F&SBHBWEX'X&ZKi&ZZZ vgflK JWrU Iff *< Philadelphia, <sci. 13. VHE fubtcribers inform, their frit'ed and ctifto m'T* in rtfVftjarkl country, tha» their florea arc jiow uj en in the city, giuVother* are daily opening, and *• 2* front tbe present ot the prevailing ( ijuori'rr 1 avc reason to hope, their ti'iends may '"•"•1 \ ; come to the city with perfeel fif'ty. By "" icvc al htf arrival, number-have received freih I * 'tnprlics of GOOD^. Kdbrrt Smith iff Co. P IV. Gallamlst & Co. yhvi Dnin t Co. Sitgreaves iS? French, thrift Smith* George JDobfort* iViltbcrger and Smith, Thomas Rycrfcti, jlits j&t'jlundand Co. T. R. liardinberg. yd cob Spcrry and Co. "John Smith and Co (J-i'j.n & Jona- Jones, Thomas Orr, Keppele o Zantzinger > William Barker ii Co. A daw 7-antz:nger, Thomas Armat &f S<m. John Frits, J. Miller, jun. und Co. £ T *■ _ o A Meeting of the Seleft and Com- a mon Councils <1 WILL be held, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon f] on '? nefday nextj at. the State-houfc. in the a tlty of Philadelphia, for. the of clewing a « M \YOR< ad*. 1 , as the elc&ion dan be held on no other day, the attendance of ail. the Members is par- F Hiularly refuelled. I Ij/ order, 1 a WILUAMH. TOD, Clerk of the n Peledl Cruncil. EDWARD J. CO ALE, Clerk of . the Common Council. * er 13. ,r Ihe printers of the city are requeued t© a pub i'b the foregoing in their fevcral gazette*. a TfcNERIFFE WIMK.. i LANDING -it Walnut-street whsrf, TEN?.- c f> iff H WINE, of excellent quality, in pipes arid x half pipe", for sale hy JAMES YARD. oa. TO. J Co*t > The Health-Office r JS removed to the Citv-Hall, and i* kept open day, where persons having b;:fin f* may . apply. W-M. ALLEN, Health-Officer. J ? ept. 4. s» dff t "Norl c l. 1 THE Ofiket of the Department of War are for tbe pr. sent removed near to the Falls of the Scuyl- 1 kill, orwrhe Ridge Road. t ;Vp*ember 4. <ftf | From'Marfeilles, THE CAKGO Of the ?wcd!th barque Guflavus Adolphus,from Marfc lles, co.ifilting of the following articles, j is tiifchnrgin.r at Mr. Latimer's wharf, and for ' sale. by th e si^ 1 >icr ibers 1 RUANDY, veil flavored, of a, 3 & 4th props 1 Claret, in hoe:[head# Ditto, in cases Frontigr.isc Wine, in cases of 30 bottles Oiive 0i1,.0f a superior quality, in baskets of 6 and 1; bottle! Capers (>ive» t Almonds Dry Verdigresfe Writing Paper tJmt re'laj (Silk) of 18, 30 and 31 inches Taffeties Long and ftiort white Kid Gloves for Women Srlk Jh'oektrgt Har.dkerch'cfs, in imitation of Madtaft Artificial Flowers and Garlands Ostrich Feathtrs Ribbons Perfumery Scented Hair-Powder and Pomatum Manna in forts Cream Tartar. BENTAMIN MORGAN & • ROBERT ANDREWS. September 17. eotf At a Meeting of the Board of Property, June 6, I7Q?» Pref»nt John Hall, Sea'ry Francis Johnfton, R. G. > of lar.doflice Ran.. Brodhead, S. G.) Nicholas Bettlnger, } Versus > Samuel Cunningham.) In this cafe the proof of fervire of notice be ing inefficient, It isordered that notice be giv cn in one of the Philadelphia and York newspa per» wetkly, for at least eight weeks to the heirs or assignees of Samuel Ctinningham de ceased, to atttend the board on thefirft Monday in November next, to shew cause why a patent ftould not ifliie to Nicholas Bettinger for the land in queflion. (A true Copy.) JOHN HALL, Secretary of the Land Office. Aug. it. • iawßw. Boston Glass Manufa&ofy. THE citizens of the United States are hereby informed v that the manufa&ure of Window G'ait is now commenced at the Glass House in Bos ton. v It ii seedless to &y any thing of the excellent quality c# the Boston Glass, as it is so well knowr | throughout the United States to be in every refpetf greatly superior to anv ever imported from Europe. If will be cut to any size commonly used ; and iray be conftantlyihad by applying to Charles F. Kupfer, at the Glaft House. Order® from the distant States to be aidrelTed to Mr, Samuvl Go»e, Court-street, Boston. Boston, Sept 30,1797 O4 —aaw^w' AifJJrs. Timothy "an J Mason, Charlejion ; Mejfrs. JJodoe and Boylan y Halifax, N. C■ Mejfrs. Willett and & Connor, Norfolk ; Air. Ellis Price, Alexandria ; JMrJfrs. Yundt and Br won, Baltimore ; Mr. Hopkins, A'civ-Tori ; and Mejfrs. Had/on 15* Goodwin,.Hart ford ; Air. Seymour t Savannah ; are requeued to injert tbe above once a 'week 6 -weeks. Tbe accounts to be for warded to tie Editor, Peale's Museum. THIS valuable repository of the works of Na ture, so well calculated to delight the mind and enlarge the uncferftanding, i« opened daily, as usual. It stands in an airy and healthy situation, and free from the epidrtnic that at present affliils the city ; it may, therefore, be frequented with the greatest fsfety. As an Amusement, the study of Nature is the mod rational and pleating : as a Science, the mod fuhlime and inflruAive. It elevates the mind and expands the heart. They '' Wh»m Nature* 1 tuirfo tan tbarm, ivitbtGoJ bimfclf " Hold converse Many interring additions have lately befn made to this Museum : ai:d the feathered tribe, containing a variety of the most rare and beautiful fubjefls, is now very adrantageoufly arranged Waxen Figure*, q[ Men large a= life (fomeoftlum casts from nature) are here dressed in their proper habits, and placed ; .n attitudes characterise of their refpeilive nations. Here may be seep the North- Ameticau Savage, a<'d the Savage of South-Ameri ca ,- d laboring. Chinese, and the Chinese Gentle man the sooty African, and the Kamtfchadalc— •with some Narires of the South Sea ffiands. The immense variety and interefling diversity which this Museum offers to the view, may befeenbut eannot be described with full efT.sl. , fSf Price only I-4th of a dollar. ?eyt. . law %Ijt(gasette. .. | PHILADELPHIA. f a SATURDAY EVENING, Octobfr 14. Pr 1 ■■nil. er LETTER from Mr. PICKERING, th Ssrretiry of State, to th\ Chevalier DE ut TRUJO, Envoy Extraordinary'and Mi- tli r.'tfler Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Ma- ti< jefly to the United States of Amfrica. th f Continued from the Pittjburg Gazette.) tli DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Philadelphia, August Bth, 1797. hi In the 9th paragraph of your letter, you m fay that " after having dlfcufled the history rj of these tranfa£h'ons, with all the force and tl accuracy which result from these obfervati- g ons, I afTure, with a very ill-grounded con- B fidcnce, that upon a view of the whole it ai appears, that his majesty's governors on the ft Mifliffippi have on various pretences, post- tl poned the running of the boundary line and o the evacuation of the posts." I mufl here n also complain of misrepresentation. I did tl not in tr.y report draw my conclusions from d the history of these tranfaftions—that is, of si the tranfaftions which you have previously t .mentioned in your letter, and which I have Ii already noticed in this answer : but " Upon y a view of the whole correspondence then and d before submitted to the president." This a correspondence I will now examine, to fee p whether the causes assigned by the Spanish f governors, for postponing the running of the v boundary line and evacuating the posts, me- c rit the name of reasons, or of pretences. g Governor Gayofo being informed of Mr. c J Ellicott's descending the MilTiflippi, wrote e to him on the 37th of February, desiring t him to leGve his escort at Bavon Pierre, 60 f miles above the Natchez. Yet the treaty £ prescribed a military escort on each fide to tfttend the commissioners in running the f boundary line; and the Natchez as the c place of firft meeting. The chief rea- 5 fori offered for this request was, that if the c troops of the two nations were brought to- j gether, " misunderstandings," might arise r between them. Yet the treaty required their f coming together to attend the commiflion- 1 ers when they were jointly running the boun- 1 dary line. And the only reason the governor afiigned for not evacuating the posts, was ! " The want of veflels," but which he ex- j pefted would soon arrive. I On the 25th of February, governor Gay- i ofo and Mr. Ellicott fixed on the 19th of ■ March to proceed down the river to Clarkef ville, near which it was supposed the bounda- 1 ry line would commence. 1 On the 9th of March governor Gayofo informed Mr. Ellicott that the baron de 1 Carondelet could not attend the running of the line in person, and tkat the whole busi ness had devolved on him, the governor ; but he feared he (hould not be ready on the 19th. And then he endeavoured to draw Mr. El licott from his proper station at the Natchez, by proposing a visit to the U»n at N«w Orleans. March 12th, the governor again endea vored to draw Mr. Ellicott from the Nat chez, and recommended Loftus' Cliffs near Claikefville as the point of re-unitiHg : and by way of inducement, said that the Geo meter and other officers to be employed on the boundary line would stop at Clarkef ville. On the 15th of March, the principal part of the artillery was taken out of the fort, and every appearance made of a speedy evacua tion : but on the 2ad they were carried back to the fort and immediately remount ed. A similar movement took plade at the latter end of April, after the arrival of lieu tenant Pope and his troops at the Natchez. . " The evacuation (fays he) appeared to be going On with great life ; when all at once the military (lores were ordered back, their troops busily engaged all night taking back and remounting the cannon." Here he very naturally expresses his surprise—" This kind of conduft (fays he) appears strange." March 23d, the governor'mentions that orders had been by the general iu chief r of the province, to demolish th? post at the - Walnut Hills—because their treaty with the Indians required it : but as he (Gayofo) , had finee been informed of their unsettled I difpoCtious, he had sent counter-orders, to prevent the fortifications being injured ; fug- J gefting at the fame time that the moving of the stores, &c. was suspended only until the j arrival of the American troops to take pof fedion of the post. / In this letter the governor informs Mr. Ellicott that lieutenant colonel Guillemard " was far on his way up ; and, on his arrival, the running of the boundary line (hould bc i.' gin. The governor adds this assurance '/ " that there is nothing that can prevent the religious compliance with the treaty." On the 28th and 29th of March, gover nor Gayofo issued two proclamations, both bearing date the 29th, takidg new ground for retaining the posts, viz. Until the right 1- of the inhabitants to the real property is as- II certained. The governor is pleased t® fay 18 that a negociation was on be tween the king of Spain and the United h States, to secure to the inhabitants of the Natchez the righttotheir real property : that ie thatrightcould not.befecured butbyan addi- U tional article to the late treaty ; and that he (hould keep poffeflion of the country until tj that article (hould be officially communicat ed to him ; and until they were sure that n the Indians would be pacific. This last reafon particularly warrants my affertion— j that the governors meant for an indefinite n period to avoid the evacuation of the posts ; r for while a tribe of Indians existed in that ' r th# governors could not be sure that they would be pacific. And as to their !; real property, feeing the great body of the - inhabitants appear not to desire the patron 's age of the Spaaifh government to secure 11 it : As the government of the United States " miift be at least as anxious as that of Spain to p rot eft the inhabitants in their rights, when become citizens of the United States: I believe there can be no difficulty in dccid- gai ing whether this is a reason or a pretence, his Besides, the ntgociation mentioned by the tha governor about the real property of the in- t—; habitants, has never exifled ; nor even been of i proposed or hinted) either to or by the gov- 1 ernment 'of the United States, I hope, lini therefore, it will not be deemed harsh, or mi' unbecoming in a letter of this kind, to fay, the that this motive for suspending the evacua- fer tion of the pods—that a negociation was th< then on foot to secure the real property of 110 the inhabitants—does not merit the title St •even of a pretence. So soon as the governor discovered that wi his proclamations, infrfcad of quieting the th minds of the inhabitants, produced a contra- U ry effeft, he sent two gentlemen of the set- vie dement to inform Mr. that he, the wl governor, had received direftions front the it Baron de Carondelet to have the artillery th and military dores expeditioufly removed in from the forts, which were to be given up to be the troops of-the United States immediately th on their ai rival. As this information did be not remove suspicions, Mr. Ellicott wrote Y the governor on th 6 3id of March, dating di divers circumdances which still kept those suspicions alive. The governor answered on fu the fame day in dire& contradi&ion to the to information given by the gentlefneii, his a- th gents, to Mr. Ellicott, and confirming the fa declarations made in his proclamations. He ei added also a new motive for retaining the m posts, viz. That the treaty left it doubt- b< ful whether, when the pods should be e- bi vacuated, the works were to be left standing, P' or to be demolished ; concerning which the tt governor general found himfelf obliged to ai consult lus Catholic Majedy ; and had giv- o' en the governor positive orders to suspend si the evacuations of the pods until the matter a should be amicably fettled between the two f governments. tl On the id of May, another motive is as- e< signed for retaining the pojls—The envoy I of his Catholic Majedy in the United ti States, had informed the governor general p of an attack proposed againd the Spanish " part of Illinois (the upper part of Louifia- p 11a) by the British from Canada, and, there- i' fore, the posts at the Walnut Hills and the t Natchez must be kept sos the defence of i lower Louifiaua. f This last motive is also offered as a rea- t fonwhy the runningof the bouudary line is ' * postponed ; as all their attention was drawn j r towards the defence of the province, againd ( an invasion which, as I have already diown, r was never contemplated t To all these faAs, I have to add the de- c ■ claration of General Wilkinfon, in his letter , J of June 2d, to the Secretary of War—" Ij i 1 have (fays he) information through a confi- ! 1 dential channel, that it was determined as ; ] early as September lad, not to give up the ; ■ pods on the Mississippi." If this informa- j 1 tion be correA, no other proof is necessary to shew that all the reasons from time to time | fuggeded for not evacuating the posts were 1 , mere pretences. 1 1 K»v c brought into one view the < mod material fafts relating to the quedion between us, which are scattered through - out the reports made by me to the President of the United States on the 10th of June 1 and 3d July, and by the Secretary of War - on the 30th of June, and the documents 1 accompanying them, as Jthey haTe been pub - lifhed. And from this brief recital it evi dently appears, as I have said in my report, t " That the Governors of his Catholic Ma -1 jedy, on the Miffifippi, have, on various - pretences, podponed the running of the 1 boundary li»c, and the withdrawing of his - troop* from the posts they occupied within e the territory of the United States : And - that after repeated overtures, promises, and . appearances of commencing the execution e of the treaty between the two nations, in e both these rtfpe&s, their conduA demoo r ftrates, that for an indefinite period they k meant to avoid doing either." y You controvert this conclusion only on d one ground- You fay that the treaty stipu lated merely that the Spanish garrifous should t be withdrawn, not that fortifications which :f might one day be prejudicial to the King's e fubjefls, fliould be delivered up : and hence e you infer that the necsffity urged by the two ) governors of delaying to withdraw th« gar d nfons.until this quedion is decided between 0 the two Governors, is not a pretence, but a •- fubdantial reason. Here I mud observe if that the governors had already demolished e the pod at the Chickafaw Bluff : And it f- appears in the foregoing recital that they were going to demolish the pod at the Wal r. nut Hills: and the reason afligned is that ■d the treaties with the Indians required the 1, demolition: and governor Gayofo assigns C- bnt one motive for fiifpending that operati :e on—that he had been informed of the un ie fetttled disposition of the Indians ; yet af terwards this reason (that their treaties with r- the Indians required the demolition of the h pods) is forgotten, asd their deftru&ion, d or their delivery with all the fortifications bt and other works standing, is by the gover if. nors made to depend entirely on the issue of iy a negociation between the governments of e- Spain and the United States ! Can any far ?d ther proof be wanting to juftify me in cal he ling this aprttence ? But you seem to rely at on this your conftrudlion of the treaty rela li- tive to the posts : You have urged it in your he letter to me- ps the 24th of June ; and there til fore I will consider it. it- The 2d article of the Treaty having def at cribed the boundaries between the territo -Ift ries of the United States and Spain, thus proceeds —" And it is agreed that if there te should be any troops, garrison* or fettle -1 ; ments of either party, in the territoiy of at the other, according to the above mention re ed boundaries, they shall be withdrawn from sir the said territories within the term of fix he months after the ratification of this treaty, n- or sooner if it be poffihle : and that they re shall be permitted to take wittythem all the ;es goods and effefts which they possess." But lin to juftify your retention of the posts, you ts, fay that the demarcation of the boundary :s: line should precede the withdrawing of the • , gajyifons : Yet you suppose xlpraba'J.c and ' we his Catholic Majesty's governors 'well knciv, j muc that the Chickafaw Bluff—the Walnut hills \Ew -r— and the Natchez are within the territory be < of the United State*. woi: Governor G«yofo fpeaka ofthe boundary of ii line as being near Clarkefville, a place many fuel miles below the Natchez ; and he also knew 1 the result of Mr. Ellicott's astronomical ob- caul fervations on the spot, which ascertained whi the Natchez to be about thirty nine miles, tior north of the south boundary of the United the States. mat There being then not a shadow of doubt tior with refpeft to the position of these ports— 1 that they are all within the territory of the adv United States, there was no necessity pre- kno vioufly to run and mark the boundary line : the which besides, if set about in good earnest, bles it would take at least a year to accomplish, out through a wilderness of many hundred miles you in extent; and therefore it never could have I been contemplated as necessary to precede our the evaAiation of the polls, which was to are be effected in fx months, or sooner if poffille. trie Yet fifteen months have elapsed, and you still keep possession. To But you fugged that it is at least doubt ful whether by the treaty it was intended to leave the fortification* (landing, when the garrisons should be withdrawn: .You whi fay " It is not to be presumed that it could imj ever have been the intention of his catholic the majesty to deliver up fortifications, which, ha* besides that they have eoft him confidera- flat Ble sums of money, may, by the. effeft of Ye political vicissitudes, be one day prejudicial mil to his fubje&s." I feel much reluftance to Th attempt the refutation of a conftruftion so tifc obviously erroneous. It is probably the thi fir it time that to " withdraw" or retire from no' a place has been imagined to intend its de-> of fruition. If at the formation of the treaty or the demolition of the pods had been intend- pii ed, it would assuredly have been expressed. sea But doubtlef* the idea never occurred, un- vel til it was found convenient to make it a tw pretence for holding the pods. The phrases " to withdraw a garrifdn," to evacuate a by fofl or country, have as determinate a mean- i uni ing as any in the English language ; and tio their meaning is ascertained .by frequent use ; lar : in treaties ; and to defiroy a country or a A fortified plac, from which it was dipulated ' wt to " withdraw" an army or a garrison, in i ' would be such an a& of barbavifm as ought ini i ; never to take place among civilized natioris. | to t One of the lated treaties made by the U- ch , 1 nitod States (that with Great Britain) has te the fame phrase—" His majedy will 'with- ha - dra-w all his troops and garrisons from all w! r posts and places within the boundary lines gi [ j assigned by the treaty of peace to the U- pt - ! nited States. This evacuation (hall take a s place on or before the fird day of June, of e i 1796." And these expressions are used in ec - the fame treaty as equivalent to " the deli I 0 ! very of the said pods." The 'British treaty tl e was in this manner accordingly carried into w e effefl—the British troops were -withdrawn, re and the works left flaniing. The British m e officers were even careful not to expose the p] 1 works to accidental deftruftion : for as the p ; i- American troops did not reach the pods by t the fird of June, small British guards were tr e left to preserve the works from injury until a i r the American troops arrived, s By the treaty concluded at Versailles the w 1- 3d of September, 1783, between Great J i- Britain and Spain, it was agreed, " That t< t, the king of Great Britain should cause Ead si i- Florida to bt evacuated three months after r , is the ratification of that treaty, or sooner, uj ie if it could be done." The evacuation took j~ { 1 place, but no demolition of fortification 1. j" ; n In the preliminary articles of peace be- f ( id tween England, France and Spain, signed a d the 3d of November, 1762, it was flipu- tl n lated " That as soon as poflible after the a in ratification of these preliminaries, France , I- should evacuate Cleves, Wefel, and Guel- p y ders, and generally all the countries belong- , p ing to the king of Prussia:" Were those a n plates demolished, or the country laid <waflc, \J : II- when the troops withdrew ? Or were there 1f ; Id any subsequent negotiations to remove any :h doubts'on the fubjeifl ? r 's But I have dwelt too long on a point ( re that really required no elucidation, ro (To be continued.) F r- A POLITICAL~REFLECTION. \ • u Every country has certain peculiar advan- ®' a tages, which, like remarkable features, dif- j, ve tinguifh it from others. In the earlier dates -d of foeiety, these were entirely natural or t 't local, as the fitnefs of the foil fbr particu- v c y lar predu&ions, or the convenience of situ- £ '1- ation for certain pursuits : afterwards fa3i- t at tious advantages were added, the result of £ accident or application ; commerce, manu- t n * faftures, modes of government, and various c ti- other effe&s of human exertion or providen- ( tial disposal, contributed to diverfify nati- ( onal character nearly in the fame proportion ( th with the complexions and manners of the he human race. in i From an early acquired habit of contem- ' •n* plating with pleasure those objefts in which j er_ his own country is superior to others, the , native imbibes the amor patria, the spirit i °f of patr'wtifm, which attaches him so drong- 1 ar ~ ly to his native foil that fomethir.g extraor :al" dinary mud occur to induce him to leave -'y it without relu&ance, and something dill '' a * more extraordinary if he can entirely with )Ur draw his affeftions from it. re- «' Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind." It is this which induces a man to hazard >ef- his all for that country which early pleasures to- and long habit have endeared to himt ius To difqover these advantages, and pro ere perly to edimate and apply them, is the ;le- nohleft pursuit of the politician : and with of us it is unnecessary to dispute whether such on- and such facts or opinions are British or om French, Chinese or Tartarean ? but whether fix they may be made ufeful to America ? ty, The charafteriftie advantages of America ley are, its wide didance from Europe, its in the dependence so remarkably acquired, and iut ' its early political experience. Divided by rou • the width of the Atlantic from the red of ary ' the civilized world, we little to fear the j fro» their open force or secret intrigues, if we take clre not to betray cur/thai- Sa much trouble Imd expense would attend'an European invaflon, so little hope would there be of success by force, and so much time would be neeeflary for carrying on a system of intrigue, that America can be ruined by such means but with her owa consent. The history of oifr revolution, and the causes which produced it, and the glory which crowned it, are a source of exulta tion to the American, and have received ' the admiration of the old world, who esti mated our character by our fuccefsful exer tions at that important period. As a nation, we have the unparalleled advantage of beginning with a fund of knowledge, which others have purchased at the expense of centuries of blood and trou bles. We have the experieace of age with out its infirmities—we have the freffinefs of youth without its inexperience. In these refpe&s we may justly prefer our country to the reft of the world : these are the circumftanees which juftify the pa triotism of America. To lie Editor of the Virginia Argui. Richmond, O&ober 4, 1797. Sir, The ufeful and iiiterefting matter with which your paper is always filled, makes it improper, perhaps, to expeft or alk of you, the re-publication of any essays which may have appeared in other papers of' you* own ftatej much less those of your own city Yet, the anxiety which 1 1 have heard a number of your fubferibers, who do not talpe The Virginia Gazette and General Adver tiser express, to fee the papers published in that Gazette under the signature which I now write, induces me to acquit mvfelf of the charge of partiality for the fubferibers or friends to any particulai newspaper, by publilhing in yours, some of the leading features of the NINE numbers of the De velopment of the causes of the dijlurbances be tween the .American ajd French Republics. This I am impelled the riuore ftrohgly to, by another consideration in addition to. the I one already stated. Besides the equal atten tion I with to ftiew to your fubferibers at ; large, with those of every other paper in ■ America, there is one person in particular, whose name has been frequently mentioned ; in those papers, and who, I am credibly ; informed, declared (tho' with a bhi/l, lam told, of modefl innocence, I presume, on his cheek) to a citizen of his own county, af ter the publication of the 7th No. that " he had never seen one of those publications who, if there was no other entitled to he gratified, certainly of himfelf is. That the ■ person alluded to, v niay no longer be without ' a fight of what I have already {kid and tho't p of him (as he is the last of all men I would ' eoncfal those fentinrents and opinions from) I Ihall therefore now draw up a summary of ' the prlncipil things I have of him', > \yidr the addition of a fey more which yet > remain to be touched upon,, and which in 1 my opinion, it behoves that person to ex ; plain: And this I fliall do. for the moil part, by the way of as that r appears to be the favorite way of arriving at " truth, with some of that person's advocates 1 and friends. By the ingenious invention of the sfvrcrct - which may justly be styled the enemies of t faabinfm put to the rack, we are taught 1 to propound a few ufeful querict on the other t fide; a few candid answers to which will v'e r ry much aid the qucrift and Editor of that > ufeful paper in' arriving at truth on the fub c ject of his enquires. By as ready and as fatisfa&ory answers being made, as were as» - forded on that occasion, it»mav be seen, who, ' 'and what paaty, are best prepared to pass - the fiercy ordeal of such a torturous examina -0 ; atian as has been there set on foot. e | In the firft place then, Mr. Pleafants, to I- pursue and be consistent with my original i* : plan, who, give ml leave to a(k, was our k | ambafTador in France, when their revolution s i I broke out, and our general government wit e sacred ? y ad Q. Did not that amhaiTador write to Ame rica,while our government was under consideration for adoption or rejeflion, recommending cer tain things to be done which were not done, or paid .any very.great attrition to ? 3d Had that negleit and theprrfumptien of the people of America to form a government for themselves, in bit aifcnce, and in contempt of his ~ advice, any, and what effifl, on hisfecret opin ions and dispositions towards that government ? :s 4th How did it happen that an attachment >r to the cause of France (of which that charaiter j_ was well knowu to be a warm admirer) became connected with, and underf ood to be iufeparable from, an ennjity to our government ; and that the person who had been the chief cause of the a -3t doption of the government, and was well known j- to be under the influence of tue amhaffador, be jS come immediately on his, return to America, so ftrangcly changed, as to become among the fore moft in those filter principles of a friendship to the caufc of France and enmity to the American gov )n ernment ? le Jth Who Was it that recommended the wri tings of Mr. Paine hers as the " llandard ol Com- „ _ tr.on Senje and whethsr was the fame person then , acquainted with Mr. Paine's whole system, or if ■ 1 he was not. when he beaamc acquainted with it, whether did he wish the influence of that recor*. •it to extend to the. whole of his wife wri g- tings) j._ 6th Q_ Who were the two influential chara.Ceri who introduced M» Frenc-au into the depirtnieul of state and set him up as a printer ; who introdu ced hi; fulifcription papers into Albemarle, h- &c. recommended him as the rcpuiliun primes and a&cd as agentt even between him and his sub. I." fcrib«rs in that quarter ; and why all this iAii rd tr X> 'rouble and pains, and what the obje&flke' complexion of that pap t ? '~th CK Why* were the rejblnticns of Albemarle on the lubject «f the piodamation of neutrality o- (lormed and warmly advocated by young ge.itie he men immediately from uniler the privatt rool ant jj] influence of the Icerctaty of state) so material!] 1 different fron the tonimunicaticms from thepuill, *■ ' office of-ftatc upon the laaie fubjcia ? or Bth CV Why were the sentiments of those 0 >er thefarae connexions and immediately under the sam influence, always and uniformly warm, bitter an< ; ca ioud a£un(l principles, men.and itieafures, whicl the perfou holdmg that' inflaene; over them preteHd ed to view in a very xUffcretit'light ? Why was the&me incoafilteqcy of fen by undent which tkAs prevailed between this mai of of influence andlii* av'mirers, even maintained ii the fame chara&er at oßce, by holding up to dH j£ fcrent people of diffcrwit sentiments, ii
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