Loft Exhibition 1/ IN tha great Qa>ttliig Room of Mr>. M'Oou^U,. V South Fourth-street, between Chefqut iind WaW hut street, at 8 o'clock in thetvaning. t fro] The Automatons wlrdi have excited the admfr Nation of the coiifioiffeUts. wi'l absolutely leave foij P tvvr their aftonilhing exerciles, on Friday the 41? pf tht J month. After the nxperi'.nents of natural philofopfcy, the artificial lady will exhibit 1 fire wsrks without powder or fraell. • half a dftl'ar-—C'iiUr<- . half price. . July n, ,iawt»« Ex * ~ FOR SALE, 'Jhefallowing Valuable Property. m . *+r AVAiANT T.ot, situated on the raft fide of Tl.ird-ftreet, between Shippcn and Plumb , jhrieti, twenty one s«et front l<y«ne lu.ujicd sett or Hfl#p- - A fratiie Tenement Wieen fe^t,by nineteen feet, £ h on the north fide of Shipyep-ftreet betyvenn I hird [Jj '■ knd Fonrth-ftreets ; the lot is one hundred (jet deep, it is pa+ed before tlys ft')or, and great irn fu -provements are niaking in the fflsset—• the above is f u <-lekr of ground refit" ami cv.Ty oth«r incumbrapce 'fu —the, house lets for thirty seven pianos ten fhil- fa hngs per annum. „ ,v' lh Afrinte Tenement eleven by fifteen fjet,on the ol weft fid? of Fifth-ftreet, betvriren Shippen and „ ' Phuab-ftwets,; the'lot is ninety fiileet J«p,<leir of every incuiribranoe except a ground scut o-ie 2 hundred atid ten (hillings per ihntnn ; tha h.yft lets for tliirty pounds per annum. o ats o, ■ tl 4Vir of dark brown Carriage Heffes, one V which i< an excellent Saddle Horse > Fcr ftirther particulars inquire flf.. , . Samuel R. Franklin, f • No. ISO,' Lonftardfftreet, corner of Fourth fit. t N. B. abova property Will be fold for part. c taOi atid part dry goods. June 50. 3.aw4w j 45" ; ooo f>ieC9s of- NaAkeens ' j joi)o»««*brown Havartbah Sugars ' imperial Hyson Teas . 17 tubs Quick Sllvef , Sail Canvps, No. vri 8- , 1 A large affortmer.t of Nails, (harp atfd ftatpoultl Qaeens \yell assorted In crates and hbd». London Particular and \ Cities India Market 5 Tcr.erifTe Wine irt hhds. and pipes Bottled London Porttr in tiercel JTir.c Yellow Faint, dry in casks Slates in boicfaTrtd bundlet A box of Ink Stands and Note PrefTes 1 chefttJr Goods in ehefts » 3 crunks black SeMngs{lk 6 tons of Sheet Lead Best. Liverpool Coal, and A quantity of Wiae Bottles For Sale by Philip Nicklin, & Cd. Juur »4- • ' 2f7iv,d ]uft Received, ; From Ba'avia (via Providence) \}o Sacks cf Java Coffee of fir ft quality 100 half sacks do. do. v few Boxes of Spices,' confiding of Nutmegs, Clovcsand Mace For sale by WILUNC-Ste FRANCIS, Penn-flrect. May so »-' " Advertisement. ta tn Order from the Orphans' Court, I will abfolutelv be fold at PtJBLIC SALE, at Cranberry, on IVeJncfday, tbe lid day of Angufl next, at II oelcei, A M, alllbat valuable R£AL ESTATE, lite beloflvin* to the Jtru. Gilbert T. Snirwden, deceffa, lying in and near Cranberry, in the county 1/ Middlr/ex, ton-njbip of South Brunfeict, ftatt of S'tui J'rf<yi"p on tbe /steer flap,toad leading from Philadelphia to Pfenv Tori. A veiy elegant framehcufe in a beltfliful and healthy situation, pair.Ud white, with fern etui,: window Jhutleri, thirty feet front and tiiity eight feet derft£ liv rooms with a banJfome ball or entry on'tie frjt Jjoor, three rooms on the fett/nd foor and two w4 gar rets. ' In the rear of tbe house is an excellent iwo-fory building 37 fier ty 19, confining of a for wort people, Spacious pantries aid m large kitchen, with every convenience, and oyer these are three chambers for servants. To the right is an additional building 18 fset front by 19 fettdeep, confiflingof « chamber below and a library above—under the whole are very fne cellars paved with brick and conveniently partitiored. Tbe house is en tirely new, built in a modern fyle, and completely ande ' teganty finijbed. Every room is bung with bells thai lead both to tbe kitchen and the servantS apartments: there . is (s 'pumt of good water in tbe yard; and a Jlont and brisk pavement round the whole house, which is encl ed vith a har.dfome railing, with three gates in front. 'The farm conftfls of one hundred and ftxty seven acres, with a proper lion of woodland and meadow, under excel' ' ' tent fence 'f a garden with pale fence ; a large barn, fla ktei, rarr iageioufc, cow-boufes.tyc. all mrrss, and built in-tte'tejl manner . with two Orchard,, one of (1 a full grrast trees, th, ether i. young aiidflriving, conjiftng of JOO btfl grafted fsuit trees. . Nearly adjoining said farm is a lot of Woodland, of tlebe/i quality, containing acres. Mft <1 tract of land within seven miles of Cranberry, and I of tbe Cross Jfoad,, containing one hundred andfifty acres,three-fourths meadow and the re/I excellent timber. This Trail wilt be fold in lots on Thursday, tbe 141b day of Augltjl following, at II o'clock, A M, on tbc brcafes if the nsipfther permits, if not at tie house of f,ir. IVitkerill, Croft Roads. ' • Forfurther particulars enquire of Nathan'iel Hunt,eft]. Cranberry, of Mr. Isaac Snowdcn,jud. No. 141 South Second Street, Philadelphia, or of -Mr Charles Swrwdeh Tontint Cefee-Houfe, Nenu York, or of ibefubferibers. ISAAC SNOlVDEN,Princeton> Aliaj „;j rßlert JACOB. FISHER, Cranberry $ J N. B. Pie fait of the above property was aavertized for the 14 th inf. but the Adrniniflrators were not able to get the two febara(e Trails laid out into Lots, and other matters arranged, on account of tbc indisposition df one ef them,it was tler.fsrt adjournedlo the days above mention ed. <s)tmwf>f June 19- LAW BOOKS, Latest London and Dublin Editions. 11. & P. RIC£, Booksellers, No. 16, South Second, and No 50, Market street, HAVE just received by the late arrivals from London syid Dublin, their spring importa tion!, confiding ef a ySCriety of the latfft and most approved l.aw Books, whicii, added to thofealrea df on hand, forms the nioft extensive collt Jlioli ev er offered for (ale io this country. TMy thei tfore beg leave to none, that from tlje nature of . their connctiticnsin Dublin, tjwy are enabled to felllrifh e litiohs (as they have hitherto done) at the'very 1 jwefl-prices. Tfec following are among the lacett publications'. , ' Vefey, juti'rs~ Reports in Chancery, 2 Pe-akt's Cases at Nisi Prius ; Ridgeway's Reports ' )a the time tf Lord Hardwicke ; Vloyer's Procters >l>ra&ice in the Ecclefuftical Courts; Barton's Trcatjfe on a Suit in Equity ; Tiidd's Praflice of t ie Court of King's Bench in PerfonjJ Aiftioni, p'.rts complete ; Ward's Law of Narion6 ; Cruise •n Uses ; modtrn Reports, 11 vols. London edi tion, H. and P.Rrci expert ts receive by the firft.ar rival from "New-York the 6th vol. complete of Dnrnford and Eafl's Reports, the ad part of Gil bert's Law of Evidence by Loft, and a number of new publications. l June 26. T/> Mnjters and Pilots bringing up t'ejelt 5 / from Foreign Ports-to this Vity\ \ T Hercas fund r y infringement. »ave lately been i V made on the lavrs c{ this flat? sot the pro tfetUing peflilentiai or isfc&ious dif safes, either .; from ighnrimre or inattention thereto, it is tho't i expedient at this titfle/o pub'.ifb the following ex tracts from tha lawsi of aid April, 1794, 7th anJ Bth fc&ions. • "f . ■ $ Health-office. June 6th, 1794- , Extraß of an nil for feruling the city and port of Philadelphia from tbe hitroifiSif/i of leniial and foiling it*) difi.ifes. « of SEdT. 7. And be it further enabled, that mailer or captain of any ship veffel coming from' fA (vessels actually ctnplo} ed ,n the toasting trade excepted) and bound-to nr.y port or place within ry tlfe jurifdiitiori of Pennsylvania, (hall caul'c his ship ne or vessel to bebrq»tjlit to anchor, or ether wife (lay- ed ui the ftrerm of the river Delaware, oppafit* to , the HSilth-Office- on JHate-lflind aforefaid, ani thereto remain tir.til ht (hall-have duly obtained.a ,e ccrtifieate"or bill of heal-h frpiji the Resident Phy. dc Brian. A"d it, previously to obtaining such certi- hi ficate or biU of "health, any mailer or captain (hall fufferhisfhip or vessel to approach nearer.than the fiid Health Oftkv to the city of Philadelphia, or tl shall cgufeorfuffer to be landed, or brought on (bore,, at any place or port within this Com- JP monsyealth, or at any other port or place, with the J intent ol being conveyed into th(sCommd»:wealth, any p'rfon or per fens, or any goods, w?res or trier- A( 'chandfae, or, if after receiving such bill ps health ■o.- certifisate, Ke (}»all neeloS or rr'fufe tp deliver p, thij f»m- to the Health-Offlcer, Cueh mailer or cap-' " tain. Thai! forfeit arid pay, for each and every such «« iffence, the sum of Five udndrid dollars. « And the erpr.rin or master of every lhip or vST- (< fel (ball fend a fafe and commodious boat to bring on board, and (hall in like manjier conve} hint back t® the Haalth-Office, after hi has y cogcWdeij his official examination ; And while he [] Is malting fach examination, or in Tate any fubfe *' quent examination by the Health Officer or Con- . falling Physician, agreeably to the directions of 1 this ad, the ntafter or taptain (hall eipofe Or caulc a to bfe exposed to jhe (earth of the Refider.t Phyfi- I •cian.or of the Health Officer and Confuting Phyfi- J cian (as the cafe «nay be) each and every part #f the • ~ fhlp of veffij, ani (Hall present to his each j aha every perfoti cr f'erfons on board thereof, and aqd (hall also trye- and fatisfaelory answers make 0 to alt such questions as tl>e Resident Physician, Ace. c at the time of elamination ftttll ask relative to the <; hta'th of Sny port of place"fj»m,w)iich the (bip.or , vessel failed, or hes flnee touthed at—the number of perfonj on board when the (Kip or vessel entered on Jier voyag.v—the number of persons that have since been landed or taken 011 briard, and'whert ] and where refpefliv'tly—what perfont on board— { if they have been 'during the voyage, or (hall, at j the time of examination-, be tiifttfted with.any tilential or c*nt»gious dileafe —and what i» the pre- • feat state and condition ps the- persons on board j with refpcift to their health or diseases And if 1 any mifleror captain (hall refufe toexpofe as nfore- , said. to the search of any of the officers afordfaid, , "~ or if he (hall tcnteal any fttk ptrfan, or in any other man ner deceive the proper officers aforefaii in bis anftvers, such captain or mailer, for every such offence, (hall forfeit and pay the sum of mve hundred »ol la*s. Sect. 8. And if aay per foil or persons whatfo evcr -{the Resident Physician, dec. excepted) (hall go ou board auy vessel, before the master thereof has received a certificate of health in the manner directed, every peffon so offending, (hall pay the sam ef one hundbcd dollaki IT being nbfolutely necessary t\iaX the foregoing fe&ions (liould be punslually complied, witb, fubferiber, in compliance with his duty, mu(l ex r'> a<£l a rigprotw observance of or else be under the necessity of putting the laws in force. Wm. ALI.I- N, Heillb Offictr of tie ' *f PljdaJc'.p}±*. i> ifTw X, 1... " , ' . . ■ t> City CommiJJio iters Office, - • ■- -., yunetkt, *797. " TN pursuance of -.n ordinance from the fele<sl A and tommon jx uncusrpffftfd the aad day of May the city cwmraifßtiners, X' 'afirt their duties, fcilion 9th,/ r ' y NOTICE IS'BKKEBT CIIVEN, e' r That thechy is divided into five diftri&s. Ub rich to be under the fuptrimindancc of one of r or the city commifftcners, whoia to .he. individually set relpotrfible 'or the cleinlinefs of the fame, and la are as Follow. >eJ Driftri<£l No. t. From the fo'jth fide of Ce n- dar-ftrf et, to the north fide of Spruce-street, un e- der the Ajperiutendence of Nathan Boys. >at 2. From the.north fide of Spruce-UreeT, to the north fideof Walnut-ftreet,under thtffuper intendence «f Hugh Roberts. 3. From th« north fide of Walnut to the south '*■ fide of High-street, under the superintendence of Joseph Claypoole. 4. From the north fide to the north fide of Mulberry flreet, under the super intendence of William Moulder. f f From the north fideof Mulberry ftf.'et to the north fide of Vine-street, under the fuper lyl inttn jenee of Nicholas Hicks- I Jhe sleaniugof High-street to be in convnon. % A stated meeting of the city eomiaifiion ti, gti is held at the Old Court House, in Uigh (lreet, every Tuesday evening.ats o'efock. \ib July r4. - eoim thc oj Slands for Draymen, &c. f(j. J,) purfnance of an Ordinance from tbeSelef} and >iib Commo!pCouncth,beariig date the zzd day of dc* jtpril, 1797. providing for the appointment of City ConimiffionerS, S3 c. Sell, the lsth. >ers r I "HE following places are fixed upon by -the L said City Commissioners for Staqdr-ftf r-ei Draymen and their Horses. f III Vine-llreet, eastward of Front-flreet, on hcr . both fides. •J Saflafras, High,Cl>efnvt and Walnut-Qtreets, °' l " of Front-rireet, on the nrvth ftdc only. Mulberry-flreet, (quth iide (rem Front to Third-ltreet. Front-street, east fide from Viqe-ftreet to Elfrith'salley. Front-street, from opposite to Black Horse al ley to Hamilton's ftcresf, east fide. Wfter-ftreet, weft fide from thenorihend of o e m ' Stomper's or Mqore's flOres to Pifte-ttrcet. , ta . Penn-ftrtet from Pine to Ce-Jar-ftreet, weft lOft " ca . Drawbridge, north fide,'eaft of Front-Tlreet. qv- Spruce, Pins.and Soi\th llreets, o£ Frost ore street, fomh leir Dock-street, between Walnut-street and d.e riffi flag ft'ene crossings, eaftfide, opposite.George ery Orkley's. »■ ■ ;eit Second-street, between Saffifras and Vine ■ ftreets,'v(cft fid£- S-Jfc Fifib-ftrett, east fide from Cbefnut so Mul cts l;erry flreets. t'rs Sjfiafras-ftree*, from Third -to Fourth-street, ,n * east fide. ■ . . : ' Nt> dray or liorfe to stand within ten feet ot anypumo. Jl , fe STJNDS FOR HACKNEY COACHES. . Pine-street, north fide froth Fourth to Fifth ftrects. Fifth-ftrtet, between Chtfuut add Walnut iU. flreets, weft. of Branch-street, north fide, between Third and Fourth ftrtetß. July 14. ■ uiw&.fim vr jpHILADBLPHIA, | FRIDAY EVENING, July 14.. . 4 ijUer to I'tMnlhy P'tchcrmg, £fq. Secretary of Slate, from the Chevalier de Yrujo, Miiiifkr Plenipotentiary of his Cqthblic M.X-, j'fly, &C..&C. dated July 11,1797. SIR, . YOUR additional report to the Prefidertt of the United" States' of the proceedings of the officers of the king of Spain, in relation to nnd the running of the bounda ry f'te, which I find pnbliihed in all the, newfpipos, obliges me to trouble you, with tnisletter. If yoiir discussion of facts had been as correft. and impartial as there was reafoa to expeft, I mould not have been un der the necessity of undertaking this talk ; but the conftruftion which you are pleased to put upon every aft of the Spaniih oiFi cers in general, and especially upon those in which I am personally concerned, corapels me to qbfei-vt upon several expression?, which I have noticed in your said report. You begin, fir, with faying* " that al " tho' I had declared I had just reasons for " fufpefting an expedition from Canada " was preparing by the Britilh "against the " upper parts of Louisiana, yet I never had " mentioned a single faft or reason on which " my fufpickm was founded."—ln my let ter of the 2d of March, I pointed out to you the probable route which the expedi tion woyld take, and in our conference of the 27th of February, I gave your informa tion that a corps of 350 men had been raised at Montreal, and marched towards the Lakes, where, after the evacuation* of the American forts, there was no ostensible ob jeft for them. v I also told you that I knew ( that the Britilh agents had treated with some ; of the Indian nations in that country, con ceding thq intended expedition, and I ad ded tltat I had received those aifices Jrom : ptfi-foh ■who might be depended ort, who j had seen those new levies pafliag through e Johnstown, 011 their way to the weft\7ard. i But, even supposing that I had not entered - into any particulars, even supposing that my \ information at that period was not complete, yet did not the interest and dignityof this i government —did nqtjts friendly conneftion i with Spain, require that it fliould have taken • every proper means to prevent the attempt ' we were threatened with, hy giving fuitabk f orders to general Wilkinfon, or to the com- II manding officers of the niilkaryo-force Or .- those frontiers? The abfofute silence ir this particular of the documents which ac lj company the report of the secretary of war ,f your never having communicated to me an) ■t determinate disposition on this point, as yov ic do in your answer to my letter, which it the publication is marked No. vn. afforc mi fufficiefat grounds to fear that these pre B cautions were omitted. You add, fir, wit! (1 a-degre'e of candour difficult to be conceived ie that from my not having given to yoiv detail ed information refpefting the expedition, an< from the answer which you received on th' 19ih ultimo-from the Stitifh mimfler, yxju be - liev'ed my ful pic ions to be groundless. I it poflible, that any ofie will candidly ima gine. that if the Englilh intended to violat £1 the ternary of the United States, in orde to effect a coup de main, they would-be as in e > genuoys in answering, pis you were in afkinj their minister the question ? I (hall not enter info all the observation which suggest t-hemfelves to'my mind, Fron |y your having, communicated to Mr. Liftoi id the contents of my letters. I expe£ted t)#l the American government would have watch 5 " ed hi's, motions, and taken the mean&whicl I have already mentioned to prevent the fuc to cess of a similar enterprize ; but I neve r . could have imagined that you would hav given to the British mjnifter a piece of ad th vice, which might enable him to al£er hi plan, by letting hiol know that the one was discovered. By) the line of condui r _ which you, hive pursued in thi« l btifincTs, am coriviiKed, that had I communicated t to y<Ju more particular details refpefting thi r- tranfaftlon, you wvnld, with the fame goo<3 natured franknefs, have given infprmatio 11 • of-them to Mr. !»' Han. j'" But, if you did twlieve that asking th queflion of .the Britilh envoy was the mo efficacious means to prevent the violation c the neutrality of the United-States, and tl invasion of the Spanish territory, let meal why you was so remiss in thib tneafWe, th; , although I had C.qxnmunicatedvthis proje l to yoii, verbally on the 27 th and on the 2d of March, in writing, yet, i he a matter obviously so urgent, you oril r>r wrote-to the British envoy ,on the 28th < April,'tliat is, tivo months afterwards? on I shall not tliia fubjeft, withoi ts -taking the liberty of making to you 01 [„' eb'fervation which is intimately conneft< to with it. By the date of the letter I ha just mentioned, it evidently appears that to gave you advice of this intended expeditii on the second of March, and that three days I al " fore, I had given you the fame informal 0 £ verbally. I imagined from your known a tention to br'inefs, and the importance tft the' fubjeft, that you would have fubmitti it immediately to the consideration of tl President of the United States. On't 9th of March, I had the honor of Tpeakii I :t«j. Ur- Adams, at his lodgings at Francis Hotel, and mentioned this fubjeft as a m; ter that.J supposed him already fully infori ine ed of; and, it was with no small surprize heard him fay, that he ineto nothing about . <d- X produced the map, which I had in n pocket-book, and he listened with great z tention to all that I had to fay to him. 0 f v/as no do ( ubt to this conference with W Adams, that I was indebted toyouranfw . 'ofthe 1 ith of the fame month. I shall e tirely abflain from putting any conflrufti. upon the reasons which induced you to on ,ut making this communication to tht Prefidei nd but they must have-been very powerful m t:\cswhich could oblige you to'remain 1 Icujg dent on a matter of such >rnpor.tr,t!(, ;x ■ ' You fay, in the thud paragraph of your report:, orf*' y'ftur'--afki-ng-itfe whii meifures Spain had. taken !rv o'rder to carry intcrexc-,- ■cotion that wart of the treaty 'which'relates to the withdrawing i\ie gkrrijbni, I anfwercd you on the 191 th of-April* that I hud been for foius months - without receiving lettars from the baron, and c inTequently " was en tirely ignorant of the il&ps which had "been taken for- the execu-tion of the treaty."— From this exprefiion, which, in order to j draw attention, you place between inverted commas, you infmuatt; an inference which in my opinion is very far from being true, when you add immediately afterwards : " Nevet thelefi. he hadprev'tatifly informed the baranhf Lis fafpictont of a pro letlrrf expertliicn." What is ihii to.prove, fir ? That the baron indeed had received my letters, but not that I had received his. The irregularity and uncertainty of" navigation easily "fliews l;hat your logic on this point is extremely falfe. In the fifth paragraph, after giving an Recount of my .letter of the Z4UI ultimo, and of its objeft, you t/hferve that I have omitted to mention-; among the other com plaints of the Baron, that of Mr. Ellfcott's npt having given him notice of his arrival at Natchez. Permit me, fir, to represent to you, that you have entirely mistaken what I had the honor of telling you on that occa sion, for I simply mentioned, not as a com plaint, but as a mere observation, that the Baron j in the rigour, might not nave consid ered Mr. Ellicott as an American Coromiffi oner, for not having given him on hi» arrival official notice of his ■appointment, haying merely informed him of it in the way of a confidential communication. You cannot be ignorant, fir, that there are certain requisite formalities when nations treat with one ano ther of their mutual concerns, which are not required between individuals? The Baron, when he speaks in this manner, clearly points out his meaning, that, besides the confiden tial letter, the communication of which you tonfider as so important, no doubt he expedl en another official one, including his Com mission, Authority, orfome other document, to ascertain the identity of the person, and the objeft of his mi (Hon. When, on my arrival in this country, I had not yet presen ted my credentials to the Prefident,although I had delivered to you a copy of tliem, you 1 might, in the rigour, not have recognized 1 me as the Envoy Extnjprdinary of the King 1 -my master, for want of having complied • with that neceflary requisite of the eftab ■ lifted etiquette. Ido not mean to fay that • 'Si the present qafe it was absolutely neceffa » ry to go through a similar formality ; nor 1 did the Baron mention this but as a mere - matter of olfn'vation,. which was not to af t fed the objeft in although you, thinking that it affords victorious ar il gumen't, are pleased to give to this circum -1 Itancc an importance which it does not de i serve. Besides, sir f I might observe to you - ..that wh<;h, after a mixed and desultory con -1 yerfation upon various fubjeftsj I had col , leftcd and methodized my ideas, and com - them to writing, your answer ar.c d ohferyatious ought to have been confim dt< e the written communication, clothed with nl - the necefTary formalities ; but neither do ] swish to (lake of this an objedl of difcuflion The proof -which you give in tjve fixtl e paragraph of .your report, to (hew that it i r not certain that Mr. Ellicotl intended U 1- get poffeffioh of Natchez by surprise, ,tn< g that for that purpose he had endeavoured t< gain over the inhabitants, is merely, nqga 3 tive. From your examination of the t«;< n persons you mentioi\, you little ti n expeft ; The circupiftance alone of. the'i t being tht. bearers of Mi". difpat 1-. ches, points out that they wefe both in hi h confidence ; and it may be presumed with out temerity, that being hii friends, or em "r ployed under his orders, they would hard}- e make a denunciation that might be prejudi I- cial to him. Governor Gayofo dedate is that he has proofs of the fads in his powei !r J (hall not fail to apply to him for their } and perhaps I may one day fpt-ak to yo I rr.ore pofitively-on'thrs business. o After having di feu (fed the history of th'ei is tianfaftions with ali tire force and accurac 1- which result from these observations, yo in allure with a very ill-grounded confident that upon a view of the whole it appeal is that his Majesty's. Governors on the Mill ft ffippi, have, on various pretences, postpone as the running of the boundary line, and tli evacuation of the.polls. But I appeal t (k that vandour which which you have so g< at uerouliy Ihewn to the British Minister, th; ft you may tell me, whether it can be called jr, pretence, that the Baron de Carondelet, wh in was entru.erd with the fafety of Louifian: lv refufed to carry into execution a pretenfio of that tvas not Jlipulatedfor by the treaty ? E the lecond article it is only agreed that tl tit rarr'tfons shall be withdrawn ; and as I ha ic the honor of presenting to you in myletti of the 24th ultinVo, it is not to be presume v? that it could ever have been the intention i t his Catholic Majesty to deliver up fortiiic on tions, which, besides that they have colt hi be- considerable sums of money, may-be the e on feft of political vicissitudes, be one dty pr it- judicial to his fubjefts. If not to do v>k of was jlipulatedfor, and the executio of whit ed would be contrary to the interells of Spai he is' a pretence, we must confefs that,is a vei he plausible one. ,g AVitH refpeft to the line of demarcatio; s's it appears by the corrcl'paqdcnce and ktte it- of the Baron de Carondelet, wln'ch aie i m- my poflefiion, that although he er.tertain< : I, the fame doubts which were fugge'fted t it. Governor Gayofo, refpedting the polls, y ny he was cojifenting, that the astronomic it- observations (Ijould be y beg.un upon, si It which purpose the Engineer Mr. de Guill rr. mand had already arrived at the Natche •er with all the inftrtimehts and apparatus.- :n- Such was the situation of things when n on f communication rel'pedling the intended e ait ?pedition got to .hand ; from that morne it; imperious necessity, and the great princip 10- of felf-defence, made his Catholic Majesty so officers .turn their thoughts to objefts of ;e. rr.crp urgent nature, Mr. Blcur.t's lctu \ t and tl'.v late dete&ed.conspiracy, evince Let# t'if their ctm'daiEt in this jefpeft was neccffa ry ; and" yciu, fir, poiTijft as you were, of all the fa&s, 'when you laid them l-oforc the President, ought to have been one of the Sail to have stigmatized the motives with the epithet' <iCpale\th So palpable an attempt to make gruu } iid}?fs and unfair impressions o'n the public mind, id w«;ll calculated to de feat its own ends, dj:id appears-ftill more ex tha.ordi"pary y/llen v/c conlidef ihat the Ame rican Coveriirtleni is in every way anxious, b-y its own cvufeffion, to maintain peace and harmony with Spaiq. Nor do your ill-founded insinuations Slop here : Sentiments and expjeSnons dill more violent, flow from that fame haily pen.— You fay in another part, tSi'at there is but too « much reafonto fa/iev'e Mr. 2i}/icott , s fuf pic tops I iveflfunded, that an undue influence has lebri : exere fed over the Indians by the Officers of hii Catholic ATajr/ly, to prepare them fir a rup i ture 'with tHe United .States. Fortunately* , fir, you have told us the source whence ■ you derived all tbofe dreadful conjefaires of • your's ; otherwise, perhaps, the weight ants 5 authority which your high official ciiaraQer t 'stamps upon whatever you -write or fay,— ) might make an undue imprtffion 011 the pub [ lie. You acknowledge, fir, .'twas a private - letter of Mr. Sargent'si Secretary of the - North Wpftern Territory) that gave rife to e your surmises : We Shall now lee what the - letter fays. .1 [No. 14.3 g Extract of a letter from Winthrop Sargent, a £fj. Secretary of the North-Wekern Terri e tory, to ihe Secretary ps State, dated Cincin e nati, June 3d, 1797. 1- General Wilkinfoii fending off an express, I t seize the pccafiq'n to. transcribe for you 1, some paragraphs frem .a weStern letter, s " The Spaniards are reinforcing their up - pyr polls on the ATiffifiippi considerably. u General HowaidV an Iriihman, in quality of .- Com'mapdct in Cjiirf, with upwards of tfrjee hundred men, is jirrivcd at St. Louis, and c, employed in ending very formidable d works. It likevvifj;. appears through vari y ous channels, that they are inviting a great 1- number of Indians of the territory to cross b the Mifliffippi ; and for this express pur u pose, Mr. Lorromic, an officer in.the pay of d the Crown, made a rtcwr thfough all .this g country fall fall, Since which time several In -4 dians have been fsrit 01V the errand, 3- and generally fo'rrtilhed witji plenty of calh it to defray their efcpetfces.' - a- " A- large party- of; D.elawares pnffed sr down on White' Rivtr aboiit the 6th of re 1 May, 6n their way to the Spanish fide, — f- bearing the national flag of Spain, some of u, them from Saint JLouis. r- "They (the Spaniards) have above the a- mouth of the Ohio, on the Mifliffippi, feve e- , ral row-gallits with cannon." u, Now, fir, what inference can be drawn n- from' that letter ? Why, thajt.the Spaniards >1- have fortified San Luis, and availed <them ti- j felvtfs of every means of defence that the r.d country afforded. Btitiet me aflc you, fir, to against whom it is that they were thus pre all paring to defend therafelyes ? Surely the > I - documents which yoy ltfve laid before the n. ; President, ar.d ■ th *■ morneutous business th which now engages.'the attention of Con is grefs, and agitatey.tfoe pubjifc at large, af t j iiir'dijd a complete and fatrifoStory answer. nd , I mentioned to yo\j, i« ms -letter of 2d to March, that the objeft ot .thc Britilh was to fa- attack Upper Louisiana, and take San Li - xo is and New Madrid,,by surprize. It will to. not be questionedHj ' thatprudencerequired e'ir of us, at that to fortify the threat - it- ' enedpoirits. TLi?, Sir, was all we did ; his and this, Sir, ycu knew tnafty- months pa(', h- •, yet Mr. *3 argent's 'letter, v<hich ia fub m-;1 fiance, fays no more, fills you all at once Ity with ffears and {elftereatbd apprehensions, di- and makes yotidechireiti the face of the A tcs . merican er. | are exciting the ladhb's'to a rupture with m, 1 us." No one will fay,, that preparations ou for our felf defence were'-.not necessary on our part. The alßa-ance given you by the efe 'Bxstifli' Mjnifter,' with, ill'the appearance icy of a confidential czimmunication, hut without ou anyfignature, did-not infpiix-.the servants of ce, his Catholic Majeily with the fame blind ars confidenpe wh'-h it produced in you. We ffi- know from daily espcrience how religioudy ied the Britilh nation observes the rights of the neutrality. Witness the American sailors ! to Witness the republic of Genoa, in whose ge- port they attacked and made prize of the hat French frigate L? Modelte, as Hie lay at J a anchor there. Witness the inhabitants of 'ho' Trinidad, when the Ei'irilh, 1 though then na, in Amity with them, entered their capital ion with drums beating, and -cdloifrs flyiii; l ", i'l. By pursuit of a few French, wlio had taken re the fnge there. These ar.d .other inflanccs 01 iad the fort too numerous to be>recapitulated, ter make us. lefo credulous on of Great ied Britain's refpedt for the rights of- neutrality 1 of than yo.u appear to have beep, ca- As to those tender .CQiifiderarions which iim adluated the British Minister to reiedt the ef- plan on account, of the inhumanity of calling >re- in the aid of the Lmliane, I did expeA that > kat such vague unauthenticated declarations, ich would have been appreciated a3 they defefv lin, ed by you, Sir, who fought in the glorknnA erv cause of American Independence, who wi nefled the.humanity of their eouduft in tl e on, CQU|le of that war, and who cannot be ig ters norant of what has haptiened Since. :in Your afcribjng hoSlile-vjows to the prepr ned rations for our .felf-defence, cannot, Sir,- -by have, been matter of much iurprrte to mc, yet after.having. heard a certain member of Con ical grefs, who is known to be the organ of the for will of adminilli ation, declare in that house ille- ,that be ascribed to the fame motives the lez, preparations we were making far the defence . of Florida, though probably be was not ig my, norant, as the very timeof their real objeit, ex- Thus, then, Sir, according to your mode lent of reasoning, and that of .the gentleman 1 iple have juil alluded to, though we vfere certais ty's of being attacked, and though we were as a not certain that the American governmei t ter, had taken the proper measures for protcfling . * •' " ; '
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