to cat:fe t';e Vffltfj t. be adjudged good frire. Sometimes regular papers cover an en emy's property which oth:r circnitiftances ontaalk. In other circumstance-, the (lamps • of neutrality br;ck through om'fliong a„ap e rs, adds one of which at ltaft flijll eftabliib th<- property being rcutral, or fl»a ! l contain an exact de;.'ripti«n of it. It is not then neceflary in ev<;ry cafe to prove the property neutral by the' fipiilita neous concurrence of all the papers enume rated a 'he regulations. But it is fufficient according to th. circumllances, that \it;« cf these papers ertablifh the property, if it is not oppof d or deilroyed by more peremp tory ciicumltances The ain point in every cafe is, that the jtfdge may be fatimed that the, property is ueli'.ral or uct. We ' ave a precedence of what I aflVrt, in th; art* 6, of the rtgr.'ation «»f the 2ttt October, 1744 ; by that article evety yefiel belo ging to what nation Lever, neutral, •enemy or ally, from which p pets shall be provsd to have been thrown overboard, fhal. be adjudged is good p ize ; or the proof oniy of the papers having been thrown over board ; nothing can be more explicit Some difficulties arose on the execution of that lev re cinufe of the law. which has beer by the regulation of 1778. On tlie 13th November, 1779, the King vro;e to the admiral, that he let' entirely to him a >d to the comm fli mers of the council of prizes tT apply the rigidity of the decree, of the regulation of the 26th of July, or to moderate their clauses a- peculiar cir cumllances would require it in their opinion. A judgment of-the C.iu'ncil of t!-.•.• 27th December in thefud y ar, rendered between Pierre Brandebourg. mafler of the Swedish fliip Fortune and M iXa Ro>';r_' daurdm, captain of the King's Xebec the Fox, libe rated the f.tid veflcl notwithflailding fame pa pers had f . - en thrown overboard. It was determined tbat to ground an adjudication Of Ibi vessel rn tbe p:f,trs beipv tbro~.un everbjard, they ought to bt of stick nature as to prove tie p> perty enemy's, and that tbe apt. ought to have bad acor.c'em inthroiu ing It's papers overA a'd; which net the cale with the S»edi(h captain. In this cafe without discussing whether hibit a Role d'Equipage, attefled by the pit - lie oiTscers of' the pl/.ce of their d-par'urr. I oul'eive that this Role is supplied by the pat Sport, and that the captured alledge the impolfioility tor them t> have their rol; tl Equipage aitefted by public officers in l'hi ladcipliM, fine-- the intercourse wasf rhid.ien tinder pain of death, with Philadelphia where a mod tremendous epidemic was raginf 1 mall add, that the p.ITWt, tilt invoice and all the vtfltPi papers, eflablilli evidently the propcty ct tn» v»HVI and c.«rgo heinf neutral ; none of these papers have evv: been difj'Utfd. Thus the invalidity cf th capture i« obvious ; whence it follows thn every thin - whnli has been taken fron then*, on Jn to he r it red in lieu or by ; just. indemnification. As to their claim for damages and interef —I mull obfeuVe that such a claim is no in every call- tl>- frquel of the invalidity o: the capture. Suspicious proceedings of tlx , caj.tun . may ocrafion the initiate of the cap tors. But when the it'juflice on the pari of tbe captors cannot, be exrufed, the cap tured have a right to damages and .intcr-'J. Let us apply these principles to thec uif'. Could the captors entertain any grouyd'd Pigou ; vim not the neutrality of the (hip proved by her bt ing an American built flnp, by her flaf, Ivy her destination, by the crew being comp >l'.u • f Americans, by her cau o confilling at American goods without any contraband article-, by tbe name and the charicVrof captain Green, very well known Ly fervic.es he has rendered to the French nation, by the' register, the passport, the in voice, by the papers on board, finally, by the -place where Ihe was captured, which was far from any suspicious deflination. It was then impofTible for the cap.ors to count any millr.ke ; the veflel Hruck hercoloursat the firft fumm.ons, the officers and crew made faithfuj declarations, they anfvyered plainly in their-examination ; 110 pretence whatever was left to the captors ; they don't appear to have ebferved the forms prcfcribed by the regulation. Some very heavy charges are littered against them—but I think it is not time yet to take notice of tlx'm, they will be d'.fcuffed when the articles captured-are reflored. In these circumflances I am of opinion, that a more absolute and full replevy be p;ranted to captain Green of. the American (hip Pigou, and lie.r cargo, as well as the pa. pers t'ound on board t as to the. claim of da mages and interest, made by captain Green, that the former be granted to him, and they shall be fettled by arbitrators in the usual form. Paris, 6 Prcirial year. (Signed) ' PORTA LIS. The Council cectare'that the capture of the Ihip Plgoti and the cargo, is null and of 110 effeC>. Therefore,• grant-a full and ab folnte replevy of the Cveffel, rigging and ap ,-1, together -with the papers and cargo, to j ii.rt rju» eP| to j IK j iMc.flKUruird uyc.ptnin Gr>™, tl* coun . :Sem l " " >d tl««y flialt be set " »'l»itr»t.us in tie nfii-d forms. . D..ne a; Pari! on tl,e 9th Prairial, Bth yfir of ;!ir Ucpi blic. Prrf-nt, Cmjr:i< /w ri.n, L>nt, A r / I '«i, Cantc. Murcju, Mmtigny, Mfr.fdacid. Ha* reriTies, Dufc.ub, J'ortvui, Grandmiison. TOHT.-.scbcr. For'ibeGjLZsTTE of the Uxited Srjrts. Mfti RHITOR, H.\ PPF.NING to take up the Auroia of iafl liuiifd.lv, I.cad iny eye upon a long aud tedious piece which I am totally unable to comprelfiii], l-ren*. several pompouslno. ticesj which have lately been given out, in hat paper, and frotn repeated promif;s of 'fficial documents whtiih are to exhibit Tvlr. 1 racy to the world, as a m'noder of iniquity tnd baseness, I have been induced tofeippo(e ■ hat this fafrago of politics, nonsense, hifto rV» fu'lts, biography and what not, was irtfirnded as an attack, of fonie kind or'otht r, upon the charafter of that gentleman. In perusing the tinner, I found a number of co lumns filled with promiscuous abuf j in tke ulual Aurora abounding in bold and (luiderous afiL-rtions, with no other colour of fuppont than the ipse dixit of the writer. At length, however, np'pesr* in capitals THE DOCUMENT, which, from its awkward inconfiflency, I Ihould take to he an intended lirel upon lit tic Aaron Smith, the lawyer, who is ch irked with hiving draughted it. How Billy Dunne wlfo has served a regular apprenticeship to ths n this manner, and difgrac.; and flanjer his friends, in the. very a£l of attempting to traduce wife and wor thy men, I cannot imagine. Perhaps it may amuse feme of your readers to take up the piece and examine the fevers! disjointed pans as they there fond. Moll ot the fir" column is occupied I y general nmarljs upon the variety el senti ments entertaihed, by the supporters r.pgo. vernment, on the fubjeft of national mea sures. It for {everal .months, hern a favorite and hackreycd topic, with the wri ters in thai p\pi-r, to boafl of the wonderful hai'mony and unanimity, of the demotrnt?. arrd to charge the federiilifts with diveifity of opinion relative to public aflYir?. The faft is granted,and Dr. Swift (lull acsount for "jit. Says the Dean of St. Patrick's ; " If we examine whit Societies of men are in cloftfl union among thenifelves, we (hall find them to be either thole who are engaged in some evil design, or who labour under one com mon misfortune. Thus the troops of ban ditti in several countries abroad, the knots of higbwoymen in our own natinn, the se veral tribes of sharpers, thik.vrs and tick pockets, with many others, are so firmly knit top-ether, that nothing is mo;rdiflkult th«n to break or dissolve their gangs. So lil:ewife, those who are fe'llow-fjffVreis un .der any miffortund, fn*h as that grievous persecution, of the modern kind, called want of power, are usually c'ontrafted into a very drift 'union. The reason why such confe deracies ape kept so sacred and inviolable is very plain ; because, ip eSrh of those cases which I have mentioned, the whole body is moved by one spirit, in pursuit of one gene ral end, an" the iorereft of individuals is not crossed by each other or by the whole." How far each of these Cnufri, fepnrately, or both combined operate to produce the boasted unanimity of the Jacobins, I leave to be decided by the conferences (if perad venture they have any) ol certain Justices • f the peace in Pennsylvania, and of certain Jacobin committers who earnestly recom mend themselves, as fumble candidates to fill the vacant offiees in the flat? at the next rleftion. " On the other hand, continues the Dean, " those who r.iisb, -w-ll to the public, and would gladly contribute to its fcrvice, are apt to differ in their opinions slnut the methods of promoting it, and when their party ilouriflies, aie sometimes envious at those in power ; ready to overvalue their own merit, and be impatient until it he re warded by the meafnre which they have pre ferred for themselves." ' The remainder of this column is devcfd to,,the abuse of Mr. dickering, Mr. Hamil ton k.c' See. Next follows what the writer calls, " a history of th- politics of the State of Conneflicut." The firft sentence is to tally unintelligible, unlrfs to fmhashav been inftrufted in the language of the Aurora, and of Hibernia. In it, however, may be found the aff.rrtion, such as it is, that " the provincial adminiflration were the marts of rapacity and corruption." This, I fnppofe, with Jacobin readers, who ufiially' know as little of grammer and ®f Englifli as the writer himfelf, will be fuffi cient .to atone for a whole paragraph ot fehfelefs jargon ; especially when their own ignorance and that of their author induce, them to fuppot; that this aiminiHration was at the dilpofal and under the controul of the ourt of Great Britain, The hiftorian then goes on to talk abojit " gangs of pro fligate?, of noble or influential families de pendants on the crown, who, in return for the corrupt services of their friends, in par liament or ellewhere, were provided for in the colonial government offices." Allowing all this and much more of the fume kind to be true, I perceive not the in ference orthe application to Mr. Tracy. It is w?ll known that that gentleman and all his family connexions were warm and hearty advocates for the revolution. But the truth is. that none of thef'e " noble families" and " dependants on the crown" were ever 1 in From the Si'ft frttlement of that state to the present day, no office civil or military, was ever at the I difp ifdT of the orowh , snci ofcouiTe, none j Cou!d be provided with " g.iiternrnent offices,'' jas ijfc calls thrwij" in rwoiii F«' r the corrupt | lervice: of their friends." The revolution' ■ has not changed the internal government of ! Oornedtk'tt. ill a fiogjc tittle. Nat even with relpett to tie iornis of elections or the appointment of executive anj tnimftrria) officers, Thefc f els are palpable ; and any fdiool bjjy jn America, who hid read, in his geography, the rmiire of the.fever.J coionial government!, previous to the revolution, would be whipped for not knowing them. Billy i? however fair; ; for I believe there is >;Q obligation upou.a shameless I, isb v.igravt to ki)ow tliefe things, and no liw acknow ledged or aeled upon by his writers, which obliVes them to communicate either truth cr fthfe. To this focceeds an equally accurate, asd so far as I can discern, an equally ap licablc ftpry refpefiing Yale College a> d th clergy of Connefticut ; a llory altogether too falfe and too crude to ftacd in iiced of anjr rtfu tation. After wadi g through b-tween two and three columns of this k nd, which I fuppufe the writer hirrifelf would dtnominite THE TRASH, the weary and bewildered tra veller is invit d 1i resume Impatience' Ihe encouraging signal of T E F \CTS, which he beholds hit :g out in capitals before him, induces him to pr ceed and to hope for a cleaner pafTage. Let us accompany him thcri a little far ther. Here, un!ef» you have been accu 'om ed to the \uivr , y u will be fuiprifed to fihd, undrT this pmmifing title, that Mr Tracy is impudent y charged with the mod flagrant dishonesty and the meanest falfehood without even a pretended prpuf of a single fadl alledged. All that is pretended is, that an a&;on was commenced againtt Mr. Tracy for the recovery of a sum of money. Thii nay at all timss be do;-e at the instigation cf a Ivirby or aVy other democrat, agar.ft an man, however hoiteft. Wheth r this aftion was a serious and honourable suit for the recovery of a just debt will fufficiently appear from an examination merely of this mighty DOCU MENT, which purports to be the copy of a writ of attachment, directing the proper officer to attach the pr pertv of Mr. Tracy to the a meunt of two thousand five hundred dollars, t» be held in the custody of the law, I n order for T» ial ; and, in ease of a judg ment for thk plai ::ti ffs, to fatisfy a demand made upon him by certain mer chants in New-Tork. The declaration al ledges, thtft certain obligations, the pro perty of the plaintiffs. had, by them been put into the hands of Mr. Tracy, for col leftion, and that he had, at d fferent times, collcfted, but refufed to pay over, the sev eral sums there particularly mentioned Thife by computation, will be found to a mount to one thou/and, three hundred andfor ty-one pmuds, feve 1 /hilling* and Jivt fence, lawful money ; in confederation of which leveriil sums 11: us colKfted ar.d u»jullly de tained, he is declared to be indebted to the plaintiffs, in the sum of six Hvhbmsd and fifty poi nds lawful money, for the re covery of which, with costs, this suit is de clared to be brought, Now, whether the plaintiffs, out of mere con>paflion to Mr; Tracy, kindly remitted a little more than half the sum which was thus wickedly and fraudulently detained, and-which, frpm the items in the declara. tion, appears to have been justly due to them ; or whether Billy's draught fin «n only took care to put in enough, and had not tune or talents to put them tvgetiier and find the amount ; or whether a certain ten der hearted, tffeilinnattf Jacobin, at Litch field, happened involuntarily to fall in love with Mr. Tracy's feat in the Senate, and took this method todireft the affe&ions of the peoplf to the proper objed, I will not attempt to determine. The cafe is ■ fairly llatrd to the pub Tic who will judgi for them felv-s. I know nothing of Mr. Tracy's domeflic affairs or private bufinti's. lie may, for aught that lon uy, hive owed money which he could not, at tlietinie, command. It has been the cafe of ma- y wortl'.y men, wiio have ruined their private fortunes in ihe puMic service, and who have met with Gmilar gratitude as the reward of their fa crifices. But when such' a thing as this is produted, under the .name ot a legal docu ment, a thing upon which no Court of law would fuffer a trial to be sustained, a thing which carries, in its own face, tbe 1110 ft evicient marks of having been filtered up for,the sole purpose to which it is now ap plied; when such a thing as this is em ployed to blast the reputation of a gentle man of h : ,gh refpeftsbilily and long tiit-d integrity, and relied upon as a thing fuSi cient to prove him a cheat, a liar, a scoun drel, a downright Jaccbin ; and all this too, without the pretence of a legal adju dication, or even »F a vfhen this is that Jacobin industry, envy and malice thcvnfelves can conjure pp, I think that every man must, irreliftably and forci blv feel th*t the chara«£\er of Mr. Tracy is indebted to the abortive efforts of his ene mies) for a species of luflre, which his best friends and even his own' bright aftions cou'd nevfer have bestowed upon it. VINDEX. To Printers. A PERSON who has incontemplation the publilhing of a work that will make a bout 250 pa Res, pica iklavo, with roan-nal notes, wishes to receive propofils for printing if. They must fpecify>the f»m per hal< ftoet, for ffvcn or ten thouftnd copies, the Prir.te: fnrniftiing paper, which must be of such quality as is now fold for four debars per ream. Sea!- rd propolals, diredleO to S. P and left at this office before the expir-tion of ten days Irorn this date, will be attended to. The ot payment will be fatisfaQ-sry. August jo. 4tJO. Gazette Marine Ltfh fcOijT, OF PHILADELPHIA. . rriaed, Bpg Polly and Mary Ann, Bingham, Baltimore, 21 days. Sugais; W. Sc. C. Jolly. Arrived at the Fcrt, Schr. A Iventurr, Havanna. Left it Aiiguft 12—frijjar Sc Fruit-.y ; - nuxero Sc CLrk. Sloop Earl of. Lotidfdilr, Hejreftoo, Tri .nadud. jt 18th ul:.—fugar, ccftee fcc. CLEARED, Teneriffe Slop Little ?ar», Bunker, Si. Vincents Patience, M ntgomery, Nevv-Yirk J.imes Stewart, M.-.ckficld, was fp*k« AugnA 14, in lat. 3A, 00. song. 72 cO, W. 3 davs ru;. Mi well. Schr. Adventure, Lillihridge, from Ha vann-, has arrived at the Fort- Ship 0;ona, Mi.idleton. of and for Phi ladelphia failed fr m Liverpool the 34th Jnnc 1 Ship Alexander, John B. Davy, master on her pafiage from Truxillo, wa boarded off Cape Antonio by the Kritifli ship of war CarnStic of guns ; the Quebec frigate and York 64 —The Quebec impressed two seamen from on i oard the Alexander, otherwise (he was politely trea ted, and after a ftrift examination, fufferei to proceed. Sailed from Havanni 6th Aug. Same day •poke the Ganges U. S sloop of war,,all i well. On the 7th, spoke the fchr Triton, captain Keily, out 2g days from Philadel phia tollavanna On the 17th, spoke the fchr. Sukey. Benj. Stone, matter, from Philadelphia to St. Jago de Cuba, out 4 days—2oth, at fun-rife, saw a brig laying too ; under hermainfail ab'-ut fix miles to lee , ward ; soon afterwards she set close reef top sails and; fore fail, and (lood athwart our fore foot ; we then perceived that she car ried about sixteen guns and had an American pendant fiyi»g ; when she got to windward of us she hrifted E'glifh colours,but having no other hat;ds on'board than Frenchman on deck, we concluded her to be a French privateer and therefor- tookin curlighc fails and prepared f r.: aftion, upon which /he hauled down her colours and stood to the northward, it blowing very frefh from N. N. E. soon afterwards fp ke the fch'r Bilboa, c?.pt. Perkins bound for St. FA-af tirys- I Capi. Litlikridgc Cleared, (hips Atahaulpa, North Weft coast of America ; Guatimozin, Bumdaad, do. Onflow, Barney, Liverpool ; fchrs, Charming Betsey, Gardner, Madeira ; Mi nerva. Babforj, St. Sebastians; Elizabeth, Rakeftraw, Halifax; Ann, Searran, Weft moreland. Arrived, (hip Afenath, Parker, Norfolk. Cleared, Lively, Swafey, Philadelphia. NEW-YORK, August 23. slnived. Dqys Brig Cleopatra, Troup, Jamaica Schr. Three Brothers., Bell, Wilmington 6 Sloop Minerva Howard, Newborn, N c. 7 Vist if}", Luc;, Boston 6 CLEARED. Ship Factor, Kemp, Teneriffe Eliza, Lorinp, London Lydia, Tread well, Liverpool Brig Peggy, Liulier, Cork Aurora, Sailer, Havanna Schr. Farmer, Woodward, Halifax Sloop Rainbow Parker, Turks Island Same day arrived, {hip Rebecca, Parker 28u»ys from Bay of Honduras. Left there brig Hiram, Spurn of Charles ton ; sloop Romulus, of do. f Schr. Dispatch. Sparrow, of N. London, i Seventeen days ago spoke the British fliip of war, York, ot' f-4. gnns, and Quebec friga,e, treated politely. Brig Liberty, Wall, has arrived at Jh- I maica from Virginia. ' I Same day arrived, fchr. Franklin, Whip py. St. nojs, jam. 32 days. Brig H=ro, Gates New Providence. Brig Saliy, Banker, 21 days from Dtf' marara. Same day, fchroner Americana, Pierce, from Demarara. Sailed on the 22d July in ;o. with a number of British armed vefTel*. On the 29th put into St. Chriltcphers, and failed again fame day with the fleet under convoy of the British sloop of war. Aqguft 4. parted the convoy, in lat. 33, 30, long. 63, 20. On the 20th July a flag of truce, arrived at St. Chriftophere, from Guada loupe. with a number of American prison ers, among them was Captain Stanford of tfce febooner Curfew, of this port, whole veffcl had been condemned there. On the 6th saw a fleet, fleering S E. suppos ed to be from St Thomas. On the 19th spoke (hip Rose from New York bound to Guernsey, $ days out, all well. BALTIMORE, Augufl 23. Arrived, Ship Difian'cr, Smith, ;g days from Cadi* Left there Ships , Wivill of Norfolk Irofper, Williams, New-York ; , En*- dicott, Salera ; Sclir. Evans Marble head. POST OFFICE, Pliladelphia August 2Ztb< 1800. 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