©nlv call for ** -• b wilhes. The/ vuliivt frnn HW UU of *"•" cbi.guti.>ii. • i i but the -ffcrtidn take* more fur gr^*<**, u '-" there ioreal>4i 50 l>elv ve true. Louii the XVI. uo W.,t14 r»'t •" nar canted from tsafan, ol ftatt; faoi Louis' «A v i. was a humane kiud-hcarted «r.an. * >' c his early youth had entitled him to fhiscairi ter. It i» natural Ira man ot luch poUe. ro become interfiled in the cause ol tnofc who* lie protects or aios; and if the concurrent testi mony of .he period m,y be credited, there wa. no man in France r.u,reperfonal!y friend y M.the cause of this country than Louu the aV I lam . much miGnformed it reputed decuiauons o (hi vcr.erable franklin did nol attel* this Ut. It is a M tribute to the people of trance to admit, thiit they manifelkd a lively mtere. in Z «trfe of An,erica; but wh.U moUves are fenne.l who «»» Uj now much of it »to b afcribed f, the a,*. P athy wn ch they bore to their rival neighbors; how much to thc.c fym p.,thy in t. e object of our pu, fu.t ? It» «« that the lovu of liberty was not a lenti rnat in France, v.hen a s.-dfcr our .wife hill a-jDeared amonz ijwt people. f There i> reason to be ieve too, that the a - tachment to our cause, which ultimately became vcr V cxtr.nl.vc, if not K eucnl, did not \ with the iruifs of the- French people, .t uopn wi.il tiw Clicks n;ore immediately, conn with tIJ goveinm nt, and w M toci.ee a-ffufcJ through,itiit nation. . This obftrtatioii, besides its teuder.c) to cor red ideas, which V« calculated to give » »• - direction to-the public feeling, may feiwc t> check the spirit of .li.beral inv'e&ve, which has been wantonly U>J»lg J u S mift th-fc dilta rutfhsd friends of America, who, though th- M'.thors of the French revolution, have fallen "alms to it; because their prin*pics would not peril! t them to go the length of an entire fubvcifion of the monarchy. The preachers of latitude arc not .(honed . to brand Uuh the XVI. as a tyrant, and La FayM, as a traitor. But how can we wonder at this, when they miuuate a diftru.l even ot ~~in urging the friendly disposition to our cause, tnur.ifeftedby the people or France, as a motive ,0 our gratitude towards that pe pie. it ought not to be forgotten, that those difpufibons were not confined to the inhabitants of that country. TheY were eminently shared by the peop e o the United Provinces, produced to us valuable pecuniaty aids from their citizens, and event ually involved them in the war on the fame Cde with, us. It may be added too, that here the patronage of our cause emphatically begun with the community' not originating is in trance with the government, but finally implicating the gorenumpt in the consequences _ Our cause had also numerous friends in other countries; even in that with which we were at wa r —Conducted with prudence, moderation, jullice, and humanity, it may be fold to have been a counter cause among mafikm.; conciliat ing the countenances of Princes, and the aßec ticn of nations. . . r The difpoCtioni of the individual citizens of frar.ee can therefore in no fcnlc be urged as con diluting a peculiar claim to our gratitude As- far as thtre is foundation for it, it mutt be referred to the finite, rendered to us; and,' in the fir!t instance, to the unf.jitun te monarch that rendered the®. This is the condtifion of nature and reason. . , A further view of this fubjcA is refervci for another paper D 1 r„ e No. VI. verv-men who not long since, with a JL In.!) would have been glad to make an niitb> df j-s of any one who ftiotild have pre sumed t,» tiJfjgn bounds to our cJbiigatiuns to Louis tUe XVI. are now ready to consign to tlie flames those who \entu e even to thi: k, that he died a proper obje<st ot our » yinpatJ»y or regret. Tne greatelt pains are taken to e <eits against him our detelfcation* His lup pofed perjuries and crimes are founded ni the public ear, with all the exaggeration* of in temperate declaiming. Ail the unf-r< ved and ivntrM&itled a lie gat tons which have been brought against him are taken for granted, a* the oraclos of truth, on no better grounds, than the mere general presumptions-—that he could hot have been a friend to a :evolution which ftrijoed ai:u of*fo imtrij power—-that it is not like'y f, *e Convention would have pronounced him guilty, ajid convened him to so ig;ipmi riio~us aTat'e, if be hiul been rea'ly innocent. It ij very poifibie that time may disclose Vnd proofs, vvhi'ch will fu'oftantiate the guilt imputed to Louis ; but these and proof, have notyet been authenticated to the •.voild ; arid junic? ad.monifhes in to wujt tor their and authentication. Those who have molt clolely attended to the course of the trarfa&ion, find lea ft cause to f>e convinced of the criminality cf tlie de caed monarch. While his coup Tel, whose characters give weight to their ailertious, f/ith an aii of cm cious truth, boldly appeal to fass and proof*, in the knowledge and pof Jeflion of tlie Convention, for the refutation of the charges trough! again# him-—the mem bers of that body, in all the debates upon the fuhjeft which have reached t lis country, ei ther dire&ly from France, or circuitoufly • hrongi'England, appear to have contented fhemU-lves with «[fuming the exifter.ee of the Charged, and inferi ing f om them a cri • minaHry which, after the abolition of the roy alty, they were inrerefted toeftablifh. The' preemptions of guilt drawn from the yhich have been gated, are more than counterbalanced by an oppoftre preemp tion. i* roo obvious not ro have occur red to many, though I do not recoHeft yet to met with if in print;—lt is this : If thiConvcatio:} iutf poiTelTedclear evidence. r»f tV "Louts, they wotjM hala p'o - irefl rto '■ world 'ill »•> an J iira/. 1 .ri: 1.-!.-"-!'' _' 1 "" U ' "" of'in'.nkn-d, 0Q c : ,a f a f*'; tiie imereitof t-N-'tr can!?; inane W» *J| Wo*.', duty; n'ar| tan the J* lan.- :\.«o ily afe'iW 't« any otaei '".on, t.aft ttic wanto iftuh cvijio&cc. Tne.i'nfeie-'ce lY"in this is, tlrat the melan choly c»tmftropbe of LootsXVi- was tSe re lultot a political expeo.ency, utiiei than of real criminality in i cafe fit circuinltai.cad, f«s rt > , c:,n !t consist with qur jofi ce or mi' humanity, to partake in the »ne«7 and vindictive whtjcik..*Ke to be excise ' the unfortunate monarch ? V»' \ c »* f •** "'. i him to have been horn & Piince . no . circumitancc fo.feithii title to the cmnlMTe ration due to hi l ! misfortune'; as a man . Would platitude Jiftatc to a peopli t'' y ;1 <; are t .. e people Ostitis country, to luJ ttar aid to extend to the Con the misfortune* « the father ! Should we not be more ocrMßi ot vio'apmg no obligation of that WnA— >»• »*' imoliciting the delicacy of our national cha chara^er-—sy taking no part ... the contelt— »ha» by throviug our weight into, cjticr 11 would not a just eflimate of the orig.il and "protrrtfx of our relations to France, viewed witn reference to the mcie rj-j»ft.on O' R ra "- Midtf, Md n. tt> thU reu.it—that we 6u._it ,v.r to ' be part againit the lon ard furcefflir of a fat'Kt'. on whose sole ufi ilc|ie;.idefi tne ,llilU:.ce which »s received that we ought not *1 Hit /■<"! with H.m againit .he liaticjli, whole blood nid whole treasure had beer,.<» the hand, of the father, the means ol the allut arice 'f>» ded n ? . Bat we are 'ow-timei told, by way cd an fwc>, Hi'' rTie ca» r e of France i» the can r p-ot lihe tv : and thi»t we are. bound to aCi« the, •ii,tloi'» on the fctfre of their being ff.nß«B«»'« the defence of that came- How i»Y tliii-idea/ ought to crr> us, will be the lubjaftoi i*me ex snnn.it!on. It is only necelfi y here to cli.erve, that u prSfents a quest.on effential'v different Iron. that w;hich has heeiv in diftaDion. It we are bound-to aililt the French nation, on the prin ciple of their being embarked in the deft-nee of libe. Tv, this is a ground altogether foreign to that of .rratitode. Gratitude has referei.c/? only to ku.Jofin ttctived. The obligation to aflift the cair'is of liberty, has reieretice to tbe merits ot that' cause, aild to the interctt we have in its (import. It ooflible, that the henefai'tor mav be on one 'fide—'he dclenders and .ii'.'i'ior''ters of liiieity on the other __Gra titnde InaV point one way—the loveol another. It is therefore iniportan to jut! conclufnns', not to corfmnd the two thinjj;. A fentiiaent of Jnftice more tlian t'ne im portance of,the qneftioii itl'elf has led to so particular a difculfion, ref|«aing tlw proper object ot'' whatever acknowledgment Hiay be due from the United States for the aid wj»rri they received-!', o.n France during the rtuvn revjoHi Xl>e extent of the obligation wh'ch it.riiay iinpa'e is by far the mnft interefti'i" enquiry. A I'd tiwwgh 'f i 55 that enong l i f)as bi'cn already laid toe\ i ce, that :t doei in no d.-g-ce iC'ja'ie us to embark in t'ii-- wiv ; yet there i • ar..»th?r -,nd a very fctplf vipw of the fiibjecr, which is too cAa to he omitted. The afliitance lent us Tiv Fiance was as forded by a reat lnd powerful nation, efling numerous arr " t*He Force to be contended with.—The posi tion of Europe was favorable to tlie enter prise ; a general di'polition prevailing to fee the power of Great-Britain abridged.—The co-ope ation of Spain was very much a mat ter of course, and the probability of other powers becoming engaged on the fame fide riot remote.—Great Britain was alone and likeiy to continue so—France had a great arid"p£r fuafivc interest in the separation of this coun try from Britain. In this jitnation with much to hope and not much to fear, she took part in our quarrel. France is at this time Jiigh engaged with the greatest part of Europe,' iiuli«li»g all the firft rate powers, cscept one, and in danger of being engaged with all' the rrft. To ale the emphptic language of a member of the National Converitionr—(he has but'one enemy aoil that is • ail Euaoi'S. Her interual fcf fjiriare qiilhaul d.uhl in fcrious di!'oiiler.— Hir nwy Comparatively'iiiconfKlerable. The <Jnifed State; are a young nation ; theiV po pulation rapidly increaling, still small —their refou' ces, though growing,not great ; without armies, without fleets—capable f ojn the nature of the country and the (pjrit of inhabitant* of immense exertions for ielf: defence, but little capable of those external, efforts which could materiaily serve the cau r e of Frame. So far from haying any. direct int'ereft in going to war, they have the (I on£- eftjnotivesof iutereft to avoid it. Bv em barking witl» France- io the war, they would have incomparably.more to apprehend, than to hope. * 1 ' * <- ,M This contrast of filiations and induce, ments is alone a conclusive demonftra'iion, that the United States are not under an obli gation, from gratitude, to join France in the war. The u'tcr disparity between the cir curriftances of the service to be rendcrtd y and of t : ie fefvice received, proves, that the one cannot be an adequate basis of obligation fi>r the other —Thepe would be a want of equality, and confequentlv of reciprocity. But complete jullice would not be done to f'lK qapftion of'latitude, were no notice to lie taken ot" the addrcft, which has appeared in the- public papers (the authenticity of which not been impeached} from the Convention ->t Fra tc-.'jti the United States; announcing the appointment of the prelent Minister l*!e nipotenriuii'. Xn th.it addrei's the Convention i:"'' • \ 470 ««t;.efv.n "--t t'< ':**; Halifax s.) j.i.ie 25. Fieiltt. I'uJ? t|,e L '*' itL - j l.a:t i «- •"•■Jur gt StHi". lu itti'Vc t-c r ii:>k*pen<lei't», was i nc , „} OgiJ»i# c •» l' l ® „,.|y tw fu t uiJ Ull ' 1 J '' l "" i Alligator frigsie 110111 it. J-eier.-., r )r,\ t* 1 iuoit»cus view». >0 fc» j-Vance bo, ctk cr.i.un.l' a"" 5 Uaiilpo.ts, nuvi.»g on WiU the career oftheu proipe- Ut*e«n J ami 600 pnloi.crt, and ntv 1 lome lloie3. If this information is to be admitted in the The governor of St. Peters, wai full force of tie terms it is veiy fatal to tue brought iieicinlhf /Vilig;u<»r, and claim of grated* towards '" is a t liberty te walk about ihetown. , The p, ifoners look extren,^ 0.1 wm.le --v-.il the aid given u-. depended, acu-u health}, and appear to have been not only from motives irrelative to our ad- treated with the greatelt huniailil/ vintage, but from unworthy motives, 01 as a))C j l-indiicfs. ■ —" 'it is iLa ted, from a bale fpecu'.atioi:— :t alter . wards he dil'playcd a temper holtile IP the conh'rma:ion of,vur (jcurity and pi • ■f, je . r ") l t he acquired no title to our jgratirudc Hi |he firft i'dlanciL or he lone, ted it in the fetoml. Ar.d the nation <il"France, who can diilyclaim i it in rirtuenf the- conduct ot their mult together with him renounce ti epi ctcnfion. It is an obvious principle, t! at it a nation can clam merit fiom 11 e good deeds ct its love reifet, it aunt answer for tiie demerit ol his raiAvch. The rule to be .1 good Ore, limit apply b»th ways. But some deductions are to be made from the ugi'eltions contained in the addielsot the Cotiention, in reference to the motives -..-inch evident 1 )- dictated the comniuriic: tion. Tleir zeal to alienate the good .11 o» tins v"Jbi.tr) from the late monarch, a-d 10- c 1 ra f '-' t'.e odium tf ;e r'i c: ch nation a:' am It the moiiarchv, svnsch was so aident as to make ,!<i,i overlook the tendency ol their commn- Ini'-anor, to dila-i.i their vo ; aiies among us of the plea of gratitude, may justly beluipect cd of e fcagge ration. - The truth probably is, that the ir)tJp.'Cuh. Iron charged, amounts to nothing nioie tiian that the governiireitt of France, in atfbtding Jus alliance, was dnrtftvd by the Wives w..il*; have been attributed to it, nnmul), the t'. ore of promoting the interest ot t rant;, by ieifening the power ol Great-!}; ataiu, a d opening 1 lie.v channel ot c ir.merce to her ieii—that the o. Dei s said to bave been given to the Ambtiiiadors of Fra ice to tt-'p tiie ca. reel- of our p oljieriry aie relolvable into \ ipsc-iiiative jealousy pt't.he mimftJis el the div, left the United Slates, by becoming as p i-.verful a 1 <i great as they aie capable ol be comma innlei a.i elUcient guvei iiii.cnt. might prove formidable - to the European jiof.VCions in America. With these ijua!.fic.it.o..; and allowances, the i-.ddrels otiei s no new d- co very to the intelligent and u.ibiallt'd f. lends of their country. They knew long ago t at the interest of Fi ar.ee had been the governing 1110 iv_- of the aid orforded 11s; and they law cle irlv enough, in the convei Cation and c >11- dust of her ag:nts, while the present corftitiv tion of the I'itiU-d States was under tonlidera tion, r'l it the government of winch rhjj.v .v. rt the inft 1 urn: nts, would have preferred our re maining under t'-e o'd I'niii, ior tie rcalor which his been dated. They perceived a,Co that thelV views had their effect- upon Come ol the devoted partisans of Fiance among our charaAers are embodying then.felvio with a'. the a-d they can obtain, u-uler the lifc'j influ ence, to reftft the operation of that go t ci nmeu of which tlKy withltood the eftab! fli.mei t. this was and i; leeu, and the boi'y 0 the people of America are too oYcerni:% ti . .tai k about it. Too wife ti nave been m:I!-d by foreign or domestic :11a I'filiations, thc-v adopted a confritution whicl was neceiiary to tui lately xl d to their hap pi'iefs. Too wife (till to lw ensnared by tin fame machinations, they will support the go vcmmeiit rhey have eft iblilhed, ano> will t care of their own peace, ill f'pite > i'the inii .lion; elfurts which are making to detach ther. from toe one, and to diilurb the other. Toe information which the add 1 el's of the Convention contains, ought to Cerve as an in ftruftive lcHbn to the of this country It o.isht to te.>eh us not tn over-rate florin ftitnJJhips—to be upon our guard again!! /o reijn attachments. The former will geneia.l be found hollow «lnd delnfiye ; the iatter wil have a natural tendency to lc..d a. ahde'fron «ur own tiui inteieft, and to make us tin dupes ot foreign influence. They introduci a principle of a-tion, which in its eiTects, i the expreHion may lie allowed, is anii-iiaiun nl Foreign influence-is trulythe GttiLCr „n H; r.s. to a republic. \V"e cannot be too carjri-1 t< exclude its entrance. Nor on !ft w-e to ima gii.e, t.iat't can only make its appioaciies ii the gross finn ofduafft bribery, 'it is the, mofl dangerous, when it comes tiiider tl-,e pa trc*iage < t .cu.- pafiiotis, under the national prejudice and partialitv, I trull the morals ot this country are ye too good to leave much to appie'-ci'd on tin score of bribery. Care ill's, corticfcentm.is nattery, in unison with Oiir prepofiVflions ire infinitely more to be feared ; a-d as fa li there i. opp.irtur.it) t.ir coi rnption, it is t< H reine iibered, that one fireign power cai moloy this rel'ource as well as another, an ha| thee.Tea mud be niucli greater, when : s combined svith the other meani of infli .-nee, ttin.ii where it ft and; alone. - «t match i»>r At ifoeihying of the corncr ltone of ihc Hotel to be built by lottery in the Federal Citv, no wards of 1500 people w:<e prelcnt, and walked Irom thence in proefflion, preceded »'lodge of I'ree-malon*, io a d.rinei, the uriucipsl diik of which consisted of an ox mimed whole. A numhei of toafh were <1 rai.k on the ocrafior., am. rite day concluded with much hu mony. B. The principal fiont of the Hotel will txitnd one hundred nnd twcri'y fecr, and the jffcmbly room will be 43 bv so. ' T!i«j whol *«or™,beb-tildin4 in Amt fica, perhaps iii a»v oihej country. ' j PACIFICUS. Wajhington, July 4, t 79a , AUGUSTA, (\.»cor.) Jrtne 20.. We are authorised to .mention, that ollicjsl coimjiiiiiicaiiont have been received from the President of the United States, by our govern ment, forbidding Georgia (o cn:er into any cffenfive war with ihe Creeks. Tlit-fe orders authorize the railing of one company of caval ry and one of infantry, each 10 con fid of one hundred men, to be cum. iniHioned by the Governor of this Itaie. a.id under Continental pay wliilft in actual lervice. Jt is faitl that a fcbooner has been lately fitted out at Savannah, under a Ki ench commission, to cruize a gainlt the Btitilb. This p.ivateer is commanded by a Fi enclitnan, manned chiefly by Americans, and owned by a Mr. Putnam. Jv/y 27. General Pickens will set out in she com fe of ihis week i 1 dm Hopewell, in South-Col olina, for Philadelphia.. , WINCHESTER, (Vir.) July 8, By a gentleman from the Creek nation, v/e are informed, that the canCe of the aggi effious of that na tion, on the < itmberland feitlers, is by certain traders tellit>«* the Indi ans, that cotflYtrv was thrown away by Congi ess, and thety could do the m mifchief with iniptinity. V\ hat mo tive could these traders have for in fufing such (entimem* into savages ? rone, we can conceive, but .hat of buying hoifis very cheap, which the Indians Tteal from ths»,t place. Q.ll the morning of the i-ath iiifl. about the of day, Ca|>t. j«*n Pfiiwiv wh" company of inonnted infantry, con fiding of (ifiy fix ; made an anark 011 the Hanging Maw's family, and other Indians, who were invited there by oider of government. Major King and Daniel Cai in sclia el, were at tl>e Hanging Maw's at the time, and report that BeaircJ's pai ty had killed Scantee, Fool Char ley, one of'the chiefs of-' Hightower, Betty, the daughter of Kittakiflia, and federal others ; among thein a white man, named Wiliiain Rofe bprry. The Hanging Maw and his wife both wounded, and Betty, the daughter of Nancy Ward. Major King and Daniel Carniichaei Isrjr that it wis with grtfat rifqiie 6( then* lives, they escape.d through the fiie of these enraged whitemcn, and al l'<J at their particular enireaty, they spared the red of ihe Hanging Maw's family, and did not bum his house. We hear that Capt. Beaird was pofi:ively lellritfted by Gov Blount's orders, fVonv cr fliivg ;he Tennessee, 'and to confine his piirluit- o that parry of Indians, who had lately killed the two Gilltims, or a librfe fteajiiig party, iu the fame, neigh* boi hood. BALTIMORE, J.ity'to. .The Coiiiinirtee appointed to mine the fiiuation of the French fleet arrived iti this harbor, a.n'jj to afcerraiii the number of piifiea gera, ainl ihe relief riecettarjf dO be given them, Repqrt, THA J- they visited \ j of the fltips, and found on board g;i paflengers, exclusive of people of cojour and n.e gioes, ot which number about ioo me women and children—.that th« pafleivgers in other ships arrived and expetfed are probably equal to the above number, of which they have' advised aii accurate report to be made to tTie Confol of the French Republic—That the diftreiies of these unhappy people has not been exngeraied, or perhaps equalled,by the information already given to the public—That an exertion of great humanity is iitdifpenf.illy ne* celling in the town of Baltimore, to
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