Gazette of the United States. December J. AUTHENTIC. Mi. Randolph prefcuts his compli ments to Mr. Hammond, and Bvlorins him, lljat he conliders it as the w.lli ot Governor Simcoe, that his letter to Mi. Hammond ihould be pub.ilbtd, li thisA)e a correct idea, it !hail be iranf cribed for the piefs, tojje;her with Mr. Hammond's. Kortmbcr 29, 1794'. Mr. Hammond presents bis compli ments to Mr. ttaiujolph, and iia» the honor of jnformiiij> iiim, that a* his let ter'of the lit of September wag print ed by his direfHoii, M.'. H .mruoud j ciumei ti-at Lieu:e.'3..t Governor oirncoe would be iohcitoUs thai rils ol>- lctv.itloiis upon it "lliiiuld'outairf a iinu lai decree of publicity. ift Diccmbcr, 1794. Philadelphia, 2jth Nov. 1794. SIR,. In e»;iform!tv to the assurance con tained in my letter to you of tne " r September. 1 took, an early cppoituni ty o%tranf«nitting yours of lite firft of that month to Lieutenant Governor Simcoe; from whom I baveieceivcd a letter, a copy of which 1 eileem it hot altogether ufekfsand Lmpropei to com municate to you; as it .ends to throw confideiab'e lijrht upon traufa&oni in Canada, to which you have at different jjeriods adverted, Ait evinces the anxi ety of Lieutenant Governor Simcoe, to remove by the exposition of the mo tives of his conduit, the misapprehen sions to which you, Sir, and theciti xens of the United States in general may have been exposed by the mifre piefentatioHs of intereued individuals. I have the honoi to be, with great re fpett Sir, Yonr moll obedient Humble fervatft, GEO: HAMMOND. The -' •■-«<ai.y of Stetfc. . Up>et Canada. Navy Hall, Oil. iotii, 1794. SIR, 1 whs, latV night, honored with your Estctllency*s dispatch, enctofing the topy of a letter to you from Mr. Ran dolph Secretary of State, dated oil the fuft of September, and your answer, which iiitipiate* the intention of tranf- it to me by the firft opportu- nity. it appears upon the perusal of Mr. Randolph's lettei, that l am called up on by the refpeef due to his official 0- tuatioo, publicly, to (late the misrepre sentations of that gentleman ; and on this conlideration, not to pass them over in that iilence, which would other wise best become the language and man ner which the Secretary of State per mits h'mfelf to make use of, ia his animadversions 011 my conduit. My having executed the orders of his Majesty's Commander in Chief in North America, Lord Dofchefler, in re-ocru pying a Pott upon the Miamis River, within the limits of those maintained by the British forces, at the peace, in the year 17 V3, upoD the principles of felf-dcfence the approaches of an army, which menaced the King's pofTcffions, is what I presume Mr. Se cretary Randolph terras * Governor Simcoe's Invafmn." The motives which led to this re occupa'.iiui furnifh the trirr grounds for discussion, but the eftablifhmcnt ot a military post, from its own nature, must have been so unquestionable, as not to have requited from you, Sir, on the part of Mr. Randolph an avowal or a denial ; nor dots it appear to me, that he has introduced so public an event, as a matter of doubt in itfelf, but solely as a ground work for ushering into the worljl " opinions" tranfmilled to the executive government of the Uqited States, which however refpediable are but, " opinions" that " British officers " and Briiifti Soldiers aided an attack " made by the Indians at Fort Reco u very." Such an itiGnuatlon Sir, introduced as subsidiary tvidei ce of a feft, which required no proof, will un doubtedly, on the undifcerning impress a belief, that the British troops .in stead of adhering to that pi inciple of felf-defence, on which a post at the Miotics was re-eftiblUhed, y-rre united iu arm* with the Indians in an attack ■pun a post held by the United Slates. A*'it to promote fnch a belief, Mr. Randolph proceeds t" comment on the protest delivered to Mr. Williamfon at the harbor of the Great Sodus; he terms this protest, which I tranlmitted in obedience to Lord Dorchester's or ders " a mandate borne by Lieutenant " SheafFe, under a miiitary escort, and '• in its tone, corresponding wish the " form of it# delivery, being unequi " vocally of a military and hostile ni- " ture. Mr. Randolph seems peculiarly anx ious to consider every tranfa£tion of the Ring's government, in its mode, as well as in it's fubitancc, as tioiiilitj, otherwise he could not but have iceu in the protest delivered by Lieutenant SheafFe to Mr. Williamfon, not a tone o ( hostility, butafpirit of conciliation, explanatory of the just principle, on which the settlement in question is term ed an aggrtflioii; the inexecution of the Tieriy on the pa;t of the United States—Nor is it possible to conceive that left oifenlive language could be made use ot, confident with the fori". a lity necefiary to substantiate a protest requiring the suspension of the exercise j of a controvcrtedclaim. - >»>. Had Mr. Secretary Randolph made due enquiry he would have found that the military efco t conliftedof an ./fa cer, expressly sent to accompany Lieu tenant Shtaffe, and kven persons to row the boat, (cldiera most certainly, but unarmed, without military liabiii' mcnts, and in the dress they wear for the pu/pofes of fatigue, ltalfo might be prcfumed from Lieutenant Sheaffc's letter that he was purfonally acquainted with Captain Williamfon, and in truth this circumstance wai of some weight in the appointment. The genera language and condudl of Mr. Willian'fnn, particularly in the proposals ofhisfpeculationat the Sodus bave, of late, raanikfted a oifpofition so incompatible with thofc views of conciliation, which are the true inter ests of Great Britain and the United States, that it became proper to feleft such a person as Mr. Sheaffe for this duty ; being a gentleman of great dis cretion, incapable of any intemperate or uncivil conduit, and certainly not difqualified by being a Lieutenant in his Majrfty's service. Such, Sir, are the circumstances of this tranfa£lion which Mr. Randolph is pica fed to term my " holtile views." The following paragraphs do not seem to require illuftra'.ion—lt can es cape no peiion that what in the begin ning of Mr. Randolph's letter to you he had ilated as refpeftable " opinions" tranfinitted to the executive govern ment is iiu longer confined to " opini oss" but the Secretary of State aflerts as matter of fact " that the Governor of Upper Canada associated Britilh with Indian force to aft'ault our Fort." In refpest to Mr. Randolph's asser tion and his appeal to you, Si>, that " it is grown into a maxim that the " affairs of the Indians within theboun " dariea of any nation exchifively be " long to that nation" I cannot admit so general and so novel a principle, as applicableeither to the territory or boun dary under conflderation—l do not re cognize its biith, nor any state of its exigence. It will be difficult for the Secretary of State to prove, that it has governed the condudt of the United Statfcs; it is not to be found in the express provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht; it was never assumed by the British nation prior to that compact; it is incompatible with the natural right#; and injurious to the acknowledged in dependency of the Indian Americans. The British government has not in volved itfelf in disputes with the Indians by a£ting in so vague and indeterminate a manner. It has ever done justice to their natuial rights ; nor has it violated the stipulations purposely made for their support and definition ; in confrquence of such an unifoim conduct, Sir, the Indians are constantly solicitous for the presence of feme of the King's Officers, or fuhjefts at their public meetings and I have the mod full persuasion, that had the United States concurred with the confederacy in their requefl, that the King would extend his good offices to the mediating between them in the pre sent war. and that in consequence 1 is Majesty had graciously permitted me, as requested, or with more obvious pro priety yourfelf, to have been prcfent at the late Treaty, in fiich a cafe, I am confident that peace would have been established on this Continent, to the fa tisfa&ion of the United States, and the comfort of the Indian Nations; and scarcely in a lelTer degree to the benefit of his Majesty's subjects in this Pro vince, who are materially interested that their neighbours should on all fides flou rifh in wealth peace and prosperity. As the close of the Secretary of State's letter seems intended through you, Sir, « to apprize me of the con " sequences of fclf-dcf«nce ftiould I not "be reftrainecby rcmonftrancesj" the date of it cannrt possibly escape my no tice ; it bears hat of the farft day ot September ancon the 22d of Auguit, General Wayn< advanced to the Pott at the Miamis, lad watte the pofleffions ot the King** futjefts uiiderit's protection and fummonei it to surrender. It may here be proper to observe that lo ill informed was that Officer of the very principles on which he made his mvafi onor « felf-dtfence," that in his sum mons he requires " the garrison to re move to tht iieareft Pott occupied by " his Britanivc Majesty in x ' this requifitio* been complied with, the Garrison mcft have advanced up the Miamis River into the Indian Countrj beyond the post, whose evacuation had been demanded as a recent aggression. The discretion, good conduct and magnanimity of Major Campbell, the Commander of that Garrison prevented the commencement of War and all its dreadful consequences. Upon the comparison of circumftan crs, the march of General Wayne, the dite of Mr. Randolph's letter, its im mediate publication, and the manner of it, I cannot but conjecture that it wa3 wiitten not to re mo 11 Urate again ft " my exceiTes" but to prepare the minds ot men for whatever consequences might have arisen from the movement ot Ge neral Wayne's army; and could the terrpeiate forbearance ot Major Camp bell and the event of the enterprize have been forefeen (if 1 may be permitted to revert to theobjeft of this letter) I can not believe that I (hould have been spared the necefiity of taking notice of Mr. Secretary Randolph's publication, or of controverting the aflumptions of a gentleman for whom 1 have always entertained the mod profound refpeft. To all Sir who know my private sen timents, to yourfelf, fir, who are ac quainted with my public conduct, to his Majetty's Ministers, and the officer chief in command, who have approved of my drift adlierence to their orders and the eonfequent impartiality which I have maintained between the United States and the Indian Americans, any judication or expolition of my fenti ! meiits i* unnecessary ; even Mr. Sccre ! tary Randolph ha* officially in his pof i session fufficient proofs of my good will ;to the government and people of the j United States.—l hey ought to have 1 (heltered me f.>-m i.\e nnputatioos to j which I Lavr uc. ■ '."d. I have | ever fhesva the miaott inclination to j cultivate the ltatt peifeft harmony be- I tween i, -• M'' ity s fj.*j«*£t» and thoie !of the U.- d States, and have looked S forward to an honorable termination of ! eziding differences with the most anx ious solicitude. Signed I. G. SIMCOE. His Excellency George Hammond, &c. &c. See. Philadelphia, Nov. 30. 1794. SIR, Under any afpedtof the affair* of the United States in relation to Great Bri tain, I (hould decline a difcufllon with the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. The Minister of his Britannic Majesty is the proper correspondent for the Secretary of State, upon fobjefts affedting their two nations; and his communications will be always received with the attention, due to his character, and with a temper, flowing from a love of truth and of harmony. But before I could entei, Sir, even with yauifelf, into any examination of the letter, which the Lieutenant-Go vernor thought proper to address to you on the 20th ultimo, I (hould take the liberty of asking, whether it has been transmitted to me, at a paper, which I am free to estimate according to its me rits, by waving a reply, without viola ting my refpedt for your functions ; or whether it ii adopted, as the sense of your government ? This preliminary en quiry would be rendered absolutely ne cefTary ; fmce on a former occasion you disavowed a responsibility for the con duit of the British government in Ca nada; and in your letter of the 27th instant, enclosing that of the Lieute nant-Governor, you leave it too uncer tain, how fat you approve its doctrines, its aflertions, and its statements. If it is to be undertlood, that to all these your afleut is given, and were it expedient no<w to revive our former con troversy ; I (hould request you to define precifelv, what is meant by the apology for the Fort at the Rapids of the Mia mi, as being the " re-occupying of a post " upon the Miamii riv<r within the li -41 mits of thofc, maintained by the Bri " tifh forces, at the peace, in the year " *783 I fhouldurge an explicit de claration, whether British officers and British soldiers did or did not aid the attack, made by the Indians on Fort- Recovery ; and should at :he fame time detail the evidence, upon which we have bcetj induced to believe it. I Ihouid beg to be iaformed, how the nature and spirit of the mandate, borne b- two British officers, and feveo Brttifh tol diers were in fad, or oa piiaciple trans formed into the garb of peace, by the abfeuce of arms, and " military habili ments,"—the drefi of fatigue, or the friendfliip of Lieutenant Sheaffe for Mr. Williamfon. 1 ihould wilh to know, whether Governor Simcoe de rives from his infttu£Hous, or any «thcr warrant of his Britannic Majeti}, an authority to deny that it is waumiilible for one nation tO\intermeddle with the Indians within the territories of ano ther. I (hould oppole the concl.ilion, that what may not be found in the trea tv „f Utrecht dors not exitt, under the (an&ion of the law of nations, and espe cially in regard to the usages ot A meri ca. But, for reasons, which may be ea sily conceived, I would not, without the most clear neceflily, recur to the circumilances, which prevented a treaty with the northern tribes of luJiSfls, in the last year. Nor (hould I wade a moment iu refuting the suspicion, that my letter of the firlt of nber, was " written to prepare the m; ids or men " for whatever consequences might have " ariien from the movement of General " Wayne's army becaule on the 20th *>f May I complained * of the ere&iou of the Foit, and you were then inform ed, that the army of the United States in their march ag<tinft the enemy, would not be able to distinguish between them and any other people associated in the war. These, however, and many other striking featuiesin the letter and con duct of Governor Simcoe will, I hope, at no distant day be consigned to obli vion by the reparation of our injuries, and the restitution of our rights. Until, therefore, I (hall be difappoiuted in this hope, I (hall not willingly open a new source of altercation. " . I have the honor, Sir, to be With great reipeft, Youi mod obedient Servant, EDM: RANDOLPH. TheMinifter Plenipoten- tiary of his Britanuic Majetty. * The letter containing the complaint <wat addrejfed to Mr. Hammond, ivho on the 2id of May fays in hit reply, that heJhould immediately transmit a copy of that letter to the Governor of Upper Ca nada ; and there can le no doult of this having been done. Philadelphia, ift December, 1794, 4 o'clock, P. M. SIR, In answer to your letter of yesterday, which I have this moment received, it is J expedient for me merely to remark—in addition to the motives that i have al ready afiigned, as inducing me to trans mit to you a copy of the letter, ad dressed to me by the Lieutenant-Go- 1 vernot of Upper Canada—that, as in your letter of the Ift of September you ! coniideied me to be the pri- tr medium of conveying to that officer the remon. It ranees of this government against his conduit, I am not fenlibie that I have been guilty of any impropriety, in com muoicatiag to yo- , in Lieutenant-Go vernor Simcoe's own language, his ex position of the principles by which he was actuated in the ;wo transitions, on which you had especially animadverted. Being equally unwilling with your felf, Sir, " rv.iv to revive our former controversy," or "to open new sour ces of altei cation," and persevering in my refulutien (from which I trull I have not deviated in this inllance) not to esteem myfelf lefponlible for the con" dust of his Majesty's officers, in Canada, or in any other of the King's pofleffi ons, it is totally unneceflary for me to expreis my perfenal approbation of, or disTent from, "the dodtridei, assertions, and ftatemeots" contained in Lieute nant-Governor Simcoe's letter. I have the honor to be, With great refpetk, SIR, Your mod obedient Humble Servant, GEO. HAMMOND. The Secretary of State. Foreign Intelligence. NATIOXAL CONVENTION Friday, Septerahet l 19. Delmas, in the name of the com mittee of public fafety " The tele graphe informed you two days ago, that the army us the north had obtained a considerable advantage on the 28th Frufl idov,( Sept tmbcr 14). The com mittee of public iafety has received a dispatch relative to that glorioutdsy. ** Bellegardtr and representa tives of the people with the armies the north, the Sambre, and the fcfcty '' t0 the C ° mmitte of Public Head-quarters, at Boxtcl, Sept. 6. " Cilixen Colltaguts, I " Wchaften to announce to you tb e signal advantage which the army 0 f Z north has juit obtained over the all commanded by the duke of York a™ cot ding to your oiders to attack ih" enemy, the army marched in the dired ion of Gorcum, where we mutt n, t T aniy fall iu with them. The two „ mies were soon within light of one ar tber and yesterday the l a « was made with as much bokluefsas o. concert, Pichegru had rcfolvtd to n . camp on this fide of the river Dom mel, where the enemy had their at! van. ccd pods, and to pufhhia ownadv, ' polls beyond the river— an op . which mult give him s most advaut; , c ous politic a and in which he perfidy fueceeded. The passage of the riv« was defended by the village of Boxt-1 by entrenchments filled with cu'inti! and 500: oavalry and infantry. \ O . thing could Hop the republican bra» erT The attack was brisk ; but, after to. ing for an hour and a half, the eiie*.-!, Act!. In their route we took 100 prisoners and 8 pieces of cannon, with their turn brils. This morning a reconnoitring party of 800 men fell in with a corpi 0 ? 5000 Englifli, on their march to retak- Baxtel ; but, ejated with their good for tnne, and minding little tie number of tie enemy, our troops charged them win fuel] impctuofity that terror and confiilion soon pervaded their ranks, and ir.de them abandon their objedl. Alt: rfo much valor -we lhall not speak of the painful marches of our troops, in a c. ur.trr eg. vered with heaths and brulh-wood. Tie French are capable of every ihing.— we ought not, however, to pJ's over the diftinguilbed conduit of the Bth regiment of huflars : thirty of chem cleared a ditch which divided them from the two battali ons of Heifians, and the HrUians U-d down their arms. Next day a detachment of the fame regiment gave a new proof of their courage: not being able to coi.ipel the prisoners, to point a piece of cannon they had taken, agalnft the flying enemy, they dismounted and iervtd it thcmfelvti. The cannon and aoo prisoners were the ac cidental conqucft of a reconnoitring part* in the morning. A remarkable inftan tof valor, among so many more, wasdiipky> ed bv the citizen Judge, second ljtutenact of th« Bth regiment of huflars, he had Ki wrilt oroken ; we propose that he lhall be promoted. This advantage, we hope it only the forerunner of events greater and more decisive. Health and fraternity. BELGARDE, LACOMBE, ofTara. LONDON, O&obv 1. Extrafl of a letter fromTcbay, 03. i. K Yefierday Admiral Macbrule with his squadron, arrived here from a cruise; he looked into Cherbourg, where he law 5 frigates, a sloop of war, an armed brig, and two luggers ; ai'.o a large camp ontlit adjoining hill of about 10,000 men. " After leaving Cherbourg, they few our grand fleet a few leagues to southward of the Start." Clerkenwell, Tuesday os. Of the Commi:2oners, the Lord Chief B<uo.i attended by the Recorder, ' C 1 went to Clerkenwell, and received a true bill found by the grand jury againlt Join Martin, attorney. Mr. Thomas Hclcroft, of Newman fircel author of the Road to Rum, &e. again® whom a bill of indidlment had been ioc:nd on the day proceeding, but v, ho had not yet been in cufiody, appeared in the court, and addrefled the Lord Chief Baron in a speech of feme length. The fubfiance of it was, that in consequence of hearing he flood indiftcd of the crime ofhigh trel ofi, bethought it- his -duty to furrendtrta the laws. Convinced he laid, of bis in nocence, he did not wilh to.fcrcen hi. con duit from investigation ; and h:s delirt was, that the court would adopt the naci fures neccfiary to bring him to a trial. The Lord Chief Baron, with the hu manity we often admired is a ftrcng Jna amiable feature of his character in the 01- sice of Attorney General, warned M . Hollcroft of the confequenceswhich pr " bablv would be the refuU of his cent *? h mfe'f to be the Thomas Holcroft again* whom a very refpeilable jury ol the coun ty had found a bill for the hideous andce teftable crime of high treifon. there exified no legal proof before the court his being the individual inclined, it was {till m his own option to recall the con teffion he had just made, for funUitudtot name, the law would never infer idci.ti. • - Mr. Kolcroft, perfilling in what he .aia did"on the motion of the Solicitor genera find the Road to Newgate. After he »»• ordered into cuftodv, he requested twi Mr. Erfkine and Mr. Gi'bbs fhcujd b< signed to be h.s counsel, which his or lhip freclv granted. . Mr. Holcrp'ft requfted that his lcrvant, who would be ufefor to him, he laia, , » an amznueniis, might attend him J" * finemer.r. This however, he waii mtorm ed, it was not in the power o: the cour '"fohn'Pierce, the Clerk of is an attorney, aflted pes»i<Tion to »« . his mailer ; this was obje&ed to, a» was liable to have a charge exhibited nw fC The court adjourn Ato which day the recorder alio ,d,our..«J■ & Old Baily Sessions. Bv that time ,« » « peiled that the grand jury wul fce ,WC
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