play, but I have no king. King of England. I never have luck, when the curse of Scotland is in ray hand } but in the firft deal of this fool I have made some errors j yet come, the pool's not gone, let's have a new sack ; I'll try what tpey will do. Aye, this is something like 1 I havetjlrongfuitenow,without a knave among them. Kir.g of PruJJia. Am I oldest ? Oh 1 I fafs. Emfrejs of Rujfta. I have only a queen in my hand, so I wWpafj too ; or if nobody chooses to take my cards, I'll play any gentleman at put, or you, Mynheer, at Dutch rubber J. Emperor of Germany. Someadvife me to play, others to let it alone. What (hall Ido ? I'll e'en Hand by 'till I fee time to tut in ; But I will firft play with the Pope a game at cribbage, and try if I can lurch him. The Pope. Ponto Falls. To Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, Vice- President of the United States and Presi dent of the Senate ps the United States. Sir, W ITM that refpeft which is dae to your high official Rations, a* "the next officer to the chief magiilrate of the union, and the president of an important branch of the na tional legifiature, I exercise the right of a cititen of the United State* to call on you fur an explicit avowal or difavowr.l of the sol lowing letter, which has been publicly Scri bed to you in all our newfpaperg, and which contains sentiments and principles too deeply affefling the intewft, charafter and fifety of. America, to be pafied by Unnoticed by any American who values and cheriftic. them Altho' that letter hat been of public Hgiiation, I have been too often de ceived by spurious fabrications of this nature, to haflily adopt aa opinion on the fubjeft, and knowing your expefted arrival in this city, have forborne to make any (IriAures upon it, until you had had a fair opportunity of denying it/ The.* re sunt cris is of our affairs will not brook any.further delay : the time is now Come, when every citizen must speak his opinion without disguise; when the public have a right to know the real opinions of their high public fttn&innaries. If you entertain the sentiments ascribed to you in that letter, it is your duly to avow them, to come for ward manfully and to support them. If they have been falfely attributed to your pen, it is no less incumbent oh yol explicitly to difiu vow them. 1 ihall for the present withhold further remarks. Should your silence con tinue, you will be justly regarded as the author of that letter, and duty to the American na tion will compel me to present to the puhlit view those übfervations which, on thc-pera fil of it,"have arisen in the mind of A FELLOW-CITIZEN. Important Letter. Tranflatedfor the Minerva. ' From the Paris Moniter, of January 25. FLORENCE, January 1. LETTER From Mr. Jefferfon, late Minister of the U nited States ,in France, and Secretary to the Department of Foreign Affairs, to « citizen of Virginia. This letter, laterally translated, is address ed to M.jjMaazei, author of Researches, hrf tortcal and political, upon the United States oPAmerica, now refideat in Tufcany. "" Our political iituation is prodigiously changed since you.left us. InKead of that noble love of liberty, and that republican go vernment, which carried us ihroughthc dan ger of the war, an Anglo Monarchio, Aris tocratic party has riferi. Their avowed ob jeift is to impose on us the fubflance, as they have already given us the form of'the British government. • Nevertheless, the principal body of our citizens remain faithful to re publican principles. AHoar proprietors of lands are friendly to those principles,' as also the men of talents. We have against us, (republicans) .the Executive Power, the Judiciary Ptzuer, (two of the three branches of our government) all the officers >f govern ment, all <who are feeling offices, all timid men •who prefer the calm of drfpotifm to the tempes tuous sea of liberty, the British merchants and the Americans <wbo trade on British c-ap '.als, the speculators, per font ioterefled in the bttni and pnblic fundt [Eftablifhrnems invented with views of corruption, and to aflimilate us to the British model in its corrupt parts.} " I should givi you a fever, if. 1 should name the apostates who have embraced these heresies ; men who were Solomons in council,, and Sampibjns in combat, but whose hair ha* been cut off by'the whore of England. [ln the .orijjinaJ, par ' la carin Angletfrre, prob ably alluding to the woman's cutting off the hair of Satripfon, and his lof6 of ftrenglk thereby.] ' ..." " They would wrest from us, \)ti\ liberty which we have obtained by. so njuth labour and peril ;,but we Ihall">pr«fetV«.it. Our mafsof weight and lichei are''fo-powerful, that we have, nothing to Tear from' any at tempt against us.by force. "If _fs fufficient tliat we guard ourfelvee, and .that, jfte break the HHiputiah lies by which they .ljiwe bound us, in the firft slumbers winch luccceded our labours. It fuflkes that wc arrefl the pro grofs of that fyfttir. ofingrstittfdi"&>injuftice towards France, from which"' would .alienate us, to briiagus undtr.B.lft'iJh influ ence, &C. ' ' ; ,-••*' ' VV V [The foregoing, letter wears;all tie exter nal marks of authenticity. And yet it feenu hardly poflible an Atniyicaii could be capa ble of writing foeh a letter. As the'letter is circulating in Europe, we deem it j'uft, if a forgery, to give Mr. Jefferfon an ojtoirtunity to difovow it.J The Commillioners FOR carrying inte effe&'the TWENTY-FIRST Article of the Treaty of Friendftip, Limits, and Navigation, between His Catholic Majesty and the United States of America, hereby give in fafmatiop tp alt Pfrforis therein concerned—That, ixt'Ordcr to terminate at! differences, on -account of the lefles fuftainedby tire Citizens of the ,United States, in confeque'nee of tkeir Veflels and Car goes having b-en taken ky the Subje'&s of .His Cath olic Majesty, during the late War between Spain and France, that they are ready to receive'(at their Qffi(;e,_between the hours of ten and" one o'clock, flatly) all complaints and applications, authorized by the said Article, during Eighteen Months, trom the day of the date.hereof, and that they have power to examine all such persons as come before them, on oath or affirmation, touching the com plaints in question, and also to receive in evidence, all written testimony, authenticated in fuclf man ner as they Ihall think proper to.require or admit. 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