f n'j l nstr Ht a , r TUF.SDAY tV£NiN(j, Sf JTEMBER Prot'.i the P'id.aikLi QaZHtltb, trfc> No. IX. A Of THE CAttVfeJ Of TiU fcisfUR.BASCES BETWEEN THE AMERI CAN ASD rßfisCll REj>UßLic!s, Addreffcd to the Citizens of America. MY FELLOW-CITIZENS, ' An excule which was offered for this very improper correspondence Mr. Jefferfon with Mazzei, in a certain American papeK, just about ths time he went ta congress in May la(l, which was soon after the letter made its appearance in America, deserves to be particularly noticed here ; not only on jiccouti t of its being delivered, that it was the exeufe of Mr. Jefferfon himfelf, and, therefore, the beft>6h every tion that could be offered, but because, it will also serve to open a further view to a conne&ioti nfthenveanß employedby France, 'and the fubfeivience of other nations in sub mitting to he made her tools in promoting' her nefarious views You were told in that exeufe, my fellow citi'zens, that you ought to pay no attention to the charges raised against Mr. Jefferfon, on account of that letter, because it Was a tn?.e little private Communication with a man with whoiji he -.7 as in habits ofint'ima cy, nnd held friendly corre pondence, who when in Virginia, was a dependant on Mr. Jefferfon, ind a republican ; a friend to mo harchy ,y/h\\t a prisoner to the British in New- York and a jacobin when under a dread of the French in'Tufcany—to appease whose threatening Vengeance by flattering them with the opinions of this exalted American in favor of their conduft.- against his own country, or to shew his own importance in iorrelponding with such a chaAfter, it was laid the !etter wastranfmitted for publication in Paris. •This is all true enough ; but as an ex" tufe for the writer, it is to ftie only another of those felf-contradi&ing, contra-convinc ing arguments, with which the letter and its apologies abound. With refpeft to its being private I trust, I have already fuffi ciently {hewn, that so far from offering an ' apology, that adds considerably to the im propriety of f\ich a correspondence from such hand ; and as to the other part of the ex- it was written to % man, whose supple conscience in politic* was such, as to render him the speckle tool, thus capable of exhibiting all the prevailing colours of the rainbow in the little circle of private life, round whichl.e was doomed to travel, then certainly was it the more improper, as it was the more likely to be used to our prejudice, when the influence he was under, happened to he Unfavorable to us. \ The various means which the French em«- ployed among their neighbours to promote ,then views, and the cringing dispositions of some of them, are only a stronger proof of the impropriety of any who were yet unen cumbered, though they would wifli to en gage in those views, rkking any thing with those neighbours which might be turned a - gainst themselves. In the cafe of Holland and Belgium, under the pretence of setting them free,- {he obtained their immediate aid as spies, as informers, and as instruments in the-projeft of subduing other nations into the fame ufe,and under the pretenceof guard ing against the danger from her emigrants, (he employed a variety of other means to in duce others, who were not to be influenced by the fame pretexts, to beiome her dupes. She armed, and finally declared and com menced war against some ; and demanded of others to dismiss the emigrants from their territories ; till most of the nations round were either involved in war, or became her tools to promote her views. The Swiss cantons were among the few who boldly and fuccefrfully refiftcd her demands* : While others were soon reduced an 3 compelled to " aft as instruments and spies, against those whose dispositions or fate wa3 yet undecided in the part they were to adt, io the great re volutionary disorganizing Icheme of France. Spain, for a while was one of the combin ed powers who opposed her plans : But be ing at length conquered and compelled to become her ally, or rather her tool the means ■which have been employed through that im poitant acquisition, to drive America into her views, serve to {hew the impropriety ps committing ourselves' too far to any nation thus under her controul ; at the fame time that it adds to the variety of proofs which we have of the commencement and promotion of those means. The unnatural conrieftion of a monarchy, whose leading and national cha racteristic isjealoufy, with a republic, isfuf ficient of itfelf to {hew the servile readiness of those nations, of that description, under the mfloouce of France, to promote her views by every and the most contemptible means. A monarchy, a princedom, or a dukedimi, receiving the fraternal speeches and embraces of a republic, is of itfelf an odd enough %ht; but to be crawling on their hands and knees to receive their orders from those natural enemies of their exijle,nce, is what neither of them can do through choice ; and, therefore, is the impropriety of entrusting our fee rets, which might drag us into the fame humility, in the bosoms of such depend; cs, the mote striking ; and the afts of some of th»fe dependant nations will verve as a further illustration of the eaufes of the injuries and the insults we have already received from that nation by trailing our affairs with such dependants. The acquisition of Spain in the grand maritime coalition that was to disorganize, and, in faft, destroy all Europe, was a thing of no small importance, as it related to the reduction of the United States of America into the scheme. Situated as the Colonies of Spain and America are, and interested Jn • See their spirited correfpond«nce vriih Barthe l»mi, the French minister. f fotAe of the tVeftet'n Waters alike, it was easy " to perceive, that the fpbfervience of that na-. tion to France, was of as much importance in apcling her in her pretexts for quarellitig . with us, as if she had poffefied those Spanilh j settlements herfelf. What this jacobiriical republic could not find a pretext for, as the iiery natural friend and ally of the Spanilh monarch, or accomplish herfelf, situated as (lie was, (lie found the means of availing her felf of, from the ascendancy which {lie held over that etidaved king. Actordingly, our treaty with Great-Britain, which h-d been the pretence of quarrel on the part of France herfelf was also mace the pretence of jealou sy and uneasiness on the part of Spain. Our having admitted Great-Britain, however, into a participation of our right to the use of the Milfifippi, being too glaring an ab surdity to be made the ground of any seri ous objection, a pretence was then raised, of an intended expedition from Canada, against Upper Louifiatia { in consequence of which, the execution of our treaty with his Catho lic riiajefty was suspended, and in (lead there of, farts and garrisons ere&ed and manned within our territory ; reports made to our executive of the intended violation of the neutrality of the United States, by the fup pofedpreparations making by the Britilh to mgrch through our territory ; while our foil was aftually erected into fortifications, and Our treaty broken on the part of Spain : And when doubts were raised by our execu tive (after a thorough examination into the complaint of the pretended expedition into Louisiana) about the ground# for those sus picions, proofs given of the adual fortifica tions ere&ed in our country being at lead as great a violation of our neutrality, as any mere Jufpieion of the'intentions of the Britilh to march throngh our territory ; and the sus pension of the execution of our treaty oa the parj of Spairt (in these pretexts com plained of; our government was addressed by the mir.ifter of that king, in a style -un paralleled, except in she diplomatic history of French insolence itfelf. Not only the business between America and Spain, b\rt even the manner of condii&ing our internal affairs to suit ourselVes, as it had been by the French ministers, fcas objected to by that of Spain ; the representatives. of the peo ple even, with whom a foreign minister can have nothing to do, insulted and called # tools to the executive. This certainly, no one can deny, waß * continuation of the French system, coun tenanced and promoted by some of cir own citizens : For whp, that will refleft on the. situation of the Spanilh settlements in A merica (poffefiing every temptation the inhabitants of the western parts of the U nited States, and fubjed at a moment's warning to be swept away) can suppose, that they would be so imprudent, of their own accord, as to insult and offend us ? And )Jie Ftench having no public minister ] herc'at that time, there is no doubt, in my (nind, but that the philippic of Yrujo.vtas only another of those little private commu nications of some of our American chiefs, brought forth by the influence of that na tion over the tn:n:&er of another ; as in the instance of the one at the court of Tufcany, who, it is admitted, publifbed the ferret la bors of his friend in Paris, to juflify and, etlcouragc their treatment of America ! The influence, the pretences, and intrigues of France ; the uses made of the informa- ' tion obtained from the communications of some of our own citizens, by means of that influence over other nations as well as the co"-oper»tion of those citizens immediately in their plans, are all very perceivable in this whole affair'*, as well as some other things connefted therewith. First, gene ral Clarke, of Georgia, whp had a&ually received a com million from Genet, and was eVir known to be devoted to France, it was pretended, was enga'ged in the service of the Britilh, in their intended invasion of Louifiaiia. Blount's plot' next breaks out. A mnn ever devoted to the French ; in the {trifleft intimacy with the Spanifti minister, whouis under the influence of the fame people of no acquaintance or visible conne&ion with the Britilh ; from & state whole politics were entirely of the French cast ; (to wliopi Adet in the scheme of electing a prefiJent " devoted" to France, deputed one Collet to promote the plan) advocated by "a sena tor (violent in the interest of the French •, and defended by an attorney diflingvijhed as a reporter both in \politics and law where, let me aflt, are the proofs of his correspond ence Tjing intended to bring on a Britifb war with Spain, except in his letter itfelf, which was noth-ng but another of those little private communications, which, accord ing to some men*s opinions, ought not to operate against their writers! Why, if it was a Britilh plot, has there never been one man at least proved to be connected with Blount, but those of open and avowed at tachments to France ? Is it because those of an opposite description are not to be trusted with the secrets of their own party ? And why did that exalted character, whom Blount had labored to have elected president of America, desert his post, while that im portant enquiry was on foot; to which no mere matter of official etiquette»form, or private business should have been preferred ? Was it that he was afraid of being fuf pefted of being engaged in a Britijh plot ? . Was it that he was afraid of offending his friends the French, in affifling in detcding and puniftiing such a plot against their Spa nilh ally ? Or was it that he really thought such a little private communication with a friend at a diilant J court (which was only '• " After having heard a certain member of congress, who is known to be thy organ of ehtf ad tnirijlration" fays Yrujo.j and then drawl his con cJut'ons in his diplomatic communications from thoft Ugifiativt prcmiies. f See Dalian's report, Genet verfut King and Jay. j The period to vl'hom Blount's letter wis writ ten, was an interpreter at an liulian court-, which interpreter, and which court, were a= honerahle, a worthy, and as much to be trusted -with ft rU, 1 dare lay, as thatperfon and ilut court to which Mr. J -a'l was lent. Calculated to involve JrrJ/ica iii a war) Vvaa < not wort.h the notice people of. this 1 country ? These art queßTons I (lioflld like 1 t'o fee answered With all that openness, candor and sincerity, with which some ot our emi nent chkrailers are now supposed to abound ! ; If it was really believed that Blount had no serious intention of exciting an expedition < Sgainft Louisiana froth Canada, and there fore that his letter to Cary ought not to be • considered a matter of such criminal cast ' agaifift him ; if it was from this belief that . this little private correspondence, let out by the intdSication of liquor, as the one to Mazzei, it is said was by that of Canity or fear, that th? sympathetic forbearance of one to be present and aiding in his prosecution, and his continuance in senate was advocated by another, then do I agree most heartily with our French patriots that those little pri vate letters are not of so much consequence and danger as they have been thought. That Blount's letters had np real and serious view to the promotion of a Britijh plot against Spain ; but that the {cheme (only seen in part in that letter) was to have an eSait opposite direction, the evidence of \ every thing that has yet appeared in the cafe most clearly shews. Besides the intimacy which Mr. Blount had with the Spanish minister, it is 1 pretty notorious, that he was also in the ftrifteft intimacy, and held constant correspondence with Adet while in this country. Part of the plan to drag America into the grßnd scheme of difor'ganizing all Europe, by the deftruftionof Great Britain, which has now ' come to light, and which bears a strong re semblance (when viewed with this pretended Canadian expedition) toa French, a Spanish and American, instead of a British port, it would now.seem, was begun and carried on by Adet, while thusin habits of intimacy and correspondence with Mr. Blount. In stead of an expedition against Louisiana from aided by the Americans, it is now clear, that the peor Canadians had t naugh to do at home, to prevent thfeir help less wives and children being flrangled in their beds, or pa\foned\w the libations m this holy and pious minijler of the Spanish ally, t,o be offered up, by American hands. Mr. A det, it appears, from all the testimony in •the trial of M'Lane, had employed that de testable Apieritan to stir up an infurreftion in Canada. Quebec was to be taken by se cretly adminiftcring Laudanum, and other atrocious means. Arms were shipped from France ; and troops were to be sent from the fame quarter, who, in conjunction with some of our good French patriots in America, were to complete this noble work ; while good majl+r Trujo was to raise the pretence of a British and an American plot, to discredit that nation here, obfeure the true laudanum plot, or, if it was discovered, to have for it, at least some co.lorable pretext. So artful, fe horrid, and so wicked a projeft for exiting treason, murder, and re bellion among nations, could never have been thought of and put into execution, but by the ingenious, the enlightened, and philosophic admirers of liberty and humanity ; thf mvrntw and qelebrators of their owa re publican * marriages at home ! But this af fair between Adet and M'Lane was another of those little f private correspondences bet ween fricllds ; carried on by the influence of the former over the latter ; by vanity arising ' from the honor of the correspondence ; or, perhaps, by the influence of a little French gold ( and, therefpre, ie, with some, per haps, a thing of bo great consequence ! While the information of Yrujo (which was also private} of the intended expedition a gainst Louisiana, peremptorily demanded blithe attention pfthe United States—both by its councils ?nd its citizens at large ! 1. Added to all this—pur mailed minifler, home frojn France, nearly about the time ' this grand French, Spanish, and American preparation, for diforg»nizing and overturn ing regular governments, was thus drawing to A -point. That the circumstan ces of that recal wer« to'be attended with some little increase of private enmity to the American government, Was not to have been wondered at ; but that that enmity, toe, was to .have broken out ioto overt a3s a gainfl the government, was hardly Jo have been expeded. . V et, unexpc&ed as it was, the recall of Monroe was made a pretence for juftifying the conduct of France, as well as holding out frelh hppes to her of suc ceeding in her demands, from the division among ourselves. It was well known) that the d'fpijte betvyeen. the American govern ment and France, took plaee while colonel Monroe at that court ; and from the long and warm attachment of that.gentle man, to the iritereftsof that country, it was certain that an approbation of his conduit, whatever might be the merits of t the recal, would be considered as a juftification of France, and a condemnation of our own government. Accordingly, without any previous investigation or knowledge of the causes of the recal, an immediate determina tion-was formed to juftify the conduit of Monroe. - Trivial fails 6fteu throw light upon im portant designs. The circumstances attend ing the entertainment given to Col. Monroe, on hie arrival at Philadelphia, on that oc count, are not unworthy particular notice here. At that entertainment, the vice pre sident, tho fpeakev of the house of the nati onal representatives, and a feuator of the United States of America were present. An address was presented, approving warm ly and completely the conduit of Mouroe, " up«jn the information they had on the fub jedt which information could have been but limited and partial, ap it was derived from him who has since called for informati * The republican marriages were men and wo" men, or infants, tied back to back, and thrown in to water out Of their depth for the of the Jacobins. •)■ Every plot is a frivatt affair until It be rr.adi public l>y some accimnt or cause ; but their beTog private or jhere being caufti for being difdofed do not render theip-the lef» treafcr.able when they are discovered. on hlmfelf; while a pointed disapprobation \j of the conduit ps the government, marked p the whole complexion of this politicalfea.lL.: t Besides the address, the evident tendency of j , the toasts was, to approve of thi minister j and France, and censure that of the govern- j ment which had recalled him. Without en- c tering into a condemnation of the recalled 4 miniller, unfieard,- and without knowing the i whole merits of the cafe, as they have done I with refpeit to the government, I shall jult i ohfcrve for the present, that it is the firft ■ instance, I believe, in which some of the firll officers of government have ever turned j their moments of feftivity and relaxation i from public buiinefs, into a serious and J pointed crimination of the aits of that gov- j ernment. "j That the private citizens, who have no ; public opportupities of difcuifing and offer- < ing their, opinions upon (late affairs, should t turn their heedlitfs moments of levity and i mirth, into seasons of serious judgment and j severe censures against the government, is j not extraordinary, nor at all dangerous ; but that the firft officers of government, whofc < particular duty it is, upon all occafious, and i at all times, to examine thoroughly, and weigh i the aits of the governments they are i entrnftedto adminifter,before theyhold those . aits up as unjust and improper; to ward off j and not invite foreign dangers ; and for that purpose to reconcile and «onceal, and not . foment and p.ubli£h domestic differences j {hould, in so liafVy a manner, at such an . improper time, and upon so flight and par- i tial an examination, bold op the government j and country ~ with wh'ofe.fafety andwelfare they are entrufled, as improper and (to a conntry which waits only for a lit mo- , ment of deftruition) at the fame time that they fan those internal diffejences that ire to insure them success—is indeed unparal leled and astonishing ! It was not to be ex- I pe&ed that France would be entirely blind to such a ftrikiflg and conspicuous circum- ! t stance ; rfor was it to be expected, from the principles by which (he has been already led i to injure us, that (lie would-relax iu'her de terminations to commit those injuries, from a view of such circumstance. But here let, us paule 1 Fails will now soon perhaps speak for themselves ! With out any labored vindication on the one fide, or high wrought panegyric on the other, yre shall presently be convinced, 1 trust, by solid and happy experience,by WHO &;WHAT our disturbance with France have been bro't upon us, as it is sincerely hoped, that it will quickly be discovered now, by WHO and WHAT those disturbances will be quieted. I have already observed, that;'they began and attained to their highest pitch, while the gentleman, whom this feaff was intended to compliijient, was our minister at that court. They will be ended, I trust, by the powers with which the new miffiou are charged, and the difpolitions and talents they poflefs. The firm and well tried patriqtifm and in tegrity of a Pinekney, the open, the candid, and brilliant ingenuity of a Marshall, and the plain and honest understanding of a Ger ry, it is believed, will soon place the con duit of our governWient, and the diipofitions of the people of America, in that true light, which will restore that nation to ttyfcjr former dispositions towards us. Should this be the cafe, that mission, tho' industriously represented as pofTeffing senti ments and dispositions unfriendly to an ad justment of our differences, will stand in need of no vindication. I shall not fail, however, to seize upon that circumstance to place the charge of a wish in our govern ment and its frieinds, to bring on a war with that country, in that true light in which it deserves to stand : And until the fate of that embafly (hould be decided, shall now take my leave of you, my fellow-citizens, with that fiticere wish for a speedy reconciliation of all our differences, and prayers for your welfare, which an attachment to one's own jntereft, without'any violent profclTions of love for others, will pioft naturally insure. AMERICANUS. Richmond, September n, 1797. C"?" The Developement of the Causes of the Disturbances betwe'en the American and French, Republics, by jfmeriianus, will now be discontinued, until the fate of the new million, to France is known, and a thor6ugh knowledge of the merits of the old obtained; when the nine numbers already written, in hafle, for this paper, will be corrected, en larged and improved, and the fubjeit resumed in the papers, and the whple of the work, with considerable amendments, notes (and vouchers, if necessary) republifhed in pam _ , Fayette county, Augufi 16th, 1797. . Mr. Scull, Y have lately arrived from a weflernJlate, and am much pleafedto jind that the citizens of this and the neighbouring counties are not all led a"juay by a foreign influence ; that they are not made jacobins or democrats, and exerting every nerve to overthrow our present government, and eflablijh a foreign one in its flead: our pretended patriots (as their friend, citizen Fauchet, cal led them J will deny that that they had this in view, but what mere honorable objeß could they be in pursuit of, in raising such a cry againfl the British treaty and opposing it so violently in Congress. I male no doubt but many well meaning men have been so wrought upon by the designing and knavish as to think the treaty a bad one, for all' men are not politicians i bat that one well acquainted with politics, and, uninfluenced by party and fef-intere/l, J fay, for such aperfon to think the treaty injurious to our people, was and is itnpojfible. An inflrument so well calculated to secure (he peace and promote the interefl of the slates ; an iuflrument from which we are deriving such great advantages, and from which we should receive 'many more benefits --jsvas it not for the French party among us, whoJlrive to inflame the dircSory andfet them againfl the American government- Tes, Sir, this party hyvc done their utmojl to defeat a treaty that has given us peace with the Indians, secured indemnification hour injured merchants, eflabljfhed tradi. on 0 holing advantageous, to thp United Statu*, and prevented a deflru&ve war with Great-Bri ain. >. . s h there ariy one in the tJnited Slates that 'fill tbiriL f morally of thpfe who 1 have been "oremoji in oppifing the Britijh treaty, let him ompare that treaty with the treaty made with he Aigerines and fee what; a vajl sum We pay hat little nation from whom we receive nothing nit what is jujlly due us, and let him fay why here Was no clamour raised egainjl that treaty. . ' — JC — . . I From the( Vermont ) Argus. MAHOMET, the famous Arabian. Impostor, lied the fore part of the fevenih century . His r uccrjp>rs tn government were filled Califs, their r ubfe£}s, Saracens. Thtfe, impelled by an irreji* Hble fanatic fin, and more willing to die than not to be viSorious,faund none able to Jlop their tareer. But they clearly evinced, that victory a brSad is not always attended with happiness at home. Those who led them to glory, 'victory and (pill, often felt the direful effects of their dome- Hie machination. A comparison if their hiflory with the h 'lflory of the present Gallic revolution, will present