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Peledl Cruncil.
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Boston Glass Manufa&ofy.
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the city ; it may, therefore, be frequented with
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" Hold converse
Many interring additions have lately befn
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containing a variety of the most rare and beautiful
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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
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PHILADELPHIA. f a
SATURDAY EVENING, Octobfr 14. Pr
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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