;• i's ail aiyTum again ft all legal process, it would not follow, that a captain and Le.iieiiant, who hud quittedthat asylum i i fa£t, were to carry with them virtual ly a protection, whenfaever and whete foci-er they lhould be on (hore, as long as they held their commissions. If this were fe>, our citizens may be torn from Ui.-ir country, and ck poll ted on board of some foreign sloop of war, where they mint confjauc in bondage, until the captain lhall admit the feci, or a-tedious ii.gociatiqn with a foreign cottrt, be cuui'.iiuißatcd. Is it not in annuls of any nation, that its ci tizens (hou'id lie deprived of liberty witV io i.sou'ii limits, (hould supplicate prA te<Si>«i, and be anfwoed, that itH their hope mntt depend ttpon the will of the commander; that iie cannot be queftion cd in a judicial form because a ooniicdti ou between biin and his velW confers epon him the privilege of roaming on Iceland at large,paramount tocontroul? jSiiil, Ik, let me not be misunderstood. There is certtin iitnefs ill the mode of acting tcAvards foreign nations ; and if it has not been maintained throughout the cotnfe of this traiiladtion, it is nei ther my duty nor inclination to coun tenance a departure from it. We will proceed therefore to gjulyfe and com pare, what,yrss actually/one, with what, irr your opinion, ought to have been done; and $, in jiny particular, a dif ference in fubthtnee, in form, (hall appear, it TlfilV be condemned, if it be not capable o? vindication. l. You contend Sir, that " if on the «* arrival of a ship of war in an Euro " pean port, inform '.tion be given that " that ship of war has on board fnbjedts it of the_fovereign -ef that port, appli " cjtion is made to the officer command* " irtg her." A course not eflentially unlike this is collected from the report. " The General **neral Assembly immediately proceed " ed to measures for investigating the «' fails : sent a mefTage to captain Bayn " ton, then 011 Ihore, requeuing his at •• tendance before them i"—" The cap «' tain immediately attended with his " lieutenant. The Afleinbly also re " quelled all the judges of the superior " court, being then present, together " with the judge of the diitrift court, •' to confer with said officer* on the sub «« ject, to inform them of the informati « cm they had received, of the uneaii ** riefs it occasioned, and of their e\Dec •« cation, that iif there were any Arr.eri " can citizens on board their ship, they " miwht be immediate released t and " if not releafecl, to advise the Ge leial " Afletr.bly of the meafutes which Uiigli? " be l :galh_;*mfucd» to *• charge of the Americans iupdrtffiftM'. " The judges accordingly rtitt the fair! officers in tl»e council chamber { where "the laid officers, with the B tilh coB " ful, Mr. Moore, who attended them, " were waiting upon the- reqneft of the " General AfTembly. -The judges in " formed them of the information, which " had been received, and expressed their " with that they would afford the fullell " fatisfaftion of the fadts." s. Your next polition is, "That the " coifstnander himielf conduits the invef " tigation ; and if he difeovers that any " fueh fubje<sts be on board of his veflel, " he immediately releafei them And soon after you affirm, that " the legifla " ture and judges of the state of Rhode " Island refufed to allow him to originate "or prosecute the enquiry himfelf." Let the report decide this fact. " The cap " tain declared there were none oil board " of that description, at least within his " knowledge, and so deelared the lieuten " ant ; that he did not chufe to take such " seamen on board ; that he had -never " preficd such, andrequefted their names; " the judges told him they were not able " to give their names : he appeared alto *■ getherto doubt the fail; hereupon John " Carr, gunner of the forty was called « upon, who on solemn oath declared, " that he enquired of one of the ship's " bargemen, if there were any Americans •' on board of said Ihip, who answered " that there were thirteen ; ten of which " had voluntarily entered on board, and " that the three others had been prefled. " The captain flill appeared to disbelieve " the matter ; it was then propoftdto him " that to fatisfy himfelf and the authori " ty, he would permit a gentleman or " two, with himfelf or lieutenant to go on " board, and there to make the neceffery *' enquiry ; that if there lhould be Ame. " rican citizens onboard, it wasprefumed " he would not hesitate to discharge them: " if there were none, the public mind " would be at eafe,and mutual confidence " would be rellored. He agreed to the " proposal, but on something being drop " ped by the consul: viz. the ship to be " learched; he withdrew hi» afient and de *• clartd he would by no means consent to the proposition." In what sense did the judges, by this conduct, refuft to allow the captain to originate or prosecute the inquiry him felf? Did the recommendation of a plan, which promised the quieting of the iineafini'fs of the people amount to fueh a refuial ? If it had been unreason able nothing prevented him frcm reject ing it. Aiter the exclamation of the Consul, he did rejedt it. Your own doctrine Teems to imply, that at thi: llage ot the business he* ought to haw proposed to originate or prosecute the enquiry himfelf. . But so far was h. from this conciliatory temper, thai " much argument was used to conviue " him of the propriety of it, or that " he ought to point out some way tc. " come at the truth, but to 116 pur " pose: he thought his word fuffi " cient." j 3- Convinced, as the persons tn au ! thorfty were, that some of their fellow citizens were on board, and impressed, were tlwy, rlfer obtaining tins ievere , ■ teiligence to Hop there ? your reply is, that if tlie Commander "be not fa " tisfied, that there be. any fitch "on ** board, his declaration to that effect " on bis of honor is twiverfally' ; " credited. Not afledti;ig to under Hand the of Europe on these oc calions, I fhalf be silent upon what is said to be ; but, without renouncing the principles which have beenlaid down, the declaration lhall be examined. The Captain declared, that he had belonged to the Ihip but a Ihort time. His alfertion then, that there were no impressed Amciieaiii on board, "at least within his knowledge."—" that " he-did not choose t» take such sea " men on board, and that lie had never " prefled such," was not conclusive ; lince they might have been impressed, before he took the comiiisnd, and poifi bly afterwards, without being commu nicated to him. And that this was the genuine state of his mind, is confirmed by what follows. "It was observed " to hir» that it was not presumed he WotiW undertake poatively to deny " the fa<st, si ce the information came " from his own people, and it was not " probable he could be certain of the " fact: he said he would not lav fofi " lively, but he was very confident there " were none filch, and that the infor " mation was gioundle'l's." He could not lay politively, because his assertion would have been ground less. For it appeared from the (hipping book, the entries of which were writ- i ten by some officer of the ship, with- 1 out any signature of the Americans, that two citizens of MafFachufetts were received on board on the 27th of June, 1 793> a "d 16th of Februarys 1794, two of South-Carolina on the 14th of June and 17th of December, 1793, one of Virginia on the 2d of Decem ber; 1793, and one of New-York in April, i The Captm'n did not ct cfpihis lurprize at the issue : he be lievi ' *<•1 h( Americani : j the officers were convinced that they we,call Americans : the Captain certi fies each of them to be (to use his words) " a ftfbjedt of the United States "of Amcrica," which he doubtless meant as equivalent to a citizen, the only character in the govern- I inent of Vhe United Statd; 4. There being then under the aftunl circumjlances at least of this affair, a power, veiled in the state of Rliode ifland, upon the principles of the law of nations, to interpose in behalf of the American citizens, what are we re quired to explain ? A " Prince," fays Vattel b. 2. c. 7. f. 84 " ought not " to interfere in the causes of his sub " jedts in foreign countries,'and to grant " them his protection, excepting in the " cases of a refufal of jultice, palpable " and evident injultice, a manifeft vio " lation of rules and forms ; or in short, " an odious diltindtion made to the pre " judice of his fubjetts, or of foreign " ers in general." Justice, Sir, as far as it depended up on the impressment and detention of our citizens, was all on our fide. For it cannot be conceived, that it is longer warrantable to call them pte tended American feame.i. Have4he rules and forms, proper on such occasions been manifeftly violated ? I .et us again turn to the nanative for the elucidation of this point. «It was " observed tothe Captain, he must be fen " fible, that that kind of argument would " give no fatisfaftion : it was wished to " conduct towards him with the utmost " candor, and that fie would exhibit the " fame : it was highly reasonable, that " the authority lhould be fatisfied : it " was presumed that the Britiih Go " vernment, would, under a like occa " fion, fhowrr the fame solicitude for " the relief of their fubjedts, and were " possessed of fufficient (pirit to obtain " entire fatisfaftion : that he must ex " pe£t it would be exerted here, if we " were reduced to the neceflity : but it " was (till wished he would obviate that " neceflity by a ready compliance with " the proportion, or by proposing some " thing equally fuisfatlory : he replier "he could do nothing further j w? " surprised at being thus called upon " this business, aflced .fhewas*a prifen " «r, and appeared to be going out '* of the room-: it war. fa id, he was not " a piifoncr : no measure of that kind " had been taken, ft was piopofjd, j " that the judge's would leave the room ! " to the officers with the Consul, that " as much had been said, they might " farther deliberate on the matter, a.id " consult, what might conduce mod to " to a fair and just settlement of thebu " iinefs : this was refwfed : and the " captain and lieutenant both, again ft " the advice of the .Judges, burst ont " of the room, but inftantiy returned, u declaring they were (lopped by the " people in the lobby, who were there •* in great numbers ; and they were, un " tier apprehensions of dan r sr. The I " Lieutenant said he was .kicked : it " was aflced him with earnestness "was " you kicked ; he said no, but what " was next to it, he was jam'q iip": " they werq desired to be composed and " to fit down : that it was wifiied they i" had taken advice, for while with the Judges they should be protested : the " Captain again declared, he could not ■ " comply with the proposal made, or I" give further fatisfaftion than he had, " as to the Americans said to be on " board his ship. Information was " then given tb tile general assembly of " the proceeding thus far, when they " pafied a'refolution, that the captain '• and lieutenant remain on shore, untii " invelligation of the ftibjeft be had " before the judicial authority of this " fl;cte and district," nominated a com mittee, who on Conditio if of the cap tain's consent should go On board the {loop with the British vice consul, re quefl "an examination of t4ie brew, anf* report to the judical authority tlu names of our citizens. It was further refolvM, " [Vat the j'u-f . v irthority u (hon'd talce examfn'al. >nT)F the birth "and residence of fueh citizen's, and " enlarge those who on fnch cxamina " tion are found to be qtaens of any "of t!ie United Stales." The captain at length agreed, that the committee " should go on board and sent a let ter, directing the commanding officer . on bo;.;d to give them all the fatisf; c j tiori ir» his power: they proceeded, and t were received with the utinolt polite | ncsa,: Ure books and lifts of men were filcwn : the people called upon to de clare, whether there were then any A mericans, unwilling to remain on board: and the result has been already remark ed. [TO BE CONTINUID.] PHILADELPHIA, JUIY 3*- s On board the Good Friends, three or four American captains have come paflen gers. Tl.ey were put dt\ board from the ] Brit.fh frigate L'Oifeau, which was pro ceeding with them to Halifax. From one !pf these captains we lea.n, and the infor mation may therefore be depended upon, as he speaks of his own knowledge, that L'Oifeau took 5 veflels out of the Dela l ware convoy, among whom a small cor j Vette, that anffced as.tender to the Con corde. Goedrich's three masted privateerfchoo her uniucceisfully chaeed into our Capes a French Ihip from Aux C.ives. , The fcliooner Two Sifters spoke one of the French privateers (La Montigne) lift out of Charleston Io hours fail from New Providence. Mr. Fen no, The following has forhething more than fi<£hon for its support. " Pity the Sorrowt of a Poor Old ; NOW past my prime—blind, wound ed, lame and poof — My ingrate master drives me from his door ; Forgetting *11 my toils aqd earnings past, To perish, on a ruthless 4®rld I'm cast. My worn-down teeth thro' a long summer day, Do seldom mumble on* poor lock of hay. Fix'd to a spot, my limbs will scarce fuf t»in, A meagre corps, thro' which my ribscomi plain. "t- So weak I am*»that while the hungry flies, In clusters fatten on my nose and eyes— Their tortures, undift'rbed, 1 muff bear ; For I can't iuove a joint, orwhifk 'a ha-r; Abandon'd in the ftrett—the ltroke I wait Which ihall rekafe me from a world I hate. Welcome old death—old horses' last best friend— My master's woes b.gitl, where mine (hall end— In pastures greer. I fcall forever dwell, While cruelty finks tb it. native hell. By this Day's Mail* CARLISLE, July ij. By the port- rider who palled through this town yefierday, we had the difngreeabi.. news that the on polition to the excise law had manifelt ed itfelf in a very alai-ming manner in the western country—Several hundred persons of t'.e county of Washington ! ahembled, menacing violence to Gen. j Keviile ; this gentleman lent to Pittf burg'a for military ; Capt. M'Clain jan d some foldicrs sireic immidiately dis patched—Gen. NevilL house was at tacked and defended with great bravery —feverid of thole desperate rioters were killed; one of whom fell by a (hot, it is said by Gen. Neville ; bnt Captain M'Clain being killed, and one of the soldiers; the doors were opened and those who were in the house were per mitted to depart without injury: Gen. Neville escaped by a back-door; after this the house, furniture, barn and grain of Gen. Neville, a-ud his very fences, were set on fire aud all coniumed. Tims at a moment when ihe force of country is employed to defend the fron tiers from savage enemies, those persons wlio are protested at an immense expense of blood and treasure, to avoid the paltry charge of two pence a quart upon whisky, rife to oppose their guar dians and refiufe to contribute in this small degree to the means of their own defence.—We trust that the energy of the Federal Government will be fully evinced by bringing those treasonable and murderous actors to condign pu nilhment. PETERSBURG, (Virg.) fuly 25. On Tuesday last the body of Mr. Thomas Weft, of King William coun ty, was found near the public road, bout four miles from this town—and on examining it, there appeared, evident marks ps his having been murdered in a inoit attrocious and cruel manner.—The Coroner's Inquest being assembled, and enquiring into this melancholy event, they gave it as their opinion, that he had been murdered by a Negro man by the name of T«m, the property of a gentleman of Dinwiddie county.—All the papers which were discovered to be the propei ty of Mr. Weft, are in the polleffion of the Coroner. Norfolk, j u ; y 23 . On Monday arrived the Defiance, of Gharlcfton* Capt. Stevens, in 80 days from Copenhagen, in lat. 32 long. 63 spoke the ship Benjamin, of Salem; 68 days from the lOe of France, who in formed C. S. that three of the East- India Company's (hips, and one Por tnguefe from Mofambique, had been taken by the French and carried inte the Isle of France—and that a new em bargo h,id-taken place in the lflc of France. Died, in St; Bartholomews, the 23d May last, Mr. Rea, mer chant of this Borough. NEW-YORK, July 30. ExtraH of abetter front Niagara, Upper Canada, dated the 4th July.' " We are in daily expectation of hear ing something being done betwixt Ge neral Wayne and the Confederate Indi ans, as there are great numbers of the latter come from beyond Michilimaki nac, to reinforce those already ailing against the formed. There is some noise at present among the Six Nations, ow ing to the Americans building a Fort near Prefqu'ifle; a party was sent to order them off, but they refufed going — General Chapin Went along with them, and when they came to the Fort, they fired some cannon and all their Imall arrfis by way of a salute, and the lame when-departing. They have re turned arid are now holding a council at Buffaloe-Creek. Most people think they will go and reduce jt by force ; a thing so near.our feat of Government mull, be productive of some leiious events—perhaps too feriotis. Our fort at the Miami, is almdft built, and the double, line at this fort comes on very wjtilj there are an hundre'd men daily employed on the Fortifications, and the Queen's Rangers are crofling over from York, (a town in tipper Canada.) There are two Battalions to be raifedj one in Lower and one in Upper Cana da, and all the regilnents in the coun try are recruiting." Another 1- tter from Montreal, Low er Canada, favs " Our Prison is begin ning to be crouded with fufpedled ptr fons." We are just informed, that the Spa niards* have left Fort Dauphin, in Hit paniola, and that there are letters re ceived in this city, that confirm the re port. [New Y. Diary.] From the Georgia Gazette' To the Printers. Gentlemen, I HAVE often thought it a matter of, much surprise, as well as regret that the pious Mr. Addifon ihould make choice of the death of Cato for the fuhjeft of the only tragedy, I believe, he ever Wrote, for, however rigidly, and almofl arrogantly, virtuous was the Roman was in his life, the h'i act of it, his fili cide, was certainly unjuftiliaMe in a re ligious heathen, 'that acknowledged u God and immorality, as Cato did, 'aud' it is • still more extraordinary Mr. Addifon (hc,uld difrnifs bis hero without any censure, all his reflexion on the unnatural a<?k hfohad committed being, " Jf I have.done .amiss impute it nvt". , When you hnye room in your paper you will oblige me.l>y infeiting thi<S to gether with the- following, Jjnes, being an Epilogue to Cato, a<3ed by some young gentlemen. \ i'am Gentle men yours, .feENEVoLus. Forgive me Cato.! and for jive me, Rome i- That this Tall Ttnike T pre sume Pity we mufl, and, while we ctnfure, grieve, Men that could dare to die, and not to live! t Crofs'd in their views, away their lives are hurl'd» Unable to command* they leave the world ; Impatient of distress, they poorly'die, And Cato meanly from Caesar's eye. Is this, O Rome! rhy"boafted faicide} 'Tis envy, (hame, tn«re covvardica and pride. - Not so the real hero—calm and firdit He stands his poll, and waits th' ap pointed term, Scorns the poor impotence of wild def- Ps"> And looks through darkest clouds to heav'nly care* Till the Great R ul*r i'utnmons froiii the V x field, And decks with palms those hands that never yield. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. .. . ARRIVED, Day» Ship Good Frieiids, Yardley, Bou^ deaux s 6 Brig Florida, Farraday, N. Providence t-j Sehr. John, Tinker, Sc. Mai tills 15 Two Sifters, Doggett, N. Provi dence is Betsey, Woodward, Barbadoes ai Sloop Nancy & Betsy, Copes, Virginia 5 Sally, Potter, do. 5 Thomas'& Sally, Mitchell* do. $ CLEARED, Schr. Woolwich, M' Kown, Cork Sea Flower, Tillet, NixQCton, N. Carolina Shc'r. Mars, Ellicot, New-York Nancy, Charieflon Sally, Harrilon, Newborn Sloop Nancy, Bell, Dominic© Sea Flowet, Moulder, Bilboa Ai rived here the (hip Oood Friends* Capt. Yardly* in 56 days frotn Bour» .. deaux. A gentlemen who came pas senger in the above veflel who belonged to the Delaware convoy informs, that the following veffeh were captured by the Englilh Frigate L' Oifeau to viz. Ship Alknomack* Capt. Darby, of Portland Mary, Buchanan, Alexandria Brig Polly, Hamilton, Do. Alexandria, Perry, Philadelphia Capt. Wharton of the sloop Industry, in 15 days from St. Croix, spoke July, 16, in lat. 17.2. long. 38. 30. the schooner Harriot Captain White, from Baltimore bound to Fort Dolphin the 26th off the Delaware Capes, spoke Goodrich's 3 mailed schooner from Ber muda on a cruise at Weflend . St. Croiic, the Ihip Rising fun of Phi adelphia. Baltimorr, July 26. Yesterday ar rived here, in & weeks from Bremen, tHe Ihip Harriot, Capt. Norman. Oa the sth of June, in lat. 59, 26, long. 5, east from London, spoke the (hip Hone, from Amfteitdam, bound to Phi ladelphia, out 18 days —July sth* in lat. 37* 40, long. 54, 30, spoke the (hip Mary, of Londonderry, William Trible, matter, from Norfolk bound to Cadiz, out 17 days—Same- day spoke a schooner from Boston, bound to Afri ca, out 12 days—July 18th, between Cape Hcnlopen and Cape Charles, spoke a (hip from Charleston, S. C. out 3 days. Department of State y \ • July 3 r > '694. NOTICE IS hen by given, the Document';, which have been forwa.ded to thisDcpal't mei t, relp ft'ng the aompenfation, claim ed from the Belligerent Nations in Eu'.fe, ♦or the it juries to the Cnmmeicc of the United St.;:•>, are committed to the care of the M»nifler* thoirnf refid'ng in the fo reign Countries conceded. Tt;-it a]"' per ron; inteiefled may kr.ow, whether their papers have come to hard, a lilt of the ralirs* which have rern veteived, will bft Per" as fotn as they can be primed to the different Collectors, tjnd to the Pufl Mas ters in the principal Ttowns of each Stxte, The Prirters in tbt several States ate requested to repub ;fh ti c above. <hw.
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