Frtffn the Farmer's e6kly Musbi)m. From the SHOP of PETER. QUINCE. A MARVELLOUS ' 0 DA 'Ji/ Ffter is nrnfted by a great p/rfonage : Peter hiirritth liir'frlf trjay oieifance ; miheth a courteous ty, Peter h fLi-rely reprimanded; po'keth bit finger in his M/Vii, •and itfiLkilb off. WHAT pU'm drefsV, down cist, sober looking, Or.v footed dame ; ' Withli&ir Ijhe cap "ring goats, that fsek their sol J, Amlform, |i!.i Breads 'ike twin ror>, that leap o'er fields of vvht at ) , And j'/i t«!ik,e jewels cunninj and complete— It that—-good 'rVm-wha niovoi, toward? my (hop. " [ know not fir."—.Then go and aft h.*> lame " Tis one Mir. IVifJem as the) ca'l 'er." Zounds ! —run—kick du^—Scamper—fly ; Get my heft wig, clean shirt, and suit of fattin; My Speech cqmpos'dof hebrew, greik,and latin, And 'tout yottrbufinefs keep a good, fh'rp, eye. tct no one know who 'tis your mailer's got — For if you do ; our matters so to pot, the -wife men willbreak in and rtall *er JTow, lor a peat address in native tongue, Such as blind Milton hid from Beelachub, ' Wfjcn th • old raScal meant heaven's law to drub, And frcavhis grinning, ghadly, demons Sprung. Kot Jcbnfon, tow'ring o'ervaft hills of speech, I.'. r nu.de so fine a figure as meet Pe tiTr ; When to her ladyfliip his hand did reach, And (he Squat down for him to greet ker. " I burnt tl/eejL'ell; —thou art of birth divine ; Though veil'd in fufh dilguiS*,. Thou art So high, so topning aad of godly dature; O' rloriking h>ch immenCty of nature. That neither Adam, Moses, David, Nor Sampson, (curs'dby being shaved) Could ever gain the language of thy heart J Or worlhip freely at thy radiant (hrine. * " It's trne there was <jne Solomon, a clever chap ; * But rather amorous and fly— On whom you cafl a very lech'rous eye, A 1)4 lent him for a while your gown and eap ; By which he gain'd admittance 'mong the misses; Talk'd pert, said smart things to their head ; Play'd with their (hawls—then treated them with kisses And coax'd the little gyrfies into bed. «' 'Twa«very fineinyou, miliprim—modcharming. I truly think you a dear Sweet foul; Equal to Mr. Feote's eood Granny Cole— Only, in some points, more alarming. 7bou turneft fun, and moon, and flars—«//-*-top fy turvy; Poking your nose into earth's Smallest pore, Unlocking nature's very kitchen door ; Squinting at ev'ry mole, rock, bill and crater, And lowly padling in ali forts of water— That much I wonder you've efcap'd the scurvy. Sometimes, indeed, we fee you gay and nimble, Having your mighty head of business f^Il; , At others, in thy cavity of tall— There is not fenfc enough to fill a thimble. Sometimes, likf lion, loud we hear you roaring, Shaking the very center of creation ; Fright'ning of earth each tribe, town, (late and nation; ' ' And then again, like 'gentle whisper foft, TIiQU lifts thy pond'reus head aloft— But drop'il thy jp hJr ia oblivion's mooring. This is fine coWuil—Madam —very fine ; Becuming such a pretty " babe of grace"— With your long.'solemn. Sanctimonious face. And pucker'd lips, like faint in song divine. Was it not you, who drove my coiifin Peter, To fay the Jacobins had (linking fouls- Had confcienees av black as coals, And upderdaudings peaked as a heater ? If So—by heavens—yeu do deserve a trouncing ; •Because yon made him tell a monflrous lie. Potfr well knows, with all their tricks and bouncing— They know no more of con/citnce, than a fly ; Bargain'd awa> their for.ls si me yeara or more, And took their pay in affigflats and Jlour ! Now, Miss—what think you of your mighty know ledge T You never Saw the angel face' of Psarsom ! Who blackguards genius like a whore's son. And rubs his tailallo'er great Cambridge College. Was ever you to college, Miss ?—" 'Not long, Sir." And saw the great white wig, ? heard prayers ? and Speeches f 41 I fain tie zuig. redfact and pair of iresches-b ---" IVitb all tbefliff pedjntie throng, Sir." Then, Madam, we mull part—indeed we mud ; I've certain reafonsof a private nature. Now gentle reader, call this—" ODE the id." Andncxt week you fhalLhave the felf fame matter. PETER QUINCB. -i d ■ A MEETING OF the SELECT and COMMON COUNCILS of the City of Philadelphia, will be held on Thutfday ru-xt, at eleven o'clock in the morning, at the State-house. \ ' By order, WI.LIAM H. TOD. Cleik of the Seleil Council. EDWARD J. COALE, Clerk of the Common Council or. jo. dtj6 For SAVANNAH, TH FAST SAILING lAIP jgggftr* 1 Swift Packet, Patrick Gribbin, Mafier. - NOW lying at Smith's wharf, " aboveßace-flreet. Is haudfome ly aacommodated for palTengers, and will fail oh Cmurday, a ith inft Tor freight or pa/Tage, apply to the Mailer on board, No. 95, South Frout flreet, or of the fubferibers, at Frankford. N. & y. Frazier. or- 80. dt2Bth Wants a Place, AS WET NURSE, a young, healthy Womon, With a frefli breafl of milk. Apply to the Printer, oa. 19 3t Wanted, to Hire, Al.arge and convenient HOUSE, in or near the centre of the city—for which a generous rent will be given ; to be taken for a year, t>r on lease for a longer term. Inquire of the Printer. Oft. 17. eotf NO TI C £. THE Offices of the Department ps War are £or the prcfent removed near to the Falls of the Scuyk kill, on the Ridge Road* , September 4. dtf The Health-Office ~~ ; TS removed to the City-Halh, and is kept open , night and day, where persons having bufin« fs may apply. Wju. ALLEN, Health-Officer. Sept. 4. * dtf { Public Notice is hereby given, j THAT the Commissioners for the Diftridt oi' Southwark have removed their hall to the house jformerfy occupied hy Samuel Goff, in Cferiftija at ' 6te corner of Fifth llreot. Odt. 2. Afl laying Duties on Stance 1 Parchment and Papir. A FEW copjcs of the above ad maybehivd at ' the Office of the Gazet&s of dfe United States, No 1 nj, Cheftiut-Erecfc Jo!y 194 ' X^j v (^ascttCt r | PHILADELPHIA, |j SATURDAY-EVENING, Octoc.fr J,. ' | Penn SYLVANIA, Jf. ,; In the name and by the authority of the | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. i?r THOMAS MIFFLIN-, , | Governor of the said Commonwealth. A'PROCLAMATIOW; Whereas, the Infpeftors of the Heahh Office of the Port of Philadelphia, have re*- ported to me, that in their 1 judgment, it is . no longer neccflary to impole a general quar , aitme on veflels arriving in this port, from any of .the Weft-India islands, from New Orleans, or from any British, Fi*ench, Dutch, or Spanish ports on the Maine Therefore, I have ifTned this proclama tion, hereby revoking the proclamations heretofore by me iflued, bearing date the e leventh and fifteenth dgys of Auguftjaft ; and allowing and permitting all vefHs what soever, arriving from any part beyond seas, to enter the port of Philadelphia', without beii)g fubjeft to the performance of quaran tine, unless the rtlfident phyfieian shall on visiting atiy fnch Vessel, deem the fame to be in a sickly and dangerous state, when such reasonable quarantine /hall be performed, as the Infpeftors of the port (hall direst and establish. Given undermyharid, and the great Seal of the State, at Germantown, (L.S.) t^l ' t twent ' et h day of OiJlober, in the year of our Lord one thousand se ven hundred and ninety-seven and of thecommon wealth the twenty-feconcL THOMAS MIFFLIN. By the Governor, James.Trimblk, Deputy Sec'ry. A correspondent remarks, that the answer of the Secretary of State to theSpanifh MiniOer's kppeal 1. one of those complete refutations which leave, no room for an amplifying idea. It it neat, explicit and deeifive It breathe, the spirit of an indepen dent American, and a >ift sense of national, offi. c.al and personal refpe<a. It will be read with plcafore by every impatlialmind ; by every citi zen of the United States who loves his country with kindred sensations of patriotism and coi-fci oua dignity. COMMUNICATIONS. The freeft and mod pointed animadversions on. French affairs which have appeared in the gatettcs of this country, were copied from French papers. Foreigners may brandish their goose quills against the United States, but the greatest calumniate;, of the American charader are the writers in the Au rora, Argu. and Chronicled. These three papers have however been lying to very little purpose for the last five or fix years, as is evidenced by the numbers of emigrants who continue to flock into the country. Had any faith been put in the repre sentations of these fa&ionifts, Europeans must have fnppofed the people in a state of misery and slave ry, and the rulers tyrants and monsters. The representations the characters and con duel of men in office, as given in the Jacobin ga zettes, are wholly destitute ef foundation—They do norlielieve them themfelvci, ths people do not believe them—if they did, it would beeafyfor the Jacobins to cempleat their plan of overturn in the government. If these lying varlets obtained credit in any quarter of the Union, infurre&ion would be a mod sacred duty there. Volumes of abuse fcavo been written againd the people,of America, particularly of the eadern States, by various.ranters of high church and in tolerant memory. The dribblers never found their advantage in their publication!—they become Ihop lumber, at soon as they became extant. It fecms that former ill fiiccels has not discour aged them from recent similar attempts at defama tion. The Editor of The Aurora has found some precious morceaus for his paper in a late publica tion of this damp from the pen of a Pruflian. There is however more fallhood than malignity in the samples given, but this deficiency is amply Sup plied by the comments of the tranferiber. If the Editor of the Aurora wilhes to procure for his paper, blackguardifmi on the people of New England, he may be furhiflied with a fcetter assortment than his Prufliaa author, De Bulow, can glvf, from a book written more than forty years since. The antifsderal faAion have labored for years to prove that the majority of the people is with them; notwithdanding which the printers who are in opposition to the government complain of not being lupported. Some of the charm ions of anti federalifm have tried various lituations, without success, and the profpcA dots ?ot biighten. They charge their failure to the negleS of the wealthy ps rt of the community. How reasonable this may >e Is lelt to themselves to detes-mine. It certainly is not a very natural expeaation, that they flloul<f be encouraged in their efforts to undermine that coMditution and those laws which form the only bulwark to life, liberty and property. The truth is, every man who possesses property, or expedts to acquire it by honed industry, under the protec tion of just laws, mud he opposed to the antifede ral fa a ion ; the nlajority therefore is againd them. After all it mud be acknowledged that some of these gazettes have been and still are Supported, to the great disgrace of our country—The means, it is true, are invifihle ; still they are Supported.— This number is however small. A Hint to returning Phuadeiphmns. ■ The return of our fellow-citizens will, doubtle'fg excite great caution, and every pofiible exertion ought to be made to pro cure perfect cleanliness throughout the ci ty ; but it should be remembered that the eau(e« of disease generally lurk in hidden plaees ; mere external purification, there fore, (though pleasing to the eye) will B ot dhace away the enemy. Among the various modes that will pro bably be suggested, I hope I fliall be par doned for mentioning one, which, though by no means new, may not be generally adopted without a hi*t from some of your correspondents. I>t every house-keeper buy half a bushel of quick lime, let it he pounded fine and scattered throughout the cellars, finks, and damp places of every defenption. I will venture to aflert, that if this could be uaiveffiflly done at one moment, the whole city might be completely cleansed in half an hour. To persons, tolerably acquainted with chemistry, this method of imbibing foul air j will be understood to be infallible; but it • may not he amife to inform the more nume- j isds «lass of your readers, that lime is a stone or earth deprived, by fire, of both air and moiftuie ; that when in that state it will attraft to £tf<lf what it has been deprived ' of, as readily as a dry fpwnge will take up water j and that, by this absorption of the more weighty and noxious part of the at mosphere, the remaining part will become : pure. I have gone into a cellar so very of fenfive, that not only my nose but even my eyes fufFered extremely ; but after I had raised a fog of lime abbut me', the air became as agreeable as it was'in the street. I am content that .the simplicity of this [ address should raise a fmije among philofo . phers, ii the less enlightened and equally i valuable part of the community should sol ■ low my advice. SfcNEX. I ' A young cow of fine years old, brought to opr ( market by Mr. Philip Allbcrger, victualler (at . Jlall No. 31) weighed as follows, to <tvit . Neat beef 690 lbs. i Tallow andfuit 242 I 2 The hide 70 The very extraordinary quantity of fat in . proportion to the weight of beef will not fail to draw the attention and furpri%e of the gra zier and victualler ,* and we publijl it under the . hejl ajfuranct that the weights are truly given. Communication. In the neighborhood of Hoebock-Ferry are to be found a considerable number of ser pents of the kind denominated Copperheads ,* I their bite is very venomous ; the poison diffu -1 sing itfelf in a short time over a considerable I part of the body, and producing fatal con fluences, unlcfs an immediate antidote is applied. A few weeks since a negro man who had been at work in the fields of his employ er, there took up a log of wood on his shoulder, which was hollow nearly, through froin one end and carried it home for his evening fire. His wife and children (as is usually the cafe in the country) had retired to reft in one corner of the room, and he was set down - at the fire, and nearly over powered with sleep, when he perceived an enormous snake, of the kind above mention ed, Aiding foftly out of the aorner just be fore him. Although powerfully impelled by fear to attempt its immediate deftruftion, he knew it would be dangerous to move left the snake should spring at him. He there fore remained quiet, and only followed the motions of th<( serpent with his eyes, which, (with an ereft head and a noise resembling the cluck of a hen for her chickens) glided backward and forward across the room, while a eat followed the windings of his tail, and frequently laid her paw upon it, without heing noticed by *he reptile. At length the serpent approached the fire again and re-entered the wood, which the negro per ceivings lie immediately flopped the aper ture,' and kindling up a large fire, drew the log across it, where it remained till the ser pent was consumed. £ Timt-Piccel ] Translated for the Ttmb Piecs, Published by" Phil*? Fr ENEAU. RefUSions on the principles of the formation of Political Society. A Curious political work has made its appearance in France, in which the author endeavours tq. support the position that war has every where been the originating cause of the firft political affociationj. In an army behold the type, the rough sketch of the early social slate ; and. hence, too, is it, that monarchy has been every where the firft predominant form of government.—He distinguishes, in every kind of organized so ciety, three efTcntial constituting elements, from the various properties of which are de rived all the diftinftions of political forms. These three elements, are strength, or pow er ; wisdom ; and genius, or in other words democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy Whatever may be the formation of a state, or whatever its political denomination, these three elementary pringiples ever exist therein, and more or less preponderate. Power is ever in the hands of the people, or multi tude magistrates, nobility, and enlighten ed citizens, of public spirit, represent wis dom and sagacity ; but genius resides with monarchy, or at least in that creative senti ment of society, sailed legislation, the i mage of ftipremacy ; or in other words a king, a senate, a president, or whatever may be the term of the representation ef the majesty of aLe people. Look at an army : the soldiers represent democracy, or strength; to the officers, whefe business it is to preserve discipline and order, is entriiiied the care of regular action. These are the men who, for own in terest, slaves to any body that will pay them for eteifiing in idleness, levy a useless contribu tion on the indujlrious. Monarchy lias in all ages attached what- > ever it found, any thing like genius to itfelf. It is time the tables were turned. As has been often asked, what is monarchy ? Evi dently the conspiracy of the cunning few, a gainst the ignorant and undefigning many. If genius is of any worth in the world, it should evidently turn its attention to the equality of mankind : of what Common value is ability while iteontinues enliftedundertheflagoff*vr felf-interefhd monarchy ?*Let us examine mat ters right, and we shall find, that the three elementary principles of all monarchy are found in what is called an army. - Poor de mocracy, and uninformed cannon-dragging animals, are the support of the system. The general, in an army, is always sup posed to direst even tb ( e minutest movements of bodies of men (combined to fight agaiuft each other, frequently no one knows for what). From the opinions or ablities of these generals is the whole army afluated. Under an abfolute-' general the body of an j army are enslaved, and, for the most trifling faults, are led to cruel and degrading pun ishments ; tortured, perishing beneath the se verity of a thousand lashes 1 These things should be done away. Possibly, from what appears to be the na ture of mankind, this theory cannot in all points be supported. However that may be, legislators should know, that every just government, and embracing 'the rights of mankind, should include within itfelf the germ of its reproduction in point of dura bility and perfedtion. Such a/yftem should embrace the equal rights bf every member of a community, the radical HiCans ,cf na tional prosperity, and the interests of na tions with whom a commercial intercourse ought {o be maintained. Hence, we should fee the perfection of human society, man without wars ; and even if he chose to con centrate his authority -in an individual, or a body of men,.putting it out of h's or their power to trample on the multitude and make them nothang. The influence *>f reason alone can make man himfelf, or induce him to aft up to the fublimity, arili honor' of his nature. Thi« nature is progressive (beyond all doubt to perfe&ion) like a rude plant'of.the earth, whieh is ever improveable. And in the his , JfOry the human mind, if we do not attend to this principle of its natural progression to virtue, we shall find alf dark and gloomy, and perhaps feel ourselves secretly inclined to refleft upon' rhe wisdom of the creative, power, in which there can be no error. This writer, in the application of his theory to the business of the world, after ar ranging jfnd duly weighing all those balan ces of government, Jo much talked of, con cludes that a •well adjujled limited monarchy is the natural government for man. With a grand and superb ariftocraeyi with an order of nobility, placed between the monarch and the people, or their representative. Such a government (the writer supposes) would contain within itfelf a check on,the unbrid led strength of the people, as well asoipon the feeret designs of ambitious usurpers of their liberties. But, in that complicated machine, called fecial government, the real rights of the ma ny have ever been facrificed to mere liypo thefis and theory, and, other abftradt princi ples that men have never understood or re lished ; and like the miserable jargon called law, has served to enslave and corrupt' them. If man wishes to be free, he miift re vert to simple principles, and not surrender himfelf to be deluded with that fiftitious fluff, that refinement of state policy, which has ever enslaved him, and degraded his na ture. This writer, in advocating limited monar chy, has not adverted to its abuses, which have constantly prevented iil amelioration of the human condition. From the Western Telegra^he. Reason suggests that in every govern ment, theie is an absolute unlimited power, . which naturally and origiqjlly seems to be placed in the whole body,' wherever the executive part of it subsists. This obser vation holds in the body natural ;* " for wherever we place the beginning of motion, wheth»r from the head, the heart or the animal spirits in genera], the body moves and afts by acquiescence of all its parts." This unlimited power placed fundamentally in the body of a people, is what the legisla tors of all ages have endeavoured in their several schemes and institutions of govern ment, to dtpofit in such hands a» would preserve the people from rapine and oppres sion within, as well as violence from with out. This absolute power was never con stitutionally vested in the Roman people, as forae writers have aflerted ; though oftenfr hly it was, by ending a law, that no per son should bear any magiflracy in Rome, without the consent of the commons. Ac cordingly we find, that the two firft con suls were nominated by the nobles, and the nomination was confirmed by the commons. Their annual ele&ion for fpm« time pro duced a laudable emulation, morality was promoted, the most cordial uniou prevailed and not felfifh pursuits, they were deter mined tQ. equity and right, not more by force of laws, than by a natural propensity; the only ftrife, the only diffentions they ex ercised, were the public enemy. By two principal means, valour in war, and righteous eonduft in peace, they supported their own reputation, and that of the com mon weal. But the commons soon began to feel the effefts of ill-balanced - power. Harassed with debts, they take up arms and leave the city in mutiny and discontent, refufing to return, if they could not bfc ac quitted of all their debts, and magistrates chosen out of'their own order, whose busi ness it should be to defend the commons from the oppression of the nobility. TKeir creditors compounded, and magistrates were granted, whose persons were considered sa cred. The commons now in their turn, abused the nobility with a torrent of scan dalous outrages. They gave themselves up to precipitate a£ts of vengeance, and in order to procure it, followed blindfold the guidance of those who encouraged them to seek it ; followed their demagogues and favourites, more dangerous matters than the grandees of the senate, because impli citly trusted, and consequently more pow erful. They became the dupes of every incendiary, if he were only recommended by the merit of loudly inveighing against their former oppressors. Thus they fuffer ed the brutal Marius, in opposition to the grandees, to hurt themselves more, and to bring more disorder and desolation on the state, than all the grandees the worst and m'oft criminal, had done before him. But under our benigntgovernmcnt, no constitu tional diftinftions subsist. The poor, ho nest, sensible man may a£t in a legislative capacity, if chosen by his fellow citizens. Let us then remember, that our strength and happiness consist in unanimity and na tional affeftion, and "forbear to create a ge neral disquietude by forming ourselves into visionary parties. MODERATUS. - * Swift upon government. The Medical Leftures In tbc University of Pennsylvania, arc pnft poned until the last Monday in November next. Odlober T4. gaw<w. HI r f lIIMIMIII Ml , 181111 u, K NEW-YORK, Oftober j7, A friend has put into our hands copies of the papers relating to the (hip Ann and'Su fan, Richard Weft, mailer, of New-York lately condemned at Curacoa. The fub ilance is as follows. The firll paper is a copy of thfe memori al of Stephen Kinglton of Philadelphia own er of the (hip, to the governor and council of that island, in which he slates, that hd contradled with the French minister at Phi ladelphia, to tranfpbrt to France a number of French prisoners, who had b<?en takefi in to Halifax by the English. For this pur. pose he fitted'out his fliip the Governor Hamilton of Philadelphia, and carried 243 pcrforis fafe to l'Oritnt. That he purchas ed at Bourdeaux the fliip Ana and Susan, and failed from thence December 8, 1706, for Philadelphia. That he was forced by stress of weather and heavy gales of wind, to. put into the nearest port, and made Marti»i co, where he landed his cargo to repair his veflel, and finding his cargo in demand there,- he solicited and obtained permiflion to from thence he failed for Philadelphia, and was taken by the privateej- Le Pandour, fapt. Garrifcin, fitted out at that island, and commanded, as he was informed by a citizen of the United States, contrary to and >ll direst violation of the treaty between) Holland and the United States, Mr. Ivingfton proceeds to state in his memorial, such, fafle and arguments as he judged most proper to induce the govern ment of the island to interfere and procure a releafc of his ship. He mentions that the Batavian Republic and the United States art at peace, and that by treaty the parties are bound to prated* each others trade in their rgfpeftive ports—that the proclama tion of Viftor Hugues was issued in Februa ry, when he was repairing his vessel at Martimeo—and' that making that his port was by the aft of God, for which he could incur no liability to seizure, and there was no decree of the French command er prohibiting veflels failing from Britifli ports ; and that he being altogether igno rant of any prohibition, could not irt jus tice be within its meaning. This memorial was dated April nth. On the 21ft of April Mr. Kingston made a econd representation t& the government or Curacoa, in which he urges that VidW Hugues having been recalled and refufino to obey and resign his government, could no longer be considered as lawful governor,, nor could his afts be valid'; and that citi zens of the United States who might fuffer in consequence of his orders, would claim full compensation. He remonstrated against" the permiflion of French privateers to be fitJ ted out in Curacoa, to cruize against the ci tizens of tire United States, at peace with the Dutch republic. He mentions that the commifllon of the Pandour dated at Curacoa, and also that of the fchr. Char maiite Maria, Don Pedro Martin, com mander. The Dutch goversraent at Curacoa, on the 25th and 28th repjied, that they had taken Kingston's memorials into corifidera tion : That they were informed " that Jean Baptifle Tierce, agent of the French repub lic, was authorized to make condemnation of prizes, w. >ut the concurrence of the government of that island, and that he in tended to exercise that power ; they there fore had resolved to leave that business wholly to the French agent that all the res ponsibility might fall on him atidthofe who had authorized him. M They however sent the memorials to the said French agent in' sure itliance that he would do what was right and just. f In consequence of this answer, the mail ers of American veflels in Curacoa, present ed a memorial to the governor and council, 111 which they charge some of the members, as well ?s the French.agent, in being con cerned in the privateers. We give this me morial entire, as folldws : TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, And t!<cgmtUmcn of til Council t/thc iJUrd of Curate*. The memorial of the fubfenbers citizensof the United States of America, on behalf of-themfelres and other citizens intereiled therein, Respectfully Sheweth, That they have seen with equal sorrow and ! urprize by the answer of your honora- x ble body, to the felicitation? of their fellow citizen, Stephen Kingston, one' of' the sub scribers, that " all captures are referred to the deeifion of W. I. B. Tierce" (agent) who is well known to the members of your honorable body, to be concerned in the priva~ tcer; and that having all been brought in by cruisers fitted out here, and in some cases owned chiefly by members of your honorable body, (in particular by Mr. Bri on,'Mr. Van Eck, Ringhin and Mr. Steigh lin) in violation of treaty stipulations, your beg leave colle&ively to re present That the fchr. Be-tfy of Boston; late capt, Sturgis, has been brought in here by a pi.; rate (nowhere) not having a r«mmi!lion, and that the whole crew arerriifling ! 1 That Le Pardour, capt. Garrifcan, £,e Horifon, capt. Pilote, L'Altiance, captain Piere Margin, L'Eliza, capt. Du Pin, L' Hiondcllt, capt. Cadet, Le Bayonefe, capt, I. Baptifte, and Le Nottigeur, capti Lom bard, have all been fitted out here, the lafl having the quarter deck guns of the Dutch frigate Ceres, laying in this port, and that for all captures made, or that raay be made by any of them', the United States will nat urally expeft payment of the full value (not what they may be facrificed for here) and damages from the Batavian republic, and tnat afterwards this island, or perhaps your own honorable body may be called upon to make good the fame— That by the decree of condemnation of the brig Lady Washington and cargo, by a tribunal at St. Domingo, received this day, it appears that his excellency the gov ernor of this island, " confirmed' by a cer tificate in form" dated the 25th March lafl, the proceedings had here therein
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