Delaware & Schuylkill Canal.
THR Stockholders are hereby notified, that the
Eleilion for Prefidcnt and Managers, for the
e lining vear, will be held at the Company's Office,
on the firft lscond-day in January nsxt, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon.
Susquehanna Schuylkill Canal.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified, that the
Eleition for President and Managers, for the ensu
ing year, will be held at the Company's Office, on
the firft second-day in January next »t ten o'alock
GEO. WORUALL, fec'y
to Delaware & Schuylkill Cafyzl Company.
dee 19 ** te
Bank of Pennsylvania,
DZCfMBER 17tb, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Steckholders of
the Bank of Pennsylvania, that an
of Nineteen DIRECTORS, to serve for one year,
will be held at the Bank, on Monday the fourth of
February next, at 10 o'clock.
JONATHAN SMITH, Calhier.
Extract from the fevemh Sedion of the A3 of
> Incorporation.
" Article id. Not more than fourteen of the
Directors ele&ed by the Stockholders, and aflually
in oSe-, exclufiv" of tbc Prcfidwt, stall be eligible
for the next ftic - eedini» year ;*ut the Dlrsdlor
who shall be Pre'idem at the tftne of an eledion,
uny always be re-eleSed. *
df 4 F
"Philadelphia Population Company.
THE ffiare-holders are hereby
noti'icd, that an elc.slion frr President, Managers
fnd o her officers for the ensuing year, wiH be
held at the Company's othce, 110. 53, north Fourth
11 reef, on Widmfday the 9th of January nex-. at
t2 o'clock.
Sol. Maracbe, Scc'rv.
dfc. 27. -dtm
of North America,
"January I, 17*99-
AT a meeting of the Directors this day, a divi
dend of lix i-er cent was iltdr ro 1 for the
la 11 half year, which will be paid to the Stockhold
ers or tb#ir reprafentaiives, at a«y time after the
lOth inflant- ,
By order of the Hoard,
RICHARD WELLS, Cafliier, *
dtiojy.
NOTICE.
j
TIIK rOPAITKTRIHIPOF
HUDSON iff YORKE,
this flay ililTolved by mutual consent. All per- J
(pus indebted to fai-1 firm are requested to make j
immediate payment —aud those wh<» have aßy de
mands are requested to prcfeat them for settlement
to WILLIAM HUDSON, v ho is dufy authorifad
1 to adjust the fame.
REMOVAL.
WILL AM HUDSON,
Has removed from No. 54, north Front
*0 No 8, Cheliiut, near the corner of Front, (to
■he (We formerly occupied by Mr. John Mil
leu,junr.)
Where he has for fate on his usual lotu terms,
an extensive assortment of
DRY GO O DS.
dccember 18 djw
7be Subscribers,
Have received by tbcClotliicrfrom Liverpool
. A CONSIGN MKN» OFTknCaSES Of
Well Assorted Buttons,
About 501. sterling eaeh C>fe, which they will
(lifpefe of per package, on lib- ral terms.
• Medford C5 J Willis.
No. 78, North Front near Arch-street-
WANTED,
ABOUr fil y Caiks ot
Flag Annatto or Rocoa,
Apply as above,
dec 11
FLOUR, FOR SALL,
DELIVERABLE at N ev r-Caflle or Port
Penn, by
LEVI HOLLINGSWOBTH & SON
dfc 19 ' d4«-
N O fl C E.
THE Public are cautioned not to trust any of
the people belonging to thefiwedifh Snow Maria,
on my account.
Ham Olof Rock, tunstf/-.
dec 2) §
14 Pipes Madeira Wine,
FOR SALE BX
Crooke Stevenson,
No 4, South Water-ftrcet.
dec 11 5
On THURSD.iT, the 3d Jaunary,
at 6 o'clock in the evening,
At Bekson Sc Yorke's Auftioi. Room, '
No. 19, South Front-street, '
WILL BE SOLD, <
* A small, butwell-chofen and ft-left library of 1
Medical Books, &c.
together with sundry Surgical InCruments,
1 he property of the late Doctor Francis B. Sayre.
BENSON & YORKE.
7. dfs (
Black India Lustrings. }
A quantity jult received and of the firft; |
fi'. <1 quality,
TO DT-. SO'.D I.OW FOR CASH I
At No. q5, north Third, flreet by !
. SAMUEL C. COX. |
dtc. 28 diw |
TO BE RENTED, 1
The dwelling house No. 153,
&*mh Water street, together with a flack of iiores
.i»id wharf adjoining, enquire ©f*
JOSEPH SIMS.
Dec. 29 daw
NOTICE.
ereditiVs of George Johnfton, late of
I Queen Ann's county, in the itate of Mary
land, depealed, are hereby requested toappeir
Vat Church Hill, in the county and ftaje afore
laid, 011 Thurl'ilay the 21ft day of January next,
w:th their claims against the said deceased,
p "perlv aathemkated, at which time a propor
atiable division of the aflets in the hands of the
t i* ü b!Vriher u ill bj: made among the creditors ac.
riling t'> law ; and those who do not appear
on the f.iid day, will he forever precluded from
■ i'.irclaims on the said. estate.
KEBECCA JOHNSTON, Executrix.
CVurCh Hill, Dec, 11.
Ephraim Clark,
CLOCK y WATCH MAKER,
Corner of Front jid Market flrccta, Philadelphia
HAS JUST RECEIVED,
BY the different arrivals, a large supply of Clf*k
and Watch makers and Silver Smiths Tools,
files ani materials,
CONSISTING OF
Rowling Mills, large and ftnail Bench and Hand
Vices, Turnbrncbes, Plyers, Sliding Tongs, Bra
ces and Bitrs, Grooving tools, S»ws, Scratch brash
es, Blow pipes, Screw and Draw plates,large and
small Hammers, Cluck dials, cad brass Bells, for
ged w»rk and pinions, Emery, Rotten Hone, Pu
mice (tone, Borax, Spelter Sorder, Brass, Steel and
Iron wire, fhcet Brali, main springs and glalles
gold, gilt, and steel chains, seals and keys, &c. &c
(£3* Clocks and Watches carefully repaired
bov. 2i eodtf -
Hats iff Hoiiery.
WILLIAM M'D Oil GALL,
AT HIS STORE,
No. 134, Market Street,
HAS JUSI OPENED, in addition to hit for
mer stock, a very extensive a (Tort men t of
Men's, Women's, and Children's Hats, and all
kinda of Stocking*—particularly a quantity of A
berd e'en knit Hose, fcitaMe for the pnfcflt fcafon
nov, 23 eo f m
In addition to the aSove, he has jut received a
general aflortment of Fleecy iWi ry, fu.h as
ftofkings, *ight-cap% travelling ditto, breeche*
pieces, under waiftcoar* scc.
THOMAS , VkGA i R()YD %
Has entered into pnmirrftip with his two Sons,
VND RR THF fIRM Of
Thomas Murgatroyd & Sons,
WHO HAVE FOR SALE
At No. 35, Dock-Street,
I ft and 4th proof Brandy in Pipes and
Butts
Irish Market
»edoc in Cases.
Latour, and f
Lum 1 e j
Two Trunks Umbrellas.
dec JT drw
Old Madeira Wine.
27 pipes of old London particular
MADEIRA WINE,
11 strong iron bound Hambro' cafl<s, for
ale by ROBERT ANDREWS.
Nov. 30. fodtf
All persons '
Indebted to th# F.flate ot Mr. John FiNNo,lat';
of Philadelphia, deceafed,*re desired to make pay
' ment. and those having any demamls, to present
I them for fettl«re<>nf, to
SAMUEL BLODGET, Adm'r.
or
JOHN WARD FENNO, Agent
to the administration.
j nov. 3o i.im
| NOTICE.
! \ LL persons indebted to the Estate of Sam
; £\. ut l Wallis, esq. »>f Murcey townlh.p,
] in the county of Lycoming, lately deceafed,ar«
hereby required to come forward immediately
and pay their refpeiHve debts.—And all persons
havipg legal demands against the Estate, are
requeftlgj to produce their accounts, properly
authenticated, for settlement.
JOHN WALLIS, -)
WILLIAM ELLIS, rAdminiftra-
DANIEL SMITH, C tors.
JOHN ADLUM, )
''rremher I}
NOTICE.
ALL perlons indebted to. Jame's Gmlen, late
of Midd'c own, in the county of Delaware,
deccafrd, are requested to make payment to either
of the fuhferibers, whom they stall find it most
convenient to call on : and all persons having de
mands, will he pleased in like manner, to furnifh
them, that thfy may be paid.
All rents, which fell due on or hefora the fourth
day of the 10th month last are payable to the fub
kribers and those which accrued after that day wil
be payable to the gaardiam of his'children, who
will duly notify the tennants whereto pay the
fame.
MIERSFISHRN, of Philadelphia, \ 'Exec-
ABM. PEN NELL, of Middletown, ) nttrs. '
_d*c 18 iaw6w
Notice is hereby Given,
TH \T application will be made at the Trea
sury of the United States for the renewal
of the following certificates of Six per Cents,
funded debt—standing in the name of Robert
Wilfan of Calcutta in Bengal, Surgeon in the
service of tht honorable United Compapy of
merchants of England trading to the East-In
dies, which were loft from on board the Swal
low-Packet, capt Kidd, fram Falmouth to New
York- Dolls. Cts.
No 10,444, Reg. office 14th Dec.
17?.;, one certificate for 33
No 10,478, Keg office 17th Dec.
1703> one certificate for 1959 50
Ellijlon & John Perot.
nov 13 eod<W
N O T I G E.
Joseph Thomas's Creditors
are hereby earnestly requested to furnilh their
Accounts duly attested, as foen as convenient :
therebv to enable the Assignees to form an idea
of the state of his affairs ; —and all those indebt
ed to'faid Thomas, are required to make im
mediate payment to either of the Subscribers.
SAMUEL W. FISHER,") Assignees
WILLIAM BUCKLEY, £ of
JOHN HALL. ) J. Thomas
dec. 3»- dtf
Patent Ploughs,
TO be fold for cash by Joseph Salter at AtCon
Richard Wells, Cooper's Ferry—Jonathan
Harker, Woodbury—and JefTe Evans, Lumber
ton, Those who have used them give them the
preference to any other kind, as they require
less team, break the ground better, are kept in
erder at less expence and are fold at a cheaper
rate—the plan is much fimplified and confiftsof
but one piece of cast iron, with the handles and
beam of wood ; tbev may befixed with wrought
lays and coulters to be put on with fcrctvs and
taken off at pleasure
Patent tights for vending with inftrHtfions for
making them may be had by applying to John
Newbcld, or the fubfcriUer No. 111 N«th
Front-itreet.
Who has for Sale;
Or to Lease for a term of tears,
A number of valuable trafls of Land, well
situated for Mills, Iron .Vorksor Farms, most
ly improved, lying chiefly in the county of Hun
tington flat* of Pennsylvania. Those who may
incline to view them will please to apply to
John Canan efq.near Huntingdon.
Claries Neniibold.
i"'y zawtf
WANTED,
IN a small family, an elderly Woman, whose
principal occupation will be the care of chil
dren—apply at no. 113, Spruceftreet.
N - B.—Good recommendations will be an in
difpenfihle rcqtiifittt.
dtc - *9 eod 3 t
Xfte
PHILADELPHIA ,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2.
CONGRESS,
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
Debate. on Mr. Criswold's motion,
(continued.)
Thursday, December 27.
If, said Mr. N. Smith we «fie ft for a Angle
moment upon the character and purluits of
the French nation, we lhali fee that there onlv
fy-ftem is to divide and conquer ; to support
their party in the country which they mean
finally to subjugate, until the favorite op
portunity lhall present i tie If, to aid that ;ur
ty with adtual force. Time has been, when
it was more convenient for the French re
public (for she. chuffs to call he He If by that
name) to carry on a correspondence with h -r
party in this country, than at present. All
legal c,orrefpondenc« between the two coun
tries has long lince been cut off. There is
now no minister here to favor the projects of
France ; there is, therefore, no way of car
rying 'on a communication with the party in
this country, but by means of tmauthorifed
agents. Are we not, then, to sxpedt these?
Certainly.—France has voluntarily cut off all
legal communication between the two go
vernments, and becaul'e ministers were sent
there from this country, who would not
place themselves at the head of a fadtion a
gainst their government, they rejected them.
Knowing their cbaradter, what then could
be expected from them ? Doubtless that thev
would, immediately open a negociation with
their party in this country. How was this
to be done? not by doing a thing which
would have been reprobated by every one.
They knew their bldinefs too well to do'this.
They de termined to put the proceeding on
so plausible a footing as at lead to take in
some obfeure individual, uninformed on po
litical subjects, by making the firft pretext
a ppocurance of peace fftr the country ; and
after the correlpondence was once formed, it
might go oil from one degree to another ;
for if tuch a correspondence can effect one
thing, it can effect another ; and he expedt
ed this intelxourfe to be continued until the
time fhajt arrive for the French to make their
puroofed expedition into this country.
If we consider tbe situation of the two
Motions, said Mr. S. may we not suppose
there is danger to be apprehended from an
improper interference of individuals? But,
if we call to mind a recent instance, lhall
we be any longer is doui>t that an interfe
rence of thi" kind Has take n place ? we can
not ; tmd therefore we may expedt that it
will be done in future under one plausible
pretext or other. It was in this point of
view only, that he alluded to the tranfadt
ion whiah had recently happened, as the
foundation of a law to prevent future a
buses.
■ But it had been said by the gentleman
from Virginia, that if the interference of
individuul was for a good purpose, it ra
ther called for our thanks than for our re
sentment, and thegenleman from Pennsyl
vania had said, that it depended upon the
nature 6f the tranfa&ion, whether such a
procedure was criminal, or not. Mr. S. said,
he would on the contrary, lay it down as a
maxim, that no foreign nation will ever en.
ter into a correspondence with an individual,
for the benefit of the Nation from which he
comes ; because, if they meant to do bene
fit to that Nation, they could do it through
the legal organ. But if, instead of doing
a benefit to the couutry, the French wish
to aid a faction who are desirous of dividing
the people from their government, they will
certainly wilh to treat with an individual.
The supposition, therefore, that an individ
ual may negociate with a foreign govern
ment, Tor the benefit of his country, is
wholly unfounded; and the very idea r f such
a correspondence it a proof of rhs vile 11 of
all purpofea ; that of aiding a Is&ion to o
verturn the government to which such an
individual belongs.
But it was sard, the interference of an
individual could not be improper, because
he could Mt u'urp the Executive Authori
ty. If me gentleman from Pennsylvania
will give himfelf the trouble of reading the
constitution, he will find that the carrying
on of all foreign inurcourfe i< placed in
the hands of the Executive, as fully as t! e
legislature is poffefled of all legislative pow
er, or the Judicary, of judicial. When an
individual, therefore, sttempts to negotiate
with a Foreign Government on national
concerns, he is certainly doing the bulinefs
of the Executive. And is not t'.iat a strange
state of things said Mr. S. when an individ
ual, t>r a set of individuals, (hall fay to a
government. you are about to make war,
but we will prevent it." Ought not such a
conduct to be. punifhtd, aed provided a
gainst by law ? It certainly ought, and there
fore he wiftied the present resolution to pass.
Mr. Harper observed, that not having
been present when this rei'olution was called
up, he did not hear a declaration said to have
been made by the mover of it, viz. " that
irr bringing it forward he had 110 reference
to a particular and recent cafe." If this de
claration was made, he could have no doubt
of its truth ; but, for his own part, he
deemed proper to declare that in giving his
vote in favor of the resolution, he did refer
to that particular cafe. It was from partic
ular cases, he said, that general legislative
meafares almost always originated ; and this
was neceflarily the case—because, in general
it was inipoflibie to forefee the neceflity of,
preventing an evil, or pitnifiling an offence,
until lomc instance of the evil, or offence,
had occurred. Ihe writers on law
had informed us, tha't from the oppreJlion of
an ebfeure individual in that country, arose
the celebrated Habeas Corpus aft ; and sim
ilar instance* were numerous in the legifla
j tionofaur 'own ,i u d every oil;;,- cOuntif,-
Human forelight, said Mr. H. does not
iuffice to discern, beforehand,-all the multi
plied forms which crime auc',
heni* the neceflity of waiting till it a-x-ar,
before it can be /struck dowu. It h thus,
and thus only, that general hws'have refer
ence to the particular r.ales which have de
monstrated the neceflity of enacting them.
Thole particular cases cannot, every body
knows, be included in the pu'iiil'irfents* pro
vided by the subsequent laws ; so- that would
be to give them a retrofpeclive operation,
and to punish adts which, "however ii.vroper
in their nature ot- dangerous in th-ir ten-,
dencv, were not, when committed, contra
ry to any la '.v. The law, therefore, having
reference to them as to the neceflity and ex
tent of its penalties, provides, against their
future perpetration.
Tt was in this view, Mr. H. said, that he
had reference, i:i the present instance, to a
recent t ife. The cafe, he believed, had
j happened. He knew of it a; soon ?.s it did
happen an 1 then declared his opinion about
it :—and what he then laid reloedlin ; the
nature and objedtg of the tnniadion, had
been since confirmed hy the public prints of
the country to which the agent in question
was sent ; by the official gazettes of the go
vernment to which he was addrelTecL He
had confldered this individual, from the mo
ment of Ji's embarkation, as anegent employ
ed nr.cl sent by a party in this country. This
opinion he had formed from tlie transaction
itfelf, from the known connexions of that
individual, and from the eircumftances under
which he went.
As to the tranfadtion itfelf, rould.it he
Conceive 3 that any person could be so fillv.
so vain, so totally void of common sense, as
to undertake, on his own account, of his
own mere motion, a mfflion of this kind ?
Could it be imagined that an obfeure indi
vidual, not known in the country ; whefe
name was never heard at the distance of twen
ty miles from Philadelphia, till this affair
brought it into some notice-; having no
pretentions to speak the sentiments, or an
swer for the conduct, of any man or defcrin
tionof men ; could it be conceived, he a&-
ed v that .an individual of this description,
and thus circumftanted, should have fuppu
fed himlelf able, standing merely on his own
ground, speaking from hi mil-Is alone, to
effect a change in the political system of a
great government, and arre ft the comfe of
plans which had been fteadilv pursued for five
years together, and which 110 remonstrance
of our minifteis, no exertion of our force,
nor of the combined force df Europe, had
been able hitherto to flop ? He could not,
he laid, conceive it to be possible.
This person indeed, as he had been told,
declared that he undertook the million of his
own accord ; that no body knew of his de
iign, nor even of his departure, till a day or
two before it happened; that even this
knowledge of his departure was communica
ted to but three perl'ons, one of whom holds
a high office in the government of the Unit
ed States, another fills a diftiiiguilheO port
under die state of Pennsylvania, and the
third was formerly consul general from the
French republic ; and that from these three
perl'ons, or any others, he received no ad
vile or instructions relative to to his enter
prize, the objects of which he did not make
known to them, nor any introductions, re
commendations or credentials of any kind,
except merely a certificate that he was an
American citizen, and had been a member
of tle Pennsylvania legillkture. But I
would atik, Mr. H. said, whether this story
is credible ? For my own part, I coiifel's
that I <jo not believe one word of it. What!
would these two ckcumltances to be an A
merican citizen and a member of a state le
gislature, intitle a man to the notice, the
confidence, of the French government, and
give him the weight necellary for transit
ing with it the affairs for which he profefles
to have gonei Did these two eircumftances
obtain for him a favorable reception from the
French directory ; an audience, which was
refilled to the public ministers of this coun
try ; a dinner with Merlin, suppers with
Treilhard, frequent conferences with Le
peaux and with Talleyrand ? Was all this
attention beltowed on him by the .govern
ment which u making war on this country,
which tramples on its rights, has spurned
its remo • drawees, and profefled a delign to
bend it to I'ubiniflion by means of a domes
tic fadtion, and bellowed merely because he
was certified to be an American citizen and
a member of the legillature of Pennsylva
nia ? Can this individual himlelf have had
the incredible to imagine that with
such credentials he Ihould obtain an audi
ence, and bg able to change the policy of the
French government, frorfta fyltem of rapine
and domination, from a thirll for the i'ub
verfion of all regular governments, to a
spirit of mildness, justice and good faith :
No Sir ; to me it is incredible, nor can 1
ever be led to believe it till I am forced to
adopt a lower opinion of human intellect,
than even the conduct "of this person Iras
yet been able to impire.
He knew, Mr. H. continued, that some
inllances had been spoken of, in which reli
gius fanatics had gone great length in affairs
of this kind. One or two perfo sos this
description, he has heard, did once go to
the Empfror of Germany and the French
convention, to exhort them to make peace.
Another, as he underlined, had, in the time
of the late war, gone into New York, while
in the poireflion of the Britifli forces, to ex
hort the British Lommandcr to abllain from
the further effufion of human blood. But
these adts, if they really took place, were
founded wholly on a religious tenet peculiar
to a particular fedt, an wholly unconnected
with politics or government. In the tran
fadtion under confidtration nothing of that
kind could be pretended. Iri was wholly
of a po itical nature, and arose wholly from
political confideracions. It wa* in faft, a
plain and diredt interference with the powers
of government.
He, therefore, not only prefumeti that this
cafe had occurred, but that it had o'ccirred
by contrivance arid defiyti ; that an envo\
had not c.ily gone, but gor.e in the name,
and with the credentials of other persons, of
•perlons possessing weight, nau.e and influ
ence in the Country, persons whom the Di
■l':*t conlider as ant honied to ipeak)
and adtually speak ng - , the lentiments of a
powerful party Here ; that party which it be
lieves to exist, on whole aid 'it relies, and
whom it would conlider as the real author of
the million. And his mind was the more
abrmed at this event, as he considered it in
connection with the general system of France
. P ollt,cal f the world at this time,
and the avowed plans of that country re-
Ipea.ng this. Ihe French government eve
ry body knew, had long lince proclaimed, -
and had constantly followed up its procl a .
mations by actions, that whenever it Ihould
find, m any country, a party disposed to sub
vert th- eltablifhed government, it would
iupport that party—The policy of this f y f
tem was obvious ; for that party, coining
into power by the aid of France, and de
landing on her for the lupport of their au
.hority, will generally be subservient to her
views, and willing to place the affairs of the
country under her controul. With refpeft
to this country, the French government bad
told u. plainly, and in so many
that such a party did exist among us ; that
th ' S P art - V ' that we indeed
might be good natured and credulous er.oaeii
to believe the persons composing this Far t v
when they deued having any with
trance, or ailing under her influence, but
t.hat,they had better proofs thai, the words
( theic persons, they had their actions • and
that although this party could not dired\ the
government" it could so emb&rrafs and tetter
it, as to dilable it <p>m moving hand or
loot again ft France. Under theie rircum-
Itances, while France entertains and aa S up
on tins belief, an envoy goes thither from
this country, ami goes, as 'Mr. H. said it
£med ev went to him from the rcalon which
he had ihted, with credentials from, and in
I ® ™ me ot persons here whoexer-
C.re the right ps Ipeaking the fcntiments of
, thii partv, ..nd its behalf. What
.ne mnlt be the objefts o {fuch a million ?
" at r DU , ' an guage which the envoy,
tuppofiug him or those who lent him, to
poflefciomc I,nail portion of common fenfr,
must have employed to the French govern'
mei.t, in order to attain those ft hie ill >
Ikuow, faidMr.H that thegentieman
from Virg.nm, (Mr. Nicholas) has told us,
that the object of this person i n going to '
France, was to obtain peace for his country.
And this objeit, the gentleman from Vir/i
ma lays, is to laudable, that the perfon & i«
queihor, infteadof cpnfure for this interfer
ence with the affairs of the government, de
lerves, and no doubt will r. ceive the apulaufe
of every sincere friend to his country, every
si nee re lover of peace. The gentleman af
firms that every person has a right to take
such a step, has a right to go. of his own
authority, and attempt to make peace with
a toreign nation, if he conceives himfclf to
possess the means of accomplilhing the obieft.
It may, he admits, be a proof of great foil*
and preemption in an individual to believe*
hinifclf pofielfed ps those maans ; but if he
really entertain the belief he ought to exert
them: and the gentleman from Virginia has
declared, that could he be lip ve himfelf able to
succeed in such an v enterprize, hewou'd un
dertake it and glory in it. My colleague
(Mr. Pmckney) has ihewn most undeniably,
that this principle, once admitted, must go
to the utter fubverlion of government; the
principle being, that whenever an individual,
or, by ft ranger reason, a number of indivi
duals, conceive themselves wiser than the go
vernment, more able to discern, or mere
willing to pursue the true interests of the
country; they, may aflume its funftioni,
counteradl its view, and interfere in its molt
important operations. Why may they in
terfere to make peace ? because they judge
peace defir.ible. But they may also judge
war definible ; and upon precilely the fame J
principle, they may in that cafe interfere to
make war. When tinder pretence of making
peace, they have assumed a public chara&er,
and by themselves or theirenvoys, addressed
themselves, directly and openly, to a foreign
government, they may treat with that go
vernment about any other matter, and al'lo
ther matters. Under this pretence, if this
principle be on**eftablifhed, any discontent
ed faction, under the name of a club, a pa
triotic society,' a revolutionary feciety a
whig club, or any other name, may usurp the
most elTential fun<ftions of government in
their own country, negociate on all forts of
fubjefts with ,the governments of other coun
tries, and open a direst and broad road for
the entrance of that foreign influence, which,
•with equal truth and force, has befen charac
terised as the « angel ofdeftruition to repub
lican governments."
Leaving this principle, therefore, contin
ued Mr. H. where my colleague has placed
it, exposed to view in all its nnkednefs and
deformity as visible as the pillar to which
I point, I will proceed to remark on the
connexion between this million, and the
system and views of France towards this
country ; and I will repeat the qiicftiou,
what, under such circumltances, mult have
been the objedt of this million, and what
considerations must the Envoy, fuppofmg
him or his employers to possess common
sense, have urged to the Directory in order
to attain that objedt ?
Could this million, he would ask, have
arisen from a con»iftion in its authors that
the conduift of France towards this couDtry
was unjust and injurious, and ought,on that
account, to be altered ? No, for in that cafe
the zeal which gave rife to the million,
wr.uld have been sooner awakened, and the
miflion itfelf would have taken place as ton
as that conduct Lad been reduced to a regu
lar system, and adhered to for a time. Was
it the objedt of the miflion to rescue the vio
lated rights of this country from further
outrage? No, for it was notorious that the
aits whtretyy this violation had been effedted,
so for from rouling the indignation of these
persons, or giving rile to an embassy from
them, had been excised, and even juftified.
What then was the obje<£t? The answer,
Mr. H. hid, was to be fsund in the time